Perfectly Flawed.
Chapter 2
“S-Sean! Hey!” I open the door wider to let Sean in.
His electric blue eyes pierce through me and I quickly turn away.
“Um, the party’s outside, you’re a little early
but people should be arriving soon…” My hands feel
clammy. Stop it, I tell myself.
Sean nods and heads towards the deck. I’m about to follow
him when the doorbell rings again. I hear the grandfather clock
chime six times as I open the door again. A steady flow of people
enter, chattering and rushing to my backyard. Some of the people
I recognize and I quickly cross them off the guest list, but most
people are just blurry figures passing by me. I sigh and, giving
up with the list, open the garage door and toss it into the
recycling bin.
About fifteen minutes later, most of the partygoers have arrived.
Relieved I finally get to relax, I step into the muggy summer air
and flop onto the swinging chair near the crowded pool. I kick
off my shoes, close my eyes, and try to drown out the noise of
people shouting and music blasting. It’s a wonder why the
neighbor’s haven’t called the cops yet. Probably
because they’re all here, I think. I have an awful
headache and I’m about to go back inside and find some
aspirin when I feel someone sit next to me. I open one eye and
see Sean sitting next to me with two cups of punch in his hands.
He holds one out to me. I immediately straighten up and accept
his offer.
“Tough night?” he asks, the water reflecting his blue
eyes and casting an eerie shadow on his face.
I shrug, moistening my lips and chewing on the inside of my cheek
like I do whenever I get nervous. “It’s just, with
the party preparations and all… and I have a dance
competition in a few days, so my teacher’s really pushing
us,” I explain in what I hope is an even tone.
Sean looks out at the mass of people crowding the entire back of
my house. “Well you sure do know how to throw a good
party.” Do I detect sarcasm in his voice?
I just laugh, a little too loudly. “Seriously, it’s
like the whole state of Georgia is packed into your
backyard,” he announces.
“Yeah, I don’t even know half of these people!”
I take a sip of the punch and wince. I sniffed the liquid to
confirm my suspicions. Somebody managed to spike the drink stand.
I stand up. “I uh, have to go dump this punch. I really
don’t want to be cleaning up vomit tonight,” I
explain with a sigh.
Sean nods. “Okay. Hey, um, if you need any help cleaning up
afterwards, I can stay until like 2:30.”
“Oh, really? Thanks, I could really use the help,” I
reply with a grateful smile before rushing to sort out the drinks
puzzle.
It is almost one when the last stragglers finally leave my house.
Sean is busy picking up soda cans and the occasional beer cans
while I put away the pool accessories and try to fish all of the
garbage out of the pool. I step into my room to grab a hair tie
and almost miss the couple getting some third base action on my
bed.
“Excuse me,” I say, standing in the doorway and
wrinkling my nose in disgust. They don’t look up.
“The party’s over,” I almost shout. They break
apart. “Ashley! On my bed? Really?” her face
turns red and I can tell she’s drunk. “Wait, let me
make you coffee before you go home. Your parents are going to
kill you,” The guy with Ashley—a college kid, from
the looks of it—slips past me and down the stairs, grabbing
his shirt from the night table. I sigh. I glance at the alarm
clock by my bed. 1:49. My parents should be back from their
surgeon’s convention in Texas in half an hour. I hope their
flight gets in late. The entire house is still a disaster
area.
Ashley stumbles downstairs after me and chugs the steaming mug of
black coffee I place in front of her without question. I shake my
head as she rushes into the bathroom to vomit. Sean walks inside
with two full bags of garbage just as Ashley sits back down,
looking a little more alert.
“Thanks for helping, Sean,” I say, taking the bags
from his hands. “I have to walk Ash home though. Is
everything out there back in order?”
“Yeah. And I can take Ashley home, she lives a few doors
down from me.” Sean’s eyes linger on the visible
rings under my eyes.
“Are you sure?” I am reluctant at first, in case
Ashley’s parents catch her I want to have her back.
Sean shrugs. “No big deal. Come on, Ashley.” I walk
them to the door and wave as Sean and Ashley get into
Sean’s brother, Caleb’s car— I didn’t
realize he had come, how long was he sitting there?
The second I close the door, fatigue sets in and I slump against
the sturdy door. The party was a success, I suppose, but
I’m not sure if it’s worth all of this effort.
I slowly climb up the narrow staircase and exhaustedly step into
my old lacrosse shirt and favorite Victoria’s Secret pajama
shorts. I slip into bed, turn out the ceiling light, and close my
eyes, but darkness can’t conceal the electric blue eyes
that pierce my thoughts.
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Perfectly Flawed.
Chapter 1
I stare at the messy 97 scrawled on top of my math final and peel
off the shiny gold star stickered to the exam. I sigh and stuff
it into my bag. Three points away. Honestly, if I had taken more
time, I could have gotten a 100. I hate not being perfect, not
getting 100’s, not always looking like I came from a
Hollister catalog. I can’t stand imperfection, and the 97
that I achieved felt like a cruel slap in the face. I know
it’s not a bad grade, honestly it’s a great grade,
but I studied for weeks for this exam, and I really hoped to get
a better grade.
