The Facade

<p><strong>Everyone has three lives. A public life a private life and a secret life.</strong></p><p>I'm a junior in high school and yet I've never been on a date.</p><p>Everybody says it's because my overprotective brothers scare all the guys away but I can't help wondering if there's something wrong with me.</p><p>That is until I hear a rumor that I'm secretly dating my brothers' best friend.</p><p><em>What?</em></p><p>Sure I used to think Mack was the most perfect guy in the universe but I got over that crush years ago.</p><p>And even though he teases my brothers about taking me to Make-Out Point there's no way he'd actually make good on that threat. I've only ever been the dorky girl next door to him.</p><p>But when Mack's sleepwalking episodes lead him to staying a few nights on the trundle bed in my room and we talk and share things we never tell anyone else I start to wonder if a secret relationship is exactly what I want.</p><p>My brothers have made it clear that Mack is never allowed near me. But what my brothers don't know can't hurt them right?</p>