The Green Grass Grows Again
a YA Christian fiction romance short story
Karima Hadad used to be the center of Valley High’s social universe. Model. Trendsetter. The girl everyone wanted to be around. Then she made one private mistake with the wrong boy, and suddenly her most vulnerable moment was being passed around in locker rooms and whispered about on street corners. Now it’s summer break, and Karima hasn’t left her bedroom in weeks, watching the world through a gap in her curtains and wondering if the shame will ever stop following her.
The one bright spot in her exile? Jayden King, the embarrassingly awkward and catastrophically clumsy boy next door, whom she spies on daily. Jayden may not be your next romance cover model, but Karima has spent every day since last Christmas trying to convince herself she made the right choice when she picked the popular boy over him. Now she knows the truth. She doesn’t deserve Jayden. Not anymore. Not after everything. Because sometimes you don’t get a second chance. And she might have missed her first.
The Green Grass Grows Again is a short YA Christian fiction romance for every girl who has ever felt disqualified from love, faith, and her own future.
The charred field is never the final chapter.
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