Bookstores are wonderful

Yes, they are :) I went to a little bookstore today near a cute little mall that had endless supplies of YA books. I couldn't decide! There were just so many. But I found one that interests me. It interested me because it was of the sort about history/journals/YA/action/everything else :D. I don't like boring history classes and all that about like Lewis and Clark, well, I suppose I do like learning about important historical people like Anne Frank and such but this book was just meant for me. I was looking for a big, thick book that would take time to read because I really hate finishing good books like The Deathly Hallows book was a long one but I hated finishing such an awesome series. I haven't even told you the name of the book yet! It's called the Beka Cooper series and the 1st book - the one I'm reading - is called Terrier. It's in journal format of a girl who is becoming a "cop" in a different world.

So that's my book of the day! And I recently finished a retelling of Beauty and the Beast that I really enjoyed called Belle by Cameron Dokey.

Enjoy the rest of your week!

-Emma

P.S. Check out the Book Features page for more books I like!

Ocean Girl Stories

Hi again! I have been gone for...4 days now from the blogosphere! But I'm back! Temporarily. Haha, you knew that was coming didn't you?! :)

I would like to tell you about The Ocean Girl Stories while I have this opportunity to get on the internet. You see, I'm staying at my aunts house and she has internet. I still have my laptop but it doesn't have an internet connection for some odd reason. Anywho, back to OG (Ocean Girl), I decided just...yesterday was it? That I needed a new writing project. I haven't been all that interested in my novel lately for some reason so I have been thinking about new things to write. That's how I came up with Ocean Girl Stories!

They are small parts of the main story at a time like Part I, Part II and so on. They are simply for the craving I have had of writing and I have been missing the ocean since I moved away from it :(

OG is about a girl named Daniella that lives in a beach house by the ocean of course and her father is away sailing. Ever since she was a little girl, she has dreamed of the legends of mermaids and how to become one. Her mother doesn't provide much support to her dreams of mermaids and sailing but soon the matter becomes serious. Daniella is forced to take Violet, the ship her father dedicated to her as a girl because she loves the violet colored sunsets, and go to war on sea. This book/story is a whole new look at mermaids and a more modern version of the sea.

I thought the ocean and mermaids were an interesting topic and ever since I watched Aquamarine, the movie, mermaids simply fascinated me. I'm wierd like that. But I don't really believe in them. They're just cool, you know? :)

So, off I am again. I'm going to continue my adventures on this road trip (I can't reveal my location) but I can tell you it is 95 degree weather up here! I'm not so sure I like the sun. I prefer the rain for some wierd reason. And I went swimming today! That was fun.

See you in a few days! (Possibly 1-2 days with luck :))
-Emma

Road Trip!

Yep! I'm going on a road trip! I'm really excited for some excitement in my life and we are going to be gone for 19 days!!! That's a long time away from home and it's lots of packing! Tomorrow I think I will be packing everything up (I made a check list that has about 30 things on it!) and heading on to the road! At first, we are driving in the car for 3 hours and then we are going to be driving in an RV for a few days! Exciting! Although most people don't enjoy long road trips, I think I am going to enjoy it. And it's almost like being on a tour! Seeing new things, going all kinds of places, meeting new people! :)

And what I was really worried about was losing all that time without a laptop for no writing! I have way to many ideas to write down to not have my laptop! But it turns out, I will have the laptop and if I didn't, I would hand write. But, don't you just hate writing in a notebook? I know some people like it but most people don't like their handwriting. I know I don't.

Oh yeah and about that progress tracker on the sidebar of how much I have finished - it has more now. I haven't updated the progress bar yet. So, even if it says 2% for weeks when I'm on vacay, it's really much much more :)

I'm really looking forward to a long trip! I can't stop thinking about it! But it's only Wednesday and I have to wait until Friday to get on the road!

