Colette sits in the library, one of her favorite books open, even though she wasn’t really reading it. She has read Rosie Dunne at least three times now, and was equally captivated by their love story each time. It was frustrating to watch them get so close to love but have one small factor keep them apart. It was an endless cycle in the book, that went on for years. When Colette first read it, she thought it was going to end with the cycle restarting. But she was quite surprised. Unfortunately, even Rosie Dunne couldn’t distract Colette from what was really on her mind.
She felt like she was being rather foolish; first loves came and went and she shouldn’t even say she was in love with Ben. But maybe she was? She didn’t know, she was so, disgustingly, young. But just because she was young did not mean she was naive. Yes, she didn’t understand sex and what the point was, because it only brought pain from what Colette saw. It brought her pain at least. Sex was what she caught her mom doing with a stranger and now she hid that secret from her siblings, even though each day it felt like a weigh that was crushing her. And then Ben cheated on her, which she couldn’t even pretend didn’t hurt a lot. Overall, Colette should have just stuck with her books. At least she could figure out the outcome of their fate because the book had to end eventually.
So there she was, sitting in the library with a book open, even though she was looking forward, lost in thought until another person sat across from her. Startled she closes her book, clutching it to her chest. “I’m sorry! I can leave...”











