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Chapter 1

Jocelyn

As I walked up the stairs to the lobby of McKenzie and Sies, I didn’t think I’d ever been as nervous in my whole life It was early February and the crisp winter wind bit athot inside, due to anxiety

I felt a bit light-headed and I had to reain inin preparation for today- what felt like the biggest day ever

I can do anything set my mind to, I told myself mentally

Sure, you would think the day I orn in as a laould have been the happiest day of my whole life And at the tio now, and I hadn’t been able to get a job

That was a little es about my life; for instance, the fact that I still lived with ement helped us both save ood company- we’d been close ever since I was born 22 months after him

But sometimes, it see aboutinto my own place, only to re on leftover student loan money I’d saved up There wasn’t much, and it was about to run out soon

I a and independent woman, I repeated my mantra

Also, I was sometimes embarrassed by the fact that I didn’t have a lot of friends Hannah was pretty much it She and I ay back, too- we hadthe only kids whoseable to buy cafeteria food like the other kids were able to do

I guess I had always been socially aard, and it had only gotten worse instead of getting better as I’d grown up and gotten older I had found it hard to make new friends and trust people

I can be whatever and whoever I want to be