My story of the day

Haha! Okay, so, I was on this thing that calculates how much you have done of your essay/book/whatever out of like 50,000 words and it turns out...my book is only 2% done. That is so ridiculous I laughed. I don't know why I haven't been working on it for more than a half an hour a day lately, summer laziness is getting to me! Writing has become homework lately! And I have no idea why! I have everything in my head and I'm all excited about creating the piece of the story about it... but then when I sit down at my computer and start writing I don't know where to go! Writing is so fun for me but at times like these...I feel that it's very, very, hard to get an idea into concrete form on paper. Ah, well, better luck the next time I sit down at my computer to write :)

Other than that, I think that I have finally gotten the basic idea that the whole story will surround around. As I've said before, I have started over on the whole story which was really a drawback because I don't have nearly as much writing as before but it really was necessary. I mean, it was really unorganized and all the stories in there were jumbled and I almost pulled my hair out trying to fix it to make it make sense! So, I started over which much thinking. Now, I started it off with a whole new beginning and I have even started it with a new boy character named Donavan. Not Liam and Seth. I'm trying to get to the part where Liam finds Seth at his house but I'm not sure if I should put that in Chapter 2. I don't know.

Enough about my book. I'm going to the airport in about an hour to pick up my grandfather and I'm not even dressed for the day yet. Life can really get ahead of you if you wear PJs around the house on all your summer days! It's probably best that I am not doing that as often. And today is only the second day of summer!

I really had better go get ready...I can't leave Grandpa stranded! :)

Wish me luck on Linked!

-emma

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld Interview!

That's right! It's the first book summary and interview I have ever posted on this blog! Yay! And this one is about Uglies! By Scott Westerfeld!

Book Description: Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license—for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there.

But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to be pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world—and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever.

"With a beginning and ending that pack hefty punches, this introduction to a dystopic future promises an exciting series."
Kirkus Reviews (starred)

"Highly readable with a convincing plot that incorporates futuristic techonologies and a disturbing commentary on our current public policies. Fortunately, the cliff-hanger ending promises a sequel."
School Library Journal (starred)

An interview Scott Westerfeld did about Uglies with Check Your Pulse, Simon and Schuster's book newsletter for teens.

Q: How did you get the idea for a futuristic society where everyone is made pretty?

A: We are definitely heading toward a world in which lots of people will get to decide how they look. That will change what we think of as beautiful, and what beauty means to us. So some people stay the way they look, because that's cool or radical. Some won't change because they're rich and powerful—like when famous directors go to some fancy Hollywood restaurant in an old T-shirt and baseball cap; it shows they can get away with it. Other people will try to outdo each other, and manipulate themselves in ways that we don't consider remotely pretty right now.

So thinking these thoughts, I wanted to write a future in which these technologies were fairly common. And in my future, the local government forces you to have an acceptable face—that is, a certain kind of pretty face. Sort of like now, when adults try to control how teenagers dress, cut their hair, use make-up, and get tattoos or piercings. This is the stuff of rebellion.

(Also, I was inspired by Ted Chiang's excellent story, "Liking What You See: A Documentary," about a technology that allows people to switch off their ability to see human beauty, so they can concentrate on the more important aspects of who people are. Fascinating stuff.)

Q: Do you agree with Tally when she claims people have a genetic disposition to think symmetry is pretty?

A: I think genes do affect the way we perceive beauty, but not completely. Nature and culture both play a role, just like in everything else we do. According to a lot of research, people have evolved to be attracted to symmetry—the left half of your face looking like the right half. Symmetry is a quick way of telling if someone was well fed as a child, which affects your intelligence, immune system, and general health your whole life. We get a happy feeling when we see a symmetrical face, because we think that person will be a good mate, or at least won't cough and spray us with deadly germs.

But culture is just as active in making us decide which people are sexy. A hundred years ago, Europeans thought being pale was hot, because it meant you didn't have to work outdoors (so you were rich). These days among white people, being tanned is hot, because it means you can afford to go to the beach. But I think pale is coming back, because it means you don't have skin cancer. People have genes, but they also have brains.

Q: Some people think we're all heading toward a society where everyone looks the same—a natural result of diverse societies, with people meeting and mixing. How is this different than making everyone "Pretty" like they do in the book?

