22 - Max and Celine

He probably wouldn’t even know how to tell the sign that what he was feeling was more than lust, even if it hit him in the face. He had long denied the fact that he wanted to fall in love, that he wanted to feel that all-consuming feeling his friends go through when they say they found the woman of their dreams.

It was all relative to how rich you are and if your parents are still alive. Orphans do not get the same liberties regular people with families do. In this society, people from the upper class reject orphans. For them, orphans are not good people worth marrying, they have shady pasts. They are without direction and their blood should never mix with the tainted orphan blood. It did not matter how successful a person was, the stigma was loud and clear. 

What people don’t realize is some people are orphans even if they have parents. If one