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Chapter Two
“Every day, you are growing,
Into the best version of yourself, the best ‘you’ the world has seen—
Treasure too, every ‘you’ there is,
In the in-between.”
-p.bodi
Jane
“You ever feel like you have nothing figured out?” I was currently lounging in my favorite worn leggings and oversized sweater, sipping on the hot chocolate from my very own hot chocolate bar that I put together.
I lived a life of luxury, it was true.
My new friend, April, laughs. “Of course. I’ve felt that many times before.”
I scoff and roll my eyes, pretending to be a brat when I say. “Well, not anymore since you and Chris confessed your undying love for each other.” I haven’t actually “met” Chris yet, but from what I could tell, they were living something close to fairy-tale love. It was sickening.
And also, adorable.
“That’s not true. I mean, we’ve been friends forever but that doesn’t mean we don’t fight.”
“You fight,” I deadpan, disbelief in my tone.
“More like bicker…” she hedges.
I raise a brow at her and take a sip out of my mug.
I loved this mug. It was a handcrafted one that came from a local shop, no two mugs are the same from there and I love the uniqueness of it, the particular one I was holding was a mix of light cerulean blue and violet purple. “So…” I raise a brow at April. “You mean it’s foreplay.”
My statement has April’s cheeks heating and I laugh at her. Ever since I met April, she’d become a good and fast friend. She helped me in a huge bind on Valentine’s Day and I listened to her spill about the man she was in love with—her best friend.
“It’s not foreplay… but well…” She frowns. I watch her as she puzzles out what I’ve said. “Anyway,” she says in an abrupt change of subject. I chuckle at her. “I have felt that way, is all I’m saying. Why do you ask?”
I sigh and set the mug down on the table.
We were in my apartment, that was situated on the top floor of one of the most lavish buildings in Denver. From the floor-to-ceiling windows to the granite countertops and the real hardwood floors, it was a luxurious place, to be sure. The first time April had come over, her jaw seemed to come completely unhinged at the sight.
I wasn’t used to that. Growing up the way that I did, I was used to the nice things in life. I’d never wanted for a thing, and neither had the group of friends that I hung out with. Though, “friends” was a loose term.
Truly, April has felt like the first real friend I’d ever had.
But the people who I had hung out with—grown up with—were so used to these things that the fact that I could afford such a nice place wasn’t a surprise to them but expected.
“I thought I was doing so well,” I mumble, thinking back to earlier in the day.
I was the new face of my family’s legacy, Leads Energy. The fastest-growing energy company in the world. No pressure there…
Becoming the face of the company had always been the plan, from the prestigious private schools, the finishing schools, the Ivy League schools… I’d been groomed for this by my mother from the time I was born.
Now, my mother, who was older in age than my friends’ mothers because she’d decided at the age of forty that she was going to have a baby, was a little more like a distant grandmother that I was in desperate need of approval from.
Getting said approval proved to be much more complicated than I’d thought.
