FATE

Camilla Rae Dawson was raised to be the perfect daughter. Soft spoken. Straight A's. beloved by everyone in Sapphire Springs. She rarely had a life outside of her studies and books, hoping to get into a prestigious university to follow the Dawson' footsteps.

Though she never felt she found who she truly was.

A passion for journalism but hopes are crushed when her family wants her to pursue a career to fit Dawson's standards. These high expectations and pressure leads to her overthinking, sensitivity, and anxiety. To everyone she's studious, nerdy, and quiet. To herself she never seems to be enough for her family.

No matter how hard she works.
She wears a mask of perfection to shield her imperfections. No one sees past it, until one boy removes her mask and finds beauty in her in-perfect world.

Broderick Sinclair is the complete opposite. Grumpy. Sarcastic. Troublemaker.
Many suspensions led to a change in schools...and the environment. From Branton City to Sapphire Springs, traumatizing memories linger in his mind. A family with horrifying secrets behind closed doors. Abandoning the past, he's left with his scarred mother and ugly truths.

He relies on three things to numb his pain;
Alcohol. Cigarettes. Trouble.

He finds peace in his own, secret world. Literature and writing poetry. A way to express his emotions on paper with ink and reading to escape his reality. Problems create a lack of care for his education, affecting his senior year. Under his guarded and grumpy demeanor is a broken teen who never believed he could be loved. Until her.

Their tutoring sessions unfold something they would've never expected.

She's the girl he never thought would trust.

He's the boy she never thought would find herself with.

They're like paper and ink, incomplete without the other. When their relationship becomes serious, their differences get in the way. They face truths that threaten to... break them apart.