Falling Forward

By S. M. Leonard

Freddy's a brilliant boy but has no common sense, or so he's been told. He has a penchant for falling forward into painful circumstances. Watching others from the outside doesn't protect him. Neither does making friends. Fate has chosen him to be the extra in other people's movies. He can only fall.
When an unexpected injury leads to a stay in the hospital there's only one girl who seems concerned; his rescuer. The busty and beautiful Carisa is way out of his league. She's also dating his roommate. So why the visits, the sexy banter, and, for god's sake, the shaving? What does she really want? Both suspicious and aroused, already hurting, the frail boy who never stopped falling tries to catch himself before he crashes again. Is it already too late?
Romantic, erotic, and funny, Falling Forward is warmhearted slice-of-life tale that explores the pains and joys of falling down, getting up, and falling down again.

• Language: English
• Publisher: S. M. Leonard
• Release date: Jul 22, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301877690

S. M. Leonard

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Falling Forward

by S. M. Leonard

Published by S. M. Leonard at Smashwords

Copyright 2013 by S. M. Leonard

ISBN: 978-1-30187-769-0

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The cold November wind cut through the thin material of Freddy's jacket and pierced his fragile chest. He coughed, once, twice, and pulled the scarf his sister had knitted more tightly around his neck. Leaves, crisp and brown, crumbled to ash beneath the weight of a dull gray sky. Skeleton trees skittered in a macabre dance, lazily casting their remains into the decaying day. A thin skein of students splayed out across the barren campus like so many afterthoughts eager to find a listener. From overhead a flock of Canadian Geese called out directions to their mates, already overdue for timeshares in the South. A group of girls laughed in the distance at a group of boys who were laughing at them. He coughed again, and cursed the absence of mind that left his parka in Danny's back seat. So smart and yet so stupid! That's what Emily had always said about him. A brilliant boy with no common sense. Shit, can't think about her again. She's gone, been gone, time to move on and get a life. Get a clue. Get a piece of the pie. Pie in the sky. He looked up at the sky. Drops. It was starting to rain. Shit, shit, shit!