Wishing On A Star

By Melissa Gomez

Cora is pouty teen girl who is dreaming of her eighteenth birthday celebration. But the frantic preparations for her single mom's wedding causes everyone to forget about her birthday...Except the nerd who has had a crush on her since childhood. 


 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trellis Publishing
• Release date: Jun 29, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201540838

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Chapter One

When Cora Logan’s father had left them, she’d been only three years old, therefore it hadn’t really affected her as much as it possibly could have. The same could not be said for Kate, Cora’s divorcee mother. In fact, the only memories that Cora has of her mother at that age are of her crying. Everywhere.

She cried in the kitchen as she prepared Cora’s breakfast and lunch, cried as she cooked dinner and served up dessert, and even as she cleared the dishes from the table to wash in the sink. She cried as she ran Cora her nightly baths and tried to hide her tears by telling her daughter that the faucet was just left on inside her.

Never leave the faucet on, Cory, she’d cautioned the little girl, through her tears. "It will only cause more damage. At the time, Cora had not understood what she meant, but she soon learned.

On her first day of Kindergarten, little Cora had been excited while her mother was clearly apprehensive. Cora had never been away from her mother for longer than a couple hours, and while the child embraced this new freedom, Kate came to dread it in the days before school began. She held onto Cora’s hand as tightly as possible as they inched their way down the hall to Miss Sheffield’s class, where children were already running and screaming, their hands waving wildly as they chased each other.

Kate had seen their wild behavior and immediately had second thoughts about enrolling Cora. She was too young or too fragile or too quiet to be put in with the boisterous likes of these children. She would get hurt or worse. Kate had nearly tugged her right back out, but before she could take so much as one step back, Cora was tugging out of her embrace and heading straight for a game of Duck, Duck, Goose! on the colorful carpet in the center of the room.

Kate had nearly had a heart attack at the loss of contact, but Miss Sheffield had assured her that Cora would be safe in her hands. Kate could find no way to argue that point without sounding completely ridiculous and finally relented. She glanced once more at Cora’s back, the head of tight brown curls shaking with her giggles as she chased a blonde boy around the circle calming her just the tiniest bit she needed to walk out of the room.

She didn’t get a chance to see that same boy trip her in the middle of the room while the other kids laughed and little Cora Logan held back her tears. From then on, their positions on school were practically switched.

With every single day, it became easier for Kate to leave Cora at school, with kisses and promises to return and, with every single day, it became harder and harder for Cora to be at school, where the other children would trip her when the teacher was not