The Perfect Plan

Juliet Lennon isn't anyone special, really: she's nonchalant at school, she gets good grades, and boys sometimes notice her. Basically any other teenager in her grade, just the way she wants it. The only minor inconvenience that threatens to undo this cadence: her best friend, August's, tall, broody sister.

Aspen Beckett is an outlier: she's incredibly brash, one of the best students in the whole school, and noticeably, a girl-kisser (and quite a few, at that). But why is she an outlier? She seems to be somewhat liked in her grade (well, she IS a senior), not shunned and shamed like her similarly queer brother, August. That's not to say, she doesn't have a notorious reputation, though.

The two girls cross paths often, both would even go so far as to say they're more than merely acquaintances bound by August Beckett. Sure, they somewhat despise each other's guts and there is a thick, uncomfortable, and unidentifiable tension between them, but as long as they stayed friendly and neutral through all of high school, trouble wouldn't be able to spot them from a mile away. A perfect plan, what could go wrong?