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Adam is a bit more mobile now, but it looks as if he's about to get himself into some unwanted trouble....
Well, dear reader, we're now halfway through Part 1. I just finished a marathon re-write of Chapter 9, which is now roughly twice the size of most other chapters. Therefore work on Part 2 is a bit behind schedule. Part 2 is much better outlined at this point than Part 1 ever was, so I'm confident I'll be able to crank it out much faster than Part 1.
This week on Adam and the Ants:
A short time later, Eddie nudged me with an elbow. "Don't look," he muttered, "but I think one of the girls sitting with the Heads is looking at you."
Of course, the first thing I did was whip my head around to look.
Scanning the area where the Heads congregated, I found the girl Eddie was talking about and made a split-second of eye contact with her before she looked away, blushing. She was about my height, and cute in a plain-Jane sort of way. She was dressed nearly identically to her contemporaries in jeans and a black t-shirt, but while the others wore heavy eye make-up and had their hair teased out to extreme lengths, she kept her hair in a simple pony tail and wore little if any make-up. She looked familiar, but I couldn't place her.
I dismissed Eddie's belief that the girl had been watching me for any reason other than the novelty of my cast and crutches. Why else would anyone be looking at me?
Adam finally gets to see what all the excitement over Tito's is about. It also seems that Adam has an admirer...
Only one song this week: "Bully" by Shinedown. This is one of a select few songs which weren't out by 1984, but are included for their near-perfect fit in the story.The Adam and the Ants 'soundtrack' is available for free listening on Spotify at http://bit.ly/13U48s1
This week's songs are Birthday by the Beatles* and Thriller by Michael Jackson. The Adam and the Ants 'soundtrack' is available for free listening at http://bit.ly/13U48s1
*Almost nothing from The Beatles' extensive catalog is available on spotify (wankers!) so I had to make do with a cover instead.
This week on Adam and the Ants:
I felt the tears welling up. I couldn't let all of these people see me cry. We would all be starting high school in less than two months! If anyone saw me crying today, I would never live it down.
Remembering how watching the ant farm always calmed me down, I tried to think of an excuse to go upstairs. I would only have a moment or two before Mom lit the candles the candles and brought the cake out.
"Um... uhh... excuse me for a moment, everyone," I stammered. I clumsily worked my way through the crowd toward the stairs.
"You okay, pal?" Brett asked as I passed. He had been chatting with Cindy Harris, one of Charlotte's East Middle friends.
"Everything is fine," I stated, perhaps a bit too enthusiastically. "I'll be right back."
There is no way to hurry up or down steps on crutches, but I tried anyway. I could feel most of my guests watching me wrangle my way upstairs. I felt my ears redden with embarrassment at the thought, but kept going. Finally I reached the landing, out of sight from the audience below, and made my way to my room.
The moment I sat down at my desk, the stress began to melt away. "Thanks, guys," I said to the denizens of the farm. "I thought I could handle myself without Charlotte here, but I guess I was wrong."
Then that weird thing happened again. The thing where the voice in my head spoke...
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