Bubble Gum Kisses

Bubble Gum KissesA month after her father's untimely death, Vanessa Cole's mother decided to move back to their old suburban home which they left three years prior due to their father's job that requires them to move to various places. With the despair of going back to her bittersweet past, Vanessa couldn't help but comply to her mother's wishes who was hoping for a fresh restart for her sake and her little brother's, but how can she have a new beginning if her ex-flame, Friso Drew de Vries, wants to drag her back when they used to be?Hook or by crook, Friso gets always what he wants, and he wants her.

CHAPTER 1 VanessaLife has been dull ever since dad died. He's the type of person who deserves to live longer, the kind of man that any person would love to become a friend, a man makes himself a light to a person's dark life. With his big, fat belly, fair stubble, and friendly face, people would mistake him for a younger version of Santa Claus, especially with his warm "Ho-ho-ho" laugh, not to mention his habit of helping out to those oppressed, especially the homeless. He always gives money to every homeless person he passed by and earn money to give gifts to them and the orphans for Christmas. I'd love to think of him as a lovely, ginormous gift from God himself. Even though he did not have the perfect physical appeara

CHAPTER 3VanessaI feel homesick and nostalgic at the same time. I don't know why but I miss our old house but I want to stay here too. Weird. But maybe because I've got too attached to the people my family has met and created friendship with at Washington, especially my gang. Not to mention that dad and I made lots and lots of what I consider as the most memorable days that I miss. While here, in Scarsdale, I've created millennia of childhood memories and relationships that I have forgotten but badly want to revive, especially with Enen and Eccay, my closest childhood friends. Sigh. If only I could live in two places at once. Trying to kiss the morbid combination of feelings away, I raised my tired back, raised my arms, and stretch. Yesterday was tiring, we had a super long

CHAPTER 5 Vanessa"Honey, dinner's ready," I heard mom said while knocking on the door. Instead of standing up and opening to door for her, I paid no attention and hug my knees tighter, staring blankly at the wall with endless tears in my eyes.I don't know what I'm feeling right now, it's like a combination of anger, sadness, surprise, and disappointment. He was still being the same asshole in the last semester of middle school. I thought that he would at least go back with his old personality and we'd be able to break the wall that separated our long friendship right in that place, at that moment. I thought it was time for healing, forgiving. But, I guess, they were just my assumptions.Sniffing, I reminisced my childhood, my times with the twins and Friso. We used to play in the park's playground, especially in the sandbox and build sand

Kapittel 7VanessaI got my books faster than expected and arrived at my class on time with the cost of my legs shaking and lungs burning. Running from one building to another and taking stairs to the fourth floor was a sport since the building's elevator was only exclusive to instructors and Student Council Officers, per se the student handbook. Luckily, there wasn't much effort for an explanation to Mr. Boro, the math instructor was already expecting me in his class and he was the one who introduced me to the class so I only stood on the platform, in front of my new classmates while staring at the wall until he told me where to sit, at the back, beside a brown-haired ebony girl with the sleeves of her uniform rolled up to her shoulders and face wearing a welcoming smile."Hi! I'm Georgia but I prefer being called Georgie," she introduced herself cheerfully as she of