Starting Over Chapter 11It's been a week since the break up. Nothing exciting has been happening in school. Except for Nalelly and Kevin supposedly being boyfriend and girlfriend, but that lasted for only 2 days."Today is lab day. Let's go."My Chinese class shuffles out the door and into the computer lab next door. We all take our assigned seats."Hey Lexi." Brandon says. "I'm gonna beat you today."I laugh. "How are you gonna beat me?""I'm gonna finish the quizzes before you." He smiles as he clicks on the link leading to the quizzes we have to take.I nod. "Mhm, sure. You're just gonna get a bunch of questions wrong." I smirk."No. I'm gonna beat you." H
The Dragon In Me Hates The Monster In You Ch. 2“Put me down! I’m afraid of hi-i-ihts!” Raphael looked down at her with a shocked look.“So you can talk. Well, that’s good to know. Maybe you can fill me in on what happened in there when we reach our destination.” She stopped moving when she realized that she could fall to her death right now. She looked down to see that they were heading for a city and the thought of all those people scared her. It had been too long since she had been around a large group of people.“We’re almost there.” She looked down to find that they were heading for a rooftop. He landed and put her down bef
The Medium - Bit 15Twelve: Waking UpI slammed back down into something that was sort of like self-awareness. It was unfamiliar, and it was uncomfortable. I had gotten used to watching without being, seeing without feeling, slipping away quietly when even watching became too much to take. This isn’t happening to me, it’s happening to him, and he’s not even real. I wasn’t ready to be real again.I tried to escape again, but the shaman wouldn’t let me. Every time I tried to slide away, back to wherever I had been before, he tore away another layer of lies, unearthed another memory, and tied me down to it. He was violent, almost cruel when compared to Sebastian’s subtlety, but he knew what he was doing, and I couldn’t stop him.Like pulling off a Band-Aid, he said into my mind.It was nothing like pulling off a Band-Aid, though. It was like cutting out a tumor with a belt sander and chopsticks, and he was doing it on purpose. I
The Medium - 14Eleven: AmbushIt was still too early to guarantee an empty foyer in Kim’s apartment building, so Coyote went in as a scout. He hobbled across the lobby on his cane and gestured for the others to follow, then hobbled up the stairs to man the elevator doors. Zeb wrapped Rocky in moving blankets and threw the bundle over his shoulder so that it looked about like a roll of rugs. With a little bit of Kim’s help, they toted him inside and into the elevator.“Barely weighs a thing,” he commented. “Duran musta sucked ‘im out again.”“Their inertia’s tied to their strength,” Kim told him wearily. “When they’re weak, they don’t interact with the world as well. All the blood in the body only weighs about twelve pounds, so if he’s light, it’s because he’s so out of it. Mass is still there, but the gravity’s not acting on it. He’s less real
Alone In the Dark... Chapter One…Are you there?Over here!If you can hear me, type into the console to talk please. Hello?...The sound of numerical letters typing frantically awoke me from my half-induced unconsciousness; at that moment, I had no idea where I was and didn’t know what my surroundings were, all I could see was darkness with a small area in my vision faintly illuminated a faint green. My head felt like a huge anchor as if a huge weight had been chained to my neck dragging me down. I tried to move my hands, my legs, and any part of my body to get up and walk over to the comfortable light. Nothing was responding! The ends of my fingers twitche
BV13 We Cool I'm stuck. Nah man, I can try, but nothin's happenin'. I can't move. I can't do anything to help. Things look bad—and I'm talkin' mo' bad than the time me an' my homie Chris got caught for cuttin' class bad. Mo' bad than the time we jus' about sent each other to the hospital 'cuz he was ackin' a fool tryna get me t'help him hack into th'school records an' change his D to a B. My mom was right, that dude is a bad influence. Not that I was ever influenced by him, but I can definitely see how he could—oh shoot, that just happened. And what is he—wait—Ran? A'ight, a'ight, lemme back up some. So you remember what happened on—what wa
BV14 This Can't Be Real Yeah, so I like I was sayin', I'm not crazy. I know I'm not crazy. Yeah, yeah, don't give me that, "crazy people would think that" kinda crud, I know I'm not crazy. I saw her die. She's dead. The lady, alien, weird thing standing right there is dead. A crazy person would think that she was real. Not me. I know she's not real, because I know she's dead. This is just me goin' through some heavy duty stress. It's takin' a lot for my mind to try an' make sense outta it. "So why are you just sitting there?" the lady that's not a lady because she's not real because she's dead asks. "I got caught up in some thangs. Ended up gettin' paralyzed.
