“You've got to be kidding me...”
Rolling his eyes he scoffed “just say yes. I know you need the money.”
He wasn't wrong there, but I had a feeling I was going to regret this.

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Deidra wanted to have a normal college experience just like everyone else, but the last thing she had anticipated was her fourth grade bully to come running back into her life asking her for help. Inheritance clauses, last-minute wills, and a free ticket for her undergrad years to be paid in full?
What more was there to say, except that Wes wasn’t someone easy to work with.
He was more likely going to be more trouble than the money is worth.

It Had To Be You is created by Scarlett Rossi, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

It Had to Be You

My world came crumbling down that Friday when I agreed to have dinner. Right there that afternoon at 2:47 p.m. in the middle of the Organic Chem lab. The sun was starting to set a little earlier in the day, and I was beginning to feel that good October chill nipping at my legs as I walked to class. Sweaters were a must now, long sleeves gone in the instant September had left, but I’d refused the leggings until the temperature dipped below the 60s.


Wes and I were getting along surprisingly well. We even had a band in common—more on the hard rock side than metal, but still pretty great—The Flying Circus. They were rock legends who’d come up out of the ashes of 90s grunge and brought with them the battle cry of a thousand other bands, from a little dreamy folk a la Stevie Nicks to the shredding guitar of Van Halen, Danzig’s rockabilly twang, but the grimness of Black Sabbath and the oddity of Radiohead.


Chapter 21 : Never Enough