After a painful breakup, a young woman reinvents herself and catches the eye of her school's star baseball captain — who asks her to pose as his girlfriend. As their pretend romance plays out under the scrutiny of campus and teammates, real feelings begin to blur the line between the act and the truth.
Oh my god. Jesus. Since when is there someone that hot here? Why does she look like that freak?
Mia Collins? Whispers spread through the gym like a wave. The crowd parted for me. Owen almost choked on his drink when he saw me.
Then, with everyone watching, he hurried straight toward me. Mia. He stared at my face like he was seeing me for the first time. How did you change this much?
I held my breath. Honestly, I didn't know if this meant compliments or just more laughs. Owen swallowed hard. hard. Those things I said before, I let those guys get in my head. That wasn't how I really
felt. And the pictures, that was just a stupid joke. Don't take any of it to heart. I was a little stunned. For the past two months, Owen had never once apologized to me. He'd been cold to me the entire time. I never expected changing my appearance to suddenly change the way he me. Did you get into West Community College too? Then maybe we can go back to how things used to