Uncovering You 8: Redemption by Scarlett Edwards

Author:Scarlett Edwards [Edwards, Scarlett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Romance, Anthologies, Contemporary, Collections & Anthologies, General Fiction
Amazon: B00SHX79II
Publisher: Edwards Publishing
Published: 2015-01-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

For the next hour or so, I’m bombarded by raised voices from the adjoining room.

Fey and Robin are arguing. They still haven’t left. The uncertainty of whether they will or not has me on edge.

I can’t make out the things they are saying. Even if I could, I still wouldn’t listen.

I am not the bitch I have made myself out to be. But there was no other way. I couldn’t persuade Fey with words alone. Certainly not while still keeping things civil.

Eventually their voices stop. I hear the front door of their room open and close. I let out a breath that I feel like I’ve been holding for years.

And with that, it’s done.

I’ve successfully isolated myself from the outside world. Everything I know, everything I do, will now revolve around Jeremy—which is how it always should have been.

Trying to maintain cordial relations with Fey, given what she knows, given her behavior, was a pipe dream. I should have understood that before making the trip out to Boston. Jeremy alone gives me enough to handle. I cannot juggle my relationship with him while simultaneously trying to balance mine with Fey.

Perhaps the wish for that was a remnant of the naivety I once had. My naivety and optimism.

Because when I was still in college, surrounded by so much potential—no matter how hard I was working, or how busy my life may have been—I still had that magical sense of opportunity. It’s cliché, I know. But I feel—just a little bit—like the world was my oyster.

Of course, it helped that all the advisors and concentration advisors were paid to make us believe that.

Still, that’s a large part of what made Yale—despite all the work—such a pleasant environment. We were all undergrads, constantly stressed. We were all, in our own way, dealing with mountains of assignments and tests and extra curriculars and deadlines. I was not the only one who worked hard. Far from it.

They were selling us the American Dream: Work hard. Keep your head down, and you’ll succeed. Oh yeah, and you’re in an institution that the rest of the world recognizes as the best, so you’d better not let us down.

Thousands of kids applied to Yale and got rejected. I just had a bit better grades in high school. That’s all.

So I have to stop thinking of myself as being capable of more. I can’t focus on two things at a time. Not while trying to achieve what I really want to.

And so, Jeremy has to be the sole focus in my life. I can’t be sad about losing Fey.

Self-pity is the most dangerous emotion.

I exhale and get up. Now I just wait for Jeremy to return, and take things from there.

Just like I wanted.

I’m surprised, however, when I find a small slip of paper under my door. I pick it up. It reads:

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