Rayland: I See Things In Blue, #3

By Samuel Alexander

Rayland has big dreams of Broadway superstardom and the spunky determination to get her there. Sometimes feisty and aggressive but that's part of her charm. Her two best friends, Dario and Gavin, have their own opinions about this charm. Chasing her dreams comes naturally. The harder task is dealing with Dario's depression and helping him realise his worth. But when his friendship with Gavin breaks up for the second time and Dario starts to spiral out of control will she be enough? Is it her fault the second split happened? Can she help him without Gavin, or will she lose Dario to depression and anxiety forever?

 

This series should be read in order due to different vantage points over the same timelines.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Samuel Alexander
• Release date: May 29, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393979661

Samuel Alexander

Samuel Alexander is just your regular guy trying to write the stories he enjoys to read. He lives on the Island of Bermuda, sharing space with the voices in his head. Cheesecake is his one true love, and fries. He firmly believes that chocolate makes everything better, coffee is the elixir of life and a good book is the source of pure happiness.

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Samuel Alexander

Copyright 2020 by Samuel Alexander

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Table of Contents

Holding Hands

Spoon

Revelations and Fried Chicken

Beanbag Cries

Double Standards and Growing Families

In the Middle of the End

Raining on the Inside

When Two Becomes Three

Tradition’s Beginnings

Mistakes End Friendships

Baby Steps

Holding Hands

Rayland was in church not paying attention. Dario wasn't impressed. He tried his hardest to get her to listen but playing with Gavin was far more entertaining. She didn't understand Dario sometimes. Perfect tie, perfect room, perfect grades, perfect attendance, a voice sent from the freakn' gods, and he could act. All things she was good at, but Dario, he was amazingly good.

Thinking about his perfectness made her ruffle Dario's shirt. He fixed it. Gavin did the same. It quickly escalated to messing up his tie so bad Dario refused to fix it without a mirror. Rayland laughed, feeling a sense of accomplishment. Gavin laughed with her, then blamed her for starting trouble as always. She shrugged, seeing no point in arguing with the truth.

Rayland’s only reason for going church was because it offered her an avenue to sing, stretch her talents, and act in church plays. She was sure her parents knew this. She was the complete opposite of her three older siblings. They were what Dario would be if he weren't so weird. She laughed at the thought.

It was all normal to Rayland. There were all types of humans out there, but her parents wanted sports jocks and beauty queens like they were. Since they ended up with three child geniuses instead, they were pinning their fantasies on their youngest child in hopes that she'd reach superstardom.

Maybe it’s a pretty boy thing? Gavin said. The two of them were discussing Dario’s neatness.

Chaz is pretty, but he's gross. So it can't be that.

Rayland directed Gavin’s glance towards Chaz. He was by far the prettiest yet roughest boy she knew. It was an odd combination that she found dangerously interesting. His mother ran her fingers through his hair to straighten it back up. Chaz ruffled his hair in protest and got in a silent shouting match with his mom. She ultimately won out when his dad barked something in German to both of them, clearly unamused they were making a scene. Chaz was half German but still almost as dark as Rayland.  Both she and Gavin chuckled at the scene before her attention was drawn to the pulpit.

The pastor's son was doing something Ray had no interest in when Dario came back. All she knew was that he was dark chocolate awesome. His girlfriend was some girl whose name was unimportant because he was the only thing that was important as far as Ray was concerned.

Stop checking him out, Ray. We. Are. In. Church.

Ray ignored