perfectly C A P T U R E D

Noeley Preston is the words luckiest...Orphan. Mostly because of her amazing foster parents. And her very older-sisterly foster sister, Daina Benson. But Noeley thinks absolutely otherwise, but has her reasons... Nothing can make her ease up and once call her loving 'family' her own, no matter how much they care. She feels that would be like replacing her real one. Right after Daina finishes high school, Noeley gets an invitation to paint a family portrait of a very wealthy family in New York city (the place of her dreams) though she expects the entire population to be snobbier than even Daina's California crew, and as always, is perfectly correct. But of course, the one household she now has to stay in for a quarter of 12th grade, is by far, the wost. Mr. Wilson specifically said that a great painting needs to have post meditation. That she needed to envision the Wilson's as a perfect family, that is also realistic, and that it shouldn't be hard. "And what happens if it's not perfect? Nothing's perfect, right," Noeley had asked, timid, and almost afraid of the hard old man. He laughed bitterly. "Nothing but me, my family, that painting, and you, if your staying in the house with us," he snapped. I flinched back from hos face. If only he knew how stupid he sounded to her. She'd registered herself as imperfect long ago. And a lecture won't change much.