Apricity

Apricity: The Warmth of Sun In Winter.

Riley Grace Kitridge has known the cold. Truthfully, it's all she's known since her mother succumbed to her injuries from the car accident. Despite the new foster family and new preppy school, the chill doesn't fade. Riley's fine with that; she doesn't like change anyway. She has three goals: keep her head down, get accepted to Vassar College, and graduate high school. However, change continues to find her, this time in the form of Damien Rigel Maxwell, an arrogant classmate who steals her seat. He's insufferable and unforgiving, and Riley curses when they are forced together for a group project. She learns, though, that there is more to Damien than his frequent scoffs and general disinterest. She thinks, maybe, that Damien feels the cold, too. Perhaps they can feel the cold together.

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Hello everyone! If you have the time, please give this a chance, and if there's even more time to spare, please comment. This is the first draft of my honors thesis for my undergraduate study at university. Feedback is welcome and extremely appreciated as I want this to be the best it can be, and I know you're all suggestions; readers like myself always see things that authors cannot. In any case, thank you for reading this, and hopefully, thank you for reading Apricity.