Puddle Jumping by Amber L. Johnson
When it comes to love there’s no such thing as conventional.
Everyone thinks Colton Neely is special.
Lilly Evans just thinks he’s fascinating.
Once friends when they were younger, their bond is cut short due to her accident prone nature and they go their separate ways. Years later, they meet again and Lilly learns that there is something special about the boy she once knew, but she has no idea what it all means. And she’s not sure if she’s ready to find out.
When he walks through the corridor of her school the first day of her senior year, she knows that it’s time to get to know the real Colton Neely. The more she learns, the deeper she falls.
Their friendship grows into love, even as Colton does not express it in words. But one decision threatens to break down the world that Lilly has tried to hard to integrate into and she must figure out if the relationship can survive if they are apart.
To Aaron who taught me at the age of seventeen that we love the way we love, and it’s not the same as anyone else’s.
And for Emory.
Someday you will find your own Lilly Grace.
You paint the world in colors I’ve never seen and I’ll always love you blue because you always love me yellow.
“Last night my world exploded.”
Fall Out Boy
It begins with a boy.
It begins with a boy and it ends with a boy, but what story doesn’t?
In my eyes, this one is the most amazing person I’ve ever met. And maybe some people would say that I loved him too much and forgot myself in the process, but from what I’ve seen of relationships, there’s always that one person who does.
Last night, my world that had been so small and wrapped up in everything about him, came to a grinding halt. I can’t sleep. I need to do something. I’ve decided to write it out from beginning to end. How we arrived at this place.
This is my story. Our story.
It’s about an incredible guy who changed my mind about everything I thought I knew. And maybe I helped change his world, too.
So here it is.
This isn’t your run-of-the-mill fairy tale. It’s not some Harlequin romance. I wouldn’t even categorize this as much of a romance at all.
Because I’m not the kind of person to fall in love.
And neither is the guy I’m head over heels for.
I’m Lilly Grace Evans and this is the true account of how I ended up falling for a boy who made me believe love is anything but conventional.
Love, for those lucky enough to experience it, is extraordinary.