Kyle Lowley

Four years of College, a Degree in English Literature, and five years later what had it gotten him? A debt that wouldn't be paid off until retirement, enough Publisher's rejection slips to wallpaper his two bedroom apartment with twice-over, and a job as a reporter on a run-down, inconsequential suburban newspaper that barely provided enough for food and rent, let alone to treat his girlfriend, Olivia, the most positive aspect of his life, as much as he wished. To say that Kyle Lowry wasn't on the path to be being the next great American novelist, and the wealth and fame associated with it, that'd envisaged as a student was an understatement, however, the same couldn't be said for his ex room-mate Aiden Holt, whose residence he surveyed through the car window.

The journey from Seattle-Tacoma airport had taken him and Olivia through lower class suburbs to increasingly wealthy and more prominent areas, until it'd eventually arrived at at a sprawling white-bricked Mexican-influenced hilltop house, overlooking the city. Perfectly manicured lawns and gardens were surrounded by a six foot high …show more content…
Half a decade on, he was more secure in himself, and his relationship than he'd ever been on Campus - in a way, Aiden had been right, College was a place for experimentation, and he couldn't really blame the girls -, and it was time to show her off, and take back from his old comrade what he was owed. There was no hint of his real motivations, which he'd kept hidden from her, or bitterness in his tone, when he paid the driver, who;d stopped outside the front of the house, stepped out to gather their cases, and opened her door. "We'll have one just like it some day." A touch presumptuous with the 'we,' perhaps, but Kyle couldn't imagine a future with anyone but Olivia. "Come on, jump