Happily Ever Afters by Elise Bryant EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Elise Bryant
- Genre: Teen & Young Adult Diversity & Multicultural Fiction, Fiction About Disability for Young Adults, Teen & Young Adult Romantic Comedy
- Publish Date: 5 January 2021
- Size: 2 MB
- Format: PDF / EPUB
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The doorbell rings, and I ignore it.
I’m right in the middle of writing an important scene. Tallulah and
Thomas have found shelter from the rain, thanks to a conveniently located
abandoned cabin, and they’re standing face-to-face, so close there’s an
electric charge between the tips of their noses. And when he reaches up to
pluck an eyelash off her cheek and tells her to make a wish, it’s clear from
the urgency of her sigh and the longing in her dark brown eyes that the only
thing she’s wishing for is him.
It’s one of those swoony declaration-of-love moments, like something
you see in those ancient movies they always play Sundays on TNT. But
instead of that pale girl with the red hair, my protagonist has brown skin and
a fro, and she’s about to get her happily ever after.
Except she’s not, because the Doorbell Ringer is still at it.
The only people who have come over in the weeks since we’ve moved
south to Long Beach have been crabby Mrs. Hutchinson from next door and
two Mormon missionaries in starched white shirts and skinny ties.
I’m not going to stop the flow of words pouring out of me for them.
The doorbell rings again, though, followed by a swift knock that’s barely
audible over Miles’s television blaring from the back of the house.
My
brother, the traitor, is on his second viewing of his Dream Zone DVD, and
the person outside can probably hear it too, a sure sign that someone is home.
Enter the Dream Zone, the documentary detailing the roots and rise to
stardom of the now very much defunct boy band, is the only reason we have
a clunky player anymore, even though Mom went all Marie Kondo on the
rest of the disks in the move. It’s Miles’s most precious possession. He treats
the DVD and its accompanying booklet like some sort of sacred texts.
I tell myself that if it rings one more time, I’ll get up. If it’s really
important—more important than Mrs. Hutchinson’s concerns about the
jacaranda tree between our houses or, you know, saving our souls—
whoever’s out there will try at least once more. I cross my fingers and wait
one moment. And then another. But there’s nothing except the nasal crooning
blasting from the other room.
I’m in the clear.
Thomas blows the eyelash away, but his lips stay open, cradling the
words that Tallulah has been longing to hear. And just when he’s about to
reveal what’s written in his heart, he’s interrupted by . . . a bubble.
A white bubble pops up on the side of my draft in Google Docs, followed
by a few more in quick succession.
Why are you working on this one?
Collette needs another chapter
TESSA JOHNSON YOU PROMISED!
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