Status Updates From Flourishing Heart (The Beau...

Go dame. 5 stars. I loved how realistic this book was. How every relationship mattered and tied back to create our characters. I also loved Grace’s parents. It’s not often u read a book where the world is set in a polygamy setting and the parents are still alive and are polyamorous. That was refreshing. I’ll probably read the next book. Like tomorrow.

I think new circle members are revealed when all current members touch. Like if Apollo and Grace touched Dylan at the same time? I’m not giving up on Dylan and Vincent being circle member. I’m still not sure about Kai but he appears enough for it to be a possibility.

I bet Apollo was with Vincent.

He casually smoked as people came over to us,Lucas happily soaked in the attention. He was like a king as people came to him with a type of adoration, each knowing Lucas, each congratulating us drunkenly on finding each other.

Ah. Lucas’s fathers were over come with grief at the loss of 2 circle members and a child that they neglected the children they still had. And the environment said children lived in. By the time they snapped out of their grief they witnessed everything and decided the problem was too big to handle. Now all they do is provide financially.

So many questions were waiting for me to ask. Why a koi fish? Did that hold meaning? And why was he hiding it?
“Did you get that new pain you were longing for?” It felt unnerving asking that question. I didn’t want him to be in pain at all.
“Not really, I was still recovering, and my leg was useless at the time. But there were some moments I treasured.

Oh yah I’m going with my theory on Grace being the heart of the circle meaning people only recognize each as being part of the circle once they touch Grace. That’s why Dylan was sad when he found on Grace and Apollo were in the same circle. Because Dylan had obviously touch Apollo and felt nothing.

I focused on the sheet trying to ignore my guilt at feeling that way. My hand shook as I put the information correctly. Apollo was quick and had already finished before he shifted behind me. I could feel his heat and the shift of my hair as he breathed in and out. I felt the tug of my soul. It rippled with attention.
It felt like he was dancing with it. Wild and untamed, that’s what his soul did to me.

“Fucking tap that pencil again, I dare you!” Apollo shouted as he pointed at Carson with aggression, making some of the other students struggle to hold both of them back. Carson pulled against the various hands as he came back with his own curses.
“You are fucking crazy, man!” He shouted as he rubbed away blood from his eyebrow that was starting to swell.

Not to sure about Kai being part of the circle now.

The first break came quickly. We were all hanging out in the cafeteria before Julia jumped in one of the spare seats at our table that we were sitting around.
“Transfers! End of next month, it’s been confirmed!” Julia said to Kristina and Hannah.

Apollo/ Lucas’s mom probably died on his birthday or giving birth to him or saving him.

And he created a new persona to hide his grief.

Bags in my hands. I couldn’t help but have a big smile on my face. It had been a long time since we had a mother and daughter day out, and I loved how mom was being. We giggled like teenagers as we tried on clothes that weren’t our styles and even went to a salon to get our nails done.
It was refreshing and carefree, and I wondered if this was what she was like at my age.

The sharp shrill of an alarm jolted me awake, making my whole-body lurch upwards from my lying position. My heart hammered in my chest as I tried to make sense of my surroundings. The unsettling sound penetrated my head causing my brain to erupt in a throb of pain. My eyes prickled, refusing to fully open against the light that was everywhere.

Is motorcycle guy the mundane?

Idk how the circle with: Dylan, Kai, Vincent, and Apollo could work considering they’ve known each other long enough to have touched at some point. Maybe they know they’re a circle and have just been hiding it. Or there’s some sort of magic at play like they only become a circle when they have the heart. Heart: Mc - Grace

Love me a man of action.

“Because we both needed a break from the situation. Not from any one of you but the situation itself. Us, being angry won’t help our matters. Being angry in a disagreement never works. Your Mother and I need to cool down before we say something that wouldn’t be true. You know this isn’t your fault, okay?”

New guess: Dylan, Kai, Vincent, Apollo

I stood motionless for a moment. Confusion filled me, why did that make him so sad? Unsure what to say I simply followed the swaggering Apollo.
I did want to say happy birthday to him, but I felt like he wouldn’t like that. So, we both said nothing while we continued to walk.

Well at least the parents have decent and almost great emotional regulation responses. Da recognizes that his anger is more than he can handle and that he isn’t able to regulate it or control it so he’s taking a breather leaving for a bit so that anything he says in anger won’t leave lasting marks on the family.

“I would have if this happened again! Grace was adamant it was a one-time thing and didn’t want to go further.”
“It shouldn’t have happened in the first place!”
Mother and Papa’s voices were loud enough to be heard from my room. Granted I had my ear to the floor, listening but I heard it all, nevertheless.

Her circle is: Kai, Apollo, Vincent, and motorcycle guy? I think

“Move.” I snapped, it sounded much harsher than I intended, but I wasn’t going to let this guy get to me.
The playfulness returned as he came closer to my face. “Like, I said, Guppy. Or what?”
“Move, Apollo.” A razor-sharp voice came to our left. I felt a shock as relief filled me to see Vincent standing there. Still wearing his crisp button up top and slacks.

Despite the distraction I was given, I was still struggling mentally during this waiting game. I picked my classes in a haze, not really thinking about what I wanted to do after the school year. Mother, Father and even Papa weren’t pleased with my style. Which was to point and hope for the best, that I would like the class. I just wasn’t in it.

“The Millington family?” She asked as she looked at us. Mother and Father quickly stood up to meet her with firm handshakes agreeing on their last names.
“Welcome to Sacred Circles Academy,” she said as she shook Da’s hand. I felt uneasy as she turned to me and extended her hand for me to shake. Her fingers were outstretched with trimmed nails, waiting to touch.