My heart beat faster in my chest as I saw his eyes boring into me. I shrieked and I flung myself back into the water, covering my body as much as I could with my arms. "Don't you knock?" I snapped. "Knock on what?" he asked, looking at me with a dumbfound look. "We are in the middle of the forest, remember?" "Knock on a tree or something!" I cried. He smirked, amused. Bastard.*INFO

He was her rival, on and off the court. He can get any girl he wants, and she doesn't know how to lose. In a battle of basketball and the heart, Taylor Hampton won't let James Stirling win. Dallington High School never saw this coming.

Anais Blake had the perfect life: she was the cheer captain and the girlfriend of the soccer varsity captain. Until her family moved to another state. Now she's at a new school, with no friends, and no cheer squad. Oh, and did she just sleep with the hottest guy in school? Crap. [First in the Life Series]

A short epilogue from "After the End". She had such an intense level of faith in him. He would not fail either of them.

Throughout their lives, Aubrianne and Brent have been stereotyped as the naive cheerleader and the quiet rebel. Yet, they have been inseparable since kindergarten. Now that they're beginning their adult lives, unexpected changes enter their friendship.