BV15 Too Much to Deal With Man, I'm tired. Ain't that some mess when you wake up from a nap an' you still outta it? How's that work, anyway? I'm sure there's some weird science behind it. Where am I? What the world the time it is? Oh yeah. Space. Space ship. Ri'lar's probably—oh, I remember—Ri'lar's dead. Dang. The room I'm in is campy, yet spacious. Yeah, it's an actual room, not like the trunk of the ship I was on before. It's well lit in some white, fluorescent like light. It's got an actual bed. The visor/window/panel that shows outside is clean and clear. I step out into the hall an' see my sword lying against the door. When I pick it up, the
Starting Over Chapter 8"Hey Lex."I turn around and see Nai. "Oh, hey.""Guess what.""What?""I broke up with Daniel."I try to keep myself from smiling. "Really?"Nai sighs. "Yeah. My old boyfriend would flirt with other girls a lot too. Wasn't so awesome either so, yeah.""Well, I think it was a good idea to break up with him... So you wanna go to the park now?" I ask.Nai rolls her eyes but laughs. "Sure."We start walking over to the park and then I see this guy I recognize. Tall, skinny, Mexican, kind of goofy looking. Kevin's his name. Or at least I think it is. "Hey Kevin.""Oh hey, Lexi.""This is Nallely." I introduce him to Nai."Cool, where
The Medium - Bit 13They didn’t drive. Sebastian led him along tenderly, whispering him deeper and deeper down until he forgot that he had remembered how to think. It was all very familiar, comfortable. There was even a poisonous sort of sweetness to the way Sebastian helped him walk, kept him from tripping, always touching, petting, filling his brain with sensation so there would be no room for memory.“It’s okay. Don’t worry, it’s okay. I know you didn’t mean to. You would never go, wouldn’t do that to me, would you?”“Never.”They stepped into Sebastian’s apartment, the same musty hole with the same green wallpaper, tables strewn with tattered westerns, pervasive pall of muted suffering.The ghosts drifted out of the walls to watch. They remembered this one, the one who could see them. This time, though, he didn’t look. Sebastian had his whole attention.The Spaniard slammed the door and bolted it shut. He taped another layer of fo
Edge of Heaven and Hell - Chapter 4Our room on the ship was very cosy, definitely like nothing I had ever experience before. The mattress on my bed was fluffy and soft and I sank down quite a bit when I first sat on it. Morgan had stretched out on his bed and immediately went to sleep, pulling his cap down over his face to block out the light. Liandri was tucked away safely in the stables below, seemingly happy to be around plenty of other horses. I hoped she would be alright down there, it would be a week before we reached land and I wasn’t entirely sure she’d be able to stand being cooped up for so long.“So what’s this book you were talking about?&rd
Myth's Sword-Ch.2Soft humming wafted out from the kitchen, along with the sound of running water. Tan hands tightly held a fragile plate under the faucet. The humming was cut short when the door of the apartment opened. A smile came to her face as she rushed out, not bothering to remove the apron or put down the plate."Angel, it's about time yo-" The girl's black eyes grew wide as the plate slipped from her fingers.Angel kicked the door closed, struggling to keep Jadyn from slipping. "Hey, Ni."She stepped back, causing some of her flaming red hair that sat on her shoulder to slip behind her. The pink apron covered her button-up top and black skirt. Her
Starting Over Chapter 6"Oh my God, I am so annoyed right now!" Nai says as she walks towards me."Why? What happened?" I ask as we walk off campus."Daniel keeps flirting with other girls." Nallely answers."What the hell?" I frown. "Like who?""He keeps flirting with this girl, Leana. She's in my math class too. Ever since we made out he's barely been talking to me and moved onto Leana.""That's so stupid!" Although I'm not surprised much. Like I said before, I don't trust Daniel."I know right?" Nai says, biting her phone."Stop biting your phone! I'm gonna break that habbit of yours." I say.She laughs and puts her phone in her pocket.It's quiet the re
Starting Over Chapter 7I wake up to a dinging sound coming from my iTouch.Shanna: Hey wanna hang out with me and Kris at west portal 2morrow?I grin. I haven't seen Shanna and Kristin since school started. Tomorrow is Saturday. Seeing them would be nice.Me: Sure. Lemme jst ask my mom. Wut time?Shanna: uhhh around 1Me: kk------------------------------"Lexi!" Kristin squeels as she hugs me.I laugh and return the hug. "Hi Kristin.""Heeyy." Shanna grins at me."Heeyy Shannaa.""Oh my God Louis is such a gigolo!"I frown hearing his name. Louis is this snobby rich guy in Kristin and Shanna's class.. He is so mean that he'll make stereo-typical bitchy r
