IS ARTHUR, PRINCE OF HEARTBREAK, FINALLY OUT OF MOURNING?-1
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Chapter 2: IS ARTHUR, PRINCE OF HEARTBREAK, FINALLY OUT OF MOURNING?
25 DECEMBER
Year 20 of the Reign of King Henry XII
What I expected to happen over the holiday:
1) Get my acceptance letter from MIT.
2) Gary to propose.
3) Be welcomed into the loving arms of my family for Christmas.
What actually happened over the holiday:
1) Got rejected from MIT and got waitlisted at UC Santa Barbara.
2) Gary dumped me.
3) Mother declared me the problem child of the family at a formal Christmas dinner for forty of our closest friends and neighbors.
If that isn’t in the running for worst Christmas ever I’m not sure what would be, but I’m definitely all right with not finding out.
Charlie says I can go to Kempton with him tomorrow for the races. Jo keeps telling us which parts of her body she’s not interested in freezing off in order to socialize with any number of people she doesn’t actually like. Mainly, though, Jo is allergic to horses. She says they make her sneeze, and everyone always forgets.
So, I’m going instead. Because being my brother’s date at one of the biggest jumps races of the year is not the height of pathetic.
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