Everyone else has gone to bed it's like, in the middle of the night. I have half a cup of Dutch Bros. coffee left and tomorrow I can sleep in as long as I want. I think I might stay up really late and work on a bunch of stories I've been meaning to write. What'cha think, KHV? Sound good?
lol, I will, if I ever get around to finishing them. I have an overactive imagination, and can come up with storylines and characters and whole worlds in no time at all, but writing them all down is where my problem lies. If I had a friend who was an amazing typer, everything would be easier, 'cause I could just tell him my stories and he'd/she'd type them up as I did so, but I don't, so I have all these ideas in my head and half a paragraph to show for it. XP But tonight, I'll at least start my stories so that I can pull them up and work on them whenever I'm bored.
Oooooh is that so? Come up with a character from your imagination, lieeek, right now. Do it. Show me your mad skills. (not doubting ya, just curious)
Jimmy Rodricks was a strange boy. It's not that he was particularly smart, or particularly dumb. He wasn't ugly or good looking, he wasn't brave or wimpy, he was just a little... well, strange. Jimmy was a 9 year-old boy living in the year 2359, and so far, life sucked. His dad was gone, dissappeared when Jimmy was only a baby, his mom was too busy partying to be at home, and he had a 4 year-old half-brother to take care of all by himself. Of course, the state had put them in foster care a couple of times, but that was worse than living with their mom, so these trips never lasted long. School was torture, because all the other boys in fourth grade had cool stuff like Port Z's, the latest video games, and brand name shoes, while Jimmy had to stick with second-hand toys and wore shoes from the goodwill, and the worst of it was, his only pair of shoes used to belong to class favorite Peter Williams, who's father was the richest guy in town, and never was afraid to point out that Jimmy was wearing his old clothes. Normally, boys don't care about that kind of stuff, but with Peter Williams, you coud never live it down. His teacher, Miss Lo, was alright, but she had the knack of calling on Jimmy whenever she wanted to ask a question he didn't know the answer to, and she always made him sit in at reccess because she "thought he looked sick, poor kid." But all that aside, Jimmy was a strange kid. For one thing, he could always tell what a person was going to do just by looking at the person's face. He always knew right when Miss Lo was going to call on him, he always knew when Peter Williams was going to point at him and whisper about his shoes, he always knew whenever Jenna Tyler was going to glance in his direction, so he always tried to look cool when that happened. It was hard to do, though, when you're wearing another man's shoes. Another thing that made Jimmy strange was he could imitate anything he saw. If he heard a wierd noise from a TV program or from the hallways, he coud make the exact noise. If he saw a picture of anything in a book or on the chalkboard, he could draw the same picture, and if he saw somebody making a funny face, he could make his face do the exact same thing as that other face. In fact, this had gotten him in trouble quite a lot, because he did it without meaning to, and people thought he was making fun of them. Peter Williams especially liked to raise his hand and tell Miss Lo that "That boy Rodricks is making fun of you, Miss Lo." Boy, Jimmy hated Peter Williams. But perhaps the strangest thing of all about Jimmy Rodricks was that he sometimes heard voices in his head. Well, just one voice, really. It was a man's voice, strong and deep, and it told him what he should do in certain situations. Like it would tell him to just ignore Peter Williams, and it would tell him to pay attention if he started thinking about other things, like Jenna Tyler. And it told him to be brave in the middle of the night when his mom came home, drunk and angry, or when all the boys chased him home from school, throwing stuff at him, or when he came home from school and found his little brother with a black eye and wouldn't tell how he'd gotten it. Jimmy liked to pretend this voice was his dad, but somewhere deep inside, he knew it wasn't. It was somebody else. Jimmy Rodricks was a strange boy.
Haha, that's funny. Actually, the voice is grown-up Jimmy, trying to change the outcome of his life so he won't end up where he is, in jail for embezzlement. He's trying to instill a sense of caution in his younger self, so he won't be tempted to steal when he's older.
