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

‘…the solution to her struggles isn’t to give up. She’s come too far quit…Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.’

‘Where there’s creativity, there’s possibility..’

‘Nothing worth having comes easy. If you want something, you have to fight for it, or else you’re nothing but a dreamer.’

“No sixteen-year old should have to emotionally support their parent.”

‘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.’

“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.