Double-Decker Dreams by Lindsay MacMillan EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Lindsay MacMillan
- Language: English
- Genre: Friendship Fiction
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The morning I first see him is the morning I need it most.
I guess that’s sometimes how the universe works.
It ignores your requests time and time again until finally, when you’re
about to throw in the towel and just give up, it delivers you that One Thing
that keeps you hanging on. That One Thing that replaces your seething
scowl with a spellbound smile. That One Thing that makes you absolutely
certain that magic is more than a myth and that your Hogwarts acceptance
letter will be arriving after all, just a couple decades late.
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That One Thing that makes you twirl in your fuzziest bathrobe to old
Taylor Swift songs, physically bursting with that giddy feeling you thought
you’d outgrown years ago. That One Thing that shows you that despite all
the angry, jaded words you’ve been spewing, love actually isn’t dead after
all. It’s more alive than ever, and it’s been reborn just for you.
Maybe that One Thing is the dream job you land after being laid off.
Maybe it’s the pregnancy after years of trying. Or the new friend who
appears out of thin air when you need her most.
Or in my case, maybe it’s an English prince riding a white steed past
your window.
Well, not a white steed, technically speaking. He’s riding a red doubledecker bus that has an organic food delivery advertisement plastered across
it—“NudeFoodMood.com.” (Symbolically seductive foreshadowing,
perhaps?)
But it’s close enough to my fairy-tale fantasy and just about as
enchanting an entrance as I could ask for in modern-day London.
The morning started out particularly poorly. I woke up with a backache
from the droopy mattress and then stubbed my toe on the characterful bed
frame of the North London flat that I’m renting. Characterful is just the
British way of saying “extremely old and probably broken.” I’ve learned
this much since moving across the pond.
Rather than letting my stubbed toe simply be a stubbed toe, I naturally
spiraled into a place where it’s a gigantic metaphor for my complete
incompetence as an adult. What chance do I have of becoming a Fortune
500 CEO or shattering the glass ceiling if I can’t even roll off my mattress
without maiming myself?
The negative self-talk gained steam when my crumpet got stuck in the
toaster. I’ve taken a liking to crumpets as they seem more sophisticated,
more cultured, than waffles even though they’re basically the same thing. I
pried the crumpet out with a fork and shoved the mangled thing into my
mouth while standing over the sink, full of unwashed dishes. More evidence
of my utter incompetence.
Then a bulgy-eyed fly snuck into the flat, buzzing all around, nipping
at my tea. I chased the fly around for a solid ten minutes, swatting it with
unopened bank statements that trigger my stress levels, as all physical mail
does. In the end, I won the war but at the cost of insect guts on my carpet
and no motivation to vacuum.
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