Edge of Heaven and Hell - Chapter 3Annette arrived back at the manor house about an hour after Morgan had left. I'd been asleep in the armchair in her room when she'd returned, as I hadn't gotten much sleep the past few days and the news that my home town would be taken over by General Andreas had genuinely made me feel ill.“Come on Lysette, wake up,” she said, shaking my shoulder gently. I opened my eyes and rubbed them before glancing around and trying to remember where I was. Annette had changed in to her travelling clothes and had her hair up in a bun instead of being free. It was such a drastic change I wasn't sure if it was the same person.“I decided
Rose Scented Ashes III - SchoolFast forward a few years...Daniel was now about four, five years old, and getting ready for his first day of school, of Kindergarten. His mother had recently suffered another bout of infuriation toward Valance, who had made one remark about "What happens if the other children find out Daniel's partly plant?" Apparently, she had assumed he meant to reveal it to the other kids, and instantly snapped, chucking a vase at his head, and - thankfully - missing.Suppose she really didn't want me to have any part in his life, Valance thought as he leaned back in the chair at his desk, reading by the sunlight, slate-violet eyes not really seeing the words on the page in front of him. Not beyond giving him a name - which she has probably already claimed as something she thought of anyway. No, not probably, he already knew as much from the whisperings he tuned in on.As he listened to the tumult outside of his door, of the babysitter attempting to get the rowdy young c
BV11 A Load of Crap Once again, I'm out an' about in a city, all alone with no where t'go an' nothin' t'do. Once again, the locals look weird—this time lookin' like some messed up amalgamation of slug-slash-lizard-slash-lobster people. Everywhere they go, they leave an oozing slimy trail of—y'know, I don't even wanna know—behind as they crawl about. Once again, I'm a stranger in a strange place. Ri'lar told me this city is called Nuvolia. It's on a moon—Geonra—orbiting an uninhabitable gas planet in the somethin' somethin' nebula. Hey, I'm tryin' to get this galactic mumbo jumbo down. I'd say I've done good enough to remember all that
BV12 Low Down Dirty Snakes Somethin' huge just shot at me, an' I'm guessin' that same thing shot at Ri'lar a few moments ago. Why couldn't I see it? What do those snake people gotta do with it? Why do they got beef with Ri'lar? Was this a trap? Of course this was a trap. They probably did interpret me bein' a friend of his an' led me right to him to kill us both. "I feel like if I were to ask what you're doing here, you'd give me some staakin' excuse," Ri'lar says. "But since you are here, change your scanner settings to pick up on ultraviolet and pray to your God that your suit doesn't let you get radiation poison from their blasts." He looks annoyed as he stan
T.F.D: Chapter 18Two weeks later Acton Marrahabarran, King of Raddalost through right of conquest, stood in the bowels of his fortress in the marshes. He stood in the torture chamber. With him were two torturers, each arguing over which method to use first, and also the unlucky victim. The man was currently out cold from previous torture methods. As it was he was now pinned to a rack unknowingly awaiting something to happen. The man had been extradited from Giusu’Nieri in the dead of night, his property seized and all his worldly assets under Acton’s watchful eye. The man was the second reason that Acton was here. Acton guessed he had a little
The Medium - Bit 12Nine: An Interrupted WalkCoyote arrived at ten o’clock sharp.“Got anything to tell me?” he demanded, but no one had much to say; they were distracted by the geometric designs he had traced onto his face in dark red paint.“You look freaking awesome,” Kim told him flatly, and she stood out of his way while he made a circuit of the room, toeing piles of books out of his way.He shoved the coffee table up against the wall and cleared the debris from the couch, took the telephone off the hook, piled a stack of magazines on top of the television, and moved a glass of water into the kitchen. Then he sat in the dead center of the sofa and gestured imperiously for everyone else to clear out.“I have to find my focus,” he declared.The wizard, the vampire, and the ghost shuffled into the bedroom and shut the door, because finding a focus was evidently a very private process.Rocky sat against the wall, curled up beneath his electric b
Your Insanity or Mine?, Chapter 1For a psychiatric ward, Horton Edge was fairly average. But seeing as she had a database of one real psychiatric ward and several she’d read about and in that awful horror film she couldn't remember the name of, Zoë didn't have much to compare it to. It had been built in the late 1960's and stood squat, square and unappealing to look at with overly sharp edges and taught walls. The inside wasn't that much better; everything was white and sterile and smelt strongly of disinfectant. In fact, Zoë had been a little disappointed at the lack of bloody streaks on the wall and the occasional death message written on the ceiling but h
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