The Love Deal with Mr. Player

Prologue: Changes

You can not fight love. When it happens, it happens.

Prologue: Changes

The dreadful reality of life is that nothing remained the same. Forever, yeah, it is not the reality, it is just in between the pages of the books... in the world where the mistreated step-sister found her prince. It is all LIES.

Forever is just a lie, to pull you into a story, to make you want to yearn and dream and then when you finally fell for it, finally finally stop doubting it, forever would stop existing.

Changes: Let us talk about the certainty of it.

If there are no changes, life would simply be boring and monotonous. Changes would make life adventurous. A thrilling ride, to be enjoyed.

Without change, there would be no spring to enjoy the smell of flowers, no summer, when warm sun cradled you and no winter to make a snowman out of ice.

Change kept the world moving, but then I, Liana Stan, hated it. Hated it. In big, bold letters.

I hated those big, life-changing changes that would leave you with a wide, gaping hole in your heart. Those changes that would make you feel less alive, feel like you were floating out of your body.

I hated that changes had the tendency to kill your happiness, to steal your smile. To rob you of your best friend.

Asher Lawler was supposed to be my best friend, the one who would walk with me through my ups and downs. My buddy.

But, yeah, what did they tell you about wishes?

Not every wishes came true and I had learned the lesson the hard way. The way that broke your heart and made you lie in your floor and cry. That way!

We became enemies, arch rivals, nemeses, if you will.

How? Long story.

But, then I should have known.

Change is inevitable!

I missed Asher, sometimes. And I was stupid to do so...

It was difficult to let go of a person who made your life easier and happier. Asher was no longer that nice boy who picked me plums from the trees in the park. He wasn't the boy who saved the last piece of chocolate for me.

He had promised, promised to take care of me, to protect me from all the bullies, but now he was the bully. My bully.

I missed my old friend – my Ash– the boy I loved in my childhood days; the boy who had filled my life with happiness.

But this one, the one in front of me, breathing, living in the body of my best friend, NO, I didn't miss him.

Yeah! Change. It happens when you least expect it and it happened in my life, too.

It happened Again, cue the eye roll, in the form of a deal Asher made with me.

A love deal.

How unbearably cute... NOT!

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