MXM Story 4 in a series of 6.
Follows Let Them Eat Cake, Connors Journey and Runaway.
In Runaway:
George, the abused and battered boy that landed somehow, maybe by luck or fate, in the shop doorway of Steve & Nick Dance has now grown, matured and changed.
After struggling for years George finally thought he'd found his future, but one Sunday morning after a stupid row over Aidens daughter, George walks out, then Aiden disappears.
In DOUBLEFACE:
Fast forward a year and a half and Aiden still hasn't returned, Grey Dawson, Georges friend and boss is dead and George is running the gallery.
Bridget returns to town, taking up the position of Georges assistant.
George is successful, George is wealthy, George appears to have it all, but he doesn't.
The one thing missing is Aiden, Aiden Walsh, his absent love, the love he didn't know he truly truly wanted, until it was too late and he....... had gone.
Where was he?
Was he alive?
Was he dead?
If he did come back would he even want George again?
George has to know, he has to tell his story, he has to bring Aiden back, but how if he doesn't even know where he's gone or even if he is still alive?.
8 years on from that fateful day that he was found starving and freezing in the shop doorway of 'Let Them Eat Cake', George decides it's time to open up, to bare his soul, to bring back his love.
The one who took away his nightmares, his 'Dreamcatcher'.
George embarks on a special mission, a mission to highlight abuse in society with an exhibition of a very different kind.
Abuse, so very often hidden can take many forms.
George decides to take the plunge and publish his own story, along with an exhibition of art to highlight this problem and its effects.
Will it work?, will Aiden come to him?, will the exhibition fly or fail?.
It's a risky move, will the 'Dreamcatcher' return or will the 'Firecracker' be extinguished?
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Cover artwork is not mine, credit to the original artist.
Do not plagerise my work.
Elliot is, and has always been, stuck in his home town. Sure, it's a fairly large city. Sure, all his family and friends are there. Sure, he has a job he absolutely adores.
But he still isn't happy. No matter how much he loves working in Auntie Mae's Tea shop, baking cakes day in and day out, he can't find it in himself to be happy. He knows exactly what's wrong; he has a dream.
His dream is to one day move to Paris and open his own bakery. Baking is his passion, and he wants to devote his life to it. The only problem is that he can't seem to get away from his current life to start a new one.
He once told himself his studies were holding him back. When he was done with those, he used the excuse of renovating the entire Tea Shop. Then, when he finally couldn't find any more excuses, he gave up.
He knew he was waiting for something to happen. The problem? He didn't know what.
But what about that man who recently started visiting the shop? He definitely wasn't one of the regulars; his face, you would recognize. He comes every evening at six o'clock, and stays for an hour. Could he be what Elliot is waiting for?
*Deals with self-esteem issues which I've been told might be triggering*