Being Perfect
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"There's no such thing as perfect," he says while softly brushing a strand of loose hair out of her ridiculously perfect face, smiling at the irony of his own words. "But if there was, you'd be pretty close."
I had the perfect life. Until he destroyed it in one beat of my angry heart. I never thought the ending of perfection would be the beginning of a reality that tasted so much sweeter than the synthetics they fed me all my life. Until I destroyed it. In one beat of his broken heart.
When Scarlett's ideal boyfriend embarrasses her in front of the whole Upper East Side society, she finds one night of solace in the strong arms of a stranger. Unfortunately he doesn't stay a mystery for too long but turns up, where she never expected to end up herself: Prescott Hall - a boarding school she is bound to visit for her senior year.
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