A: Certainly, humanity is starting to "average" our looks. As more people immigrate across the world and intermarry, we'll see a lot more faces that are a mash-up of Asian, African and European features (and South American, Australian Aboriginal, Fiji Islander, Inuit, etc.).

But intermarrying is different than the pretties in my book. Pretties (like people who get nose jobs) are all engineered to look the same, which is boring. When people marry across racial lines, however, they create whole new ways of looking. How much cooler is that?

Q: How did the Rusties' society end? Will you ever write about that?

A: Each book in the Uglies series will have more of that story. But the short version is that the Rusties (who are us, basically) were too dependent on oil. One day, a bacteria was created that changed the nature of oil and made it wildly unstable. As this "oil-bug" spread, everyone's car exploded, as did the oil fields we were all fighting over. Food didn't get delivered to cities, planes stopped flying, and transportation in general broke down. Relatively few of us survived.

Uglies takes place a long time later. It's a society that is justifiably afraid of the whole global-meltdown thing happening again. But alas, it's a society that has been made paranoid by its history, and hates human innovation and difference. Which often makes it a less-than-fun place to be a teenager (except for the hoverboards).

Q: Do you think that the importance of beauty varies between different parts of the world? Is it just Americans with our reality TV shows that are so focused on appearance and beauty?

A: Most cultures I know of are obsessed with beauty (though different kinds of beauty, of course). All through human history we have ornamented ourselves with clothes, jewelry, tattoos, brands, scars, suntans, make-up, etc. Modern plastic surgery is no more or less crazy than sticking a bone through your cheek.

What's different now is an explosion of new technology, which always makes things interesting. And given that Americans are richer than the rest of the world, we have more time to worry about this stuff, and more money to mess with our faces. That puts us ahead of everybody else, and makes us guinea pigs as well . . .

Q: Did you write this book as a cautionary tale?

A: Uglies isn't about dire warnings, it's about thinking things through. The more we think about this stuff, the better our choices will be.

But here's my cautionary tale: I have a gorgeous friend who has a really big nose. When she was sixteen, she desperately wanted surgery to make her look more like everybody else. Fortunately she kept her own face. Because these days everyone agrees that though she'd be cute with a cute little nose, she is totally striking and sexy now because of her fabulous schnoz.

Don't forget, a few decades ago girls who were "too tall" were given drugs to slow their growth. Now it rocks to be tall. My main advice is: stick to make-up, clothes, hair dye, and minor piercings when you're young. Everything else is way too permanent.

I hope you enjoyed reading about Uglies! More book reviews are coming your way later!

-emma

To Fans...

Hi fans! I got a form submission from a huge fan on my official website and it was so sweet I want to reply to her in some way...so I am creating a message for all my fans!

Dear Fans,

Thanks so much for all the sweet fan mail that has recently been piling up on my desk from when I print them off :) I love to hear from all of you with your opinions, suggestions, and compliments. Whenever I read one, it makes my day to think that I am so admired. Although my book is still a work in progress, all of you show so much support that I can't even believe! You are all brilliant and special and I hope you continue sending me fan mail and comments. I love you all so much! Keep up your wonderful lives and please stay in touch with me although I am busy with plans, family, writing of course, and everything else! But I will definitely make time for everyone else.

Again, thank you for your support and encouragement. It has helped me a ton.

Love,

Emma of Emma & Life

So, there you go. Come back soon and keep sending me things. I am so grateful to all of you :)

Random

Hi everybody! I'll tell you about my Saturday. Well, I got up at 6:30 (ugh- it's summer for crying out loud! And a Saturday!) and left to go to my church at 8:00 so I could do a 5 mile hike with my group! 5 miles at 8 o'clock in the morning! Unbelievable! Anyway, we hiked 5 miles of torture/fun but it was mostly tiredness and to top all the ugh-ness off, I was sick. Talk about a wonderful Saturday. But you don't want to sit here and listen (well...read) to my complaints. I was doing hiking and such for 5 hours and then when I get home I make this whole big schedule of things I want to do practically every half hour but here I am, giving up on my schedule. Who likes a schedule? Life is too short to worry about schedules. Not a typical Saturday of watching TV all morning :D but oh well.

