So, I kept my feelings in check and didn’t allow them to ruin us.īut sometimes life slaps you in the face, forcing you to pay attention, and stop wasting what time you have left. A life without Noah was not a life I wanted to live. I knew if I dared to cross that line with him, I’d do something to screw things up and lose him forever. He wanted us to be together, and we should have been together. Noah was perfect in every sense of the word. Standing tall with his dark handsome features, he was as beautiful on the inside as he was on the outside. She needs to realize that a person cannot control the events in their life, only their reaction to them.but will it be too late for her to save her relationship with her best friend? Present Perfect is a story of how past events have present consequences and how perfect your present could be if you stopped fighting and just allowed it to happen.He was my first friend, my best friend, and my first love. Events take over and force her to let go of her dreams and desires. He was the one thing in her life that was perfect, but she couldn't allow herself to have him. Noah had the power to give her one hundred lifetimes of happiness, which also gave him the power to completely devastate her. The one thing she couldn’t control was the affect he had on her. Everything was going according to her life plan until she woke up one day and realized she had fallen in love with him. The one thing she thought was perfect in her life was the bond she shared with her best friend, Noah. Her obsession with being perfect, along with her feelings of worthlessness, consumed her. If you’re smart, you’ll realize this before it’s too late and simplify.' - Amanda Kelly spent her entire life trying to control every aspect of it, while striving for perfection. It’s all the crap that we attach to it and put in front of it that makes it difficult. We’re led to believe love is complicated.

There are experts on love who will tell you how to get it, keep it, and get over it. A gazillion books, articles, and poems written about it.

There have been countless songs sung about it.

The love had taken on many different forms over the years, but it had always been a constant. It has never been a question, never a doubt. Every single minute of every single day that I have been on this earth, my heart has belonged to him. 'I’ve been unsure about many things in my life except for one thing, that I have always loved him.

Present Perfect by Alison G. Bailey