Long Live

[Claire Standish]

Claire was deeply shocked and almost scared when she received the letter from her parents that told her they will spend their holidays in the mansion of John's parents. If she would have remade her relationship with John, this would have come like a great news, but they were nowhere near better. They were getting worse and worse. John himself had confirmed everything to be true, when she believed it was all a bad joke of her mother's. She hated her mom for this. Why did she suddenly had to miss her sister?!

If it wasn't for her father also desiring to meet and talk some more to John's dad, Claire would have bitched big time about it. But she loved and respected her dad way too much to be able to actually say anything that would not match him wills and desires. She decided then and there that she was not going to make an idiot out of herself again in front of John. However, they were probably going to be forced to pretend they liked each other, since her family knew nothing about their problems. This already ringed in her head like a huge amount of shit ready to fall all over her.