There was a young girl, named Caroline Winter. She was a normal, smart, independent woman for her age of 29, just after her birthday had happened.
She had a few mutual friends, with her coworkers George, Adam, Waugh, and a few of their mutuals as well, which made her feel safe in the line of working, in her place in Briefing and Inquiries Enterprise. It seems, all swell. That was, until their ex boss Jamie Squire had demoted himself from the highest place, leaving someone else who she doesn't even expect to be in that highest of power.
Matthew Healy, the new VP of their company.
Wary of the decadence and skewed morals that her burgeoning music career might impose upon her, Joanna feels out of place at the rite-of-passage Notting Hill party her new manager has invited her to, until she encounters Matty - practically an old hand in the business, but sweetly untouched by their strange surroundings. The instincts and values Joanna used to cling to don't guide her now as well as they used to, and as the venues get bigger and the radio plays rack up, it becomes increasingly difficult to know what her friendship with Matty is really about.
'My ability to stay awake was waning, and I could feel myself dropping off, the darkness and warmth enveloping me. But somewhere in that liminal space, between consciousness and a blank stupor, I vaguely registered a hand finding mine across the sheets, fingers interlinking and holding it there, in the space between our faces.'
(((* = mature content)))
COMPLETED 19/11/20.