"(This story has been revised with minor context changes to make it more relevant.* (February 2016)"
"Taylor Lawton, you will work with Timothy Cooper ..."
My head shot up from my desk into the eyes of the very boy I spent all my days thinking of, and my gut twisted. Me and Timothy Cooper? Work together? The twist in my gut became a stone.
Then he smiled, and the room became brighter than the noonday sun. "Guess you're stuck with me," he said.
Heaven help me, being stuck with Timothy Cooper wasn't such a bad thing. Yet I sat there my tongue cleaved to the roof of my mouth, my palms sweating.
Write about Timothy Cooper. Share my life with Timothy Cooper. I didn't know which was worse. Or better.
Clean Reads for teens by best-selling author, SUZANNE D. WILLIAMS. A short story of 18,000 words.