"The Girl in the Garden"

𝘼𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨, 𝙄 𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬 𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙨. How’s your summer going? Mine is ruined. Hi. My name is Ri. I’m the kind of delinquent teenage girl you hear horror stories about. My parents thought they could reform my “bad” attitude and get me away from my “troublemaking” friends in the city by shipping me off to my grandparents’ house in the countryside for the summer. I’m supposed to stay clear of the “forbidden” forest and piss away my days in my grandparents’ stupid rose garden alongside a boy named Avery. Avery is seventeen, but he chooses to work for my grandparents because he likes roses. Well, the joke’s on them. I’m getting the hell out of here, and I won’t let anyone stop me—especially not some weirdo boy.