The Beauty in Between: Too Close (A Beautiful Series Novella) by Lilliana Anderson

Author:Lilliana Anderson
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi

Chapter Eight

February came quickly, and with it, the start of the school year, as well as my birthday. I’m one of the rare people who was born on the 29th of the month, so for a long time we have just celebrated my birthday on the last day of the month, and we’d have a party every leap year for my actual birth date.

We were currently in a leap year and after all the drama I’d been through at school, the last thing I wanted was to invite them all to a party. All I wanted, was the day off school, so I could go and get my license.

A few people remembered that there should have been a party and asked me about it, but most of them didn’t give a shit. I’d given up my friends the day I beat Ben up, and I didn’t even really care about the new group I had started to hang out with anymore.

We were in our final two years of school, and all I could think about was a way to get out of Western Sydney and away from these people. Some of the top-ranked students were invited to the Sydney University campus in Redfern to have a look around and see if it was somewhere we’d like to attend.

Along with UTS, it was the best university in Sydney, and I was in awe being there. Katrina had been invited along as well, but she wasn’t as excited about it as I was.

Ethan didn’t make it into university and was doing a TAFE, which stands for Tertiary and Further Education, course instead. It was a place you could go to when you didn’t qualify for university to do a course that would help further your career options. Some people used it as a stepping stone to get into University, while others went there to learn a trade or skill.

He was still interested in optometry, but now he was studying to be the technician who makes the glasses instead of the actual optometrist. So being Katrina, she thought long-term and was thinking of going to the UWS as it was closer to home and closer to him.

“You can catch the train here and still live at home you know,” I told her.

“No thanks, there is no way I am sitting in a train for an hour each way every day,” she commented.

I shrugged off her comment, grabbed her hand and dragged her around the campus one more time while I talked her ear off about how great it would be once high school was over.

“You really want high school over?” she asked.

“Yeah. Don’t you?”

“No. Because I won’t get to see you every day anymore,” she pouted.

“You’ll have Ethan. You'll be fine,” I told her, wrapping my arm around her shoulders as we walked slowly toward the café for something to eat.

“I love Ethan, but he’s my boyfriend. He’s not my best friend – he’s not you. I still need you, you know. I’ll always need you.

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