After Liam and I officially started dating, I met Amelia again.
The second she saw us together, she broke into a huge smile.
"I knew this was going to happen," she said happily.
I laughed, suddenly embarrassed.
Being with Liam made me realize something too. For the first time, I actually wanted to face all the things that had been weighing me down for years instead of running from them.
The insecurity about my looks.
The insecurity about my education.
All the invisible standards I kept using to measure myself against everyone else.
In the end, every single one of those fears came from the same place, the constant feeling that I was never good enough.
So I started over.
I started learning again.
Not just from books, either. I tried everything I could think of, painting classes, s
