Now, Then and Inbetween

"Can you stop being so mean? It's hurting my feelings," he said, holding his heart.

I chuckled. "I thought you didn't have feelings."

"For you I absolutely do."

I rolled my eyes. "Shut up and dry these plates, dumbass."

"Yes, ma'm," he smiled.

🖤🖤🖤

Ruth is the age of ten when a scruffy and neglected orphan boy suddenly shows up on her doorstep. Her first reaction is one of enchantment, heart-flutters and butterflies.

Six years later and that same orphan boy is now the bane of her existence, the object of all her annoyances and a seventeen-year-old boy that just so happens to have the physique and looks of a full grown man.

From crush to enemy, from children to young-adults.

What will happen when they're forced to spend more and more time together?

Will hate turn to love?

Or was it never even hate in the first place?

*ONGOING*