And there's something I'm really excited about! I'm going to be doing a book review in the next post...don't trust me when I say I will post it in a few minutes. I will try to post it today when I can!

Oh yeah! And the contest is canceled. :( I don't have enough resources for that contest this month but hopefully soon!

See you later...or...then!

-Emma :)

Friday Facts

I think Fridays are the perfect time for us all to try something new so I am going to start my weekend off with a bit of fun facts about me, myself, and I! :)

Class of 2016!

I love camping (camp fires!)

Almost every second of my free time, you will find me reading or writing

I love making up stories and sharing them with people...you have no idea. :D

I LOVE blogging!

Sometimes you will find me doing the most random things.

Like, yesterday, I was seeing how long I could hold my hands in the air :)

I have an obsession of Taylor Lautner

My favorite store is the Dollar Store :)

I enjoy sliding on hardwood floors.

During the summer, I make To-Do lists every day so that I can't say I'm Bored.

It has become a habit of mine to say "I'm bored," even when I'm not bored...It makes my parents mad. ;)

I enjoy surfing the web (doesn't everyone?!)

Twilight is starting to bug me :P

I like finding people on YouTube who sing covers of my favorite song such as Christine Kiberg (a.k.a "stauney123 on YT) I love her accent!

Usually, in my purse I have lip gloss, a book (I'm pretty sure I'm not a nerd...just a book worm and...a writing worm?), mascara, pennies at the bottom, bobby pins of course, my writing journal, cellie :), and things that I occasionally throw in there.

I hope you enjoyed the facts! Comment and Follow on the sidebar! Come back to hear more from me! Enjoy your weekend!

Summer!!!

Hey again! I'm happy to announce that more blogging will be around what with today being the last day of school here!

...Today I will get my laptop back and will start writing again! Hopefully finishing Chapter One of the second version tonight!

And I found out on Monday that Holly Cupala, author of Tell Me A Secret is doing a virtual tour about TMAS throughout weeks of going to different blogspots! Here is part of the sched. in her words:

"Week #1: June 14 - June 18


Monday: Market My Words - discussing the road to publication, marketing, and readergirlz!
Tuesday: Amy Brecount-White - chatting about flowers and the secrets of my past...
Wednesday: Book Chic Club - James is featuring excerpts, reviews, and secrets all week!
Thursday: Through the Tollbooth - all about the writing journey...
Friday: Alley of Books - art tour and exclusive vlog reading by me, plus a special message for Mitali..."

To see Holly along the road and to read her daily posts go to Holly Cupala.com!

Thanks for reading my blog everyone!
-Emma

More updates on my book

I have been slacking on updating you on my book so here is some info I haven't shared anywhere else:

I don't have my laptop to work on it so I will have to wait until I get that back and as I said before, I have started over with the whole thing so it will take me a while to get to the place I was at with the other version :(

My second version isn't even a page long due to no laptop :( but I have soo much I want to write! The story is evolving in my head so much it's almost in my head too much...I must write it down!! :D

I'm having a lot of progress on it...in my head but until I have my laptop back, it will have to wait!

Love you!
-Emma

Announcements

I have some very important things to tell you that you might be interested in! :)

.First of all, I'm starting a few new pages with different things on them.

.Second of all, I'm going to be hosting a few contests!!! So excited about those!!

.AND I will be doing reviews of books every once and a while so you can find some good YA books to read :)

Go to the Contests page when it is completed and see all the news about the contests! And in a few minutes I will be posting a book review of North of Beautiful!

See you then! <3

Another Day In My Life/ 25 questions

Hi everyone! I'd like to just start off my day with blogging so that I can get my mind off something other than school. This is it! It's the last 4 1/2 days of school!!! I am so excited for a looong vacation I can hardly wait five days! It still hasn't sunk in and I'm sure it won't until Friday when we have just a few hours of nothing. And you don't even have to go to school because there's no attendance. So what's that point of having it?! It's really kind of non-logical to me :P. Anyway, I found a blog that's really fun and funny. Click here. And there was a fun quiz on it that I'm going to try out:

1. Do you sleep with your closet doors open or closed?
It depends. I'm usually too careless about closing it after I'm done in it and...you can't even see the floor it's sooo messy :)

2. Do you take the shampoos and conditioner bottles from hotels?
I never take them from the hotels. I never really think about it and they get used up in one day anyway :P

Continued...

