I, June Percy, study at Valence Academy, where I have spent most of my time invisible. Life for me is not easy. I go through the torment of bullies, complicated relationships, and loving someone when all of the odds are against us. And every good and bad part of my life leads to that day, the day I met the town's notorious badass, Dean Kingsley. In matters of the heart, the fact that it's never easy is the biggest understatement of the century. Our love was brillinatly passionate. It was, in a word, incandescent. The code I live by in my life is relatively simple: nothing worth having comes easy, ever.