Impervious

“But this isn't a movie,” I said.
“But it very well could be,” he told me, “I'm an actor, and our story is a plot line.”
“Things aren't supposed to happen like this in the real world.”
“I know, I know. This isn't the real world, Aspen Marie. This is our world,”

Whether Alec got those lines from a movie, I don't know. They touched my heart though, and that was often hard to do. There was a word for that in my case, and only Alec could tell me what that was.

“You know, Aspen, you're a tough one. You're just.. Impervious.”
“Is that a good thing or a bad thing?" I asked.
“Not allowing something to pass through; impenetrable. Unable to be affected by,” he told me, “That is what impervious means, and it's an awful thing to begin with, but once you conquer it, it has the best reward in the world.”
He touched his forehead to mine and grinned at me. “I think I love you, Aspen,” he said, and things in that moment sounded like some cheesy movie. And, maybe they were some cheesy movie, maybe not. The things in reality don't happen like they do in movies, unless you perceive them to.

Aspen wishes her life was as simple as these moments that made it all worth it. From battling the fact that Alec Townsend was famous and somehow snuck back into her life, things are never simple anymore. Welcome to hell, Aspen. Everyone hopes you have a nice stay, because they're the reason that you're living here in the first place.