INK, Chapter 7 stuff

It seems a lot of you were curious about Bella's dream/hallucination/etc. I should have done this last night, but it was a bit crazy... to give you an idea for my inspiration on that, this picture may help. ;)



Go back and read it again if you need to...but that's what she saw herself stuck in. ;)

Also, there were a few songs I blipped last night for the chapter, but here are the videos if you missed them. :)

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For those without access to Edwardville...

So I posted this one last week: http://i53.tinypic.com/jzgry9.jpg ...

Chapter 1 will post tomorrow, 11/10 (as long as I don't chicken out)....

My hand twitches in a comfortable, practiced motion. Suddenly I’m desperate for a pen or a pencil. Her expression, so grave and desolate, is somehow beautiful to me, and I wish I had anything that would enable me to detail her pain on paper. It makes me wish I’d thought to bring my sketchbook.

To her right, a large boy clutches an umbrella over their heads. On her left, a sour faced girl holds the sad woman’s arm. Her face is fierce and determined, as if she’s trying to keep the broken woman from falling.

I can’t help but wonder who she was to him – who they were to him.

Even more, I can’t help but wonder who I was to him.

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Pic Tease: I Never Knew, Chapter 1

Getting closer! I'm nearing Chapter ten (which has been my goal for posting) and I'm shooting to have Chapter one out to you guys within the next couple weeks. Cross your fingers (toes, eyes, etc) that I'll be able to do it!

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I Just Needed You, Chapter 9 Teaser

My hands were shaking so badly that I was afraid I wouldn't be able to play. All of my preparations, everything I'd been working for... it all led to this. This one night would tell me if what I hoped for would come. Rolling my neck, I wiggled my arms and tried to release the tension in my body before I emerged. A female voice came overhead, floating through the auditorium as she announced my name. The sounds in the auditorium grew to a slightly louder buzz, applause sounding and chatter picking up.

My feet carried me closer to the curtain. I stopped, smiling at Professor Banner as he held out his hand to shake. He clapped me on the shoulder, wishing me good luck.

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Picture Prompts

I completely forgot to post these! Thanks for the reminder. :)

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I Just Needed You, Chapter 8 Teaser

He made it seem so easy. He made it seem like he could give his body with no strings, no connection and that was just... it. I had never been the kind of person who could, or would, do that.

He was the exception. He brought down my walls and made me want to give him whatever I could.

After a few days, I began to realize that no matter how much I gave him—or anyone—if I wasn't happy, what was the point?

Once I realized that there wasn't one, I began to see all of the ways I'd been trying to turn myself into something I wasn't for the sake of pleasing others.

Not just with him, but with my mother as well.

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I Just Needed You, Chapter 7 Teaser

For the next week, I hid.  Like a pussy.  I buried myself in books and school and nothing else.  I ignored everything—my phone, my classes, even food—in order to avoid facing what I’d done.  

I should have never allowed it to happen—to get that far.

When she touched me though, it was with a reverence I’d never felt before.  From anyone.  It made parts in my body tingle that I didn’t even know existed.  She smelled like coconut and rain, and the scent and the feeling combined together made me stupid.  Stupid enough to make one of the biggest mistakes of my life.

Because no matter what I did now, my chances were probably ruined.  Nice girls like her didn't give assholes like me second chances.    

I kept expecting Jasper to come pounding on my door, to follow through on his promise to beat my face in if I hurt her again.

He never showed up.

Neither did she.

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I Just Needed You, Chapter 6 Teaser

Every lesson, it became easier and easier to talk to him, until we were able to converse without screaming at each other. We still irritated each other, naturally, but I didn’t mind that so much. He was really fun when he got all pissy.

The last few weeks, when our lessons had finished, we’d lingered and talked. Our game had far surpassed the twenty question limit, but I was still eager to learn more. And, it seemed, so was he.

The more time we spent here, the more I found myself attracted to him. I loved the way he played with the ring in his lip when he was agitated, and how his fingers played background melodies of their own volition when he talked. It seemed to be such a natural, intrinsic part of him, and it made me smile often. I’d even started to find it adorable when he got really worked up about something, how his hands would move while he explained and his eyes would grow bigger with each word.

Arriving at the door, I pulled it open and looked up at the stage.  He stopped playing and turned on the bench to watch me.  

“I'm still shocked every time you come back,” he called out to me as I walked in.

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I Just Needed You, Chapter 5 Teaser

Every emotion—hate, fear, anger, pain—I’d been holding in for the last eight months flew out of my fingers and echoed through the auditorium.

