Finding True Closure

"Such a beautiful dream:
A sunny day's kiss dancing in the rain. The laughter of a friend and the warmth of a mother's embrace. It ended all too soon.

I still remember the shiver I felt when I was pulled from my sweet dream. A window crashing loudly had me frozen underneath the covers of my bed. Next, I heard hurried footsteps charging down the stairs and my mother calling after my dad telling him to wait."

Alexandra Stone is an ambitious young lady who will stop at nothing to get what she wants, that being: 'The Student of the Year' award. But she has a story just like every other teenager, what's worse about hers is she doesn't even know half of it.

Enter the handsome and troubled Benjamin Woods:

"His eyes were turquoise with touches of grey like an ocean on a stormy afternoon, but the pupils were so large and dark it was like looking into the depths of a shipwreck. I was inclined to notice these things, recognise beauty and colour - I wanted so badly to paint those eyes."

He's your not-so-typical popular rich kid with a tragedy of his own as well as an incomplete past. But why does he feel compelled to help Alex reach her goal?

Fate has a weird way of connecting two completely different people into the same present. With a past that haunts them and threatens to break everything they know along with the natural troubles of young adults, will Ben and Alex have a future?

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I know this seems like a major cliché but I promise there is a twist in the tale to keep it exciting. It isn't all high school melodrama, so give it a chance ;)