Saxon
You know what sucks about living a ‘charmed’ life? When people assume you don’t need or deserve anything more than what the universe has already handed you. Yeah my folks have money and yeah I’ve got a lot of things going for me and yeah I know… this stupid mug of mine turns heads and helps open doors… but having all that going for me has always meant that I attract the worst kind of people too; mostly users and social climbers because I’ve always been more trusting, generous and open-hearted than I ought to be. It’s also put a lot of pressure on me, because if life’s handed you lemonade instead of lemons, then it’s no one’s fault but your own when things go sour, is it?
But my life isn’t charmed and it never has been and at the end of the day, I’m still just the new kid in a new school who’s trying to make a fresh start after making a series of monumental mistakes- just like Aron Dales apparently was after he transferred here last year. Only unlike Aron, I have this perfect older brother to live up to who has everything going for him that I do. Only he’s never made a single mistake because he actually is perfect.
Oh, I can smile and shoot hoops and run circles around the other guys my age and act unbothered when I need to, because if I learned anything from my ex, Ally, it’s how to pull off the whole King-Pin facade… but I don’t really know anyone here and I don’t really know anything either.
Actually no that’s a lie- I do know one thing for sure; that I need Bronte Holloway the way other people need oxygen. Not just in my arms but at my side because when she’s there, I really do feel like I’m on top of the world and living a charmed life- no façade required- and like there’s nothing I can’t do, if I set my mind to it.
And when she’s not, it’s like I can’t breathe.
I need a second chance with the only girl I’ve ever met who’s as trusting, generous and open-hearted as I am, I need Jake to realise that stealing her from me was the first big mistake he’s ever made and I need Bronte to realise that if she comes back into my arms, then I will lift her up so high that afterwards, people will have no choice but to see her the way I do; as the antidote to the poison that seeps into every teenager’s veins, and the only one of us that anybody ought to be following.
Now I just need to work out how to get everything I need and deserve without making a bigger mess of things in the process than I already have.
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
You know what sucks about living a ‘charmed’ life? When people assume you don’t need or deserve anything more than what the universe has already handed you. Yeah my folks have money and yeah I’ve got a lot of things going for me and yeah I know… this stupid mug of mine turns heads and helps open doors… but having all that going for me has always meant that I attract the worst kind of people too; mostly users and social climbers because I’ve always been more trusting, generous and open-hearted than I ought to be. It’s also put a lot of pressure on me, because if life’s handed you lemonade instead of lemons, then it’s no one’s fault but your own when things go sour, is it?
But my life isn’t charmed and it never has been and at the end of the day, I’m still just the new kid in a new school who’s trying to make a fresh start after making a series of monumental mistakes- just like Aron Dales apparently was after he transferred here last year. Only unlike Aron, I have this perfect older brother to live up to who has everything going for him that I do. Only he’s never made a single mistake because he actually is perfect.
Oh, I can smile and shoot hoops and run circles around the other guys my age and act unbothered when I need to, because if I learned anything from my ex, Ally, it’s how to pull off the whole King-Pin facade… but I don’t really know anyone here and I don’t really know anything either.
Actually no that’s a lie- I do know one thing for sure; that I need Bronte Holloway the way other people need oxygen. Not just in my arms but at my side because when she’s there, I really do feel like I’m on top of the world and living a charmed life- no façade required- and like there’s nothing I can’t do, if I set my mind to it.
And when she’s not, it’s like I can’t breathe.
I need a second chance with the only girl I’ve ever met who’s as trusting, generous and open-hearted as I am, I need Jake to realise that stealing her from me was the first big mistake he’s ever made and I need Bronte to realise that if she comes back into my arms, then I will lift her up so high that afterwards, people will have no choice but to see her the way I do; as the antidote to the poison that seeps into every teenager’s veins, and the only one of us that anybody ought to be following.
Now I just need to work out how to get everything I need and deserve without making a bigger mess of things in the process than I already have.
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
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