Category: Agreements With Mr Rich Boy by rosie

51 | Goodbyes IT TAKES A few days to get everything sorted. I’d never really been to a funeral before, except when I was little and too young to remember what it entailed, let alone planned one. In fairness, Mum had got most of it done— from the colour of the flowers to the invites. Even so, it felt as though I suddenly had so much to do and so little […]

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50 | At Peace IT STILL DIDN’T feel real, even as we turned the corner down my road. Mum had already gone by ambulance and settled in the house. I’d wanted to go with her but the nurse had had to be the extra person. And, I knew, I wouldn’t have been able to stop from crying. Miles hadn’t said much since we’d heard the news and honestly, I wasn’t complaining. […]

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49 | Desperate Men (TRIGGER WARNING: eating disorder) SEVERAL HOURS LATER, I could feel my limbs start to go numb from tiredness and my eyes feel like I’d been punched repeatedly. The clock by the table read 2:04. Mum had drifted off to sleep again. I could hear Miles talking with someone outside, a voice oddly familiar. “What happened to the meeting with the art show director?” Michelle asked, I […]

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48 | Bad Habits THE FLIGHT OVER was painful, absolute torture to say the least. I’d been tired before, ready to sleep during the few hours but with Dr Khan’s icy, coldly professional voice ringing through my ears, those cursed words along with it, sleeping was the last thing I was able to do. “A drink?” The flight attendant asked. I shook my head no. She passed, that far from genuine […]

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47 | The Call THERE WAS A SECOND knock at my door, only this was quite a bit later than the first. I’d packed up most things, not that I had much to begin with. Why it had taken so long, I didn’t know. Was I stalling? I shook my head of the thought. All I needed, right now, was to be as far away from the chalet, from the Redwoods, from Archer […]

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46 | Foiled Plan I DIDN’T HAVE the strength or conviction to keep the shock off my face. Looking at him, a man I’d cherished for so long only to have him walk away, stung. Especially when mum was at home, in pain and suffering, whilst he was at some fancy party with a younger replacement of her on his arm. “Jolene?” He said, tightening his face once again. “What are […]

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45 | Unwanted Reunions IT SHOULDN’T HAVE mattered all that much. It was only clothes. But I think it was more that I felt betrayed. Why hadn’t he told me? Was it because he felt sorry for me? The Archer I’d met in that shop was far from the sympathising kind. Surely he hadn’t planned all this from the start. Surely. “Jolie, are you alright?” Autumn was saying, squeezing my arm. “You look a little faint.” […]

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44 | Thought You Knew WHEN I KISSED ARCHER, it was like everything around me and him just kind of… faded. The noise from inside was no longer on my mind as all I could think about was that his lips were on mine and his body was so close, and it felt as if everything in the world was holding its breath as we snatched the moment. His lips were moving against […]

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43 | The Latter, I mean I SCRAMBLED ONTO the bar as again and again and again, Noah brought his fist down onto Jacques. Each crack made me flinch, and I had to look away to stomach the sight of all that blood. Jacques friends seemed paralysed for a moment before they stepped forward, ready to come to his defence. However, as they took in Noah’s ruthless state and the primal […]

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42 | It’s An Act I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN anyone Archer had dated would be drop-dead gorgeous, but that didn’t make it any easier to settle my somersaulting stomach or ease my pecking insecurities. And the worst thing? It wasn’t even like I had a reason to not like her. Annalise Bromley wasn’t just beautiful, no, she just had to be intelligent and funny and, from what I could gather from a ten […]

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