Josephine Dailey did not want to go to Borebury, nor did she want to spend her summer with her so-called friends. 

However, Borebury was seemingly calling her name. Thanks to her beloved father.

She would recall the summers where she would take trips to his office to learn a thing or two about the business world and all that since they were not always able to go on vacations all the time due to his insane agenda. 

Besides, it was either help her father out or go and hang out with the snarky, Chanel-inhaling airheads. 

So, as she was packing for her little getaway to Borebury – still wondering exactly if she was going to get private business lessons– she tore through her closet for the least outstanding outfits. As much as she loved all the expensive tops and designer jeans she owned, she wanted to be casual for once in her life. Of course she always wore "ordinary" clothing whenever she was alone, but that was not always the circumstance for Miss Dailey. 

Josephine Dailey, the only daughter of the widowed, Connor Dailey.

The standards she must uphold for being the next crowned heir of Dailey Group are not just high, but drastically so far beyond the stratosphere that she does not even comprehend who she is sometimes.

Yet, she is a bright 18-year old girl; soon to be attending the University of Columbia in New York City. Jo herself always wondered herself if she got into the Ivy League school for her intelligence or because, well, she's Josephine Dailey. 

Jo sighed as she took the casual clothing in her closet and stuffed it into a luxurious suitcase. 

She pondered the time she was sent to business camp in Pennsylvania at UPenn, having to go through this same packing process but shoving business casual outfits instead of street casual.

Jo had always felt like she could never express her true fashionable self, but what was the point, she thought. She could not possibly do that unless she wanted to be looked down upon by other CEOS' daughters. She's representing her father and all his legacy.

"Josie!" Her father calls, standing at the bottom of the humongous spiral staircase in their flamboyant penthouse.

"Yes, Father?" She answers back.

"Will you be ready to leave in two hours, hon?" 

Jo nods to herself, "Yeah, Dad."

"Perfect, I'll see you soon then. I'm heading back to the office for a quick check up before leaving. Be good!"

"Okay, I will," Jo replies. Bye, Father," She responds, folding her tees into the pockets of the luggage.

Well, time to meet Borebury.

[ <3 ]

Colby walked into his small, yet comfortable apartment that was shared between him and his best friend Sam.

After hearing the door close, Sam sits straight up on the couch, clearly asleep before.

He yawns, rubbing his tired eyes after having crashed on the couch because of a television marathon of The Office. 

"Yo, dude it's like barely 8AM. Where the crap have you been?" Sam asks. He stretches his arms out and gives him a sly eye, "Out with your hippie bitch, huh?"

Colby snorts, dropping his keys on the counter and plopping down on a chair at their little kitchen table. He ponders telling Sam about her confession of wanting to run away together for gods know really why, and instead just explaining things were not working out between them anymore- so they broke up.

Sam laughed at him, unsurprised. "Ha, and you're sure it's for real this time?"

Colby frowned, "Of course I'm sure! We had a whole ass bullshit argument and I was fucking pissed. I'm glad we're over."

Sam tossed the blanket on his lap to the side and stood up to take a seat over by Colby.

"Hey, you know I'm always teasing about her, right? I know you really liked her so I'm sorry it did not go well between you both," He says, patting Colby's shoulder.

Colby stares at the ground, fumbling with his phone case. "...Man, I just feel like I threw away a relationship though."

Sam shrugs, slouching back into his seat. "Well, of course you're gonna feel that way after being together for such a long time. I mean, but things gotta end sometime. You were kinda trapped with her, dude. It's kinda good that ya'll ended now."

Colby nods, "I guess so, but where am I gonna find a chick like her again?"

Sam rolls his eyes, "What? A chick who likes raccoons, equality between fish and humans, and a lover of fucking dirt?" 

Colby's mouth forms a straight line as his eyes just look at Sam with annoyance. "Dude- fuck you."

Sam chuckles, standing up, "Maaan, there's plenty more fish in the sea. Besides, those fish must love equality between them and humans."

Colby sighs, laying his head on the table. Things to him were just becoming increasingly more complicated than he had imagined. 

The one girl he had ever "loved" or so he thinks he did, had just left him, his mom is probably somewhere passed out with her new fling for the night, and he still has not applied for college.

Colby knows he's a mess as he isn't sure if he could pay his part of the rent this month either.

