After Elle's first love reveals he broke up with her because she was so perfect it was nauseating, Elle decides to reinvent herself from perfect to perfectly awful until she discovers what really lies beneath her composed, beautiful facade.
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Elle is beautiful, stylish, and knows exactly where she's going in life. That is, until Brad, the boy she fell in love with when she was sixteen, and who she's been planning to get back together with now she's finished school, tells her she's so perfect it's nauseating.
Now everything Elle thought she knew is upside down. Worse, Brad has cornered her into going to a Greek island to spy on a nineteen-year-old genius who he's signing a million-dollar business deal with in two weeks.
Bemused, confused and alone in Greece, Elle reinvents herself, determined to discover the hidden depths of her personality. Until she knows what she really thinks about things, she vows to say and do the opposite of whatever her ingrained reactions dictate. But she doesn't count on falling in love with the genius Brad sent her to spy on, or that he could fall in love with the girl she's pretending to be. Elle had only wanted to find her own heart, not break it. Sometimes, discovering who you are sucks.
"Death isn't just one thing that happens and is over with. That description fits life more. Death is eternal. I mean that's how I view it. Death brings joy and pain. In my opinion life should be viewed as death is. The end. Death is the beginning. A new life, a fresh new start. Its beauty is unmatched. I imagine it feels like stars bursting, a million smiles and just pure happiness."
Cancer. What a pain.
Valerie's crippling illness leaves her hospitalised, bored out of her mind, dreaming of how she just wants to be a normal teenager. Although her thoughts are constantly intruded by someone. The boy. She was intrigued by him, he visited everyday at the same time, 2:47pm. She wanted to know his story, why was he here? Is he visiting someone? Her curiosity overflowed her.
Anyways, it didn't matter, for her illness was getting better and she could finally get back to school. Sophomore year. Gosh. She could finally be a normal teenager. Then she saw "him" in the school hallways. The boy. Although he seemed different, less warm, more cold. It was like he put up a façade and barricaded his true self. His true self being... the boy she saw in the hospital.
🥇First place in The Star Awards
🥇First place in The Ember Awards
#24 in sadromance
#15 in cancerpatient
finished- 22/09/22