The novel I read is
“Where Rainbows End” by Cecelia Aherm. This story has two main characters,
Rosie Dunne and Alex Stewart. Rosie
and Alex are destined for one another, and everyone seems to know it but them.
Best friends since childhood. Their relationship gets closer by the day, until
Alex gets the news that his family is leaving Dublin and moving to Boston.
It is a heartwarming childhood love story between the two of them but somehow faith
just can’t stop meddling.
When they were small,
they did everything together. They had sleepovers, where they would play ‘hospital’
and ‘hotel’. This is because Alex wants to be a doctor when they grow up and
Rosie wants to work in a hotel. They enjoyed each others company more than any
of their other friends. Although they kept getting teased, they still sat beside
each other in class. Then, their teacher spilt them up, they still communicated in class by sending notes but ended
getting caught a few times. One day, they decided to cut school to hang out but
were caught and their parents were called in. Alex and Rosie got suspended for
a few days. In those few days, Alex was forced to work in his dad’s office, where
he met Bethany. He told Rosie that he had a slight crush on her. Rosie called
her Slutty Bethany. Therefore, Bethany became Alex’s first girlfriend. Although,
his relationship with Bethany was going well for quite a while but Alex then
decided that Bethany wasn’t the one for him.
One day, Alex found
out that he was moving from Dublin to Boston because his dad got a job there.
Rosie and Alex were both devastated that he had to go. Alex promised to visit
Rosie and her family often. However far they were, they still kept in contact
through emails and letters. After a few years, Rosie’s school had the senior year
debs ball. Rosie invited Alex to go with her. He said he will be there but
something came up last minute and he couldn’t go. Due to Alex’s absence, Rosie
was forced to go to the debs ball with Bryan. She ended up sleeping with him
and becoming pregnant. A baby girl was born, Katie. Surely she was difficult
manage at first but Rosie then realized that Katie was a god given gift to her.
Rosie and Katie went
to visit Alex in Boston. When they were there, Rosie felt her love for Alex was
blooming when Sally, Alex’s fiancé announced the news that they were getting
married. Heartbroken, Rosie still stood up for her best friend and was his best
woman on his marriage. Later, Alex and Sally had a baby boy named Josh. Similarly,
Rosie too got married to a guy named Greg or as Alex calls him ‘whatshisname’. However,
Alex’s marriage fell out first and he started becoming aware that maybe Rosie
was meant to be his soulmate. Alex wrote a letter to Rosie and left it at her
house when he was visiting her but unfortunately Greg found the letter and hid
it from Rosie. However, her marriage with Greg almost fell out when she found
out Greg was cheating on her. Although she gave him a second chance, he still
did the same thing again and when Rosie found out she was so furious that she
never saw his face ever again.
Ironically, Katie
went to the same school that Rosie and Alex did. She sat beside her best friend
who was also a guy, Toby. At the same time, Rosie was having problems raising
Katie as she was fired from her previous job. She found a job at a hotel
nearby, while Alex studied at Harvard and is a heart surgeon now. After years
of hiding the letter, Greg finally called and told Katie that he didn’t want to
be the cause of Rosie’s loneliness anymore, thus gave her the letter. Rosie,
who received the letter 30 years after Alex wrote it, is in shock and doesn’t know
what to do.
In the end, Rosie
quit her job and opened a Bed & Breakfast in her mother’s old house. Katie
married Toby, although she used to say that falling in love with your best
friend is weird. And finally, Rosie and Alex confessed their love for each
other at the age of 50. So, it is true that they were meant to be soulmates
after all.
Shairashree Kumaran
4 Cergas
19 January 2014
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