My Sweet Cherry by Meg Becker

Rewinding to the 90s:
Get your walkman and get ready, it’s almost 1992.

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I was the good girl. I had always been the good girl.

BETH
I would rather spend my weekends in the library or studying in my room. But it was homecoming week, and my friends told me I needed to lighten up. I was determined to prove to them that I could have fun, even if fun meant going on a kind of awkward date with a stranger from the bar. Then the rumors started, and when my reputation as the good girl was challenged, I had to make a choice—one that led to me getting attention from one of the most popular guys on campus. He seemed set on getting to know me, all I had to do was convince myself to lighten up.

CARTER
I was used to my roommate’s honey-chasing antics. Most of the time, I had no problem ignoring him. Until he brought Beth home. She was different than the others—more innocent, and she told him no. So when the rumors started after their first date, I had to warn her. I just wanted to stop her from getting hurt. But once I got a taste of her, I couldn’t get her off my mind, and I had to have more. I had to have all of her.

She was too sweet for me, but I was determined to make her mine.