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This is from my current WIP. It’s just been submitted so keep your fingers crossed. Here’s the blurb
Cammy’s home life is unusual. He is one of four children by four different fathers all of whom are still in a relationship with his mother (and sometimes each other)
Thorne is from an ultra conservative background and is thrown into the world of communes and unusual combinations when his own family turn their backs on him
Bow is…well Bow.
Can Thorne get over his hangups and see that the three are meant to be together, and will an assassin’s bullet end what happiness he could have found?
We’ve met Cammy and his mother. Now let’s meet Thorne – well Cammy’s impression of Thorne at least. (Sorry it’s s little more than six lines but Thorne needs it) We’ve just discovered that Thorne is a maths genius and computer nerd who has just transferred to the school among a storm of conjecture and rumourmongering.
Despite being totally geeky, Thorne was far from being a geek. He had long black hair, and freakily blue eyes. He denied they were contacts, but most people believed they were. Cammy didn’t. You only had to gaze into them deeply enough and you’d see clearly they were real, just like the emotions that swarmed through them. Guarded, but real.
Somehow, Thorne got away with wearing leather wrist bands, and a long silver earring, even though the school had a no jewellery policy. Cammy’d often wanted to ask about it. Cammy’d often wanted to ask a lot of things, but Thorne wasn’t the most approachable kid in the school. In fact, if there was such a thing, he’d probably have been voted the kid most likely to bite the head off a bat.
“he’d probably have been voted the kid most likely to bite the head off a bat.” I love that line!
It just had to happen 🙂 It’s sad to think there are kids out there who won’t even know what that refers to. It’s scary to think that one day Black Sabbath and the like will be ‘old people’ music. Of course I’m never going to grow old so that won’t apply 😀 I’m going to be eighteen forever.
Intriguing snippet. I’m mostly curious about Cammy’s reluctance to approach Thorne to talk to him and ask questions, given that he has apparently spent a good amount of time gazing into Thorne’s eyes.
It’s all wishful thinking from Cammy’s pov. He’s not had much opportunity to gaze into Thorne’s eyes and has never actually spoken to him. At least I don’t think so. He might have mumbled “hello” once or twice.
I really enjoyed meeting Thorne through Cammy’s eyes.
Next week we’ll see a little more of him that’s not through Cammy’s eyes 😀 Then we’ll meet his dad
I soo wanna know more about Thorne now, plus, this made me think about Ozzy
thank you. I LOVE Ozzy. With Thorne’s image it just had to be done 😀
Fingers crossed on your submission! 🙂
Fantastic description for Thorne’s eyes, and I love that last line!
Love the last line!
Thank you. You will find that Cammy is, in fact, very hard to say no to, especially for Thorne.