Like A Daydream

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny-"

"But in ourselves."

"Did you just quote Shakespeare to me?" I asked, confused he'd know Shakespeare quotes.

"Of course I did," he said, leaning against the buttercream-coloured wall.

"Do you even know what that means?"

"The real question is: do you?"

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Lexi Pierce had her life together. She made sure of that. Her life was planned down to every last second. She was predictable. Jake King lived his life minute-by-minute. You'd never know what his next move was. Life till now hadn't been easy for either of them. It wasn't going to get any easier for either of them. But now they had each other, would life be such a bad thing?