Rule Breaker (Mixed Messages, #1)

by Lily Morton

and I really, really want to tell him that I know there’s no risk of him reading any of the papers, as none of them have pictures.

“Tradition comes from something being so brilliant and such a good memory, that you try to recreate it every time that you can.”

“Sometimes we think that a certain path in life is the way we have to go. We see other routes, but we avoid them because we’re so insistent they’re not for us, that we might get lost or hurt. Then sometimes fate sets in, and someone takes your hand or waves you over. You step off your chosen path, and find that although this one is new and scary, somehow your feet know the way to navigate it. You might even find that it leads you the way that you were always meant to go.”

I extract the watch from its velvet home with shaking fingers and turn it round, only to burst into laughter. On it is engraved the words, ‘Hopefully this will rectify your appalling timekeeping’. I burst out laughing.

To: Dylan Mitchell From: Gabe Foster When I was a small boy, I liked to eat soil. My mother worried, but she needn’t have been concerned. Unbeknown to both of us, I was actually just preparing myself to drink your coffee.

It hurts to know that fate has given me the perfect person for me to love, but has failed to make it reciprocal.