While I think Jennifer Brown's Bitter End is better than Bad Boy, this does have merit.
Katie is in the foster care system in New York. She is about to be adopted, but because of extenuating circumstances, she has to be returned to foster care. When she volunteers to help with a 4th of July picnic, she meets Percy who takes an interest in her. They begin dating and he spoils her with expensive gifts and her own cell phone so that he can reach her when necessary. Percy begins losing his temper with Katie and after he smacks her, she decides to break up with him.
I hate to think of teenagers and women who are in abusive relationships and do not have the friends or resources to get out of it. Katie is a tough girl, and she has to learn that she does need to open her eyes to the type of friends she wants to be with. How many of do ignore the bad side of someone because we want to only see the good side. I like wearing my rose colored glasses, and I am just as guilty of being in an abusive relationship when I was in high school. Luckily I was never hit, but he did cut me down and verbally abuse me all the time. I was not mature enough to end the relationship until college and see that I do deserve better.
Do not think you are the only person this has happened to because you are wrong. And there is help out there for you.
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