Disclaimer: Cammie, Zach, and Macey belong to Ally Carter.

Hell on the Heart

She's as pretty as a picture
Every bit as funny as she is smart
Got a smile that'll hold you together
And a touch that'll tear you apart

- Eric Church

Part I

She'd always thought she was in love, since her freshmen year in high school. She was certain she was; certain she knew what love was.

She'd been crushing on him for so long. She began to go to Huntington Boarding school when she was fourteen; the new girl for the first time. And then there was the gorgeous, intelligent, amazing Taylor Davs. He was a year older than her, and did not actually ask her out till her sophomore year. But she loved him before that; she loved him from afar.

And of course she was the new girl, who was a mystery to everyone, who hid her past and batted her eyes lashes to get what she wanted.

Everyone assumed she was a daddy's girl, because she was spoilt and rich, even though no one had even heard her speak of her parents, let alone meet them. Because the truth was her adoring, artistic mother had died a serious accident when Cammie was fourteen, leaving her father cold and emotionless, ignorant to his children's existence. He shipped her off to boarding school because he did not know how to raise a child on his own, let alone three.

And she was sure she was in love with Taylor—the perfect boy. And he was. He'd kiss her and never push her into anything. He was sweet on her even when she was being a total bitch to him. She loved him because he made her feel safe and wanted.

Now, when she looked back she did know exactly when she fell out of love with him, assuming she'd been in love with him in the first place. She only knew it had a shit ton to do with his best friend.

For some reason she could not explain she never told him about her family. She never told him how much her mother meant to her, how much it killed her to see her father become stone cold, about all the memories as he played with her and her two brothers as a child.

And she certainly did not tell him that one of those mentioned brothers had ended up in prison from killing a man when he was so high on drugs and the other brother had completely abandoned the family and ran off backpacking in Europe the minute he heard their mother had died.

In fact, she told him she was an only child with aristocrat parents. Parents. She never even told him she didn't have a mother.

And he believed her.

So every time she got off the phone with the jail-bird brother and was crying she'd lie and say she'd been calling her father.

Taylor did not know just how broken the relationship between her and her father was. He assumed that she just wasn't close with him and never talked much.

Even then Cammie had to admit it to herself, Taylor would never know her. Not the way she wished he could. She could never tell him anything because his past was perfect, completely flawless. He would never accept the person she really was.

Cammie did not talk to her father much, and only did when he called her on holidays, and occasionally on her birthday. She talked to her brother whom was in jail, Calvin, often. She occasional received a postcard from her other brother, Ashton, while he was backpacking in Europe.

AN: Yay. So new story. This is pretty much the exposition. I'm not sure how many chapters/parts it will have but I'm thinking around ten. This is going to be a very fast pace story, not like Fishtale where I pretty much write every moment. It mainly says what happens and then sort of a memory/flashback without being a flashback but just further explains the plot.

FYI this is a ZAMMIE story.

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