Pretty Things Fall Apart

Everyone at Tommen knows you.

You're the girl people look at twice;the one with the perfect smile, the right friends, the kind of life that looks effortless from the outside. The kind of girl people assume has everything under control.

You don't.

You've just gotten really good at pretending.

Patrick Feely doesn't pretend.

He doesn't try to hide the cracks;he drowns them. In parties, in alcohol, in anything that makes the noise in his head go quiet for a while. He's reckless, closed off, and the last person you should get involved with.

But one night, under flashing lights and bad decisions, you meet.

And suddenly, pretending isn't so easy anymore.

What starts as something messy and undefined turns into something heavier;something neither of you knows how to handle. Because when two people who are barely holding themselves together collide, it doesn't fix anything.

It just makes everything harder to ignore.

And maybe, just maybe-

it forces you both to finally face what you've been running from.