Post by Scotty on Mar 29, 2011 19:18:10 GMT -5
Hey everyone! 
so, here's my newest story. The chapters might take a while before I write them... Well, tell me what you think and what you think I can improve on! I hope you enjoy it!
He breathed deeply as the cool spring air surrounded him. The water of Sebago Lake lapped gently up against the rocks on shore. With his feel dangling off the dock, he got a sudden urge to jump into the knee-deep water, socks and shoes and everything. Looking at his friends, who already thought he was strange enough already, he resisted the urge and sat quietly with them. Part of the sky was growing more and more orange, while the other was growing more dark blue with sprinkles of white starts watching down on them.
With the calm of the moment, Neil sat, savoring the memory. Kaylee pulled out her phone for a picture of the disappearing sun reflecting on the lake. Neil took another deep breath as a breeze flew by them, waving Kaylee’s black hair gently. His best friend, Stan was watching too. They both thought she was beautiful; Neil didn’t need to be told that he isn’t her type, but Stan is and everyone knows it. With another deep breath, Neil slid off the dock and his feet plunged into the water.
“Neil, what the hell?” Kaylee asked. She never really understood what made him tick. No one ever really did, he just did whatever he wanted to and people came to accept it.
“The water is kind of cold,” Neil said in reply. Stan laughed, he sort of understands Neil. “Come on in, the water’s great!”
“Okay,” Stan said just before sliding off the dock. Kaylee applied her palm directly to her face.
“You guys look cold,” Kaylee said as they started to shiver.
“This was a bad idea,” Neil said.
“Kaylee, wasn’t your New Years Resolution to do more stupid ideas?” Stan asked her. She closed her eyes and sighed.
“Yeah, but…”
“Give up already?” Neil asked with a grin.
“Come on Kaylee, spitters are quitters!” Stan said. The three of them laughed as the sun continued to disappear. More than half the sky was now black with star-sprinkles.
“That doesn’t even apply!” Kaylee exclaimed.
“Well, are you a quitter?” Neil asked.
“No!”
“More importantly, are you a spitter?” Stan asked.
“Why, you interested?” Kaylee asked.
“Who isn’t?” Neil said in a joking tone of voice. He found it the easiest way to cope with his inability to flirt: make jokes that sound like flirting to make girls laugh. It works for him. Stan on the other hand, he can be in a different girl’s room every night if he wanted to be. Kaylee is the same way; she could probably flirt her way out of hostage situation if she needed to.
“Oh fine,” Kaylee said. She slid off into the water. “Happy now?”
“Nah, not really. I’m way too cold now,” Neil said. “I’m going back on shore.”
“Yeah, me too,” Stan said, almost as if they were planning this.
“Oh, you guys suck.” Kaylee said with a little laugh as Neil and Stan got out of the water.
They got back on the dock and sat with their feet over the water again while Kaylee was standing in the water. The sun vanished behind the mountains as the world grew dark. Kaylee got out of the water and just sat on the dock with Neil and Stan. For a few minutes, the world was dark to them with the stars overhead. The moon came out, shinning and lighting up the path back to campus. The three of them decided to get going back before security showed up and decided to ask why they were soaking yet.
Joy and Ashley started up at the moon from the safety of her backyard in a small town in New Hampshire. Cars kept driving by, but that didn’t bother them, they were too wrapped up in their conversation. It was like every Friday night that they would spend together. The moon watched them as they lay on the grass, talking.
The night continued on, the moon rose higher and higher in the sky and the two kept talking about everything that popped into their minds. Cars stopped going by and the woods around them grew silent.
“So, I have a question for you,” Ashley said.
“Sure, what is it?” Joy asked.
“Who’s that kid who stares at you on the bus?”
“What do you mean? Someone stares at me?” Joy asked, confused.
“Yeah, every time I ride on your bus home with you, he’s staring straight at you. Who is he?”
