Kissing Is the Easy Part

Thank you for stumbling across my story and hopefully you will enjoy it enough to stay. Your feedback is highly appreciated!

This is an average high school love story and not a Hemingway, but I try to make it less predictable and as realistic as possible. Hopefully it's not dramatic to the point of eye-rolling.

What you won't find: werewolves, vampires, magic powers (unless flirting and kissing count), the bad boy with a heart of gold, plots such as the following:

a. the most popular boy in school for some reason falls for the nobody

b. realizing the best friend is the one all along at the last chapter

c. evil blond cheerleader ex-girlfriend out to get the heroine at every turn...

d. two people pretending to hate each other and finally declaring their love at the final chapter

e. the intimate moment between the two main characters is always interrupted at the worst time

(However, I have nothing against the things I mentioned and I've enjoyed watching movies like that)

Well, in my case there is an evil blond head-cheerleader, but she is the best friend and actually not that evil. In fact, no one is purely bad in this story; they all have their flaws, but they try their best.

I want to write something like 500 days of summer. Falling in love is easy, but staying together takes a lot of wisdom, effort and practice

There will be more descriptive, background story in the beginning but the pace will pick up soon. If you have a preconceived notion about how a high school love story should go, you're going to be hugely disappointed and frustrated. 

This is not a romance book. This is a story about relationships. I did not write this story to create a perfect ship and I do not agree with a lot of things my characters do and feel. That said, many lovely readers told me that this was the most realistic story on relationships they'd read and some commented on how uncannily similar it was to their own relationships and how much they'd learned from it, so if you keep an open mind, you just might like it :)

I hope you enjoy!!

Disclaimer (Updated May 2025)

This story was originally written and published here in 2015. Since then, I've grown—as a writer (slightly) and as a person (a lot)—and I've come to recognize that this version includes outdated and insensitive content, including casual references to mental health, fat-shaming, self-harm, and problematic jokes or characterizations.

I deeply regret these choices and want to acknowledge that they may be harmful to readers. I've chosen to leave this version intact to preserve its original timestamp and reader comments, which reflect the time it was written. Please consider this version a snapshot in time and read with care, rather than as a reflection of my current values or writing.

I'm proud of having finished this story back in 2015 (it was the first full-length project I ever completed), but it's very, very far from perfect. Beyond the outdated and insensitive content mentioned above, the writing itself is rough. I didn't fully understand the characters yet, and the plot often meanders, contradicts itself, or just falls apart. The people in this story do things that don't make sense because I didn't know them well enough to write them honestly. Please read this version for what it is—a messy, flawed first draft that got a lot wrong. I'm proud of how far I've come since then, but looking back at this version feels like seeing a cringey Facebook memory from ten years ago and barely recognizing the person who posted it.

A fully revised and updated version of this story, free from those issues and featuring deeper character development and new scenes, is being published by 抖阴社区 Books and will be available in stores on November 18, 2025. That edition is the definitive version, and I hope you'll check it out.

Thank you for reading, and for being part of this journey.

With love,
Christine