Open Your Eyes

By Cyan LeBlanc

A Young Adult Romance Novella

 

High school friends, Daisy and Lilith, have the same feelings for each other, though they don't know it. Afraid of telling each other and their close-minding friends, they have stifled their feelings to keep their friendship intact; even Lilith lowered herself to pretending to be in love with their other friend, Justice.

These girls need to open their eyes to see the signs to see the mutual feelings and allow their fears to dissolve into happily in love in this young adult sweet romance.

 

Trigger warns include a dominant male aggressively pressuring a female, and a few curse words.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Posies & Peacocks
• Release date: Aug 18, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215650745

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Open Your Eyes

Cyan LeBlanc

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Posies & Peacocks

Copyright © 2022 by Cyan LeBlanc

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No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher or author, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law.

Contents

1.I Gotta Get Out Of There

2.Daisy, Where Are You?

3.The Confession

4.The Hunt For Lilith

5.The Goodbye Letters

6.Daisy or Justice

7.I Don't Love You

8.I Swear I Won't Leave

9.Friends Again

Cyan LeBlanc

I Gotta Get Out Of There

On the beach, Daisy sat and tried to understand the events of the past few months. Her two best friends began dating, which wasn’t horrible, except their cute names for each other. If she heard it one more time, she would shove their cute nicknames up their royal asses. She attempted to play it off with silly jokes about their relationship when they started dating, but deep down inside, it ate her up. Daisy had a secret reason to disapprove of her friends dating.

If anyone walked next to her on the beach, they’d perceive her as crazy. She sat on the beach in a hideous prom dress with a pair of heels sitting next to her. She skipped her prom, so she did not have to witness Lilith and Justice fawn over each other on the dance floor.

Daisy had no plans to go to prom that year. If not for Lilith’s begging, she planned to stay in with a Bruce Willis action film. She hated socializing. Parties annoyed her. Half her class, she disliked, but Lilith pleaded. She had a hard time saying no to her best friend, especially when she begged with her cute puppy dog face.

The two of them had been friends since their freshman year. Lilith moved to the west coast from Florida and sat next to her in history class around mid-year. Their chance meeting was very cliché. Lilith dropped her pencil, and both girls attempted to pick it up at the same time. They bumped heads and laughed. A friendship blossomed as soon as they stood up. They became inseparable from that moment on.

Daisy could say their friendship began and flourished on a lie; less of a lie and more of not telling. She liked girls, which wasn’t a well-known fact. She didn’t cover her books or locker with rainbow flags and equality stickers, so her school didn’t know. In fact, no one knew. Life felt easier without having to debate her sexuality with anyone. The one time Lilith asked if she had a boyfriend; she stated she didn’t. Her answer wasn’t a lie. She deleted the lesbian details to shield unwanted gossip.

In her little uptight town, the residents frowned on same-sex couples. The flamboyant gay men, who moved close to elementary school, skedaddled faster than Danica Patrick drove. One time Daisy considered coming out, but another classmate stepped up before her. The entire school belittled him, sending him into therapy.

The little non-disclosure of her sexual preference put her in a pickle to find a date for their senior prom. As stupid as it sounded, Daisy created a brilliant idea of asking a hot guy to prom to ignite some sort of jealousy from Lilith. Instead of her friend, the other females in her class got bit by the jealous bug. She asked Aaron Roggel, the hottie with the swimmer’s body, to the prom; he agreed.

Aaron had a secret, too. He wanted to make someone else jealous by attending the prom with Daisy. They were two peas in a pod.

At the hotel, Justice and Lilith danced close together and took selfies, which turned Daisy’s stomach. Even Aaron considered their relationship exaggerated. No couple could