inspiring 12 (LOT)
annevoid09
(Patrick feely)
Maeve O'Connor lives her teenage years with reckless abandon-parties, drinks, wild nights-anything to feel alive. To the world, she's the fun, quirky, rebellious girl who doesn't care about rules. But beneath the laughter and chaos, she hides a painful truth: she lost her ovaries to ovarian cancer. No one, except her family and her closest friend Abigail, knows that she will never have children, never have another period, and faces a greater risk of heart disease. The weight of it sits in the back of her mind, but she pushes it away, pretending she's just like every other girl her age.
Patrick Feely is nothing like Maeve. At seventeen, he carries responsibilities far beyond his years. While his three older sisters live carefree lives in Dublin, he stays behind, managing the family farm and caring for his parents-his mother, battling diabetes, and his sixty-year-old father, slowly slipping away to Alzheimer's. Wealthy enough to attend a prestigious private school, Patrick is still tethered to a life of duty, always putting others first.
Maeve never dreams of love. She doesn't believe in fairytales, in forever, in happily-ever-afters. Patrick doesn't either. He has spent his entire life looking after others, and the thought of building a future-of marriage, of family-feels impossible. Neither of them believes in the idea of big families or love that lasts.
But life has a strange way of bringing people together. And sometimes, the ones who run from love the hardest are the ones who need it the most.
Future Fic