“I don’t know, I probably never noticed him,” Joy said truthfully.
“Well, Just don’t let him know that.”
“What?”
“He can’t take his eyes off you, and you haven’t even noticed him. Think about how awful that would be if he found out,” Ashley said.
“Wow, your right,” Joy said. “And I’m getting kind of cold, I think we should go back inside now.”
“I agree.” Ashley said, taking one last look around the night sky before walking back towards Joy’s house. Without saying anything to each other, they went directly to the kitchen, another part of their routine. Ashley looked out the window while Joy started to put some popcorn in the microwave. There was a rough dirt road across the street from Joy’s house; Ashley watched a car turn onto it.
“How bad is that road over there?” Ashley asked.
“I think it’s actually an ATV trail. Why do you ask?” Joy said as she watched the bag of popcorn rise.
“Someone just turned onto it.”
“Then their either lost or going to a drug deal,” Joy said casually.
“Does that happen often?”
“Not usually, I’ve never actually seen a car go down there before, even during the day.”
“I guess there is a first for everything.”
“Do you want to follow it? That would be exciting.”
“It’s cold out, remember?” Ashley said in slight protest. “But it would be an adventure.”
“All right then, let’s go!” Joy said, grabbing her coat and a flashlight. She left the popcorn on the table and dragged Ashley out of the house and to the road the car just went down. Joy is the more adventurous of the two and Ashley is afraid of the dark. They ran at first, to catch up to the car. Then they stopped running and turned off the flashlight when they saw the taillights.
The driver of the car didn’t notice that the two girls were following him. He was too happy that he finally fixed up his Jeep Cherokee and that it passed state inspection. Every since he started working on it, his goal was to go off-roading with it. His mind was filled with excitement and concentration on the rocks and mud puddles.
Off in the distance there was a small flash of light, then another. A dark figure came into his view in front of him, growing closer and closer. A bicyclist came into view. Someone was mountain biking on this road by moonlight. He driver rolled down his window.
“Hey, what are you doing?” He yelled out the window. Ashley and Joy looked at each other with worry on their faces that they’ve been noticed. The bicyclist pedaled over to the window and the two girls sighed in relief.
“I’m biking,” he said.
“Well, do you want a ride?” The driver asked.
“No, I’m good. I already have one.” The boy on the bike said, motioning to his bike. At this point, Joy and Ashley were watching from behind a bush.
“That’s the boy that keeps staring at you,” Ashley whispered.
“Oliver?” Joy asked. “I know him, never noticed him stare though.”
“He’s kind of cute,” Ashley said. “Let’s go talk to them!”
“Are you forgetting that it’s dark out and that we’re in the woods?” Joy asked, trying to remind Ashley that she hates the night.
“We’ve got a flashlight,” she said, turning it on and walking from behind the trees. Joy followed, shaking her head in disgust with the new plan.
“Hey!” Ashley yelled, walking towards the two of them. The driver was the first to turn and look.
“Hello,” he said back. Oliver looked at Joy and then looked back at the boy who was driving.
“I’ve seen you around before,” Ashley said. “Oliver, right?”
“Yeah, I think I’ve seen you around too. Never caught you’re name though,” Oliver said, adjusting himself on his bike.
“I’m Ashley and this is Joy.”
“Don’t you ride my bus?” Oliver said to Joy.
“Yeah, I live near here.”
“What are you guys up to?” Ashley said. “A drug deal?”
“No, I’m out for a moon light bike ride. I go on them often.”
“I’m just going for a drive, just got my car fixed up and thought I’d take ‘er out. My name’s Jim, by the way.” The driver said, trying to introduce himself.
“He just offered me a ride before you two showed up,” Oliver explained.
“Oh, can we have a ride too?” Ashley said. Joy had a look cross her face like a part of her just died. Whenever Ashley gets like this, she’s either trying to hook someone up with someone else, or hook up with someone herself. This time, it’s both: Joy with Oliver and her with Jim.
