Reclaiming My Crush

Scarlett has harbored a secret crush on her neighbor Jace since she was five. Heartbroken after overhearing him refer to her as "that creepy little sister" of Oliver's at her sixteenth birthday party, she vowed to follow four rules: don't look at him, don't speak to him, don't think about him, and don't be alone with him. Two years later, Scarlett enrolled at USC, only to discover that Jace had become a star on the university football team. He came to her aid after an accidental fall and later rescued and cared for her after she was drugged at a party. As they spent more time together, misunderstandings were cleared up; they moved from avoidance to closeness and from friendship to romance. After weathering family upheavals, her brother coming out, and the challenges of a long-distance relationship, Jace finally proposed beneath the campus tree at graduation, and the couple found their happy ending.