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    Just One Night
    Just One Night
    Just One Night
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    Just One Night

    By Rachel Lenna

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    I'm Frump... He's not. He's popular... I prefer my bubble. I have a crush on him... He's way out of my league. Right?
    Well thats what I thought too until one night changed everything... Just one single night with a busy friend who takes off on me, a bunch of awesome guys who become instant big brothers, and a little faith to believe that it can happen for even me too.

    This is my story about believeing in love, about having the courage to push past whats uncomfortable and about a hope that no one should ever lose no matter what happens to them. It's about how just one night can change your whole world without you even realising it. Those several hours in the dark where magical things happen and dreams do come true.

    They happened for me and so they can happen for you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRachel Lenna
    Release dateMar 5, 2014
    ISBN9781310975233
    Just One Night
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    Rachel Lenna

    Rachel Lenna is a twenty something year old author from New South Wales, Australia. She has three children, four dogs, two cats and two rats. She has her hands full most days but still manages to write when inspiration hits - usually at midnight or later!Rachel loves to spend her time reading when she's not writing and know's that when an idea comes to her time disappears. She also enjoys arts and crafts, music, singing and taking her children out into the world.Rachel has many books that are near completeion that she will be publishing soon, check back regularly for any new titles or updates to already published books.

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      Just One Night - Rachel Lenna

      Just One Night

      Rachel Lenna

      Published by Rachel Lenna at Smashwords

      Copyright Rachel Lenna 2014

      Smashwords Edition Licence Notes

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      All characters, places and stories in this eBook are a work of fiction. Any similarities to any persons living or deceased or actual places inside or outside this book is pure coincidence and not intentional.

      I do not own copyright of the song used in this story. All rights reserved solely to Jason Derulo.

      This author is just a big fan and the song fit beautifully.

      This eBook is interactive with most eBook compatible devices.

      Table of Contents

      About this Book

      Dedication

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Chapter 12

      Epilogue

      Over The Weekend Coming Soon

      About this Book

      "Every Friday night I go down to the club. Every Friday night I am pretending that I am trying to find a guy for Penny’s sake. But every Friday night it’s really to see Jaydan. Jaydan the sexy and awesome bar tender of Touché’s. He is the highlight of my week and he doesn’t even know it.

      The guy is way out of my league. I’m frump and he’s… well he's not. This Friday is no different, or at least it starts off no differently. Penny and I are having our weekly girlie drink but she takes off on me. Nothing unusual there either. Jaydan and I have become friends so I usually just hang out with him until the club picks up and I go home to bed.

      However I have no idea tonight is going to be different. I have no idea that come morning everything I thought I knew would be blown sky high and things would never be the same for me again.

      This is my story. This is my story about love. This is my story about courage, about hope, about faith. This is my story about how just one night can change everything. About how one night can seem to be looking like one thing will happen but end up being completely different with completely unexpected outcomes…

      This is my one night to take a chance...

      All it takes is Just One Night…

      Dedication

      To My children first and foremost, for those moments Mummy is so zoned in on her characters that time flies and you play well… Thank you.

      To Grandpa, today marks two years and so I choose today to publish this… For you.

      Chapter 1

      Pfft, look at those two will you? I scoff to my friend Penny Kennard. She follows my gaze and watches the couple making out just to our left with me. It’s just so sick! They need to get a room! We are in a nightclub, yes the lights are dimmed and there’s alcohol and music playing but it is 8pm at night! Don’t people like do that later? Shouldn’t now be about getting drunk and turned on with your partners mating ritual of a dance?

      It’s not sick Tara and you know it. Penny pats me on the shoulder. It’s that annoying sympathy pat people do when they know more than they are saying out loud. She’s silently telling me she knows I’m lonely and bitter and twisted at the ripe old age of nineteen and hate all the love in the world.

      I’m not that bad, I promise. I admit that I get lonely sometimes. It has been three years since I had a boyfriend and he wasn’t exactly the nicest guy out there. He was a jerk actually and really turned me off men for a while.

      But here I am, in a club, sitting at a bar trying to snag a guy. Geez I sound like I’m forty but I’m not. At nineteen I should be partying and hooking up with lots of guys but that’s just not me. I would like to think I have class and respect for myself.

      I have had a few men approach me all the times we have been here but they all seemed seedy and highly intoxicated and this non-alcoholic would prefer it if her future man would be at least semi upright when he told me his name was "Bo-hiccup-snort-cough-b" or something along those lines.

      After my first and last boyfriend I won’t ever settle for anything less then I deserve again. He was a downright monster and as a teenager already lost in the world it took a while to recover from that and I learnt what to look for so I wouldn’t do it to myself again.

      Penny smiles at me with that sympathetic look she does when she doesn’t know what to say. She’s telling me with her eyes that she knows that I will continue to remain single and be lonely for quite a while yet because I am too stubborn to be anything but.

      Tara? She prompts when I don’t reply straight away.

      I do. I agree begrudgingly, sparing her one of my sooky la la moments.

      We are sitting at the local bar in my small town of Shimmer River. Touchés, the best night club our little town of twenty thousand has, is quiet at the moment. It’s early but Penny and I are having our weekly girlie drink at our usual time.

      Penny has a husband and a wonderful life at home, but she wants to see me happy to so has designated her early Friday nights to me. We have been best friends since the seventh grade and she was with me through all the drama so she does this for me in hopes that someone will catch my eye.

      Penny forgets that there aren’t a lot of Tom’s, her husband, around. Tom and Penny have been high

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