Matteo

Authors POV.

MATTEO.

Since he could remember, his life had been perfect, easygoing, without fuse. Although young and growing, he was effortlessly popular in his little elitist school.

Having the knack for calculation, which his father had cultivated, and being the top striker on his school's baseball team, Life was terrific.

He was the teacher's favorite, loved by all, particularly the female teachers, who had kept asking about his father until his mother came into the picture again.

All of this, he knew, was the advantage of being a president's son, and he reveled in it.

Well, until she came along.

Her head barely reaching his shoulder, she had coffee-brown eyes that seemed to entrap anyone who stared at her; she smiled a lot, and her voice was so loud it reverberated from wall to wall.

It was hard not to notice her, with the braces she was proud of and her sizeable pink bag and her gummy bears, and her stupid fancy names.

Aella Maximo had found him staring at her one day and then d