1988: Need You Tonight

By Rachel Higginson

Cassandra Carmichael has had a terrible year. Her parents are getting divorced, destroying whatever façade of family they had left. College is so much harder than she anticipated. Freshman year sucks so far. And on top of that, her roommate is the most obnoxious human on the planet.

But tonight, all of her problems are going to disappear when she sees Jake Turner and his band play live at Graffiti’s Battle of the Bands.

Cass knows three very important facts about Jake and this night:

1. She loves Jake Turner. She’s loved him since she was five years old and he moved in next door.

2. Nobody has ever been cooler than Jake Turner. He’s perfect boyfriend material to complement her brand new rebel without a care reputation.

3. Jake Turner will erase every bad memory of this year and give her the happily ever after she’s secretly always longed for.

If only she could find him. And talk to him.

If only she could get Troy Cameron to leave her alone. Just because they sit by each other in English 101 does not mean they’re friends. Or that she thinks he’s hot. Or that he’s exactly the guy she needs tonight.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WaWa Productions
• Release date: Sep 30, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370245758

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1988: Need You Tonight

1988: Need You Tonight

Love in the '80s: A New Adult Mix

Rachel Higginson

Vol. 9

Contents

Also by Rachel Higginson

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Sneak Peeks

1980: You Shook Me All Night Long

1981: Jessie’s Girl

1982: Maneater

1983: Cruel Summer

1984: Against All Odds

1985: Careless Whisper

1986: Why Can’t This Be Love

1987: How Do I Get You Alone

1989: Once Bitten, Twice Shy

1998: Need You Tonight

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also by Rachel higginson

LOVE AND DECAY

Love and Decay, Season One, Episodes One-Twelve

Love and Decay, Season Two, Episodes One-Twelve

Love and Decay, Season Three, Episodes One-Twelve

STAR-CROSSED SERIES

Reckless Magic

Hopeless Magic

Fearless Magic

Endless Magic

The Reluctant King

The Relentless Warrior

Breathless Magic

Fateful Magic

The Redeemable Prince

THE STARBRIGHT SERIES

Heir of Skies

Heir of Darkness

Heir of Secrets

THE SIREN SERIES

The Rush

The Fall

The Heart

BET ON LOVE SERIES

Bet on Us, an NA Contemporary Romance

Bet on Me, an NA Contemporary Romance

The Five Stages of Falling in Love,

an Adult Contemporary Romance

Every Wrong Reason,

an Adult Contemporary Romance

Magic and Decay,

a Rachel Higginson Mashup

THE FORGED IN FIRE SERIES

Striking

Brazing

To Bethany, Ashley and Leslie and the nights

We stayed away watching our favorites.

To Dirty Dancing, The Breakfast Club and The Princess Bride—

The movies that made me fall in love first.

The stories that sparked the daydream.

chapter one

Mr. Ferris droned on and on at the chalkboard. Prepositions and adverbs and yada, yada, yada. I should have tested out of English 101. This was kids’ stuff. I had a solid public school education; I did not need this bull.

Why hadn’t I listened to my mom?

Oh yeah, because I wasn’t speaking to her.

I fingered the corner of the letter she’d sent me yesterday. I’d only just found the guts to open it this morning. I’d read it on the walk to class, knowing I would be distracted dodging morning rush hour through the quad.

Besides, I knew what it was going to say before I ever read, Dear Cassandra.

My mother was nothing if not predictable. Well, until she’d filed to divorce my dad, anyway. She’d been the perfect housewife. Breakfast on the table before anybody left the house. Family dinners were mandatory and absolutely no television during the meal. She volunteered for every school fundraiser, bake sale and car wash. I’d been practically baptized in the garden hose at the gas station down the street.

My mom made Martha Stewart look like an amateur.

But then she’d sent her perfect reputation to hell in a hand basket and destroyed the family I thought was perfect. My older brother, Jason, had been in his senior year at NYU and hardly noticed the change in family dynamic. Once, he’d confessed that he knew it was going to happen.

But I had been living at home during the summer before my freshman year at Wharing University, so I’d had front row tickets to the entire, ugly show.

He cheated on me, the letter had started out.

It wasn’t anything I hadn’t heard before. She’d been spinning this story for months.

Are those notes?

I glanced over at the jock next to me, Troy Cameron. He smelled like peppermint and Old Spice.

Shoving the letter back into my notebook, I shook my head. God, you’re nosey.

He made a sound in the back of his throat that made me want to roll my eyes. He