Black Flamed Candle Books 🕯️📚’s Reviews > Love Points to You > Status Update

‘Who cares for honeyed words when honesty is enough to make me melt? Unfortunately I’m too frazzled to return the gesture. Angela has that effect on me. I embrace it wholeheartedly, yet I can’t deny how vulnerable it leaves me feeling.

‘Angela catches my hand in hers, and my chest tightens with sweet anticipation. Her gaze is earnest and unsettling in the way it affects me so.
“Well, I know you don’t have the best relationship with your family…so thank you.” She delivers a featherlight kiss to my fingertips, a whisper of affection that tingles with unspoken words. I instinctively tuck my hair behind my ear, my cheeks warming…

'It seems so childish to assign so much weight to relationship statuses. My self worth isn't validated because Angela acknowledged me as someone worthy enough to be her girlfriend. Yet part of me glows with pride at the thought that I am her girlfriend, and I can now call her my girlfriend...I love proving people wrong!'

‘It seems so childish to assign so much weight to relationship statuses. My self worth isn’t validated because Angela acknowledged me as someone worthy enough to be her girlfriend. Yet part of me glows with pride at the thought that I am her girlfriend, and I can now call her my girlfriend…I love probing people wrong.’

‘Strange how a single word can make the world sing with colour. An antsy yet delightful feeling courses through me, as if I’m housing a terrarium inside me and all the flowers have bloomed…conflicted as to whether I’m lovestruck or experiencing a medical condition. I’m like a giddy schoolgirl who finally got noticed by her crush.’

“Wait. Does that mean…I’m your girlfriend?”

“Someone here has a huge grin on their face,” Dad says teasingly. I look around to see who he’s referring to and realise all eyes are on me.

I nudge Angela with my foot and make a face—not because I’m annoyed but because I’m flirting. With my girlfriend.

“It’s not about what you lack,” I say plainly but firmly. “They’re miserable people, and nothing will justify how they treat you. Stick to your exit plan and don’t look back.”
“You’re right,” Bora concedes. “I know I’m better off without them…”

When that didn’t work, she started guilt-tripping me and when that didn’t work, she kicked me out of her car.”
“I hate your parents. They treat you like you’re their punching bag…Your parents obviously still haven’t cleaned up their act. Why is it so hard for them to be nice to you when they spoil your brother rotten?”
“I wonder the same thing. What exactly do they not like about me?”

“I don’t plan on leaving soon, not with the way my parents have been behaving.”
“What did your mom do that ended with you stranded on the highway?
“…I was stupid and let my guard down because my mom treated me to lunch and a mani.”
“…she asked to borrow two grand…it didn’t take long for the tears to start after I refused to give her money.