love always, noah | Rewriting

❝You'll always be the Golden Boy, but deep down, you're just an empty trophy.❞

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Natalia Winters knows all about second place. For years, she's been clawing her way to the top-meticulously planning, studying until her vision blurs, and sacrificing sleep for success-all to keep up with everyone else's effortless brilliance. She's the girl who never feels good enough, who measures her worth against grades and achievements, who works twice as hard just to avoid falling into the void of mediocrity. And at every step of the way, there's Noah West: her lifelong rival, her mirror image of perfection, and her greatest source of frustration.

Now, as senior year hurtles toward its finale, Natalia is determined to prove she's more than second best. But when Leo Martinez-Noah's best friend and the kind of charming that feels effortless-enters the picture, Natalia starts to believe she might deserve more than a life spent measuring up.

Caught between her relentless pursuit of success and the whirlwind of complicated feelings she's been avoiding, Natalia must confront the truth she's been running from: what if being perfect isn't what she wants? And what if the boy she's spent years trying to beat has been on her side all along?

Sometimes the person you've been fighting against is the only one who truly sees you.

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Start Date: 05.05.20
End Date: 29.05.20
Word Count: [[90,000-100,000]]

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