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University was around the corner and Calista Hale was as busy as teenagers get during their senior year. With striving to complete her final semester, being submerged elbows deep in dirty dish water, and maintaining a subpar social life, Cali's world was an organized disaster.

However, her well constructed plan begins to unravel when she is told she doesn't have the qualifications to graduate with the rest of her class. With over forty community service hours to complete by the end of the month there is no way Cali will be able to meet the quota in time. Not unless she agrees to tutor Lincoln Pierce, a failing delinquent in his fifth year of high school.

Not having any other option Cali agrees to the task. It's not soon after she decides she's made a dreadful mistake. Lincoln's a terror, hell-bent on keeping everyone and anyone away. And for the life of her, Calista can't figure out why.

She comes to realize, not everything is as plain as it seems. Lincoln Pierce is anything but plain. Incredibly infuriating, but never plain.

And as it turns out, she might be his last hope.

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❝ Do you see why now? ❞ His question caught me off guard. ❝ Do you see why this tutoring crap is a load of bullshit to me? ❞

Lincoln stepped closer, his eyes burrowing into mine. ❝ Whatever I wanted to do, whoever I wanted to be, that's all done with now. I can't go off to some fancy college or get a decent paying job that offers more than minimum wage. I can't leave. ❞

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Complete

Started: December 4th, 2014

Ended: December 28th, 2015

Originally written by Luisa Dituri

Highest Ranking: #14 in Teen Fiction - October 22nd, 2016

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Trailer by

Cover by the amazing

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Teen Fiction

Romance

Action

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Moderate Violence

Coarse Language

Depictions of Abuse

Mentions of Sexual Assault

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Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls

Face Down by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

The Fighter by Gym Class Heroes ft. Ryan Tedder

Sign of the Times by Harry Styles

Silence by Marshmello ft. Khalid

- Taking suggestions -

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The first three chapters are the only ones edited. The rest of the story is from the (extremely rough) first draft. Thanks for reading!