>>Is there a reason--other than your original outline-- that girl must absolutely end up with Boy A? <<

Good reason, not so much. Basically the Big Issue had an article about how Harlequin were accepting submissions (article was worth reading, mostly "this novel writing lark is harder than it looks") so I had a look at the website and thought, why not. At the time I think I was aiming for Harlequin Teen. The only romances I had the faintest interest in when I was younger were the Barbara Cartland ones because they had swordfights, so there's also an element of attempting that sort of thing.

The reason for the grr argh is that I've finally hit the plot and I'm writing the scene where boy A realises that the girl is not the rich air-head he thought she was (hopefully the reader has already twigged this - I might need to expand one of the previous bits), because she bandages B's hand after a kitchen oops. Only it kept ending up being the girl, boy B and the stars. But I think if I move that scene forward by one night so it fits after another scene instead it might still work.

Will do. If I ever do. This original writing thing is hard.