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I stare out the planeat Chicago beneath me My home for the next three months

My best friends, Farrah and Veronica, didn’t believe the news

They weren’t the only ones who didn’t believe the news Nobody in the entire Hill Country believed me, not even my dream employer, Daniel Radisson, head of Radisson Investments in Austin, who refused et some experience somewhere else and come back to him when I was ready I stopped by to tell hi back to work for hiest fir his head incredulously as he took in my fashionable pu

I blinked at his coe to steal ers behindthat , so I resisted, but I hate being underestiotten this job forto be the one who keeps it and climbs the ranks on my own merit No favors from anyone anymore One day I will have my own business and help people realize their own dreams

"My brother is friends with the CEO, and they were happy to have me on board," I said--which, technically, is true Tahoe actually only said, Talked to Carmichael Send all paperwork to this email Start first week of June

"Happy" wasn’t reed, then I assu on board

At least I ahteenth birthday present, my brother sentwas oui Huge disappointment to my parents, antedlady So I don’t pick up foreign languages easily? It’s not the end of the world I have a business degree, and I have big dreams

So the last week of May, all packed and ready and with one wistful last look at the bedrooe years and adult life, I take a risk--not only did I leave home, but I actually caved in to my brother’s insistence to send his jet to pick me up and fly me to the Windy City

There were tears when e into the trunk of the family SUV, and more tears as we reached the airport

Definitely I was the one e

It doesn’t ot punched in the nuts when he tried to feel edood whiff of o, I took the steps leading up to my brother’s luxurious private jet From the top of the stairs, I waved at them, and they waved back, with one ar at h-but-da-emotional face My mom slipped on a pair of shades so I couldn’t see if her eyes were still weepy or not

When the pilot closed the door, I settled in a seat near the plane wings so that I didn’t feel as if there was nothing beneath me A ines geared up, and I leaned back and closedon hts and Ilet’s just say we don’t go well

My brother saved hts once, and he’s the only one I feel safe with I wouldn’t be caught dead flying commercial But this is his plane And when I opened e on one of the seats that read, Just hang in there It’ll be over in a second

I laughed, and now I’ to so "I Lived" on replay as the plane finally lands in Chicago My home for the next three months and the internship that will be the first step of many, many I need to take to irlfriend pick me up at the airport in a very dirty Rolls-Royce Ghost I swear ive a shit about using theirl who stores her favorite purse with filler and in double dust bags and then in a box, rarely using it for fear of scratching it Tahoe doesn’t even care enough to bother to pay someone to clean his 300k car

We reach a beautiful, tall skyscraper in the Loop, and take the elevator up

He kisses my cheek after we board

"Stay out of the clubs, Liv," Tahoe whispers A warning

"Leave her alone, you big bully," his girlfriend defends irlfriend Regina is curvy and dark-haired and sultry

He pins her at his side and kisses her silent, a big sroan as if she doesn’t like it But she flushes, so she obviously does "I’rins down at her with a special look in his eyes he gets only when he looks at her, and then looks at roan "I’m not interested, okay? I came here to work Plus I survived seven years in Texas without you policing htly activities"

But the truth is, I love es but he means well I love my family and I want them to be proud of me