Free Love and Decay, Boy Meets Girl by Rachel Higginson

going to try to convince us
to go north?” she clarified skeptically.
    “Not yet,” I answered truthfully. “We didn’t
know anybody up there with a firsthand account; we were just
reaching at straws. With that phone call you had with your dad’s
cousin; you have more than we ever had.”
    “Alright,” she sighed.
    “Alright.” Vaughan echoed.
    “Alright,” Haley laughed. Although I didn’t
understand what she found so damn funny. Her friend just tried to
leave us- again. Haley really needed to reign her in.
    “At least it will be exciting,” Harrison
commented dryly.
    Everyone let out a nervous, high-strung laugh
and the general feeling in the van seemed to relax a little.
    The morning sun started to rise in the east
and the road in front of us was clear. My family had survived
another night and we were safe for now. We’d added a few extra
passengers, but they were undeniably assets to our ploy to live and
survive.
    This was all I could ask for; but it already
felt like infinitely more than I deserved.
    Reagan.
    She changed everything.
    And even if I wasn’t sure how she altered my
life just yet, I was very anxious to find out. In this very moment,
this life I lived stopped feeling like an oppressive duty and began
to feel more like hopeful adventure. My outlook on survival gave up
the depressing cynicism that once clouded my every thought and took
deep, excited gulps of what it would be like to have a future- to
look forward to the days ahead of me, the nights that I could
struggle through and fight to keep us surviving.
    Earlier today, survival felt impossible, felt
like an unmanageable chore. But now it was a gift, a cataclysmic,
kismet design that would bury the decaying, death-filled world at
my feet underneath a new kind of life- an optimistic, expectant
anticipation. Something that would grow into so much more, into
events and experiences I didn’t even have words for yet.
    This thing had yet to be defined, but it
didn’t need to be. All that mattered was that it happened- that
Reagan and I took this road together.
    We could figure out the logistics later.
    Because most importantly, there would be a
later.

Look for Episode 12, the final episode to
Love and Decay, Season One, coming Friday, November 29th, 2013

About the Author
     
     
    Rachel Higginson was born and raised in
Nebraska, but spent her college years traveling the world. She
married her high school sweetheart and spends her days raising
their growing family. She is obsessed with bad reality TV and any
and all Young Adult Fiction.
     
     
    Look for more from Rachel in 2013.
     
    The remaining episodes of this novella series
will be released twice a month. Look for Episode 12 coming November
29th, 2013.
     
    Other books by Rachel to be released in 2013
are The Relentless Warrior, the sixth book in The Star-Crossed
Series and The Fall, the second book in the Siren Series.
     
    Other Books Out Now by Rachel Higginson:
     
    Love and Decay, Episode One
    Love and Decay, Episode Two
    Love and Decay, Episode Three
    Love and Decay, Episode Four
    Love and Decay, Episode Five
    Love and Decay, Episode Six
    Love and Decay, Episode Seven
    Love and Decay, Episode Eight
    Love and Decay, Episode Nine
    Love and Decay, Episode Ten
    Love and Decay, Episode Eleven
     
    Reckless Magic (The Star-Crossed Series, Book
1)
    Hopeless Magic (The Star-Crossed Series, Book
2)
    Fearless Magic (The Star-Crossed Series, Book
3)
    Endless Magic (The Star-Crossed Series, Book
4)
    The Reluctant King (The Star-Crossed Series,
Book 5)
     
    Starbright (The Starbright Series, Book
1)
    Sunburst (The Starbright Series, Book2)
     
    The Rush (The Siren Series, Book 1)
     
    Bet in the Dark (An NA Contemporary
Romance)
     
     
    Follow Rachel on her blog at:
    www.rachelhigginson.com
     
    Or on Twitter:
    @mywritesdntbite
     
    Or on her Facebook pages:
    Rachel Higginson
    Or
    Reckless Magic