Hope for Her (Hope Series Book #1)
by Sydney Aaliyah Michelle
What do you HOPE for?
Ten fun facts you
will learn from reading Hope for Her:
1.
Be
careful what you ask for. My main character Carrington wants to shine, but
in Josh, she may have gotten more then she bargained for.
In my eighteen years of wishing and
hoping to become someone's something, I never thought about what it would be
like being someone's everything.
2.
Greek
life may not be for you. You dress alike, look alike, chant alike. If you
get into a fight, shoot up a rival fraternity house and get kicked out of one
school, transfer schools. The fraternity has to take you in. Josh is a Phi
Kappa Pi legacy. PKP!!!
"What are the guys saying?" I
asked as I rubbed a hand across my forehead.
"The guys are happy you finally
came to your senses." Jackson leaned against the wall and crossed his
arms.
"You're a terrible liar,
Jackson."
"It will take some time, but the guys
will come around. It's not like you're the first brother who did something
stupid."
"Yes, but I did something stupid as
an FU student."
"As if being an FU student wasn't
stupid enough," Jackson said and laughed.
3.
The
true meaning of the word best friend. If you break it down, a best friend
is the person who participates in the act of friendship, even if it's not reciprocated.
Josh and Jackson have been best friends they were eight years old.
I collapsed into the nearest leather
chair. "Hey, but, we're all brothers. No matter where I pledged,
right?"
I stared at him, waiting for his answer.
"We are brothers," Jackson
said and nodded. He stood up. I followed and relaxed, knowing he meant more
than our fraternity connection. I missed my oldest friend.
4.
Drugs
and alcohol make you feel so good. It's the high they talk about. If it
didn't feel good, why would you do it in the first place? That's how Josh
justified it.
She handed me her stuff, and I sat next
to her and took a hit. Like any drug, the initial hit was always the best. I
leaned back and let it spread over me unimpeded. My mind quieted for the first
time since speaking to my dad. I loved this feeling.
I started to giggle, and Candy was
giggling next to me. I turned and tried to focus on her, but she swayed all
around me. My vision swam, and I pulled myself up trying to concentrate on one
thing. She moved up next to me, but my vision blurred. I shook my head, squeezed
my eyes shut, and when I opened them, I looked down and saw Candace kneeling
between my legs.
5.
Drugs
and alcohol make you feel so bad. After the good, comes the bad. Really
bad!
What did I do?
I jumped up and stumbled in the
direction of the bathroom. I threw up in the sink. The vomit contained only
liquid, no food. The idea of food made me sick, and I threw up in the toilet
this time.
I fell to the tile floor in the
bathroom.
I slowed my breathing and attempted to
stand up. My brain wasn't having it, and I concentrated on the connection of my
cheek on the cold hard floor.
6.
Rich
people get all the good stuff. Good house, good clothes, good seats at the
football games, good drugs, good fraternity, good parties, good lawyers, good
bribe worthy money, good talks with fraternity presidents who forgive you for
you're past discretions and welcome you to you're new (good) life.
Phi Kappa Pi house, the proverbial and
literal center of Greek life at FSU, sat in the middle of the block of
fraternity row. Phi Kappa Pi, or PKP as we called it, recruited the wealthiest
and most prestigious, but not necessarily the smartest, male students on
campus.
As the oldest fraternity in the nation,
we wore history and heritage like a badge of honor and relied on that badge to
get ahead or get away with stuff, depending on how you looked at it.
7.
You
don't get to pick who you love. Josh choose Carrington to love, but his
father ... did not.
"I mean, sure, she's beautiful.
She’s fucking hot. But if you brought her here to get to me, well, it worked.
You have my attention."
"I didn't bring her here to do
anything to you. She's my girlfriend."
"Come on, Josh. You can't be
serious." He chuckled. "Sure, have some fun. Date her, fuck her, do
what you want to her, but you don't introduce her at a family event."
8.
Sometimes
things have to get bad before they get ok. Carrington in crisis needs
saving.
I heard the commotion but kept my eyes
shut. Fear paralyzed me and I held my breath waiting for it to end. Even behind
my closed eyes, I saw Josh’s face hovering over mine. The pain on my face from
Josh hitting me subsided or maybe the intense pain radiating from the inside
out took over. A vise gripped my insides and twisted it.
Holy heck, it hurt.
I had a moment of relief when I no
longer felt Josh’s weight on me. I rolled over on my left side and wrapped my
arms around my stomach and the pain went away.
"Brandon, get him out of
here," Jackson yelled, but he sounded a million miles away.
Relief washed over me as I opened my
eyes and found Jackson kneeling next to me holding my hand.
9.
Super
hot, sexy, smart, sweet guys who say the right things at the right times and
try and make everything ok, do exist. Jackson Latre Mitchell is the book
boyfriend of you're dreams.
"Okay, I didn't want to be your
first boyfriend in college."
"Okay." I concentrated on what
he said, but didn't get it. "What?"
"I wanted to be your last."
"Oh."
He blushed and turned away.
So adorable.
10. Florida State University is the best
university in the world. Go Noles!! Just my own personal plug for my alma
mater.
F-L-O-R-I-D-A S-T-A-T-E
Florida State
Florida State
Florida State
WHOOO!!!! (Hands raised with spirit
fingers).
#10 is very subjective.
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