Bubblegum Bitch ✶ Roman Roy

[002] desperate enough

[002] desperate enough

                     Roman Roy will always remember the first day he met Alice Kim.

                     He had trouble making friends, due to his perverted humor and inability to shut up when it mattered most. So most thought he was a pest - a stuck up, privileged, self-entitled, no-good pest. He wasn't pretty and popular (and manipulative) like Shiv and he wasn't a drug addict like Kendall so he couldn't even have cocaine buddies. Catherine was outwardly mean and bitchy but she was pretty so it cancelled all the bad traits out and made people want to be her friend, hoping to one day be as cool and bitchy as her. Connor was just... Connor. So Roman was really on his own.

                      One of the few people that tolerated him was a guy named Andrew King. Anyone with the last name King had to be a douche, Roman could just tell. And he was right, of course. Andrew King was a gigantic douchebag which made sense why he and Roman were able to get along well enough. But Andrew was more social than Roman, able to turn on and off his perverse nature when absolutely necessary.

                       Still, Roman could never understand how Andrew 'Tiny-Dick' King managed to land a girl like Alice Kim.

                      Everyone knew who she was, thanks to her parents' magazine. Moderne was the hottest magazine, one that everyone and their mother read. When you wanted to be up to date on the latest fashion trends and even politics, that's the magazine you turned to. The Kim family had built their entire empire on fashion and influence, becoming one of the richest and most powerful families in the city. Possibly even the world.