Breaking up is hard to do.
Not recommended for younger readers due to mature content..
Please be aware that this story is set in Australia and therefore uses Australian English spelling and syntax.
Hope you enjoy.
Like both, it\'s about growing up, finding and accepting yourself, being with people who bring out the best in you, and getting the guy that you might not think you want but that you need and, more importantly, needs you.
You\'ll find this story is a bit of a combination of the two - there\'s a bit more swearing than KUA, but it\'s a little cleaner than AP.
Wade Phillips might be the guy to teach me the art of Breaking up, but will my heart - and Lisa\'s - break in the process? For those Keeping Up Appearances and Accidentally Perfect fans, here\'s a return to that style and vein.
It turns out, I might be the only one who understands him.
It turns out, Wade Phillips might be the only one who understands me.
Something connects us.
It takes just one single second for him to see through mine.
For one single second, I see through the armour he\'s built.
Not until a life-altering incident throws me unavoidably into his path.
No one knew what happened to Wade and no one got close to him anymore.
I kept waiting for her to see he wasn\'t worth it.
At least, she thought she did.
I knew she still loved him.
My best friend put on a brave face in front of him, but she still felt the sting.
Lisa and I were used to his sarcastic teasing, his shallow taunting, and his insincere flirting.
He\'d miraculously made Head Prefect and was somehow still on the Soccer team, even though he put more effort into partying.
By Year 12, he\'d made it through most of them and was on to the year below.
The next he was like a different person altogether, dumping Lisa and systematically making his way through every girl in our year.
One minute he was the perfect boy-next-door boyfriend, star goalie on the soccer team, and future head prefect.
Wade Phillips shattered Lisa McGinty\'s heart in Year 10 for no known reason.
I do it badly.
Some of us do it better than others.
It\'s just one of the many sucky things about growing up.
But we all have to do it.
Whether you\'re Breaking up with a bad habit, a life you know, or your first boyfriend.
Breaking up is hard to do
