Take a self-conscious slightly chubby female and throw in a cocky man who probably stepped right off the front cover of a magazine, and throw them together to plan a wedding. Things weren't going to be smooth as the icing on the cake. Throw in a stray cat, a potential boyfriend, her ex, a crazy bat shit mother, a pizza delivery, a secret from the past and numerous accidents, these might just be enough for Violet to realise that weight didn't weigh that much when it came to love.

As if life wasn't hard enough being bullied and treated like garbage all the time; my loathsome, insufferable seat mate just had to come with his "secrets" and torture my every waking hour. What's the big deal you say? Nothing except for the fact that he's some insanely beautiful Greek God under those nerdy glasses. And now, he lives next door. I'm Sarah and this is my story. Disclaimer: This story was written in 2011. Just so you know.

Fat. Wait, no. Fatter. I distinctly remember when I admitted it to myself, the first time I willingly stepped onto the weighing scale in my bathroom. Sure. I saw it coming. All the secret stashes of M&M's. Hershey's. Mars Bars. I suppose I'd known from the start of the summer that chocolate was the devil... When Aimee gains weight over the summer, she becomes a whole new person. Her mother doesn't exactly help the situation by acting cold and distant, the mysterious boy named James is acting odd, and her childhood friend is going out with her best friend, Vic. When a slot for a column in the school newsletter opens, she grabs the slot and vents her fat, little heart out. Under the alias 'Ex.L', she grabs the attention of the whole school and later, the nation. The catch? The paper is selling out, media is everywhere, and everyone wants to know who 'Ex.L' is. Will she remain undiscovered and find love along the way?