Besotted

When Alex gets on Dela's bus, she thinks that God has to be laughing at her. When he sits down next to her, she's ready to scream at the Pope, and when he starts talking to her, she's...intrigued.

Dela has always been good at blending in. Her yearbook was always filled with "I love you!" and "I miss you!" and tended to avoid the dodgy, "have a great summer's", but ten years down the line she knew that not many of her so-called "friend's" would be able to pick her out of a line-up. Not that she really minded, she knew it was the one of the few ways to survive Perrymore High; home to the rich, spoiled, pre-ivy league school kids who came from families with more history than Wikipedia.

The only other way to survive Perrymore High; stand out. Alex drives a flashy car, was the first of his friends to kiss a girl, got drunk and crashed his dad's boat last summer. He's known for being charming, popular, and at times a little bit of a dick, but he also knows that none of this will really matter, because no matter how he acts he'll always be able to follow his parent's plan for him and end up in a high-paying, mind-numbingly dull law firm.

They seem opposites, and maybe they are. Alex is sad and Dela isn't, Dela is scared and Alex isn't. But together, these two teens will teach each other how to live.