DO YOU KNOW THE BEAST?
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¥• So that was how her first kiss played out. The drive back home had been silent.
She'd been in her head. He'd been in his.
That night she had taken a good long look at herself in the mirror to remind herself who she was - what she was.
"Jeremy Cox will never feel anything like that for you! Get your head out off your butt and deal with it."
She'd repeated the mantra over and over till tears stung her eyes and rolled down her cheeks.
She did not like what was happening at all. He was her friend. Her only friend. How could she ruin what they had with a stupid one sided crush? If she let herself fall for him... it would be disastrous. For many reasons.
But that kiss... that kiss confused her to no end. Where did it come from? Why was he looking at her like that? Why did he kiss her so hard? For those precious seconds she had felt normal. A girl kissing her crush. A normal girl who had legitimate chances of going out with the boy.
She pushed thoughts of him out her mind. It could not work.
He was The Jeremy Freaking Cox.
She was Ugly Sasha Stewart. •¥
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Sasha Stewart is ugly. And that's a plain fact. Her parents know it; her siblings know it; EVERYBODY knows it! She has no friends, no social life and no foreseeable chances of ever getting a guy.
She is the Beast.
Jeremy Cox is beautiful. Athletic, tall, talented, popular - you name it. He's everything any girl would wish for. A look from him can send girls and boys alike sizzling with need.
He is Beauty.
What happens in this warped tale of the legendary fantasy when Beauty meets the Beast?
Helluva lot.
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Warning this book contains triggering situations like bullying, self harm, depression and suicide. Read at your own risk.
Life was simple; one day you're born without your knowledge, and the next you're getting screwed over, again and again. It happened to everyone, no one was truly spared from it. Some people though, had it easier, while others got screwed over frequently. No matter who you were though, you were going to lose your virginity, if not physically, figuratively. Life had no preference in that regard even if you were seen as the perfect image of the next Hollywood girl.
Sydney Diana Joyce was that girl; the image of perfection. The kind of girl people expected to see in magazines and movies from her looks alone. Those who knew her however, only ever saw her as the Apex predator, the kind who always caught her prey. It was the life that Sydney embraced well into her early 20's until one careless night led her to cross path with Octavia Olympia.
Octavia 'Parker' Olympia, was the definition of average. Average looks, average personality, and an average life. There was nothing special about Olivia, unless you count her mismatch eye colors, that made her stand out. She was just Octavia, Parker to most, and she was content with that. It was only when she left the Cafe Store open past hours one night that her life would go from average to unexplainable.
From talks of movies, to finding similarities in their lifestyles from adored fictional characters they've seen on the big screen, Sydney and Olivia spent their times lost in their own fictional world, caught up in the game of make believe. It was only when their personal life started colluding with one another that they soon realize how different they truly are.
From business to pleasure, Sydney soon finds herself struggling to decide whether she wants to be the Apex predator she's known for or if she wants to play the role of the American dream girl people expect her to be.
One way or another though, Sydney was going to screwed over, so she might as well do it like a f****** slut.