It's A Snake!!

I have to tell you what happened today. Earlier today, I posted that I was going to be bored all day but I really wasn't!! I went with my dad and brother, Ethan, to an archery range because I do archery! And for fun. Anyway, at the end of the hike and at the last target, we were going to stop at the bathrooms because my brother needed to go. He walked over...opened the door...hesitated for a moment and came back. But he didn't just come back. He ran back with his eyes bugging out practically yelling "It's a snake!!!"!!! It was not funny at the time because we were like "What?!" and when we saw it slither out, our eyes bugged out too and it was just like a rattle snake (size) but wasn't really a rattle snake!!! My dad tried to get it onto my bow like the pro.s do but it didn't work at first.

It finally stayed on my bow and crawled around on it. It was big. I wanted to hold it if it wasn't poisonous but I couldn't. Then, when I remembered Ethan's face, we all started bursting out with laughter. It was so funny! :D

My brother didn't want to go back into the bathrooms...he was too scared. :)

That story was just so funny I had to tell you about it. Archery was fun for the first 6 targets and then it was hot and I didn't want to hike anymore. My dad said if I hit a bullseye from the 20 point, he would get me ice cream and on the third try (I wasn't really trying and I didn't think I could do it) I made it! And then my brother had to make a bullseye to get his icecream :)

I still laugh thinking about today!

Switching things around

News! News! News! I've decided that my first draft of Linked was very unorganized and I was having a very hard time putting everything back in order and editing it to be how I wanted so I just decided this morning that I would start over. Yep, you heard me right. I'm so excited for the new one although it's going to take me even longer to write it...but! I'm still so happy for myself!

Oh yeah and I found out TODAY that they changed Blogger and now you can make your template all cool and fancy! It's called Template Designer and I just tried it out! Do you like???

Emma In Every Way is the site that I was talking about in a previous post but just know that if you visit it, I haven't gotten around to fixing it so there's not much to it and the Home page is very boring if you ask me :)

I thought I'd spread the word that Stephenie Meyer's novella to Eclipse is now available to read ONLINE!!! Only temporarily though :( A little bit about it: This book is Bree Tanner's story. Bree is (was) a newborn vampire that only lived a very short second life.

Click here!!

Hmmm...let me think...is there any other news? Uhm...well, this Saturday is so slow going I don't know what I have on my planner so maybe I'll just write Linked and visit stores...

I've looked online for things to do when bored and my favorite thing to look at is what other people do in their free time, like, people my age that are teens.

So, here's something fun for you to look at and maybe I'll even make a new page for fun stuff!

In my spare time, I like to read and write but I don't like to sit on the couch all day doing that so in my other spare time I like to go outside and look at the shapes the clouds make while sitting in the grass (well...until my brother comes and bothers me), writing my own songs and creating chords on the piano that go along with them, blogging!, playing random games, send letters to people or write letters that no one will ever read, write some more, and you would be sitting here for years reading all the things that I do in my spare time because lately I've had a lot of it!! Yeah. That's my life for you. Boring but exciting at the same time :D

Check back later for news because I might want to blog more during my boredom today...unless I'm occupied with Liam and Seth and Arabelle and Alison :) (If you don't know who they are...they're the characters in my book. The main characters)

AND I ALMOST FORGOT!!!

I came up with a little bit more to post about my book:

Arabelle is the main person that tells the story about the twins, she is the one saying all the I's and the "My sister Alison"'s.

Alison is Arabelle's twin and is based on a real life person even the name!

Liam is my dream boy :)

Seth is Alison's dream boy...I think? :) I'll try to make it that way as much as possible...:D

Hope you like the book when it comes out!

Love you!

