are just funny like that. But I suppose you already know that she’d heard what I said that day. (Speaking of computer class, Mr. Simpson got married this summer, I’m gutted. I’ll never look at excel in the same way again.) Anyway it’s your birthday soon! You have finally reached the grand old age of 18! Want to go out and do some legal celebrating? (Well, legal for you anyway) Let me know.
PS: Please STOP calling me Buttercup!
from:
Alex
to:
Rosie
subject:
18th Birthday
Rosie, Good to hear you’re alive after all, I was beginning to worry! I would love to celebrate my 18th with you but Bethany’s parents are taking me and my parents out for dinner to the Hazel. How posh is that??!
Sorry Rosie, another night definitely.
love, rosie
23
Dearest Alex,
Well whoopdeedoo for you
Fuck Bethany
Fuck her parents
Fuck the hazel
And fuck you
Love your best friend Rosie
from:
Rosie
to:
Alex
subject:
Happy Birthday!
OK then well, enjoy the meal. Happy birthday!
from:
Rosie
to:
Alex
subject:
DISASTER!
I can’t believe this is happening! I was just talking to your mum; called over for a chat and she told me the bad news. I can’t believe it, this is the worst news ever ! Please call me when you can, your boss keeps telling me you can’t take calls during working hours—QUIT! Mr. I never EVER want to work in an office.
Get in touch with me as soon as you can, this is so terrible, I feel awful!
chapter 4
k
Dear Mr. Stewart,
We are delighted to inform you that you have been accepted to fill the position of Vice President of Charles and Charles Co. We are delighted that you will be joining the team over here and we look forward to welcoming you and your family to Boston.
I hope the relocation package we offer will be to your satisfaction. If there is anything further that Charles and Charles Co. can do for you, do not hesitate to ask. Maria will call you to discuss a suitable date for you to begin work.
We look forward to seeing you at the office.
Welcome to the team!
Yours sincerely,
Robert Brasco
President of Charles and Charles Co.
from:
Alex
to:
Rosie
subject:
Re: DISASTER!
I’ll call you when I get home. It’s true. Dad was offered a job doing something that sounds incredibly boring . . . I don’t really know, I wasn’t lis-love, rosie
25
tening. I don’t know why he has to go all the way over to Boston to do a boring job, there’s plenty of them right here. He can have mine.
Oh Rosie, I’m so pissed off. I don’t want to go. I only have a year left in school; this is such the wrong time to leave. I don’t want to go to a stupid American high school or whatever it is they call it. I don’t want to leave you.
I’ll call you later and we can talk about it. We have to think of a way that I can stay. This is really bad, Rosie.
from:
Rosie
to:
Alex
subject:
Stay with me!
Don’t go! Mum and Dad said that you could stay here for the year! Finish school here and then we can both decide what to do after that! Please stay! It will be so brilliant, us living together. It’ll be just like when we were young and we used to keep each other up all night with those walkie talkies!
Remember them?!! We used to hear more static than our voices but we thought we were so cool! Remember that time on Christmas Eve absolutely years ago we decided to start a “Santa” watch! We planned it for weeks. I can’t remember ever being so excited! We drew little diagrams of the road and maps of our houses just so we could cover every angle and not miss him.
You were on the 7-10pm watch and I was on the 10pm-1am watch. You were supposed to wake up and take over from me, but surprise, surprise you didn’t . . . I stayed awake all night screaming down into that walkie talkie trying to wake you up! Ah well, it was your loss, I saw Santa and you didn’t . . .
If you stay with us Alex we’ll be able to just talk all night! Oh it would be so much fun. When we were kids we always wanted
PS: Please STOP calling me Buttercup!
from:
Alex
to:
Rosie
subject:
18th Birthday
Rosie, Good to hear you’re alive after all, I was beginning to worry! I would love to celebrate my 18th with you but Bethany’s parents are taking me and my parents out for dinner to the Hazel. How posh is that??!
Sorry Rosie, another night definitely.
love, rosie
23
Dearest Alex,
Well whoopdeedoo for you
Fuck Bethany
Fuck her parents
Fuck the hazel
And fuck you
Love your best friend Rosie
from:
Rosie
to:
Alex
subject:
Happy Birthday!
OK then well, enjoy the meal. Happy birthday!
from:
Rosie
to:
Alex
subject:
DISASTER!
I can’t believe this is happening! I was just talking to your mum; called over for a chat and she told me the bad news. I can’t believe it, this is the worst news ever ! Please call me when you can, your boss keeps telling me you can’t take calls during working hours—QUIT! Mr. I never EVER want to work in an office.
Get in touch with me as soon as you can, this is so terrible, I feel awful!
chapter 4
k
Dear Mr. Stewart,
We are delighted to inform you that you have been accepted to fill the position of Vice President of Charles and Charles Co. We are delighted that you will be joining the team over here and we look forward to welcoming you and your family to Boston.
I hope the relocation package we offer will be to your satisfaction. If there is anything further that Charles and Charles Co. can do for you, do not hesitate to ask. Maria will call you to discuss a suitable date for you to begin work.
We look forward to seeing you at the office.
Welcome to the team!
Yours sincerely,
Robert Brasco
President of Charles and Charles Co.
from:
Alex
to:
Rosie
subject:
Re: DISASTER!
I’ll call you when I get home. It’s true. Dad was offered a job doing something that sounds incredibly boring . . . I don’t really know, I wasn’t lis-love, rosie
25
tening. I don’t know why he has to go all the way over to Boston to do a boring job, there’s plenty of them right here. He can have mine.
Oh Rosie, I’m so pissed off. I don’t want to go. I only have a year left in school; this is such the wrong time to leave. I don’t want to go to a stupid American high school or whatever it is they call it. I don’t want to leave you.
I’ll call you later and we can talk about it. We have to think of a way that I can stay. This is really bad, Rosie.
from:
Rosie
to:
Alex
subject:
Stay with me!
Don’t go! Mum and Dad said that you could stay here for the year! Finish school here and then we can both decide what to do after that! Please stay! It will be so brilliant, us living together. It’ll be just like when we were young and we used to keep each other up all night with those walkie talkies!
Remember them?!! We used to hear more static than our voices but we thought we were so cool! Remember that time on Christmas Eve absolutely years ago we decided to start a “Santa” watch! We planned it for weeks. I can’t remember ever being so excited! We drew little diagrams of the road and maps of our houses just so we could cover every angle and not miss him.
You were on the 7-10pm watch and I was on the 10pm-1am watch. You were supposed to wake up and take over from me, but surprise, surprise you didn’t . . . I stayed awake all night screaming down into that walkie talkie trying to wake you up! Ah well, it was your loss, I saw Santa and you didn’t . . .
If you stay with us Alex we’ll be able to just talk all night! Oh it would be so much fun. When we were kids we always wanted
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