A Free-Verse Poem...

(please note that this story has been rewritten and can be found under the name JUST FALL on my profile) 35 girls. 2 princes. The opportunity of a lifetime. Cassiana Lowes is an Eight, living on the streets of Kent. She and her mother live off of lies--after all, the only way for them to survive is to pose as Fives and Sixes to get any type of money, and even then it usually isn't enough. When Cassiana enters the Selection, it's solely because she knows that she and her mother need the money. She doesn't do it for anything else, and most definitely not in hopes of falling in love. But the one thing that she hadn't planned on happened--she fell in love with both of the princes, and they fell in love with her, too. One headstrong and cynical prince, one tragic death, one new friendship, one potential love that never will go beyond the competition, and one Selection. Will Cassiana choose Mason, Alexander, or her life back home?

When Nicholas Cooper was 9 years old, his mother knelt in front of him and rested her hand on his knee. “Nicky, I need you to promise me something,” she said slowly. “If something ever happens to me, I need you to look after Jack.” Fifteen years after Nicholas makes that promise, his mother goes missing and the last person to see her alive is the one he vowed to watch over.