Inspired

Today I took the time to motivate myself and outline my novella. I should be able to write the majority of it over Winter vacation. I'll work on an excerpt now for your exclusive reading pleasure:
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"People don't change, Alex. You just have to accept that life can be shitty like that," she said without remorse.

Her tone of voice was cold, gone was the radiant feeling of their faltering friendship.

"It's not fair of you to judge me like that, though. People do grow up, they do figure their shit out. Just because you don't believe in happy endings doesn't mean you should give up on everybody," he cooly replied, knowing that her mind was processing every single word he chose.

The two friends-turned-lovers-turned-friends-turned-foes hashed it out long into the night, but the conversation was futile. Alex, resilient as he may've been, was slowly being picked apart by the almost too focused mind of Elsie. It reminded him of his sophomore year roommate who'd experimented with Adderall. While the drug worked wonders for some, it had adverse effects on his roomie, who wrote 19 long pages into the night that covered but a single page of his organic chemistry textbook. Elsie was the same way, just without the aid of the drug.

It pained Alex as he became aware of the only way Elsie would dictate the conversation. She didn't lose, she was never wrong, and she certainly was incapable of apologizing. She had her trump card on him, but in her fucked up way of processing things, never understood the fundamental definitions of how to forgive somebody, especially a person she'd once claimed to love indefinitely.

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Or something like that. Of course that is raw, unedited text. You get the the idea, though, boy and girl are having problems. It's all I can really offer right now without giving away what would make the story unique from any other boring love story. Plenty of dysfunction, dialogue and learning by the protagonist, Alexander Argyros.


For Now,
TC