“Sure,” Jim said, “Just hop in.”
“Shotgun!” Ashley yelled as she got in the front seat and Joy got in the back.
Oliver leaned close to Jim and said quietly: “I think I will take you up on that offer.”
“Just don’t be a creep,” Jim warned. “Put your bike in the back and get in.”
Ashley grinned as Oliver got in next to Joy in the back seat. Joy looked away awkwardly. She thought the whole situation was awkward and this wasn’t the first time, or the second, that Ashley got her into this mess. These nights seemed to drag on for her.
Jim turned his Jeep around and brought the girls back to Joy’s house. The two girls then went to bed after Joy told Ashley how much she hated when she did that kind of thing.
Oliver left Jim’s company and put his bike away in the garage. He crept through his house so he wouldn’t wake his parents and made it to his bedroom. He fell onto his bed. “What a night,” he said to himself as he stared at the TV in his room. A couple games of Halo: Reach wouldn’t hurt this late, would it? He put his headset on and started up matchmaking.
“Hey, hey, hey,” some kid started yelling into his headset.
“What?” Oliver answered, despite his better judgment.
“Are you a faggot?”
“No, I’m not. Now shut up unless you have something important to say.”
“I do have something important to say!” The kid yelled.
“Oh, really?” Oliver said. Part of him was looking forward to this answer.
“Women belong in the kitchen!”
“Dude, be respectful,” Oliver said although he was laughing on the inside. “There could be a girl in this game right now and if there is, you probably just ruined your chances with her.” Little did Oliver know, there was a girl in the match, she was listening in on the whole conversation.
She sat alone in her dorm room as she did every night. She’s never been a very outgoing person and sees herself as lucky that she doesn’t have a roommate. Then again, everyone else did too. She put down her controller and got up to take a shower although it is almost midnight. This was not uncommon for her; she avoided people like it was her job. She walked down the hallway that was empty, just the way she liked it.
While she was in the shower, she heard some girls walk into the bathroom. They’re footsteps grew closer and closer to the shower she was at. Before she knew what happened, the towel had disappeared from the rack and she cringed at the thought of walking around the dorm naked and wet.
Peeking out from behind the curtain, she made sure the coast was clear before venturing out there. After braving the empty bathroom, she looked both ways before entering the hallway: clear. She made her way to her door and the staircase door opened. A mixture of swears filler her head as two boys and a girl enter the hallway and stare at her. She covered herself and awkwardly looked back. She fumbled with her keys out of her shower caddy and into the keyhole.
“Well that was unexpected, but pleasant,” one of the boys said.
“Stan, she can probably still hear you,” Kaylee said.
“I feel bad for her, being caught without a towel,” Neil said, “And now she has to worry about Stan masturbating to the thought of her tonight.”
“No, I wouldn’t do that!” Stan said in protest. Kaylee and Neil looked back at him. “Okay, I might…”
“Thought so,” Kaylee said. “She’s a nice girl, I’ve talked to her a couple times before. She seems like your kind of girl, Neil.”
“Oh, now you mention this,” Neil said. “Do you know her name?”
“I think its Olivia,” Kaylee said. “She plays video games and stuff like that.”
“She does sound like my kind of girl,” Neil said.
“And now you’ve already seen how pretty she is! You should go for it!” Stan said, still thinking about the image burned into his mind.
“What would my pick up line be? ‘Hey, I’ve seen you naked before, I want to see it again.’ I don’t think that’s a good idea.” Neil said as they got to Kaylee’s room for a midnight snack.
Olivia sat in her room, thinking about the conversation she had just overheard about her being naked. Her face was burning with embarrassment, as the room was silent except the hum of the TV. She tried looking on the bright side: at least people think she’s pretty. Due to her shyness, she never got many compliments to her face and was never really noticed beyond her group of friends, which were all girls anyway.
