Merit

<p>The world loves Maverick Houston. Me? I've hated him since we were ten. </p><p></p><p>It's not exactly easy to escape your childhood nemesis when your parents are best friends who live on the same block. Through countless vacations parties and holidays Maverick and I have spent the past decade trading insults.</p><p></p><p>Until that family dinner when his mother tells us she's dying. When she asks us to forget the past and start fresh. That's how I found myself on a date with the Treasure State Wildcats football star. The campus playboy. The boy I kissed when I was three. The man who is the bane of my existence.</p><p></p><p>He's arrogant. He's blunt. He's too handsome for his own good. But if he has a single redeeming merit the guy sure does love his mom. And that's why I started fake dating Maverick Houston. That's why I made him a proposition of my own. That's how this sham of a relationship ruined my life.</p><p></p><p>The world loves Maverick Houston. Me? I hate that he made me love him too.</p>