Sempiternal by pseudonymous n.m (best books to read for women TXT) 📖

"i'll come" she says

i grin half-heartedly and help her as she tries to get down(im not that rude afterall). she is wearing a big wooly jumper over tiny shorts i can barely see. Her boots are scuffed and the laces are undone. she smiles at  me and her grin is lopsided. i frown at her beneath a smile and turn swiftly around towards the door where scarlett is waitiing.

"Dont worry,im not kidnapping you" she says and bites her lip

" Thanks for the reassurance" i say and wink at bo. she smiles and coughs.

"so what do you guys do for fun around here?" i find a lone tree and swing on one of its long,gangly branches.

-enough's enough we're done

i found myself lost within the forest with scarlett and bo about half an hour later, bare footed and dark green moss tangled in my hair. we'd been rolling down steep hills and paddling in the murky lake. Bo had even created a tyre swing with some taught rope that she had found lying on in an old abandond cabin. we'd stopped there for scarlett to scour the premises with her eventually finding a box of old,stale cigarettes and  a lighter.

"want a smoke?" she'd asked. i told her no, that i'd quit when i was around the age of two. Bo had laughed hysterically and afterwards,insisted that she sit on my lap on the tyre swing because she was scared. we swung for fifteen minutes before scarlett got bored.

"You guys are SO boring" she'd said and stormed off,red hair flying in the wind.

Me and Bo stay for another two hours on the same swing and talk.

"so tell me about yourself" i ask.

she hesitates and then stutters

"Theres nothing much to say. my name's bo.fifteen. lived a happy life with my family in london until about the age of thirteen. i was moved here because of depression" she looks up at me to see my reaction. my face is blank

"what about you?"

i stutter aswell

"They say im violent and a risk to my mother. Attitudes bad. All that kind of crap. just turned sixteen" i brush back my hair and stare at her. i notice that she has the most blue eyes i've ever seen in my life. i cant look away. Bo shifts in my lap and jumps off,landing softly in the wet grass.She holds out her hand.

"come on" she laughs as i jump -not so gracefully-off the swing. i stand there awkwardly until she grabs my hand forcefully.

"where are you taking me?" i ask playfully

"you,my dear,are being escorted by england's finest" she says loudly and her voice echoes through the trees

"sounds like fun" i say 

Publication Date: 08-01-2013

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Dedication:
To my english teacher who inspired me to start writing again