She lied down in her bed and thought to herself: what a night.
so, here's my newest story. The chapters might take a while before I write them... Well, tell me what you think and what you think I can improve on! I hope you enjoy it!He breathed deeply as the cool spring air surrounded him. The water of Sebago Lake lapped gently up against the rocks on shore. With his feel dangling off the dock, he got a sudden urge to jump into the knee-deep water, socks and shoes and everything. Looking at his friends, who already thought he was strange enough already, he resisted the urge and sat quietly with them. Part of the sky was growing more and more orange, while the other was growing more dark blue with sprinkles of white starts watching down on them.
With the calm of the moment, Neil sat, savoring the memory. Kaylee pulled out her phone for a picture of the disappearing sun reflecting on the lake. Neil took another deep breath as a breeze flew by them, waving Kaylee’s black hair gently. His best friend, Stan was watching too. They both thought she was beautiful; Neil didn’t need to be told that he isn’t her type, but Stan is and everyone knows it. With another deep breath, Neil slid off the dock and his feet plunged into the water.
“Neil, what the hell?” Kaylee asked. She never really understood what made him tick. No one ever really did, he just did whatever he wanted to and people came to accept it.
“The water is kind of cold,” Neil said in reply. Stan laughed, he sort of understands Neil. “Come on in, the water’s great!”
“Okay,” Stan said just before sliding off the dock. Kaylee applied her palm directly to her face.
“You guys look cold,” Kaylee said as they started to shiver.
“This was a bad idea,” Neil said.
“Kaylee, wasn’t your New Years Resolution to do more stupid ideas?” Stan asked her. She closed her eyes and sighed.
“Yeah, but…”
“Give up already?” Neil asked with a grin.
“Come on Kaylee, spitters are quitters!” Stan said. The three of them laughed as the sun continued to disappear. More than half the sky was now black with star-sprinkles.
“That doesn’t even apply!” Kaylee exclaimed.
“Well, are you a quitter?” Neil asked.
“No!”
“More importantly, are you a spitter?” Stan asked.
“Why, you interested?” Kaylee asked.
“Who isn’t?” Neil said in a joking tone of voice. He found it the easiest way to cope with his inability to flirt: make jokes that sound like flirting to make girls laugh. It works for him. Stan on the other hand, he can be in a different girl’s room every night if he wanted to be. Kaylee is the same way; she could probably flirt her way out of hostage situation if she needed to.
“Oh fine,” Kaylee said. She slid off into the water. “Happy now?”
“Nah, not really. I’m way too cold now,” Neil said. “I’m going back on shore.”
“Yeah, me too,” Stan said, almost as if they were planning this.
“Oh, you guys suck.” Kaylee said with a little laugh as Neil and Stan got out of the water.
They got back on the dock and sat with their feet over the water again while Kaylee was standing in the water. The sun vanished behind the mountains as the world grew dark. Kaylee got out of the water and just sat on the dock with Neil and Stan. For a few minutes, the world was dark to them with the stars overhead. The moon came out, shinning and lighting up the path back to campus. The three of them decided to get going back before security showed up and decided to ask why they were soaking yet.
Joy and Ashley started up at the moon from the safety of her backyard in a small town in New Hampshire. Cars kept driving by, but that didn’t bother them, they were too wrapped up in their conversation. It was like every Friday night that they would spend together. The moon watched them as they lay on the grass, talking.
The night continued on, the moon rose higher and higher in the sky and the two kept talking about everything that popped into their minds. Cars stopped going by and the woods around them grew silent.
“So, I have a question for you,” Ashley said.
“Sure, what is it?” Joy asked.
“Who’s that kid who stares at you on the bus?”
“What do you mean? Someone stares at me?” Joy asked, confused.
“Yeah, every time I ride on your bus home with you, he’s staring straight at you. Who is he?”
“I don’t know, I probably never noticed him,” Joy said truthfully.
