The County Fair Queen

Chapter Fourteen

FRIENDZONE

The room the man took me to wasn't much of a room at all. It was just an empty space, maybe the size of my bedroom closet back in London. Instead of walls, there were metal bars all around me. The second the doors locked behind me, it was like an awakening. I was still high as hell, but I'd seen enough A exhausted, but not quite ready to close my eyes. We'd always had an expiration date. One I'd been counting down the days to like the world's worst advent calendar. With the newness of affection sparking inside of me, the threat of losing him felt so real that it almost seemed like the walls themselves were closing in around me.

"I'm no good at this love stuff," I finally said.