My weekends are usually pretty calm, but lately my boyfriend and I have been hanging out with his nephews. We've gone to Boomers more times than I care to admit (although, I did win the ticket jackpot on one of the games!), and we've been playing parents to these guys. But now the weekend is over, and I have a bit of time to finish my last post.
Okay, story #1: (hahaha, when I typed that, the first thing that popped up was for the Hustler club...really, Google?) Olivia Beaucher is from the town of Ashburton, one of the richest parts of the Bay Area. Harper Cahan is just a normal boy from Mapleton, but when he meets Olivia, he knows life is going to be different from that point on. He has no idea how different, though, when he learns that Olivia suffers from bipolar disorder. These two sixteen year olds have to navigate the waters of family, friends, and love, all while dealing with Olivia's incredible highs and lows. Bipolar disorder is a topic that I really wanted to explore, especially since someone very close to me suffers from a mild version of it. I'm trying my best to make it realistic, because I know how this disorder affects people all over the world. So I'm very hesitantly making my way through this world, and I hope I get it within the ballpark of being right.
Story #2: (no more pop-ups from Google? Hmmm...) Emerson has known Max Cooper since she was five, since he was her brother's best friend for almost eight years. He's even her first kiss and first love. Then, suddenly, he's gone. Two years later, when Emerson is starting her sophomore year of high school, Cooper reappears, sweeping her off her feet and telling her the truth about what really went on when he left her life. When I was younger, my brother had this friend that stayed at our house all the freaking time. Then he left, because he and my brother stopped being friends. Nothing ever happened between us, but he kept popping up in my life my first year of high school. I tried writing this story that same year, and I found bits and pieces of it the other month. I thought it it would be interesting to revisit these memories, because the story that I had developed in my mind was too wonderful to be true.
So there you go. We'll see how well these things go. So, far I'm pretty excited about #2, because I'm almost 20,000 words in. I can't seem to stop writing it. Although, I did take a long break this weekend, because of the kids and because I rented Pitch Perfect. Not as bad as I thought. Highly recommend it. But now I have to get back to this life. Breaks are always so nice.
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