The Granger Girls by Lara Jane Robinson

Author:Lara Jane Robinson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lara Jane Robinson

When I no longer have the energy to make noise, I pull myself up and open my bedroom window. I take in a mouthful of the air, contaminated by the many Porsches and Jaguars that speed by these roads each day. The pollution makes my eyes sting and my chest hurt, but I choose to go outside anyway.

Easily accessible from my bedroom is a small roof extension, which is around halfway completed. There are still a few more safety barriers that need to be added, but I’ve always been careful when on it, and it’s become my comfort spot as of late - a place I can go whenever I need to escape the world for a few moments.

To get there, I have to go through a clear glass door located in my bedroom, then walk across the main part of the roof, a journey made relatively easy by the steps that were recently added. From there, I move downwards onto the balcony-like platform that’s been added to the edge of the roof. When it’s done, it will be surrounded by wooden bars for safety, and have several chairs and a coffee table, providing my family with a unique spot where we can sit back and relax, with a perfect view of the city below us. It’ll be completed in two months’ time, but I can’t bear to wait that long when it already works as the hideaway spot I so desperately need right now.

I sit a few feet away from the edge to ensure I don’t fall, then stare down at the busy world below me. Expensive cars zip past non-stop, as do taxis which occasionally pull up to collect perfect-looking businesspeople. I recognise a few girls from my school walking with some Bartholomew boys on the far side of the street, giggling as they sip from bottles of iced tea. On a building above them, a couple of pigeons attack each other, their legs damaged either from similar past fights or the brutal anti-bird architecture so common in the capital. As I watch these insignificant stories play out, I feel myself begin to calm down. I take a deep breath, then start to put my thoughts in order, thinking more logically about my emotions and the events that have caused them.

Over and over again, I replay the afternoon I spent having sex with Kate. It's the only thing I have left to hold on to, even if it's now nothing more than a memory, blurred slightly by my excitement and pure happiness, emotions I haven't felt since. But even that memory is tainted now, and I go as far as to question if Kate is even bisexual at all, or if it was just a lie to lead me on. I hope nobody would lie about their sexuality like that, but with everything that’s happened since, I find I almost don't care if she did. I just wish Kate were a better person. She has such a pretty

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