"Even from the fake start I just wanted to be the one not in pain, you know? I hadn't realized it but a few weeks in after our first kiss I always had the sudden urge to smash my lips against yours, but the butterfly's inside me were killing me. I hadn't had them in a while, but they were- they were like razor sharp blades in my stomach."
He sighed.
"And that was the kind of pain I was avoiding," it was my turn to sigh.
"And how'd that work out for you?"
"Terrible."
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Since Babette was a kid she wasn't even close to fitting in. She was a poet with a head of dreams and a heart that's smashed. When Cole, a low life stoner, comes around and asks her to be his fake, temporary girlfriend, her life becomes completely different.
Elliot Jensen and Elliot Fintry have a lot in common. They share the same name, the same house, the same school, oh and they hate each other but, as they will quickly learn, there is a fine line between love and hate.