Author’s POVJust a few steps away from the restroom door, Madeline was shocked to see Pearl and Aaron standing together, the same Aaron was withdrawn from her school. Her spine tingled with chill. She finally received confirmation for all her gut instincts and assumptions about the two of them being related. There could not be a more obvious coincidence about how identical they were. Memories of all the times she’d dismissed her concerns ran through her head, in part because Daniel had claimed that unrelated people may look alike, and in part because she didn’t want to risk her fragile connection with Pearl. She quickly—almost instinctively—took out her phone and, with a shaky palm, stealthily snapped a photo of the two of them. She realized that her friends also needed to know the reality, thus she had to tell them about this discovery. She didn’t wait a second to send Emily and Sarah the images and the note, “You won’t believe what I just saw.” As she watched Aaron and Pea

Author’s POV"Tell me, what did you find out?" Madeline asked."Well, my friend, whom I told you guys about, spoke to his friend and he found out that Pearl is actually Aaron's twin sister and was studying in another school but suddenly left. I guess that's when she came to our school. Besides that, he couldn't find any incriminating thing about her. In fact, she was the best student in her old school," Daniel said. Madeline wasn't too surprised by the new information she had gotten since she had always suspected the relation between Pearl and Aaron."So what are we going to do now? I was thinking we would find out some dirt about her to push her out of our school but now that there's none, we can't get her to stop troubling me," Madeline said."You see, babe, you can't extinguish negativity by engaging in negativity. If you want to protect yourself from Pearl's attacks, we need to find a better approach.""What better approach?" Madeline asked."Talk to her and find out why she's do

Author’s POVMadeline rolled her eyes because she obviously knew who had just spoken. She turned around to find Jessica, the school’s queen bee and her minions standing behind her. She opened her mouth to speak but someone beat her to it.“What are you doing here, Jessica?” Emily asked, a frown etched on her face. Jessica said with a smug smirk, “Oh, just checking if losers like you got an invitation to the prom.” Madeline couldn’t help but become irritated. Choosing not to lose her composure, she answered, “Well, Jessica, you’re invited to the prom too just like everyone else, loser it is not. You don’t have to fear losing your crown. It’s not like any of us on this table are going to compete with you for prom queen.” “Please, I wouldn’t be caught dead at a prom with the likes of you,” jeered Jessica. “ I should be doing better things,” she added. Madeline turned to her friends and dismissed Jessica’s jeers, saying, “Let’s not waste our time on negativity. We should be con

Author’s POVSlowly but eventually, prom day arrived. Emily and Sarah were at Madeline’s house. They wanted to go to prom together so they decided to stay in one place so their dates could come pick them up from one location.During the week, Emily and Sarah got asked to prom by two different guys. Both guys were fraternal twins and had claimed they’d been crushing on the girls for a while. Emily and Sarah agreed to go with them, just so they wouldn’t have to go alone.As the girls were getting ready, gisting and laughing, Madeline heard a beep from her phone and walked over to her bed where the phone laid and picked it up. She opened her phone and saw it was a message from NYU. “Girls, it’s am email from NYU. I think they’ve taken me out of the wait-list and now wants to admit me,” Madeline said, both excited and nervous.“Open it then,” Emily said excitedly.Madeline closed her eyes and took a deep breath, her heart pounding really hard and fast, before opening the email. The first

Author’s POVThe next few minutes were spent by Madeline and Daniel, talking about how schooling separately would affect them. Anne and Lucian had left them because they knew the two would want to spend some time alone.After they finished discussing, Daniel decided it was time to go home. Madeline escorted him to the door and after sharing a goodbye kiss before he left.Madeline went up to her room, changed out of her prom dress, took a shower, got changed into her pyjamas and climbed her bed. She decided to get her mind off the whole Columbia situation by texting her friends only to find out that there were messages from them already on their group chat.Emily: Hope you're okay? Don't think too much about the rejection.Sarah: Yeah, just pray that Columbia accepts you both. Here she was trying to forget about Columbia. Madeline picked up her phone and began to text her friends back.Madeline: Thanks guys but Columbia won't be possible either. Daniel got rejected and I haven't even