Chloe's Dilemma

By Jim Wagner

High school can be difficult at times, but Chloe is looking forward to her last year. She has a lot of it planned. She and her boyfriend, Tim, are going to have a great social time doing everything that is fun and memorable with all of the other senior students at the school.
Her whole world collapses, however, as soon as she comes home from holidays with her father and her brother. Her plans are shattered and she has to re-build her life without Tim.
That is when she sees another side of high school. She is shocked and confused and not ready for it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jim Wagner
• Release date: Dec 7, 2014
• ISBN: 9781921947483

Jim Wagner

I was born in Cincinnati and grew up in the American Mid-West. I graduated from the University of Notre Dame and received a Masters in Education from the University of Cincinnati. I became a teacher and found a job teaching English and Film and Television at Trinity Bay State High School in Cairns, Australia. As a teacher I wrote many One Act Plays that students enjoyed performing in. I became the Rugby coach at the school and began writing novels that my students could read, relate to and understand. I decided to publish the novels under the name of Teen Friendly Books. At present I have 24 written and 15 published. My plan is to write many more books for teens to read and enjoy.

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Chloe’s Dilemma

by Jim Wagner

This Edition published by Teen Friendly Books at Smashwords

Copyright 2014 by Jim Wagner

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A Teen Friendly Book

Some days are totally confusing

Chapter 1

Coming Home

Chloe was excited. She was more than excited. She was smiling all over. She could not sit still. Her feet wanted to dance. Her arms wanted to reach out and punch the sky. She wanted to shout really loud. She wanted to cheer. She wanted to jump up and scream. She didn’t.

The people sitting around her would think she was weird. Only really strange people stand up in the middle of an airplane and yell their loudest, I’m home! I’m almost home!

She looked at her brother, Evan, sitting next to her and wanted to tell him how thrilled she was to almost be home. He was busy playing on his PSP and listening to music on his ipod.

She tapped him on the arm and pointed at the lights of Cairns out the window. Evan turned his head and looked outside the plane for about two seconds and grunted, then turned back to playing his game.

They were coming home. For the first time in a month they were coming home.

She sat in the airplane and her stomach was rumbling with joy. It was excited too. She looked out the window and stared at the lights below and her smile became bigger.

She saw the streetlights of Palm Cove, then the lights of Smithfield. The plane was flying in over the Northern Beaches and was almost ready to land. She could smell home as she looked out the window.

They had been on a trip with their father and his ‘bimbo wife’, as her mother described her. Their parents split up four years ago, and the only time that they saw him was at Christmas when they traveled with him.

This time they went to Hawaii and to Los Angeles. Chloe did not want to go. Not this year. She had other things, more important things to do and people to be with. But he insisted. He almost made her go.

Please pumpkin, he begged, this is your last year in high school and it may be the last time the four of us are together, ever; so let’s make it a good one.

She felt sorry for him. So she went traveling with her father and his new wife and her brother. They flew out of Sydney and stayed on the island of Maui in Hawaii for a week, at a very enjoyable resort.

The ocean and waves were there. Swimming pools were there. They took boat trips and did diving and went in helicopters and swam in the pool and went shopping and ate Hawaiian food.

Then they flew to Los Angeles. They stayed at a house on the beach there too. They took trips to Disneyland and to Universal Studios. She went to parties on the beach and went skiing in the snow.

It all sounded like a great holiday, and it was. She did not sit around in Hawaii and have to listen to her father talk on and on about how good it was that they were spending time together.

She did not have to sit for hours and hours watching her brother play games or stare at the television. She spent loads and loads of time mixing with a group of young surfers who she met on the beach. Some of them taught her how to surf.

They had some really good times sitting on the beach or swimming or surfing or watching the waves or singing or having parties.

She was very excited when she stood on a surfboard for the very first time and caught a wave that moved her toward the shore. She jumped off the board and had to hug Willy and Vince who taught her to stand and balance on the board.

She caught wave after wave and felt like a real surfer. She paddled out and waited her turn then moved her arms very quickly and powerfully to travel with the speed of the wave. Once she was on the wave she stood up and it felt great to be in motion with the wind in her face and the surf all around her.

Chloe was sad when she had to say good-bye to the islands and to the surfers and flew to California. Her father had a very good friend who took his whole family to Europe for the Christmas holidays, so they were able to stay in his house that was right on the beach.

Luckily Jasmine and Erica, who lived next door, became friends with Chloe. The three of them were always out doing things together. They liked to be active. So in between trips with her father and step-mother and brother, Chloe was off on adventures with the girls who had very fun friends named of Joey and Tyler and Jason.

They did some shopping and some surfing. Chloe fit in because the waves in California were not as big as the waves