p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222; text-align: center;" data-p-id="911ade68bb991bc73a7936096856e440"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Disclaimer: most characters belong to Shannon Messenger's Keepers of the Lost Cities series. There will be a note at the end/beginning of the chapter that I introduce my characters. The plot belongs to me./span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222; text-align: center;" data-p-id="90a10b9b8ec0494cfa4425a760a9fbe2"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Hello, this is Hazel the author of this book. Every vote and comment means the world to me. I just wanted to share the message/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222; text-align: center;" data-p-id="56d8d2a12fc04e74342f3b74a4d8e04f"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;" SiSiLoves2read Shared as it is amazing. (Skip the quick note after chapter 23 If you're reading this note.)/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222; text-align: center;" data-p-id="895c48ab56a49e507f15da0a04565692"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"I love when people start reading my book but when they suddenly stop reading, it honestly hurts a LOT. It's extremely discouraging. If my book offends you, I'm not trying to and I'm super-duper sorry./span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222; text-align: center;" data-p-id="5578848cd46fcf0af55c374dc3eaa92a"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"But please, if you are reading just know that it hurts a lot if you suddenly stop. It makes me lose my confidence and my dream is to professionally write someday so when you quit reading it makes me feel like maybe no one will like my book if I make one. At one point I took a very long break because I felt no one was reading so I thought em style="box-sizing: border-box;"What's the point?/em/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222; text-align: center;" data-p-id="835817b7ae2335f2953d96174bf063b6"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"So...I just wanted to add this note not to make you feel guilty, but just to bring it to your attention :)/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222; text-align: center;" data-p-id="74cbf96f1ce24ea3964fa9e0c3b92336"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Thanks for reading I hope you enjoy my first SoKeefe fanfiction. Now on with the story./spanspan style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222; text-align: center;" data-p-id="f3be2da17bfea90b0cfe40e6bc166793"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"- The Author./span/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="4a8bad819e447aa0e08a5b485a2c5eac"Sophie and Keefe had just had a pretty big argument about crushes. Sophie didn't understand why he cared about who she liked so much. It's not like it concerned him./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="feebe82a962c082c58f9a46e141c0e05"That's when she realized did Ro mean... /p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="4855abf059c96fab62f958d539a469f3"No, she couldn't mean that he wouldn't. Would he? Nah. /p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="02cdae30be4e1608071ac575542cacc5"But if he did Sophie didn't how would she feel about that./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="8a56ce304fabc40423c61ad381112d3b""Lights out in 10 minutes. You need to get sleep tonight." Sandor called from outside her door./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="18afaaa562e90aa01d2445090af64bc7"Sophie was soon done showering and putting her pajamas on. She was about to grab her imparter and hail Keefe when Sandor said, "Lights out!" from his post. Sophie sighed and put it off to the side she would worry about it in the morning. Then she drifted off to sleep./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="9d6a0ffa4f74be84b9eb11d4488085c2"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Sorry, it's so short but I hope you enjoyed it I will write chapter 2 ASAP. Thanks for reading/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222; text-align: center;" data-p-id="cfb95cbfa55544abafc1e35930c4602e"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"-The Author/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222; text-align: center;" data-p-id="90a10b9b8ec0494cfa4425a760a9fbe2"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Hello, this is Hazel the author of this book. Every vote and comment means the world to me. I just wanted to share the message/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222; text-align: center;" data-p-id="56d8d2a12fc04e74342f3b74a4d8e04f"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;" SiSiLoves2read Shared as it is amazing. (Skip the quick note after chapter 23 If you're reading this note.)/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222; text-align: center;" data-p-id="895c48ab56a49e507f15da0a04565692"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"I love when people start reading my book but when they suddenly stop reading, it honestly hurts a LOT. It's extremely discouraging. If my book offends you, I'm not trying to and I'm super-duper sorry./span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222; text-align: center;" data-p-id="5578848cd46fcf0af55c374dc3eaa92a"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"But please, if you are reading just know that it hurts a lot if you suddenly stop. It makes me lose my confidence and my dream is to professionally write someday so when you quit reading it makes me feel like maybe no one will like my book if I make one. At one point I took a very long break because I felt no one was reading so I thought em style="box-sizing: border-box;"What's the point?/em/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222; text-align: center;" data-p-id="835817b7ae2335f2953d96174bf063b6"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"So...I just wanted to add this note not to make you feel guilty, but just to bring it to your attention :)/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222; text-align: center;" data-p-id="74cbf96f1ce24ea3964fa9e0c3b92336"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Thanks for reading I hope you enjoy my first SoKeefe fanfiction. Now on with the story./spanspan style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /span/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="7992f5641e82f2237e5c6d4fc2355d87""Wow, you really are stupid," Ro said as Keefe Stormed out./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="4a8bad819e447aa0e08a5b485a2c5eac"Sophie and Keefe had just had a pretty big argument about crushes. Sophie didn't understand why he cared about who she liked so much. It's not like it concerned him./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="feebe82a962c082c58f9a46e141c0e05"That's when she realized did Ro mean... /p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="4855abf059c96fab62f958d539a469f3"No, she couldn't mean that he wouldn't. Would he? Nah. /p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="8a56ce304fabc40423c61ad381112d3b""Lights out in 10 minutes. You need to get sleep tonight." Sandor called from outside her door./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="18afaaa562e90aa01d2445090af64bc7"Sophie was soon done showering and putting her pajamas on. She was about to grab her imparter and hail Keefe when Sandor said, "Lights out!" from his post. Sophie sighed and put it off to the side she would worry about it in the morning. Then she drifted off to sleep./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="9d6a0ffa4f74be84b9eb11d4488085c2"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Sorry, it's so short but I hope you enjoyed it I will write chapter 2 ASAP. Thanks for reading/span/p
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