Of all the things that could have opened me up, all the things that could have made me feel again, it had to be a girl I hadn’t even wanted to like. No matter how hard I tried to force them away, her words ran on repeat through my mind—her claim that I knew nothing about her.

What bothered me the most was that I knew she was right. I didn’t know anything.

I’d wanted to make myself believe I did; to believe that I knew everything. Trust that, if I continued to let myself imagine her as a vapid, shell of a girl, she couldn’t get any deeper under my skin than she already had.

I was determined to convince myself that the draw I’d started to feel toward her meant nothing.

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I Just Needed You, Chapter 4 Teaser

“Well what do you know, she came back,” he joked, grinning at me from the bench as he crossed his arms in front of his chest and kicked his feet out in front of him.

“Of course I did,” I responded, annoyed. “Why wouldn't I?”

“I thought for sure you would head straight to Banner and demand a new teacher.” He smirked and raised an eyebrow at me.

I snorted, trying to keep the guilty look off of my face as I shrugged my shoulders. I forced a sweet smile on before walking up the steps and asking, “Why ever would I do that?” I placed my hand against my chest and fluttered my eyelashes. “Then I wouldn't be graced with you and your lovable attitude every week.”

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I Just Needed You, Chapter 3 Teaser

Blondie had somehow wiggled herself around to straddle me, and was entertaining herself with the ring in my lip. She kept flicking her tongue against it and tugging on it with her teeth while asking me stupid ass questions. I found myself quickly becoming annoyed, but I tried to force myself into numbness, believing that if I gave it time, the feeling would lessen.

Plus, it kept other fuckers the hell away from me.

I was pulled abruptly from answering her latest question when I heard Mike's voice come through a break in the heavy music. I groaned, opening my eyes and searching the room. I hoped the fucker wouldn't come over and try to talk to us like he usually did.

To my disappointment, it wasn't long before he walked in with his arm draped all casual over some chicks arm. Her face was obstructed from my view by the blonde in front of me; all I could see was a flash of long, pale legs in a short skirt. On the outside of her right thigh, peeking out from the edge of her skirt, was what looked like a pair of wings shrouded in color.

Poor Girl...

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Lesson One

Thanks to IzzyHeartsRob, this is the piece Edward is playing when Bella walks into the auditorium. ;)

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I Just Needed You

New story posted today! Thank you to Jaime for making me her bitch and giving me the prompt to create this fun little story. You're the best. :)

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Updates/Teasers

Ack... So, I decided to do the blog thing, pardon the goofy ass template and the rearranging while I figure out what it is I actually want here, kay? ;)

Anyway, enough about that, the real reason I'm posting is to let you know that the next two (final) chapters of Stolen Singer are complete, and are currently being edited by my own personal Super Girl.

I've posted several teasers for Chapter 21, but I thought you might like them all in one place? Y/Y?

Teaser 1:

As the van carrying Edward sped off, Bella emerged from a tunnel, finding herself above ground somewhere in what appeared to be the middle of the city. With wide eyes, she looked around before wrapping her arms around her midsection as a sob escaped from her throat.

The pain in her chest intensified with every breath she took. For the first time since her change, she was completely and utterly alone.

Teaser 2:

Felix held Edward steadily; thick arms wrapped around his throat and torso to keep him in place as he dragged him, kicking, screaming and growling, through tunnels and corridors until they exited into the darkness somewhere on the south side of the city. A van waited there to whisk them away, though Volterra was no more than one-hundred square miles, an easy run for a vampire, it would have meant leaving behind traces of their scent.

Traces that could be followed. Aro was much too smart for that.

Pulling open the back door of the van, Felix tossed Edward inside like he weighed nothing. A fierce growl ripped from him and he bared his teeth in response, moving to launch himself out of the van and on top of Felix.

Just as Edward’s body moved into the air, he felt it. His senses locked. Sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste—everything—gone.

Teaser 3:

“The next time you bite me, little girl, let’s make sure you’re naked first,” he taunted, walking a slow circle around her. His eyes roved from her feet to her breasts and back to her face and then completed the circuit again. Each time his face grew darker, meaner and more evil.

A growl rumbled in Bella’s chest as she glared back at him. She remained still, only following his movements with her eyes as he continued to pace.

Finally, Demetri bent over, wrapping a hand around her hair again and yanking Bella to her feet. His cold breath washed across her face before his lips pressed against her ear and he whispered, “Try something like that again, and I’ll teach you a real lesson.” His other hand rose, fingers trailing up her torso and across her chest, indicating just what kind of lesson he had been referring to.

So as you've probably guessed, these next couple of chapters are pretty action packed. ;) I'm nervous about posting them, but I really hope you enjoy! Hoping to have the first one up by the end of the week.

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