Stay Beautiful

“Your body is the house you grew up in. How dare you try to burn it to the ground.”
Morgan Kennedy thinks she's hiding a huge secret. She thinks nobody knows she counts the calories. She thinks nobody knows she excuses herself to the bathroom after a big meal. She thinks no one knows she's nearly skin and bone. But everyone does.
That is, except her oblivious mother who works nearly 24/7 at a diner to support not only Morgan, but her younger son Jacob.
Parker Lovett's mother is gone, his father is a hopeless drunk. Stella, his five year old sister, is the only family he considers he has. He works to support the three of them, but sometimes it just isn't enough.

Morgan and Parker meet outside a coffee shop on a gloomy Sunday morning. But, even though it was raining, all they could see was the sun.

Day and night. Fire and ice. Dead and alive. She wants to be found. He wants to be lost.