Blurb：
From the girl next door to the girl who fell from the sky—Aubrey Hale’s world shatters when Chloe Reed transfers to Crestwood High. Everyone whispered that the girl next door couldn’t compete with the mysterious newcomer, and Aubrey learned it the hard way. She watched Jackson “Jax” King, the untouchable ruler of their school, bow his head for Chloe in an empty stairwell.
When their friendship crumbled, Jax’s cold words—“I don’t want to see Aubrey Hale at this school again”—forced her to vanish. But on his birthday, soaked by rain and heartbroken, Jax appears at her door, demanding answers. Did she forget his birthday? Did she forget their childhood promise sealed with a wooden star charm?
Dive into a tale of unspoken love, betrayal, and second chances. Who will Jax choose: the girl he’s known forever or the one who changed everything?
Content：
I was the girl next door. Chloe Reed was the girl who fell from the sky.They say the girl next door never stands a chance against the one who comes out of nowhere. Not long after she transferred, someone saw them in the empty stairwell after school.
They said that Jackson King—my Jax, the boy who bowed to no one—was standing there with his head down like a chastened puppy, listening to her lecture him.
Later, when Chloe and I had a falling out, all it took was a quiet word from him: “I don’t want to see Aubrey Hale at this school again.”
My parents, terrified of jeopardizing their business with the King family, had me transferred by the end of the week.
After that, I vanished from his world. I didn’t dare even show my face where he might see it.
But then, on his birthday, he showed up at my door, drenched by the rain, his face a wreck of misery and hurt. “Did you forget?” he asked, his voice cracking. “Did you forget it was my birthday?”
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They say the girl who’s been there forever can’t compete with the girl who shows up out of the blue. I used to scoff at that.
But then I sat in the school auditorium, watching Jackson’s eyes follow Chloe Reed as she danced across the stage, and I saw it. The unfiltered adoration. The love he couldn’t hide.
In that moment, I believed it.
And I finally believed the rumors, the ones about the untouchable Jax King, the king of Crestwood High, letting this new girl put him in his place in a deserted stairwell.
The confession I’d held in my heart, the one I was always waiting for the right moment to share, would have to stay buried there forever.
When the music ended, I applauded with the rest of the crowd, my hands moving mechanically as the girl on stage took a glittering bow.
Jax stood up and headed for the wings, undoubtedly to find her. I stood up, too, and walked out of the auditorium.
Outside, the evening air was cool. I raised my hand, letting the little wooden star charm he gave me years ago dance in the breeze.
“Aubrey… for you.”
I looked at the crudely carved star in his palm. “What is it?”
Seven-year-old Jax had been watching some soap opera with his aunt and had learned a new phrase. “It’s a promise,” he’d said, his cheeks pink. “You have to wear it. It means you have to like me best, forever.”
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