Anyone But Rich by Penelope Bloom EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Penelope Bloom
- ISBN:978-1542014151
- Language: English
- Genre: New Adult & College Romance, Billionaire Romance, Romantic Comedy
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KIRA
Seven Years Later
“Friendships are a lot like kindergarten art projects: without
glue, they all fall apart.” Surprisingly, my father had said that.
Granted, he’d also gone on to rant about how he never
understood the stigma of eating glue and how scented glue
sticks could have been like candy if people only tried them. It
was always a little bit shocking that the man had ended up
becoming a mayor, even if it was of a small town in rural
North Carolina.
What he said had stuck with me. The first part, at least.
Maybe that was why I couldn’t help feeling like my
friends and I were growing apart. Our promise to stay away
from the Kings had brought us back together all those years
ago, and it had held us together since. The Kings had left right
after high school to launch some tech company out in
California. Unfortunately for us, they’d found enough success
and money that they had become billionaires and they had
become national celebrities. Their shocking good looks, antics,
success, and money made them household names. Go figure.
When you made a solemn vow and filled it with a bunch of
“even if” clauses, you didn’t really expect every last one of
them to come true.
The way things had turned out also made our promise
seem silly. It wasn’t like back then, when we had to hold each
other accountable. The Kings weren’t walking the halls of our
school and parading right in front of our faces day after day.
Now they were just gorgeous faces on tabloid magazine racks
in the grocery store checkout. They were occasionally
spotlighted on TV, but they were as distant and untouchable as
Brad Pitt and Ryan Reynolds. Pretending we had to even think
about trying not to date them was beyond silly.
To make matters worse, we’d all been struck by
adulthood. That inexorable internal shift when people started
judging the success of a day by how productive they were
instead of how much fun they had. Fun was the enemy, and it
was only allowed if the production quota was met. Our
common interests were dying a slow death, and it was
becoming more and more clear that we were clinging to the
last, decaying wisps of the promise.
I let out a long sigh through my nose, because that wasn’t
as dramatic as a mouth sigh. I was sitting at our usual table by
the windows in Bradley’s, a local-bakery-slash-coffee-shopslash-comedy-improv-venue-slash-gossip-nexus for the entire
town. A dose of routine felt good when everything else was
changing, and Bradley’s for coffee before work was our
routine.
As a longtime eavesdropper, I saw all the signs that some
particularly juicy bit of news was circulating throughout the
store. I knew it had to be something good, because Landry
Miller had actually set down his newspaper and hobbled all
the way across the restaurant to lean into the conversation.
There would’ve been no shame in getting up to listen in, but I
wasn’t in the mood today, no matter how interesting the news
was.
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