My goal today was to get up and write a lot; however, in actuality I have slept in with a headache, woken up and read for a while, gotten up and gotten dressed, cleaned up a little around the house, talked to my dad on the phone, and vacuumed the house. A very pleasant surprise, Dad is going to come over and visit this evening. Now, I only live about a half hour from my parents, but I rarely get to see them due to everyone's busy schedules. Figure that my dad works full-time, my mom's taking nursing classes, I've got three kids with soccer, academic team, medical issues, and whatever else, I have to find time to write and read, my husband works full-time and stays busy with our ten acres, it's a miracle that we ever find time to get together. Thankfully, Dad had some free time and we don't have soccer tonight so it was a perfect opportunity to get together. With the beautiful weather, we're going to grill out tonight!
Well, so much for grand writing goals today, but there's always tomorrow. The kids will be home soon and I need to finish up this blog before they get home and want my attention. Things get crazy once they walk in the door!
I'm listening to my iTunes playlist "Mel & Jen". It's got songs that either make me think of my sister or songs she's sent me that help lift me up when I'm feeling down or whatever else I want to add to the mix. Right now, the music of the moment is "Nothing Left to Lose" by Mat Kearney. I think I'm going to use this song in Train Wrecks. I'm not sure, but I love the words to the song and the message of the song. I think it may be one of the songs used around the ending of the book when she finds her redemption in life. As I will possibly use the song that just came on now, "Alive" by Superchick. There are several songs that make me think of different parts of the book and make me anxious to get more written on it.
Unlike The Council which I'm working on writing and leaving things up in the air to work themselves out as I go through it, Train Wrecks is written completely inside my head. I know exactly how it's going to work throughout the book and exactly how it's going to end. I just have to write the book now! If only that were so simple.
On to a book I've already written... The excerpt of the day is also from chapter 12 and is at school that Friday of the bonfire. This starts out set at lunch with Evander, Elyssia, Nate, and Amie.
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Nate was the first one to speak. “After all of this is done, Amie, I think you should take a self-defense class or start karate or judo or something to learn to protect yourself better. We all want to protect you ourselves, but there may be times that we aren’t with you. This whole thing has made me more aware of how vulnerable you could be.”
Amie just glared at him. “Nathaniel Duvall, do you actually think I haven’t already thought of that? I talked to my parents Sunday and even called some places Monday after school. I’m not going to be caught unaware again.”
“I’d actually like to take some classes too, Amie. I mean, I have my abilities to protect myself, but I’d like to be more capable of fighting off an attacker than just telekinetic defensive moves.” I asserted.
Evander looked pleased. “I think it would be a great idea for both of you. I could recommend the place I took classes when we first moved to the U.S. They were reasonably priced and very effective in their beginning classes from what I could tell when I helped teach them. I liked their six-week self-defense class for women. I taught one session of that too. That would be a great way to start out or take it along with beginner’s classes for more of an edge.”
Nate nodded. “I’d feel much better if you follow through and take some defensive classes of some sort at least.”
Amie and Nate kept discussing this idea for a few more minutes while I took the opportunity to speak silently to Evander.
Jackson insisted on walking me to calculus and made a cryptically threatening remark about how he always gets what he wants. I haven’t been able to read him today though. It’s as if there’s a fog over his mind today.
I haven’t been able to read him either and I’ve been trying desperately to do so. You know I’m more experienced at it, so if I can’t, it’s not likely you would have much luck. Although, you are amazingly strong in your abilities, Elyssia.
They don’t seem to be helping me much today. I would feel better if I knew what was on his mind today.
So would I.
Nate was asking Evander a question about the style of karate he had taken, so our conversation was broken off. The remainder of the lunch conversation remained in that vein.
Jackson didn’t seem to be paying much attention to us, although occasionally one of us would catch him looking over towards our table. He was sitting with Kyle and a group of other football players.
When the bell rang, Evander walked with the other three of us to our anatomy class, gave me a quick kiss, and headed on to his honors calculus class.
Jackson came in right behind us but said nothing to Nate or me. “Hello, Amie. How are you doing today? Sorry I didn’t speak to you in English. You seemed to have a lot on your mind.”
Amie gasped, but managed to squeak out a terse answer. “Hi. I’m fine,” she said before hurrying to the table where she and Nate always sat.
Once again, I was stuck sitting with Jackson as we had sat on the first day of class. He was friendlier this time and that worried me. “Hello again, El. I hope you enjoyed your lunch. I was sorry I was unable to sit with you, but I gathered that Evander would not have appreciated that very much.”
“No. He would not have. I don’t think anyone at our table would have liked that,” I said coolly.
“Now, El. Don’t be like that.” He leaned in closely. “Have you thought about what I said before, El? You can stop this all right now. Things don’t have to be like this. I always get what I want.”
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