Order in the Court (21 page)
“Best friends forever?” I asked in a small voice against his throat.
He laughed, and I felt it like a tremor through my whole body. “Absolutely. But hopefully with kissing.”
“That would be nice,” I agreed.
I did not kiss him. It was not the time nor the place. But I wanted to, and I knew in that moment that I would. Soon. And I would even let myself enjoy it and not feel guilty for my own happiness.
The sun was setting and the temperature dropping by the time we headed back. I put my arms in the sleeves and zipped up his hoodie as we walked back to his truck. Brandon didn’t ask for it back when he dropped me off at my house, so I wore it inside, enjoying the comfort of his smell for a little longer.
“You okay?” my mother asked when I passed her in the hallway.
“I’m okay,” I said, and for the first time in a long time, the words didn’t feel like a lie or an exaggeration.
I was okay. Not great but okay. Things were finally falling into place.
The Survivor’s Club: Book One
Corinna “Corey” Nguyen’s life seems perfectly average for a closeted bisexual whiz kid with her eyes on college and a budding romance with her friend Kate. Sixteen and navigating senior year with her tight-knit group of best friends through crushes, breakups, and pregnancy scares, Corey mistakenly believes that running for valedictorian and choosing the right college are the worst of her worries. That is, until prom night, when she’s left alone and in shock, hiding inside a diner restroom, the only witness to a multiple homicide.
With graduation looming, the pressure is on for Corey to identify the killer and ensure that the crime that has changed her life forever will not go unpunished.
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CASEY LAWRENCE
is an undergraduate English Language and Literature student at Brock University minoring in French and German. The vice president of the Gay-Straight Alliance and editor of the yearbook in high school, she now volunteers with the Brock English Students’ Association, Brock Faith & Life, Brock Pride, and, most notably, the Brock Leaders Citizenship Society. She lives at home with her mother, grandmother, and her adorable seven-pound Yorkie, Bindi, in Ontario, Canada, where her bedroom is packed wall-to-wall with books. She reads everything from classics to comic books, and is an insatiable consumer of all kinds of stories. From a small city in southern Ontario, she makes frequent trips to Toronto to go to ComicCon, the Pride parade, and to see her friends spin HHC. Casey enjoys dropping some sick rhymes at Poetry Slam, picking through used bookstores, marathoning her favorite shows on Netflix, and speaking out against discrimination at her school and in the broader community.
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Order in the Court
© 2016 Casey Lawrence.
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© 2016 Aaron Anderson.
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ISBN: 978-1-63477-287-7
Digital ISBN: 978-1-63477-288-4
Library of Congress Control Number: 2016904300
Published August 2016
v. 1.0
Printed in the United States of America