-Emma

New Site

I'm not going to be using Forever Emma <3 anymore :( But I made a new site called Emma In Every Way using Webs! To see it, type in www.emmaineveryway.webs.com or copy and paste it into there! Thanks everyone <3

-Emma

No more chapters :(

From now on, you'll have to ask me personally to read my chapters :( And that is because I don't like posers who act as the author of my book.

Today...

is going to be a horrible day. First of all, I have to go to school. I go to Junior High by the way. And I have to do a whole bunch of miserable projects and I have to run a mile in gym class! (which I am horrible at) :(

Anyway, here's my real post ;)

Hey guys!

I hope you are looking forward to a great week because I know I'm not! But, at least school's almost over and we will be free!!! I'm going on a long trip this summer in an RV...

So yeah.

I'm deciding if I should post Chapter 2 or if I should post my revised Chapter One. I wasn't all the way finished with Chapter 1 so I added a bit and now Chapter 1 is so long! I'm so excited about my book!!! :P I hope it gets published! If there's anything else you would like to hear about me go to my official site here. :) :)

Talk to you later?

<3, Emma

Chapter 1

I have a page for my chapters but I will post chapter one on here anyway:

CHAPTER 1. Run

Given the circumstances, I wasn’t sure which way to turn. My twin sister, Alison, trailed along behind me, looking for a place to hide from the things that lurked in the bushes and rose above our head. I wasn’t even exactly sure what I was going to do with all these distractions. People looked at us as if we were crazy, as we stood in the middle of the sidewalk looking around frantically. No place was good enough. Finally Alison shook my shoulder and pointed to an alley. Bad idea. I shook my head at her. That would be even worse than the middle of the street. We couldn’t talk. If we were heard, it would hear us without seeing us. If we moved too much or if we ran, it would certainly catch us.

Suddenly we collapsed into darkness and I could hear my sister’s thoughts as we fell.

Liam looked out his window, watching the rain drizzle down the glass on the outside. He heard the shuffling of someone…somewhere. He looked down from his window. Seth? No way, he thought. He didn’t open the window, not wanting to get soaked by the downpour of rain that fell from the clouds. He pointed to the right indicating that Seth should go that way. Seth nodded, dripping water from his dark blonde hair as he did so. Liam walked out of his room, curious of Seth’s sudden reappearance. Seth had been gone for a long amount of time. Ever since January and there was no trace of him in this town. His parents went missing too. The only thing was, there was some connection between him and Liam that neither of them could place.

They both could sense each others’ feelings. When Seth went missing, Liam could feel his anxiousness and his fear. Liam also knew Seth tried to hide his feelings from the world beyond his head. But somehow Liam could hear them so clearly in his.

“What are you doing?!” Liam said when he met Seth by the back door. Seth wore a wind breaker and shorts. You have got to be kidding me, thought Liam. Seth grinned and then choked on the rain that escaped into his mouth. Liam laughed. Well, at least I know it’s the real Seth.

“Come on. There’s a party at Melody’s house,” Seth’s feelings were full of adrenaline like he had just jumped off some really tall height. Probably did, thought Liam as he shook his head.

"Are you kidding me? I haven't seen you in...um...let me think, years! And you want to just go out and..party as soon as you get back?!"

“What’s your deal?” Seth questioned.

“I’m not like that anymore,” Liam replied, waiting for Seth to argue but, surprisingly, did not find an argument.

“Okay. Well, then, what do you want to do all night without a party?” Seth looked like it was unbelievable that Liam had passed his phase of trouble making.

“I don’t know,” Liam shrugged. Seth still dripped rain from his head, down the 6 feet 4 inches of his tall form. The shorts he wore clung to his legs and the wind breaker floppily laid against his chest.

“Where did you go all this time? I have a lot of questions,” Liam said. Liam looked back around his house and listened for the sounds of anyone approaching.

“No one can know I’m here,” Seth said. Liam grabbed his jacket and put the hood up and walked out into the rain. At first, there was no sensation. No pounding of rain on his head. No shivers down his spine. Suddenly, it all came to him like a blast of feelings all at the same time.

“Cool huh?” Seth said.

“What was that and how did you do it?” Liam accused Seth.