Tomorrow, he'll figure it out and go back to work at the Ben & Jerry's he's been managing for the past few months.

Ice-cream will make him feel better as well as the new bio-degradable spoons they just got.

[ <3 ]

"What do you think?" Josephine's father asked with a smile as they had arrived at the little modern house in the small neighborhood.

Jo looked around, wondering if it was secretly a prank or there was a more upscale house behind this smaller, ordinary kinda looking one. 

"Uh, what am I looking at?" She questions, tapping her newly done nails on the Louis Vuitton handbag in her grasp.

Her father frowns, "It's our summer home! I wanted to get something a little more 'normal' for us since we never have experienced what it's like to live in a neighborhood."

Jo gives a small smile to her dad, understanding that ever since Mom died, he wanted to have a comfortable suburban home with her for them to grow up in.

However, Jo's mom did not live past the age when Jo was nine. Consequently, having to move into her now grand penthouse in Manhattan to be close to her father's company. 

Mr. Dailey takes Jo's hand, "Do you like it, sweetheart? Think Mom would've enjoyed a house like this?" 

Jo returns the gesture by squeezing his hand and expressing a soft smile to comfort the sadness behind her father's eyes. "Yeah Dad, Mom would've loved it."

As they gather their things, they head into the small pre-furnished home. Jo examines the house as there's a quite modern kitchen with a glamorous kitchen island, granite counters, and stainless steel appliances. As she entered the living room, a considerably large flat screen tv was perched above a mantel and a fireplace was ready to be accessed. Two midnight colored couches plus a coffee table decorated themselves in the burgundy and cream themed room. 

After plopping down automatically onto the couch in the living room without having explored the rest of the house yet, she was content.

Her father laid down on the couch opposite from her and closed his eyes, "I purposely requested that this house would have two couches so we could both watch movies and lie down comfortably."

Jo nods, "Smart man." She picks her head up slightly, "I actually really like this, Dad. Damn, imagine if we lived here. I would love that."

He looks up from his spot, opening his once closed eyes, "Yeah, kiddo? Well, I mean I wanted you to have this experience before you left to University so that's why we're gonna be here all summer. Besides, I haven't spent too much time with my baby girl in a long while."

Jo smiles, "True. You're always working that I thought we were gonna come here and you were gonna teach me a thing or two about running Dailey group." She laughed, "Workaholic mindsets run in the family, huh."

Her father chuckles, "Honey, one day you'll run the company but let's be real. Not for another ten years. I still got it, I'm still young!" Her father exclaims, "I can handle. Don't worry. I just want you to enjoy your life while you're young. Find a hot date, get married, have a stable job at the company, and then take over for me when the time comes."

Josephine Dailey was forever grateful for the kind man her father was.

"Alright, Dad. Thank you. I'll definitely try and find a hot date sooner or later," She jokes.

"Yeah right, Josephine Dailey. He's gonna have to go through me first before he even lays a hand on my child. Besides, when are you going to find the time for that? We're gonna have fun this summer, kid in this little suburban town. You'll be surprised at the amount of things my assistant found for us to see and do!" 

Jo gets up to give her father a hug, thanking him.  

Perhaps spending her summer in Borebury, New York was not such a bad idea.

[ <3 ]

Hiiii I'm back yall, kt is in the hood with this longer book! For the summer ofc. I am so excited to get this rolling and I feel like my writing style and skill level has grown and developed. Perhaps yall will really like dirt! There are lots of themes that have to do with conforming and society as well as love between different social hierarchies.

 ANyway, summer's ending and i am so eXCITED except i have to study for sats but still. i am ready to hang out with my friends and partyyyyy ugh im going to a party next saturday (AND I ONLY HAVE ONE WEEK OF SCHOOL LEFT YEET) and shit i cant believe school's already ending. thank god but wtf. but like im excited for this party but idk if many of my friends are going sooooo. but like my best friend jules is and she and i are all i need. in addition im writing this instead of preparing for my human rights presentation on the south korean spycam epidemic. (WHICH IM EXCITED TO PRESENT BUT IM LAZY TO MAKE A SCRIPT AND REHEARSE) but that's that LOL. 

thanks for reading hehe

comment, vote, & share yknow da drill lolz

hugs, kt