“Eden Angela Carson! Don’t tell me—you got
another 100!” My best friend, Ashley Medicci, appears
behind me, proudly brandishing her 92. Ashley’s thick dark
hair is curled and a waterfall braid graces both sides of her
pale face.
“No, I got a 97,” I tell her. “Nice job with
the 92!” Math is Ashley’s worst subject.
Ashley grins. “We’re officially sophomores! Hey, do
you need any help setting up for the party after
school?”
“Actually yeah, that’d be great,” I answer,
using my fingers to work through a knot in my hair.
“Okay, I’ll stop by your house after school,”
Ashley says just as the last bell of the school year rings. She
disappears down the hallway towards her locker, and I turn the
opposite way towards mine.
When I get home, I race to my room and change into my new hot
pink bikini and a see-through white cover up that I wore once on
vacation to Orlando last year. I search through my perfectly
organized closet and find scarcely worn gladiators. I slip them
on my feet and step into the small bathroom off of my bedroom. I
wash my face in the sink and reapply my makeup, put in meticulous
order in a display on the bathroom counter. Brushing my hair, I
turn around and stare out the window overlooking the view of my
backyard. From where I stand, I can see Georgia suburbia fading
as evening draws closer. The pool already has many decorations
set up, but I still need to make final adjustments before people
arrive at 6:00.
I hear the doorbell ringing that signifies Ashley’s arrival
and do a quick once-over of myself in the mirror. With my subtly
tan Grecian-descent skin, sleek, straight blonde hair that almost
reaches down to my butt, my wide blue eyes, and thin but curvy
stature, a lot of my friends compare me to a Barbie doll, which I
can’t say I mind.
I rush downstairs, stopping to grab my dance bag that I had
thrown haphazardly on the kitchen table last night after a
particularly grueling dance class. I open the double French front
doors and let Ashley inside.
“Hey! I just need to put my bag away, then we can start
working on preparations,” I say, glancing at Ashley’s
outfit. She, as always, looks stunning in a pair of denim
Abercrombie shorts and a purple crop top I helped her pick out at
American Eagle. Her thick, Snow White dark hair and pale skin
look amazing against what I can see of a blood red bathing suit.
Her dark brown eyes glitter as she picks up my alphabetized guest
list and crosses her name off.
I rush to the basement-turned-dance studio and place my bag on
the small shelf beneath the bench in the far corner of the room
without bothering to turn on the lights. I climb back upstairs
and find Ashley looking through my refrigerator for party
refreshments.
“Please don’t touch the punch, Ash,” I say in
exasperation. She’s known for spiking beverages at almost
every party she goes to.
Ashley rolls her eyes. “I wasn’t going
to,” she says, taking the refreshments and putting them on
my kitchen table. I carry them over to the buffet-style table I
had placed on my deck the night before and I am rearranging them
when I hear the doorbell ring.
“I’ll get it,” I say, checking the clock on my
way to the foyer. Five minutes early. I open the door,
expecting Talia, who was on the lacrosse team with me and came to
everything early, but when the door widened, it wasn’t
Talia who stepped inside. It was him.
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Perfectly Flawed.
Prologue
My name is Eden
Carson. I'm almost fifteen years old. I have long, straight
blonde hair and blue eyes. I dance, play soccer and lacrosse,
take all AP classes, and fit in theater and community service
when I have the time. You may think I seem perfect, or at least I
hope you think I’m perfect, because that’s what I
live for. Perfection.
Eden
Carson is something of a legend at Elm High School. She’s
beautiful, smart, athletic, talented, and practically perfect.
The truth is, Eden isn’t as perfect as she seems. Sure she
tries, and her severe OCD hides her flaws as well, but Eden is a
whole lot less confident than she acts. Nobody ever questions
Eden’s rouse, though, except one boy, Sean Wharton.
Eden’s had a crush on him since middle school, and is never
as 'perfect' around him. It’s not just the
butterflies in her stomach though. Sean can see straight through
Eden’s disguise, noticing things about her before she
realizes them herself. So why does Eden find herself falling
hopelessly in love with this boy who could break her in a
heartbeat?
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Perfectly Flawed.
Prologue
My name is
Eden Carson. I'm almost fifteen years old. I have long,
straight blonde hair and blue eyes. I dance, play soccer and
lacrosse, take all AP classes, and fit in theater and community
service when I have the time. You may think I seem perfect, or at
least I hope you think I’m perfect, because that’s
what I live for. Perfection.
Eden Carson is
something of a legend at Elm High School. She’s beautiful,
smart, athletic, talented, and practically perfect. The truth is,
Eden isn’t as perfect as she seems. Sure she tries, and her
severe OCD hides her flaws as well, but Eden is a whole lot less
confident than she acts. Nobody ever questions Eden’s
rouse, though, except one boy, Sean Wharton. Eden’s had a
crush on him since middle school, and is never as flawless around
him. It’s not just the butterflies in her stomach though.
Sean can see straight through Eden’s disguise, noticing
things about her before she realizes them herself. So why does
Eden find herself falling hopelessly in love with this boy who
could break her in a heartbeat?