Becca's friend suggests that Becca befriend Camille so that she can win her trust and then destroy her with a dirty trick sometime down the road. Becca's grief is compounded when Camille shows up at the coffee shop where she works. Becca ends their relationship on the advice of a co-worker and immediately regrets it. Unaware that the kiss was caught by cellphone camera, Alec is surprised when Becca confronts him about it. The following week when Alec shows up at the lake, he surprises Camille by giving her a kiss. Unaware that Alec has a girlfriend, Camille enters into a flirtation with him over the Internet. This results in less free time to spend with Alec.Ĭamille begins going to the lake, a house owned by a young college man who prefers the company of teenagers, causing him to open his house for parties each Saturday night. This becomes a bigger issue when Becca is in a fender bender that was her fault, resulting in the need to get a job to pay her mother back for the damage done to the car. However, Camille is determined to adjust by throwing herself into new friendships.īecca is a happy, well-adjusted young woman whose only unhappiness is the fact that her boyfriend goes to another school and they can only see one another for any length of time on Wednesdays and the weekend. This time she has left behind a boyfriend whom she discovers is not as easily replaced as her friends have sometimes proven to be. Camille finds it more and more difficult to make these moves. After the Kiss is a novel that takes a look at both sides of the coin when a boy allows reality to cloud his judgment and he makes a mistake.Ĭamille has just moved to Atlanta, the third such move in the same number of years. Becca, on the other hand, is devastated to learn of Alec's betrayal. However, Alec disappears as quickly as he came into Camille's life, leaving her feeling lost. This culminates with a kiss at a party that weekend. Unaware that Alec has a girlfriend, Camille spends a week talking to him through email and text messages. While Becca is working hard, her boyfriend goes to a party where he hits it off with Camille. Becca already has the perfect boyfriend, but having to take a job to pay for damage done to her car in an accident that was her fault puts a strain on the relationship. Camille is new in town and looking to find something or someone to help her forget the wonderful boyfriend she left behind in Chicago. Written in verse, this novel tells two sides of one story. After the Kiss is a novel by Terra Elan McVoy.

After the kiss by terra elan mcvoy