after-the-after-series-todd-anna

1621 Pages·2017·2.91 MB·English

by  Todd, Anna

This story is amazing! I love it! •
Intense • Adorable & perfect • Hessa
• I’m addicted • So romantic • I’m
crying an ocean • I will always ship
Hessa • You don’t have to be a
Directioner to read this • Nerve-racking •
So cute I’m giggling • Anna is a genius •
They fight and piss each other off, but
that’s what makes it so realistic • LOL—
love this! • I’m more up to date on this
story than I am on my actual life
Wattpad readers agree—the
After series is a wild,
addicting rollercoaster of a
romance. #Hessa forever!
He’s moody—but that’s exactly what
made me fall for him • I love this way too
much! • I just spit my water • This story
is going to be the death of me! • OMG
*facepalm* • I’m crying and I have
goosebumps • I love them so much XOXO
• My heart just melted! • Romantic
bastard • I’m grinning like an idiot •
Fangirling SO HARD! • Just buy her a
ring already! • So dark and mysterious •
Wow, that was hot. • I want more.
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To my readers from the start, with
so, so much love and gratitude.
You mean the entire world to me.
prologue
C
ollege had always seemed so crucial,
such an essential part of what
measures a person’s worth and
determines their future. We live in a
time where people ask which school
you went to before asking your last
name. From an early age I was taught,
trained really, to prepare for my
education. It had become this necessity
that required an overwhelming amount
of preparation and borderline
obsession. Every class I chose, every
assignment I completed since my first
day of high school revolved around
getting into college. And not just any
college—my mother had it set in her
mind that I attend Washington Central
University, the same school that she
attended, but never completed.
I had no idea that there would be so
much more to college than academics.
I had no idea that choosing which
electives to take during my first
semester would seem, just a few
months later, like trivial affairs. I was
naïve then, and in some ways I still am.
But I couldn’t have possibly known
what lay ahead of me. Meeting my
dorm-mate was intense and awkward
from the start, and meeting her wild
group of friends even more so. They
were so different from anyone I had
ever known and I was intimidated by
their appearance, confused by their
pure inattention to structure. I quickly
became a part of their madness,
indulging in it . . .
And that’s when he crept into my
heart.
From our first encounter, Hardin
changed my life in ways that no
amount of college prep courses or
youth group lectures could have. Those
movies I watched as a teen quickly
became my life, and those ridiculous
plotlines became my reality. Would I
have done anything differently if I had
known what was to come? I’m not sure.
I would love to give a straight answer to
that, but I can’t. At times I am grateful,
so utterly lost in the moment of passion
that my judgment is clouded and all I
can see is him. Other times, I think of
the pain he caused me, the deep sting
of loss for who I had been, the chaos of
those moments when I felt as if my
world had been turned upside down,
and the answer isn’t as clear as it once
was.
All that I’m certain of is that my life
and my heart will never be the same,
not after Hardin crashed into them.