The Girl Who Ran Away by Lund Susan

Author:Lund, Susan [Lund, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781988265742
Google: mYCXDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: 1988265746
Publisher: S. E. Lund
Published: 2019-05-12T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

Everything was wonderful.

And then it wasn't.

For three years, everything was great between them and in their little family.

From the time she was eighteen and had finished high school, she was happy. She worked on a diploma in hospitality from the local community college with the hopes of, perhaps, one day opening her own bookstore and coffeeshop. During that time, she and Sadie had lived with Craig in his two-bedroom apartment in a better part of town.

Craig took on the role of step-father with delight. He felt comfortable with children, he said, because they were like kittens or puppies. They didn't judge you or think you were weird. They accepted you for what and who you were, unquestioning even when they questioned everything. They simply accepted that their reality was natural. Their questions were totally innocent and only about how the world worked and not hurtful questions about why you were so weird.

Craig learned to play through his experiences with Sadie. He said he'd never played in his life, having been an only child cared for by servants and nannies, and had always been more interested in books and machines. He'd always found other people confusing and frightening. But with Sadie, he seemed to brighten.

It was weird because Craig was strange, according to everyone else who met him, and yet she only felt at home when she was with him. She felt like she could be her true self.

Craig wanted that. He saw her for who she really was -- someone with a sad dark past, trying to escape it, who only wanted to be happy.

"Be happy with me," he said and pulled her into his arms. "I'll be happy with you. Maybe for once, we can both be happy -- together "

He admitted that she was his first real girlfriend. Girls found him awkward and he never felt he could ask a girl out even if he liked her, because he just couldn't force the words out. It was only after he photographed her enough and knew enough about her that he asked Rachel out for coffee.

She had to make all the first moves, which was actually a good thing for a girl like her who had always been the victim.

But he had to go and screw everything up.

He had to ruin things, and now everything wasn't wonderful.

Everything had gone to shit.

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