It hadn’t been right. The whole time, Ryan felt as if Savannah had been putting on some kind of show. Now they were finished, she had put her clothes back on and was scrolling through her phone as if nothing had happened.
He turned onto his side and placed an arm over her. “So…how was your first time then?”
“What…oh yeah. No great babe. Really great,” Savannah soothed, placing a kiss on his cheek.
“Are you sore? I tried to be as gentle as possible.”
“Errr…yeah a little bit. Not too bad. You were great.” She went back to her phone. From this direction though, Ryan couldn’t tell what she was doing.
“Good,” he said.
A silence fell over them. Or more Savannah was too preoccupied with the device in her hand.
Ryan decided that this was as good a time as any to talk to her about everything with his dad. She’d just shared something with him that
It was the banging that woke her up. Her head felt heavy, and it took her a few moments to realise her face was pressed against the desk. She groaned. Why did her mouth feel like it was made of sawdust?“Mia? Are you up yet? You’ve not come out all morning!”The sound of her mom’s shrill voice sent shockwaves through her head. She manged to sit up but regretted it when her stomach flipped with sickness. She looked through narrowed eyes at the now empty bottle of vodka beside her. Damn. She’d gone hard.“Mia?!”Mia shook herself, if she didn’t respond her mom would come in here. It probably stunk of vodka and she likely didn’t look too good either.“Yes, mom! Just wanted a lie in.”“It’s noon, Mia! Get up!”Mia’s eyes cut to her alarm clock. Damn. It must have been really hard.“Yeah. Just let me get up and shower then I’ll come
The first thing she did was find Brook. She had to know why she’d published this. She’d asked for a draft, not the final revision! She found her in the room set apart for the class paper, shuffling through different documents.As Mia made her entrance, Brook looked up. “Ah. There’s my star writer. That article sure is making the rounds. I’ve never had so many requests for copies!”Brook looked genuinely chuffed. Did she not get the drama this was causing?“What the hell Brook? I thought we said a draft! I didn’t know you were going to publish the damn thing!”“What’s the problem? You were obviously happy with it. You wouldn’t have sent it otherwise.”Mia put her head in her hands. “I was…a bit drunk. I never would have sent it otherwise.”“Ohhhh,” Brook tapped the table. “That’s why there was so many spelling and grammar m
“You alright, honey?”Mia looked up to find her mom standing at the doorway.“I did knock…but you didn’t answer.”Mia took off her headphones. Since coming home from school she hadn’t moved from her bed. “I’m fine,” she lied.Carla cocked her head to the side. “Okay. You don’t look fine.”Mia scoffed. “Thanks.”Carla sighed and pulled out Mia’s desk chair before sitting down. “You know I didn’t mean it like that. Come on. Tell me what’s going on. We never talk anymore.”“Yeah well…we argue after most of our ‘talks’,” Mia grumbled. She knew she was being belligerent, but her mood was too bad to be nice.Carla cast a glance outside of Mia’s window. She wasn’t prepared to give up just yet. “I know we haven’t been as close recently, and I know we’ll nev
Mia had woken up earlier than usual. If she was going to pull this off, she had to be one of the first people in school.When she appeared at the breakfast table 30 minutes before the usual time, her mom raised her eyebrow.“Are you okay? You’re never down here this early.”Mia grabbed a piece of toast and coated it with a quick swipe of butter from the dish before taking a chunk out of the corner. “Yeah,” she said through a mouthful of crumbs. “Good. I need to get in early this morning. No time to stop.”Carla followed her daughter to the hallway, watching Mia place the bit of toast in her mouth so she could use both hands to pull on her shoes.“Does this have anything to do with the grand gesture you’re planning?”Mia grinned. “Maybe. Anyway. Gotta go.”Carla waved her off and hoped that whatever Mia was planning, it wasn’t going to get her into too much t
The last time Mia had been in this room was when she’d thrown the lunch tray at Ryan. It was strange to think how much had happened between then and now.“Have we failed you in some way, Miss Fernwood?”The sound of the sour faced principals voice made Mia jump. It took her a few moments to realise what she’d asked.“Erm…no? I don’t really know what you mean,” Mia answered.“Well, looking at your previous school reports, not once have you been called to the principals office. You’ve never had a detention. By the looks of it, you’ve barely been told off. So, I’m asking, have we failed you? Because You’ve only been here a few months, and you’ve already assaulted someone with a lunch tray and broken into a school office to misuse the PA system.”“I didn’t exactly break in…”The principal sighed. “Just answer the question, Mi
“Where the hell were you?”Carla was trying really hard to keep her voice down. She didn’t want the girls to hear them arguing. Not when they’d just given them a long speech about trying to get on. But Bob’s nonchalant attitude was really starting to grate on her.“I told you. I was in a meeting with an important client.”He wasn’t giving her a lot of direct eye contact. This only made her more suspicious.“And what about Mary-Jane’s phone? Why was that off too?”Bob sighed and went to the fridge. “Because she was in there with me. Honestly Carla, can you give this a rest now?” He pulled out one of the cans from the fridge and took hold of the ring pull. “But even your office line wasn’t answered! Surely Mary-Jane steps out for calls?”Bob swung round to face her, his mouth set into a thin line. “It isn’t any of your busi
It had been a strange week for Ryan. After the article had come out, he’d decided that he’d had more than enough of Mia Fernwood. All she’d done is make his life more complicated. And it was already complicated enough.But then she’d done that whole apology stunt, and his mind had wavered. It didn’t help that Savannah had tried to muck with Mia’s truck. It made him wonder if he really should continue to put the effort into that relationship. Was she really who he wanted to be with?He decided that he was going to hang out in the shop for her shift. Maybe spending more time with Mia again would give him a better idea of what he wanted to do. Not only that though, his dad had been pretty well behaved of late. Ryan didn’t think for a second it was because he was changing in any way. It just meant when his dad snapped, it was going to be explosive. And there was every chance that he would turn up at the shop to terrorise his mom wh
“He used those exact words?”Tilly was perched on the edge of Mia’s bed while Mia proceeded to pull out every item in her wardrobe.“Yep. Part of me wish he hadn’t because now I’m even more nervous than I would have been.”She slumped onto her desk chair and looked at Tilly. After the big apology speech over the school PA, Tilly had phoned Mia later that night to forgive her. Mia had never felt so relieved in her life. Losing Tilly had reminded her what having a friend was like. Now she had her, she didn’t want to be without her.“Look. It’s going to fine. He’s seen you from looking like a mess to looking a million bucks.”Mia sighed. “True. But I don’t want to look like I’ve tried too hard, but also not like I’ve not bothered either…” Mia knew she was rambling, but she couldn’t help it.Tilly fished around on the floor am