I Choose You and Me

Ever since the car crash that killed her mother, left her paralyzed from the neck down, and put her in an orphanage when she was 7, Ava has been keeping a list in her head of all the things she'd love to do if she ever made it out of there. Now 19 and celebrating the completion of a long, grueling year of physical therapy after a life changing surgery that has allowed her to walk again, she's ready to start checking things off her list.
And who better to help her with that than Beatrice - the adorable front desk receptionist from the rehab clinic she stayed at and obviously Ava's new best friend.
The more time they spend together, it gets harder for Ava to ignore that funny feeling she gets in her stomach when she's with her best friend. The list may be getting smaller, but her feelings for Beatrice are only getting bigger.

Notes:

Hi everyone! I got the idea for this story after watching A Walk to Remember and decided to put an Avatrice spin on it. I loved the idea of Beatrice helping Ava complete a bucket list full of all the things she wanted to do during her childhood but couldn't. Yes, there are a lot of Taylor Swift references and no, I'm not sorry about it. Ava's bucket list is chapter 1!
*update: I was going to post a chapter a week but I’m too excited about this story so I’ve posted the whole thing :)

Chapter 1: Ava's Bucket List

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1. run through a sprinkler

2. do a slip-n-slide

3. build a fort

4. try a po-go stick

5. go mini golfing

6. have a water balloon fight

7. see the Northern Lights

8. go to an aquarium/zoo

9. blow out birthday candles

10. ride a roller coaster

11. fall/Halloween

12. go bowling

13. go midnight driving with the windows down because One Direction says so

14. learn to swim

15. go camping

16. sing karaoke

17. go to a drive-in movie

18. Christmas

19. bake something from scratch

20. get drunk

21. go fruit picking because I definitely think I’m fruity

22. have my first kiss

23. go to prom

24. watch the sunrise and sunset in the same day

25. dance with and kiss someone in the rain

26. go on a date

27. movies

28. make friendship bracelets while jamming to T-Swift

29. kiss someone at the top of a ferris wheel

30. tell her how I feel

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