"And I bet everybody here is just as insincere, we're all so fake happy, and I know fake happy." - Paramore

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As long as Beverly Hills exist, it's really all the same, a never ending pattern that dazzles and awes those on the outside. A pretty display of diamonds that glint when they trap envious eyes and money that overpowers every other desire with its brilliantly green projection. To the outside, it is an extravagant paradise of straight, pearly white grins and silky, gentle garments and doors that open like arms searching for embraces. To anyone that doesn't know any better, to anyone that can only watch longingly from the tourist attractions and the rental companies and the Target around the corner from Rodeo Drive, it is a world they'll never truly understand but oh so deeply wonder about with a simple, wishful thought of, 'It must be nice.'

However, people from the inside, people who actually wear the diamonds whose glints trap their eyes, people who actually wear straight, pearly white grins and silky, gentle garments and walk through doors that open like arms searching for embraces, know better. The truth is buried deep within all the numbers boasting from heavy credit cards and all the Gucci, Coach, and Burberry clothing they can drown themselves in. Whether they want to acknowledge it or not.

And hardly any of them can handle the truth, so they hide instead.

Nonetheless, the truth always comes to light - as it will now - whether from the beam of a chandelier or the headlights of an expensive sports car and even the rich and wealthy aren't exempt from the harshness and bright glare of reality.

What is that reality exactly?

That rich or poor, pretty or fugly, in or out, life will never be truly perfect.

The lives of rich kids is just an illusion.

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A/N: Sooo I'm back for real this time. I took some time away to focus on my mental health and a family crisis and while I was away, I thought about Rich Kids and realized I didn't want to stop but I didn't want to continue writing a shallow story. So this is how Illusion was born. I hope you guys enjoy as I go through this writing journey and that you come along with me! <3