I was thinking about this story lately, wondering when you might update. I'm so happy you did! I really, truly love Owen and Pearl. And although he's not very popular, I kind of love Jake, too. I love this setting. I'm heartbroken and I'm anxious to see where this will go; it's unpredictable. The setting is part of what makes it so different, because it's almost safe to guess that Owen and Pearl won't have their happy ending unless they defy the times... Ugh, I need tissues. Hope you had a lovely time in Spain! Must be beautiful, especially around now. Summer has officially begun(: Thank you for sharing with us! xx
This is all wrong... Maybe she could have twins one Jakes kid the other owens and then she wont have to marry jake . I hate her with him. She just said I love you because she didnt know what else to do to get owen to stop hitting him. She still clearly loves their love runs deep. Shes too weak and she doesnt know what she wants.
i haven't had a chance to read more than two chapters but considering you had me from the first sentence I can tell this is gonna be a well written, badass story :3
you have no idea how sad this story makes me because i have no idea who i'd rather Pearl be with because Jake is so sweet and it was all so unexpected and yes it's expected of her to marry him now that she has his child, but Owen has always been there and they have history and he loves her so deeply :((((((( WHY ARE YOU MAKING THIS SO HARD THIS IS SO UNFAIR this entire chapter killed me inside she's so soft with Jake and when she's with Owen, it's like she''s a different person
My heart is broken. You have a wonderful talent for taking situations that seem so black and white on the outside and giving them depth. I've been reading your work for a long time, and all of your characters have this beautiful depth to them. I can't hate Jake, I can't hate Owen, and I can't hate Pearl. At first, I felt so much anger against Pearl and Owen, but in those last moments it was like I saw why Owen and Pearl weren't right for each other in that moment of their lives. Owen may always be Pearl's greatest love and what she always wanted for herself, but Jake is what she needs and what she's stuck with.
I still love Pearl and Owen more than anything, but I know it can't be. Pearl is too good to run off and abandon Jake and smear her family name. I feel bad that Pearl will never really get to enjoy that crazy passionate kind of romance she had with Owen, but I see the contrast that Jake bring to the table.
I really hope nobody dies in that darn lake. I really hope everything turn out alright. I just feel like Owen is so alone in the world, like his true match has not chosen him and now he's alone.
Pearl's life is kind of pitiful. She's making the best of a sad situation, but it just stinks that her dreams and school and everything she hoped to become are down the drain. She had to conform and I wish she didn't have to become some version of her mother or sisters.
I know the story is ending soon. Although I'm not expecting a spin-off where Jake lives on, I do hope you leave us with an inkling of how he's doing when the story comes to a close.
P.S. The "should be mine" line really got to me.
Love your work. I hope this story doesn't disappear for another few months.
I was so happy to see this story came back. After reading it I don't know how I feel. I just, I LOVE OWEN, but Jake is, well, Jake. BUT OWEN. ugh. I can't even form proper sentences.
Even though I know it can't be due to historical context, I still ship Owen and Pearl so much. I know she loves Jake but it's in this platonic sort of way and for the baby. Her love for Owen was this truly madly deeply once in a lifetime love, but it's terrible that she has to settle because I feel like Pearl has spent her whole life trying to fight the fate of becoming as lack luster as her mother or her sister.
My heart breaks for Owen but now I suppose all I can do is hope we don't find him drowning in a lake, diving into alcoholism, or ruining his future. Maybe in another life they could've been together, and maybe Jake will die in this really Heroic way after she learned to love him, and Pearl and Owen cross paths way later in life.
I know Owen is literally feeling the rush of a thousand heartbreaks and the only thing that could fix it would be a time machine or the baby in her belly being his. Either is impossible, and as much as I love Jake for standing by her, Pearl and Jake are selfish jerks no matter how hot headed Owen can be.
I see no happy ending, but I guess the moral is, life isn't about happy endings. It's about what you make of what you've got.