You are an Art History student in your last year at university. Cillian is your teacher. Note: in this story Cillian is about 20 years older than the reader. Everything happens in an alternative universe where he is not an actor or famous, he doesn't have a wife or kids like in real life. Also, English is not my first language, so sorry for any mistake!

What is love if not a ruthless game? THOMAS SHELBY / OC 2026 © CQNTRALPERK COVER BY DCKYEOMS

Eighteen-year-old Anastasia Dobrow has always had her fantasy on her future love life, having a man that can effortlessly bring her butterflies. She has always looked at love as a wonderful feeling to experience, that is before enduring her parent's tragic divorce. After her father left his daughter and wife for another younger woman. It has not only affected Anastasia emotionally and mentally but drastically shifted her perspective on love. Because of the passing of her parent's marriage and her father's affair, she has developed a trait of having trust issues. Thinking love was a pointless emotion and just a risk of getting hurt and left behind. She threw her fantasies away and refuse the danger of falling in love. That is until she met her new thirty-three-year-old next-door neighbor, Christopher Campbell...

(⚠️INCLUDES IT CHAPTER TWO SPOILERS⚠️) This is the 2/3 book of my Richie Tozier x Fem! Reader series.

"i know the world isn't all sunshine and rainbows, but i like to go through life thinking that it is." richie tozier x oc IT chapter one plot: @-damnweasley started: september 2019 completed: may 2020