Everyone kept talkin' about how much they hated hospitals. Hospitals didn't really bother me that much. No one I'd ever known had ever been sick or anything, so I had no reason to fear or hate these places. The only think makin' me hate the hospital was the fact that my boyfriend was lying unconscious in one with wounds so deep, I was surprised the ( Read more... )

So here it was. The big day. The battle. I'd been barely doing this Slayer thing for a few months now and only spent a couple of those at the school. I was probably the most unprepared person for it. I kept thinking that, as they gathered us up in the the library and the grim look on everyone's faces told me they all knew or were at least half ( Read more... )

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((Set after Molly and Kennedy are done.))I missed Jude. Somethin' big and bad was apparently going down, and someone was targeting Slayers. My first instinct was that that something was a little person I liked to call my former best friend Alexia Osborn. Whatever. She's not former. She's still my best friend. It's just hard, since she'd like to ( Read more... )

"Shhh," I said, when Jude protested the new job I'd gotten. He kept insisting that he could take care of me. Kacie was never at the beach house, so even if his parents ever did decide to come home from Europe, I'd still have a place to live. He said that he'd pay my cell phone, and buy me clothes, and take me out to dinner every night so that I was ( Read more... )

The phone call has barely ended by the time the hard plastic of her cell phone is cracking, breaking against the hard ceramic tile in the kitchen floor. "Whatever you do, don't fall in the kitchen," Kacie had warned her. "The tile's imported. It'll crack your skull." But she doesn't even hear it. The mock echoes of bone breaking on foreign ceramic ( Read more... )

"It's just temporary," Is what her mother told her the day that the entire world turned upside down and then came crashing down on them both. His double life was exposed because the truth? There's a thing you can't run from. No matter how hard you try, how much money you have, how well you lie. Eventually, it catches up with you. It all catches up ( Read more... )

Have I got any secret admirers out there? Leave me some anon loving. Keep it anon, though - the mystery's all the better. Wouldn't be a secret admirer, otherwise ( Read more... )

"That's so not fair, Mom!" I screamed into the phone to no avail. She was being so ridiculous, and what was worse, my dad was being just as bad. They finally got on the same page about something, and it was this. And by this, I mean they were totally destroyin' my life ( Read more... )

"Stupid luggage." I muttered, to myself, as I pulled the large Louis Vuitton trunk out from under the four poster bed I'd been sleeping on while staying with Kaci this summer. It wasn't the luggage's fault that my flight was already booked and I was finally leaving in a few days to go back to Shreveport. And that I didn't want to go. But inanimate ( Read more... )