I find that more amusing than insulting, since he seems to be the most dissatisfied person I’ve ever known. “A life of mediocrity is a waste of a life,” he said when I informed him that I was changing my major.Ī life of mediocrity. My plan is to be an elementary music teacher, although if my father had his way, I’d still be prelaw.

I even switched my major to music education two years ago.

I’ve played the piano for as long as I can remember, and although I’ve never shared it with anyone, I love writing music. Then again, music has always been a passion of mine, so maybe I’m just a little more infatuated with his sound than other people are. I don’t understand how someone could hear these songs and not crave them day after day. I’ve noticed a few other neighbors come out to their balconies when he’s playing, but no one is as loyal as I am. I tell Tori I come out here to get homework done, because I don’t want to admit that the guitar is the only reason I’m outside every night at eight, like clockwork.įor weeks now, the guy in the apartment across the courtyard has sat on his balcony and played for at least an hour. Almost on cue, the sound of his guitar floats across the courtyard as I take a seat and lean back into the patio lounger. But Daniel soon realizes that fairytales don’t exist, and unfortunately for Daniel, finding Cinderella doesn’t guarantee their happily ever only further threatens it.I slide open my balcony door and step outside, thankful that the sun has already dipped behind the building next door, cooling the air to what could pass as a perfect fall temperature. One year and one bad relationship later, his disbelief in insta-love is stripped away the day he meets Six: a girl with a strange name and an even stranger personality.

Moments like that with girls like her don’t happen outside of fairytales. When their hour is up and the girl rushes off like Cinderella, Daniel tries to convince himself that what happened between them only seemed perfect because they were pretending it was perfect. But this love has conditions: they agree it will only last one hour and it will only be make-believe. #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends With Us writes a free novella about the search for happily ever after.Ī chance encounter in the dark leads eighteen-year-old Daniel and the girl who stumbles across him to profess their love for each other.

Finding Cinderella by Colleen Hoover