If you held me up to a candle, my silhouette would be covered in your name. There’s a brightness in my heart there wasn’t before. Change is inevitable, that’s what people always say, but what if that change is good? There’s a lightness to my steps there wasn’t before. Poetry doesn’t begin to do your soul justice. My darling, you’re something out of a story. A bravery in your heart that beats in tune to mine. There’s a forest fire in your eyes that sets me alight. I’m too young to understand, that’s what people always say, but I am old enough to see. Courage finds a home in the space between your ribs. The world is in our hands, that’s what people always say, but what if I’m afraid to carry it? What if I don’t want to be Atlas? You, my dear, are unshakeable. Only sixteen with a pocketful of big dreams. “Promises are meant to be broken, that’s what people always say, but what if I want to keep mine? To this day, I’d sooner break my bones T-minus twenty-eight days until everything returns to normal-but what if Karina no longer wants it to?. Though Karina agrees, she can’t help but start counting down the days until her parents come back. But Ace Clyde does everything right-he brings her coffee in the mornings, impresses her friends without trying, and even promises to buy her a dozen books (a week) if she goes along with his fake-dating facade. Pretending to date him? Out of the question. Tutoring the school’s resident bad boy was already crossing a line.
Instead, one simple lie unravels everything. When her parents go abroad to Bangladesh for four weeks, Karina expects some peace and quiet. Keep her head down, get through high school without a fuss, and follow her parents’ rules-even if it means sacrificing her dreams. How do you make one month last a lifetime? When her parents go abro A reserved Bangladeshi teenager has twenty-eight days to make the biggest decision of her life after agreeing to fake date her school’s resident bad boy. How do you make one month last a lifetime? Karina Ahmed has a plan. Though Karina agrees, she can’t help but start counting down the days until her parents come back.A reserved Bangladeshi teenager has twenty-eight days to make the biggest decision of her life after agreeing to fake date her school’s resident bad boy. A reserved Bangladeshi teenager has twenty-eight days to make the biggest decision of her life after agreeing to fake date her school’s resident bad boy.
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