Chapter 49: Ellie

I sat there on my living room sofa pleased with how productive I'd been. I had already finished a really good outline for my story, and my date with Adrian had gone reasonably well. He'd been texting me a lot, and I arranged to go out with him again at the weekend. It seemed he liked me enough to take this further. I worked on my article whenever I had time. I managed to produce a solid, few hundred words. Hope burned through me when I reread the words that my future rested on so much. I had a feeling that I was making the right decision, that this story was going to be good. Phil was giving me the usual crap. I stopped complaining, knowing that it was just a matter of time before I would have an offer from a more established paper.