What would you do if you discovered you were the other woman?
Augustine only wants the kind of love she sees in movies and reads in her favorite books. When she thinks she found it, she discovers a secret that will ruin everything.
What do you do...
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Augustine!
"And they called off the circus. Burned the disco down. When they sent home the horses. And the rodeo clowns. I'm still on that tightrope. I'm still trying everything to get you laughing at me. I'm still a believer but I don't know why. I've never been a natural. All I do is try, try, try" - MIRRORBALL
(The summer she met James.)
The terrace of my beach house was my favorite place in the whole world, after the beach, I remember I used to hate this place. I hated being away from my friends. I always hated when we went back and my friends talked about everything they did together. I think the right words were I was scared. Scared of missing out. Of them realizing I wasn't as fun as they thought. Of them realizing I was just a boring girl.
Of course I never told my mam. She thought I was just a difficult child. She never said anything about it, but I knew. I could've changed her impression of me, but I thought there was no point. If I told her 'no mam! I don't want to go to the beach house, because my friends will replace me!". She would've told me I was being silly and ridiculous. Maybe I was.
Later I discovered it didn't matter. I could stay every day of my pending summers annoyed and grumpy at life, or I could enjoy it.
So I did.
I swung one of my legs up and down from the hanging chair. This wasn't any chair, this was my chair, with gray couchions and a white blanket, it was the most comfortable thing in this house. I could spend hours sitting here, reading a book, and staring at the waves before me. The terrace was facing the ocean, sometimes I would play music on my headphones and other times I would just listen to the waves.
Today was a music day, yay.
I was drowning in the words of my book, not in a bad way, I loved the feeling of getting lost in a good book. When it felt like you weren't reading, but like you were part of the book instead. A side character watching everything.
I was so distracted in my book, I didn't notice Sarina until I heard a loud bang.
Flinching I slid my headphones down to my neck, I folded the edge of the page I was reading and I closed the book. "What was that?" I asked, eyes wide as I watched Sarina landing on the wooden floor. "Why don't you use the door, like a normal human being?"
"Normal is overrated." She said, wiping the dust off her long flowered skirt. "And I want to say, you are a monster towards books." She said looking at me with her big brown eyes.
Sarina didn't have an specific style, she just dressed however she felt like it. Today she was wearing a white tank top with a long flowered skirt, three golden necklaces and her ginger hair was down in waves. She looked beautiful with anything she wore. Every single style fitted her.
