Anna, a former party girl, is just trying to start college ordinarily when she bumps into Jason Eastbourne, a retired badboy. For him, just thinking of his past sends him into a spiral of regret. Meanwhile, Anna tries not to think of it at all. They are both looking for drama-free. But the chance encounter morphs into something more complex, more drama-filled than either of them had bargained for. In a world filled with cameras, parties, celebrities and attractive best friends, he still picks her. And after finding out what comes with the glitter and the gold, Anna begins to understand why Jason is the way he is. When the empathy she feels starts transforming into something deeper, she has to decide whether she's ready for deeper. ---- "It wasn't nothing." He corrected. Jason got so close to me that I could feel the heat radiating from him. Still, he leaned forward. My heart picked up pace. The look of inner debate hadn't left him. I knew what he was thinking. It was so easy to tell. I wanted him to tell me that he was confused that day. But he didn't. I didn't understand why. "Anna I-" He paused and shut his eyes, taking in a breath to gather his thoughts. "You know I find this stuff unbearably cringey but I need you to know. I don't know how or when it happened but I think...I think I love you." I could not have heard right. There was no way I had. "Everything about you. Your eyes, your terrible fashion sense, your weird cleaning habits, your thinking out loud. And I know that I'm not as perfect as Dylan but I want you to know that every corner of my messed up mind is filled with a piece of you." I momentarily forgot how to speak. The most eligible bachelor, Jason Eastbourne, was sitting right next to me, saying that he loved me. The blood rushing through my ears made it impossible to hear but when I asked him why, I could feel him chuckle, like I had asked a stupid question. I read his lips. "Because it's you..."