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Chapter 1

Kylie

I wasn’t a wallflower; I’d always been the first one to the dance floor I loved to party; I loved to love, drink, get down, do crazy things, wear very little … at least that’s what everyone was supposed to believe So, sitting alone on Valentine’s Day at the St Marks Brewery and Tavern wasn’t a wallflower move, it was a full out escape plan I needed to breathe My last “date” was trending so hard on all socialto suffocate

Kylie Morgan breaks it off with Dane Wynters after just

Kylie is seen with a mystery man

Kylie Morgan leaving Starbucks with a new boyfriend

My… all I had to do was show up Dane Wynters was actually gay … his public relations cole there I really liked Dane; we had a lot of fun while ere “dating” so the pictures online of us goofing off and traipsing around Manhattan were real The relationship wasn’t … and never had been, not once I hadn’t actually been in a relationship ever At twenty-three I’d had a few dates with people I thought ency had the world believing I was … and I just wasn’t that person I liked quiet nights, books, playing video ga fun was a long night talking about solving the world’s probleoddess, scantily clad runahore was just business … ht stands with playboys and media influencers were all for the press

For whatever reason, Valentine’s Day was hard for me I shouldn’t have cared, but it was the loneliest time of the year because it reminded me of ho people actually knew me at all I was adored by everyone and loved by just a couple of my closest friends Only ht down the street from the apartment I shared with them It was a cool loft we could barely afford While I had a lot ofto carry me forever, so I saved most of what I made

Avery and Madison did the sas we liked but shared a loft together to eable I didn’t trust too many people, but my posse? They were my world

“KYLIE!” Avery screamed into the phone, very drunk “Where are you? You’re supposed to be here; theon the dance floor”

“I met someone Can you believe it after all this ti to lay low We’re at St Marks getting a few beers, nothing too radical You and Maddy have fun I’ll see y’all so my bluff would hen she interrupted me

“What? Are you serious? Kylie this is epic! You found a guy?” Avery’s voice raised two octaves

“We are definitely not at ‘epic’… it’s led appropriately … I just had to get her off the phone, then I’d be safe

“Maddy and I’ll come over there then This party bloithout you ’cause no one is here to see us” I could picture her ‘rolling her eyes’

“I’e her as Avery, as gorgeous and actually had turned down severalcontracts to focus on her fashion career, had her own troubles with men

“And when people realize you’re not there … they move on It happens all of the time, Kylie” She seemed mad for a moment

“Really, don’t coht actually show up at the bar

“See you soon,” Avery threatened, and I knew there was a very good chance, in fact, a better than very good chance, she and Madison were going to just show up at the bar

I panicked Now my quiet Valentine’s Day to ic pity was perfectly ruined I was really looking the part of the forlorn and loveless too I had on a pair of ripped baggy jeans, a beanie, and a rando University of Oregon shirt I got at a thrift store I was pretty sure not one person at that bar kneas Kylie Morgan Noas going to have to blow et my roommates off my back

They were being bold and invasive, yes, but they perpetually hadWe’d been that way since grade school when Avery noticed that the only other really pretty girl in school was suffering the saue of the unwanted attention she was Madison was so cute … adorable cute, that saved her Avery and I were a little too sexy for seventh grade We became a three … the three … the only three we needed We went everywhere together, and because of this not only survived e as well They were my family My real family … who knew? I bounced frohteen, I was free I only had one request and that was to stay with my posse I didn’t care about what foster fairls It wasn’t horrible … mostly, until it was