Picture Perfect
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Ashley Dawson has spent her life living in the shadow of her pop-star sister Ellie Dawson. Life’s dull, it’s boring and Ashley’s beginning to tire of the same old routine. She’s bored of always thinking inside the box and keeping up her usual sensible and co-operative demeanour. Finally something seems promising for changing and Ellie gleefully announces she’d like to go in a new ‘direction’ with her music and resorts to the media task of working with British-Irish Boy Band One Direction on her new album. After things take a turn for the better in their Father’s business, their parents take a fluke six month business trip to California leaving their daughters behind their Father is forced to use the connections he has in the Music Industry to the test and soon Ashley finds herself living with One Direction on strict orders from her record-label Dad. Summer’s now ruined, right? After being pulled away from her social group and everything she knows in her home and being forced to move to the other side of London and stay with a boy band she barely knows things just seem to get worse. But pretty soon un-expected romance is found with band member Niall Horan, who not only gives her the best summer of her life but shows her the world in a whole different light, but we all know that summer had to end sometime, right? Everything seems to be perfect, but there’s only so high you can go before you fall down and hit the ground, and sometimes, even the people you’re blood bound to can be willing to help you make the fall and drag you away from the one you love. The perfect relationship turns into being based on failed lies and there’s only so long that lies can hold everything together before one person crumbles underneath the pressure. But the question is, how far are they really going to go to let true love bring things back together?
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