Summary: It's basically tradition in Sweet Amoris to be married by the time your out of high school. If not, your pretty much either moving out of the town to find love or grow old with a bunch of cats. Well, Carolina Rose found herself in a sticky situation. She had not one, not two, but SEVEN guys trying to court her. Will she go with what her heart wants? Or will she go out of her way to please her money-loving parents and be unhappy?

Disclaimer: I do not have any rights to My Candy Love, nor will I ever for that matter.

I felt like I was floating on a cloud. My white dress was exactly what I'd dreamt of in my younger, childish years. My dad walked next to me, a frown of unpleasantness on his face. They have been obsessed with money and power, and I don't think my future husband made the cut with their standards, but, in the long run, I knew they were happy for me.

As both me and my father reach the end of the altar, my groom came over for my dad to officially give me away. I looked up at his face and knew exactly who he was. It was none other than...

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

Another stopped dream I'll never get back. I groaned, hit the blaring alarm for it to stop, and rolled out my soft and very cozy bed to face another day of reality. Only, in my reality, so many people get engaged in hallways and cafeterias like they are asking to go to the prom with them, which, speaking of, was only four months away. It's kinda a normal thing in my school, Sweet Amoris High. Love is even in the name of the town! Everyone that has graduated from Sweet Amoris has either been engaged, married, or even in some cases expecting when they received their diploma.

In fact, that's even what parents expect out of their children: to marry by college or job profession. Especially my parents. That's all they want is for me to marry rich, so that if his parents die, he inherits the money and I never have to work. Both my parents work multiple jobs just to make sure that I don't lift a finger around here anyways.

I walk to my closet, opening it to show my collection of clothes and shoes, along with pulling out my favorite pink dress, chocolate-brown bolero, and matching riding boots, quickly changing while brushing out my long, black hair, all while nearly forgetting my lucky gold ring that my auntie gave me when my family moved here. It's given me luck before, like when I got rid of nerdy Ken, and he came back Kentin, which was a lot better than Ken, for that matter.

I skip down the stairs, meeting my dad in the kitchen, his silver hair now showing through his darker brown roots. Mom was slaving herself over the stove, cooking breakfast with her short reddish-orange hair in a pony tail to keep from dripping sweat into the bacon.

"Morning!" I greet semi-cheerfully to them.

"Good morning, princess." Dad says, not looking up from today's paper.

"It's Friday, do you have any plans or dates?" Mom asks, putting emphasis on dates.

"Yes, Melody's having a sleepover and invited me." I say. Mom nods, giving me her blessing to go tonight.

"Any boys catch your eye?" Dad ask.

"Somewhat." I reply as mom set the rest of breakfast out.

"I still think you need to go out with that Alexy fellow. Seems like a nice guy." Mom smiles as she serves me my waffles and eggs. Alexy was my best guy friend. We did nearly everything together. We'd probably be going out now, but there's one problem.

"Mom, he's gay." I say. Mom makes an "O" shape with her lipstick mouth, placing her hand over her mouth.

"Don't worry, honey, we'll pretend you didn't say that." Dad says.

We finish breakfast in silence, other than small talk about daily topics like the weather. As I grabbed my bag for Melody's, I heard the sound of a car horn. Obviously the horn was Alexy, here to drive me to school.

Dad waves me off, mom hands me my lunch money, and I head off to Alexy's car, and electric blue convertible. Since it was pretty cold outside, he had the hood up, which he proceeded to spray paint a bright orange, which I thought had clashed, but Alexy loved the outcome.

"Hey, hey, Blue." Alexy smiles bright as he greeted me while I threw my bags in the floorboard. He calls me "Blue" because of my eyes. Everyone at school says I have the most striking eyes there, an ice blue color with streaks of an ocean blue color mixed with green. Even Amber says that, and she absolutely hates me.

"Hi, Alexy." I smile, "Where's Armin?" This was Alexy's twin brother. This is the only thing that they have in common. Armin is Alexy's exact opposite.

"He wanted to walk today, even with it being so cold." He sighs, "This is the third time this week he hasn't ridden with us." I nod, knowing Alexy's frustrations. "It might have something to do with you." Alexy comments.

"Me?" I ask, "Why me?"

"All I hear outta his mouth these days is about you," He rants, "I think he may have a crush on you or something."

"Oh, that is hilarious." I say.

"It's the truth!" Alexy laughs, "I wouldn't blame him, though. If I was straight, I'd go out with you."

"Well, thanks for that compliment." I say as Alexy turns into the school. The courtyard was already buzzing with lovers, either making out or just talking and holding hands, stealing kisses here and there. Alexy found Armin pretty quick, and left me to go to my locker by myself. I tried to talk to Armin, but he left without a word. Maybe Alexy was right abou -t wait, what am I saying? Of course Armin wouldn't have a crush on me, he told me about a month ago he wanted to go out with Rosayla, one of my best friends.

I find Melody on the way, who proceeds to walk down the hallway with me. "Good morning, Carolina." Melody smiles, "Ready for tonight?"

"Born ready!" I smile, "We're leaving right after school right?"

"Of course! I want to go to the mall before we go, though. I hope Rosa doesn't mind if we go to the clothing shop while we're there." She says. Rosayla used to date the owner of that shop, Leigh, I think she said his name was. They started to get pretty serious but he dumped her pretty harshly. She's hated him ever since.

"I hope not." I say, opening my locker as Melody rushes off to talk to Violet about tonight. I grab my books and shove my bags into my decreasing locker , slamming it shut and revealing the student body president himself, Nathaniel.

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Love,

-RomanceWriter23