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.
"Come on Austin. Please delete the video!"
"No way." He smirks, "That'll be too easy."
"What do you want from me?"
"I need you to be my fake girlfriend."
"What! No way in hell."
"Fine then I'll just send this to everyone in school."
"Okay fine I'll do it," I roll my eyes and he smirks, "but there's rules."
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Emma Princeton(18 years old) is a normal teenage girl except she's lost a lot and has a shocking past that only a few people know about. She's not a nerd, although she gets good grades, she has a lot of friends but she's not one of the "populars".
Austin King(also 18 just a couple months older), the schools bad boy. The top one in the "populars" group. He's known for dating girls for a day or two then breaking their hearts and tossing them to the side. Never thinking about them again.
But what happens when Emma finds herself in a situation where Austin has a certain leverage over her and needs a fake girlfriend that's presentable to his mother and not one of his usual flings?
What happens when Emma agrees, will they fall in love? Or will he just use her and break her heart like all the other girls that he's dated?
There's a thin line between love and hate.