“Well, Just don’t let him know that.”
“What?”
“He can’t take his eyes off you, and you haven’t even noticed him. Think about how awful that would be if he found out,” Ashley said.
“Wow, your right,” Joy said. “And I’m getting kind of cold, I think we should go back inside now.”
“I agree.” Ashley said, taking one last look around the night sky before walking back towards Joy’s house. Without saying anything to each other, they went directly to the kitchen, another part of their routine. Ashley looked out the window while Joy started to put some popcorn in the microwave. There was a rough dirt road across the street from Joy’s house; Ashley watched a car turn onto it.
“How bad is that road over there?” Ashley asked.
“I think it’s actually an ATV trail. Why do you ask?” Joy said as she watched the bag of popcorn rise.
“Someone just turned onto it.”
“Then their either lost or going to a drug deal,” Joy said casually.
“Does that happen often?”
“Not usually, I’ve never actually seen a car go down there before, even during the day.”
“I guess there is a first for everything.”
“Do you want to follow it? That would be exciting.”
“It’s cold out, remember?” Ashley said in slight protest. “But it would be an adventure.”
“All right then, let’s go!” Joy said, grabbing her coat and a flashlight. She left the popcorn on the table and dragged Ashley out of the house and to the road the car just went down. Joy is the more adventurous of the two and Ashley is afraid of the dark. They ran at first, to catch up to the car. Then they stopped running and turned off the flashlight when they saw the taillights.
The driver of the car didn’t notice that the two girls were following him. He was too happy that he finally fixed up his Jeep Cherokee and that it passed state inspection. Every since he started working on it, his goal was to go off-roading with it. His mind was filled with excitement and concentration on the rocks and mud puddles.
Off in the distance there was a small flash of light, then another. A dark figure came into his view in front of him, growing closer and closer. A bicyclist came into view. Someone was mountain biking on this road by moonlight. He driver rolled down his window.
“Hey, what are you doing?” He yelled out the window. Ashley and Joy looked at each other with worry on their faces that they’ve been noticed. The bicyclist pedaled over to the window and the two girls sighed in relief.
“I’m biking,” he said.
“Well, do you want a ride?” The driver asked.
“No, I’m good. I already have one.” The boy on the bike said, motioning to his bike. At this point, Joy and Ashley were watching from behind a bush.
“That’s the boy that keeps staring at you,” Ashley whispered.
“Oliver?” Joy asked. “I know him, never noticed him stare though.”
“He’s kind of cute,” Ashley said. “Let’s go talk to them!”
“Are you forgetting that it’s dark out and that we’re in the woods?” Joy asked, trying to remind Ashley that she hates the night.
“We’ve got a flashlight,” she said, turning it on and walking from behind the trees. Joy followed, shaking her head in disgust with the new plan.
“Hey!” Ashley yelled, walking towards the two of them. The driver was the first to turn and look.
“Hello,” he said back. Oliver looked at Joy and then looked back at the boy who was driving.
“I’ve seen you around before,” Ashley said. “Oliver, right?”
“Yeah, I think I’ve seen you around too. Never caught you’re name though,” Oliver said, adjusting himself on his bike.
“I’m Ashley and this is Joy.”
“Don’t you ride my bus?” Oliver said to Joy.
“Yeah, I live near here.”
“What are you guys up to?” Ashley said. “A drug deal?”
“No, I’m out for a moon light bike ride. I go on them often.”
“I’m just going for a drive, just got my car fixed up and thought I’d take ‘er out. My name’s Jim, by the way.” The driver said, trying to introduce himself.
“He just offered me a ride before you two showed up,” Oliver explained.
“Oh, can we have a ride too?” Ashley said. Joy had a look cross her face like a part of her just died. Whenever Ashley gets like this, she’s either trying to hook someone up with someone else, or hook up with someone herself. This time, it’s both: Joy with Oliver and her with Jim.
