The Girl I Was Before (The Falling Series Book 3)

I€m the selfish one. I suppose that€s the nicest thing people say about me. I€ve heard the other things, too. €œPaige Owens is a pretty girl with nothing else to offer. She€s just a good time at a party. She€s stupid, heartless, cold and useless. All she cares about is getting a guy to look at her. Why would anyone want to be her friend?€

Some of those things are true. Others were true. They€re all hurtful.

None of it matters.

I€m ready to make the hard choices. I€m ready to face the consequences. I€m ready to be the girl I was before, and I€m done being the one who lost her way.

I€m ready to become the girl Houston Orr sees when he looks at me.

Houston isn€t a star athlete. He doesn€t play in a band. He€s never going to be president, and his life is so far away from simple and easy it isn€t even funny.
He wasn€t part of my plan. But I€m starting to think plans are overrated, and maybe our stories are what we make them. And mine depends entirely on me, and the choices I make€¦starting now.

Houston is my fairytale. He€s perfectly imperfect. He€s poetry and life. He€s truth and heartbreak, all rolled up in a tall body with dark hair, broad shoulders and green eyes that lull me into submission. He€s nothing I ever thought I wanted, but the very thing I need. He€s the only guy I€ve ever really loved, and he thinks I€m a princess. I fell into him, and now I€m holding on.

But sometimes life takes away our ability to choose. Sometimes€¦things aren€t in your control. Sometimes, it hurts to be selfless. My only hope is that when it comes time to choose, I get it right.

Welcome to my once upon a time and wish for happily ever after.