“Hey! I didn’t do it! It happened to me a long time ago. You’ll get used to it. My parents say it’s something that will happen to only me and you,” Seth explained. He caught more rain in his mouth and choked again.

“Whatever,” Liam said and started walking again, apparently not in the mood for chit-chat.

“Hey. I know I’ve been gone for well…forever but I promise I will tell you everything! So lighten up okay?” Seth realized where they were going. Back to the place where it all started. The oak tree that was said to be planted over a thousand years ago with weird symbols all over it. It didn’t matter anymore. It was over and there was nothing they could do about it.

I woke up in the middle of the street, right where we had fallen. Many people looked at us with foreheads creased in nervousness and anticipation for us to open our eyes and say everything was okay. Everyone broke into noise when they saw me opening my eyes.

“Oh! I’ve called an ambulance,” One woman said with her small child hiding behind her leg said.

“It’s okay,” Someone else said

“Someone lift her up,” In the background, somebody sounded concerned.

“No just let her lay there,” Someone said.

“Everybody calm down!” Another said, impatiently. I closed my eyes once more and tried to tune all the sounds out of my head. Pretty soon I could hear my sister’s thoughts again. I jumped when I heard someone else’s when I closed my eyes.

“Hello?” I thought, trying to talk to Alison through our minds. Weird.

“Wow! Is that you Ara?” Alison thought, using my nickname for Arabelle.

“Yeah, didn’t you notice we could do this when we blacked out?” Alison looked at me and shook her head.

“Well…this is new,” I said out loud. Everybody looked at me with faces of confusion.

“Never mind, go on with your business,” I stood up and pulled Alison with me. I started to walk off. Everybody who was helping us watched us leave, frozen with disbelief. Maybe we should stay and wait for the ambulance, I thought. I heard that, Alison said through her thoughts too.

“We shouldn’t get into the habit to talk like that to eachother or we would be the silent freaks of the entire high school,” I explained aloud.

“Okay. And fine, let’s go back,” We turned around to see that all the people were still standing frozen. Everybody shook their heads and asked us what we were doing.

“We’re going to set things straight with the ambulance,” I replied to all of their many questions.

The ambulance arrived soon after our indecision with much confusion as to why they were sent out here.

“We just wanted more people to join the party,” I said sarcastically. “I’m just kidding. We did have an emergency but we’re fine now,” I concluded.

“What was the emergency?” One man with big glasses and a bushy mustache that came with the ambulance asked. By his big white coat I guessed he was the doctor.

“We got knocked out or something and then all the people called 911 because people always do that when they think someone is badly hurt,” Alison said. Wow. I didn’t think she had that much in her. Maybe it would be better if I couldn’t read your mind because by the way I heard that! Alison thought to me with a mad tone behind it.

“Something’s wrong,” I said suddenly. The trees behind all of the people and the ambulance were shaking. The screech of a car stopped on the other side of the street. Black windows. Black car. The shaking stopped. All of my observations were interrupted as Alison nearly yelled my name to get my attention.

“Ara!” She said loudly.

“What?!” I replied.

“Look!” Maybe a million eyes rose out of the bushes, each one different in one way or another.

“Maybe we should take a look at you two…” The doctor said. Unsure of our behavior. Could nobody see what we were seeing?! Is it possible that the “things” we have been seeing all our lives were just our imagination or some impossibility we thought up? No. It’s not. It couldn’t be. I know I’m not imagining all this. Alison thought.

“No. It’s fine but we have to go immediately,” I waved good-bye to everyone on the sidewalk and ran away from the ambulance with its lights still creating the illusion of a red and blue sidewalk.

“What are we doing here?” Seth asked. They walked through the overgrowth and the branches that blocked their way. Everything was lit by slivers of light breaking through the trees. Something rustled behind the leaves but Liam didn’t look or flinch. He kept sturdily walking through the trees, not talking to Seth.

Welcome

Welcome to the new blog of my book. I haven't named my book yet and I'm looking for publishers right now but I am hoping it will be on bookshelves in 2011! *crosses fingers* So, I just hope you enjoy my blog and like the first few chapters of my book! (The chapters are a bit long...:))