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Chapter One

Scarlett

When I got home, I slumped into my couch, irritated The whole day had been wasted What was the point of having a Master’s degree if I couldn’t do anything with it?

Today’s interview had been a disaster I’d really thought I had this one in the bag, but it turned out I was overqualified I knew too much for the job Who the hell had decided that if you knew tooat all? I would have worked for the salary It wasn’t like I’d demanded ree It was absolute bullshit If I had known that getting a Master’s would ruin my life like this, I would never have done it

It was too late now I spent years of et me nowhere in life Awesome

I walked to my kitchen and put on the kettle for coffee I would spend s to do with my time anyway No man, no personal projects, and all ht

Hoas I going to create a life when I couldn’t get e when I orking toward soht had est worry had been exa more than a distant drea to pay them with

When the kettle boiled, I made myself a cup of instant coffee I would have preferred the freshly ground stuff, but expensive tastes fell ahen I failed to find a job When you had to change your way of life, you knew you were in a bad place

Was I feeling sorry for uessed everyone had to start soive me a chance This really wasn’t ree in my face

What I really needed was to find myself a rich man so that I could sit at ho and spend hispaid But that wasn’t going to happen any tiet ful relationship, and for that, I would have to find so with

It wasn’t that easy for someone like me I’d always been a little different thanaround, getting into serious relationships, only to get their hearts broken Everyone was looking for true love, but I’d never been able to see it in the guys around me

They were all so immature, so unstable in their lives They had no direction I couldn’t relate to that I’d always been more serious Too serious, some had even told me