The Boarding School Series Introduction (The Boarding School Series #0.50) by Elizabeth Lennox

Author:Elizabeth Lennox [Lennox, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781940134550
Publisher: Elizabeth Lennox Books LLC
Published: 2015-09-01T16:00:00+00:00

So long, for now

“Don’t go!” Scarlett whispered, tears streaming down her cheeks. She stared at the five young men while her heart ached. “Please, don’t go!”

Uncle Charles could feel the pain in his niece and wished there was some way he could fix this for her. But the five men had graduated last May and had stayed at the school over the summer. Ostensibly all of them were doing an internship for the school, but the bottom line was, they wanted to hang out together and with Scarlett. The six of them were fast friends, closer than some families.

Unfortunately, the young men needed to go off to college now.

Grayson took the almost-nine-year old Scarlett into his arms. “We’ll be back for breaks, brat. Don’t worry. And I’m only a half-hour away.”

Scarlett wrapped her arms around his neck, burying her face against his shoulder as she hugged him. “I don’t want you to go. I don’t want any of you to go!”

Charles bent down, knowing that the five men were in an awkward position. “Scarlett, you and I talked about this last night. You told me that you understood.”

Scarlett heard the words but her arms tightened around Grayson’s neck. Only for a moment.

But she rallied, remembering her conversation with her uncle. She was making this harder for her “brothers” and she didn’t want that. She loved them and she would be terribly lonely without them, but she was also excited that they were going off to learn more about the world.

“You’re going to be okay?” she asked Grayson, laying a hand on his scruffy cheek.

“I’ll be fine. Will you be okay?” he asked, tweaking her nose because he knew she hated it. He needed her to be angry. Those blue eyes affected him deeply. They tore at his soul every time she was sad and lightened his heart when she was happy.

Scarlett’s chin quivered for a moment, but she pulled through. “Yes. I’m going to be fine. As long as I hear from you guys,” she said, looking at all of them so that they got the message. “I want updates on what you’re studying, who you are dating, pictures of where you are, what you’re doing…everything!”

The five men chuckled because she was such a little tyrant. “Got it,” they said, all nodding their heads.

“Fine. Go!” she told them all, waving her hands in the air as if she were royalty, dismissing her admirers.

“Not without a hug, brat,” Harrison cautioned.

Once more, the chin quivered. But she knew she’d be horribly upset if these men walked out of her life and she hadn’t hugged them each one more time. Throwing her skinny body into Harrison’s arms, she hugged him with all of her strength. “I’ll miss you!” she whispered to each of them as she hugged them goodbye.

One by one they stepped into limousines, all except for Grayson who got into a cab that was taking him to the train station. He was the only one that didn’t have the money for a limousine to take him to his university, so he’d be taking the bus.

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