“Sure,” Jim said, “Just hop in.”
“Shotgun!” Ashley yelled as she got in the front seat and Joy got in the back.
Oliver leaned close to Jim and said quietly: “I think I will take you up on that offer.”
“Just don’t be a creep,” Jim warned. “Put your bike in the back and get in.”
Ashley grinned as Oliver got in next to Joy in the back seat. Joy looked away awkwardly. She thought the whole situation was awkward and this wasn’t the first time, or the second, that Ashley got her into this mess. These nights seemed to drag on for her.
Jim turned his Jeep around and brought the girls back to Joy’s house. The two girls then went to bed after Joy told Ashley how much she hated when she did that kind of thing.
Oliver left Jim’s company and put his bike away in the garage. He crept through his house so he wouldn’t wake his parents and made it to his bedroom. He fell onto his bed. “What a night,” he said to himself as he stared at the TV in his room. A couple games of Halo: Reach wouldn’t hurt this late, would it? He put his headset on and started up matchmaking.
“Hey, hey, hey,” some kid started yelling into his headset.
“What?” Oliver answered, despite his better judgment.
“Are you a faggot?”
“No, I’m not. Now shut up unless you have something important to say.”
“I do have something important to say!” The kid yelled.
“Oh, really?” Oliver said. Part of him was looking forward to this answer.
“Women belong in the kitchen!”
“Dude, be respectful,” Oliver said although he was laughing on the inside. “There could be a girl in this game right now and if there is, you probably just ruined your chances with her.” Little did Oliver know, there was a girl in the match, she was listening in on the whole conversation.
She sat alone in her dorm room as she did every night. She’s never been a very outgoing person and sees herself as lucky that she doesn’t have a roommate. Then again, everyone else did too. She put down her controller and got up to take a shower although it is almost midnight. This was not uncommon for her; she avoided people like it was her job. She walked down the hallway that was empty, just the way she liked it.
While she was in the shower, she heard some girls walk into the bathroom. They’re footsteps grew closer and closer to the shower she was at. Before she knew what happened, the towel had disappeared from the rack and she cringed at the thought of walking around the dorm naked and wet.
Peeking out from behind the curtain, she made sure the coast was clear before venturing out there. After braving the empty bathroom, she looked both ways before entering the hallway: clear. She made her way to her door and the staircase door opened. A mixture of swears filler her head as two boys and a girl enter the hallway and stare at her. She covered herself and awkwardly looked back. She fumbled with her keys out of her shower caddy and into the keyhole.
“Well that was unexpected, but pleasant,” one of the boys said.
“Stan, she can probably still hear you,” Kaylee said.
“I feel bad for her, being caught without a towel,” Neil said, “And now she has to worry about Stan masturbating to the thought of her tonight.”
“No, I wouldn’t do that!” Stan said in protest. Kaylee and Neil looked back at him. “Okay, I might…”
“Thought so,” Kaylee said. “She’s a nice girl, I’ve talked to her a couple times before. She seems like your kind of girl, Neil.”
“Oh, now you mention this,” Neil said. “Do you know her name?”
“I think its Olivia,” Kaylee said. “She plays video games and stuff like that.”
“She does sound like my kind of girl,” Neil said.
“And now you’ve already seen how pretty she is! You should go for it!” Stan said, still thinking about the image burned into his mind.
“What would my pick up line be? ‘Hey, I’ve seen you naked before, I want to see it again.’ I don’t think that’s a good idea.” Neil said as they got to Kaylee’s room for a midnight snack.
Olivia sat in her room, thinking about the conversation she had just overheard about her being naked. Her face was burning with embarrassment, as the room was silent except the hum of the TV. She tried looking on the bright side: at least people think she’s pretty. Due to her shyness, she never got many compliments to her face and was never really noticed beyond her group of friends, which were all girls anyway.
She lied down in her bed and thought to herself: what a night.
