“I will deal with the witch myself,” she heard a voice hiss as it resounded louder through the hallway.
He was coming for her, and surely he would not be kind, the raven haired girl began to worry. She looked around her surroundings but found that there was nothing she could use to shield herself from him. The cold room was made of stone walls and ( Read more... )

She walked into the room, and like a scene from a movie, the room seemed to stop as all eyes turned toward the entrance and wave of whispers replaced the previous chatter. If anyone would know this feeling, it would be Mina - after all, she had starred in several movies in the past few years. Slowly she walked further into the room, a white tag ( Read more... )

I listened in
Yes I'm guilty of this
You should know this
I broke down and wrote you back
Before you had a chance to
Forget forgotten
I am moving past this giving notice
I have to go

She was the American Dream. Blonde, beautiful and a successful actress. So if she was so perfect, then why was she the one in tears? Why was she on the phone confronting her ( Read more... )

Mina sat in the seat of her school desk, her chin resting in her palm, elbow on the edge of her desk. By all appearances she was staring out the window of her seventh grade English class, a dreamy expression plastered on her face. She had long ago given up on listening to her teacher ramble about punctuation and sentence grammar. Who really needed ( Read more... )

“I’m the size of a manatee,” Mina sighed as she looked at herself in the tall mirror, pulling her silky black shirt over her stomach.
Kai walked up behind her and wrapped his arms around her chest, resting his chin on her shoulder. “Isn’t that even a little dramatic for you?”
“An elephant,” she sighed again, running her hands over her rounded belly.
“ ( Read more... )

Sequel to That's How Rumors Get Started

Joel watched Mina’s retreating form as she walked away from the bar and back to her table. Midway she turned and winked at him before settling in with her friends. He looked over at Kai who had turned back to the bar and was taking a sip of his drink. “I don’t understand how a girl like that could be ( Read more... )

‘She’s crazy!’ I think to myself. ‘I need to get out of here, I need to get away. I can’t let her catch me! Oh!’ my breath catches in my throat as a pair of feet walk past the bed where I am hiding. ‘If I time it just right I will make it to the door. I can do this!’
I look back and forth one last time before making a mad dash from my hiding place. ( Read more... )

“Hurry up, Rei. Get to me already!” Mina urged her friend.
Everyone chuckled at Mina’s impatience as Rei seemed to take her time running her fingers over the astrological charts. “Patience is a virtue, Mina,” Rei clucked her tongue. “Now I suppose you’ll just have to go last.”

Mina sighed, sinking back into her seat. Kai wrapped his arm around her ( Read more... )

Kai stood with his arms crossed, leaning his back against the cool metal of his dark gray SUV. The night had slowly grown colder, forcing him to pull a dark grey sweater over his light colored tee-shirt while he she quietly explained to him what happened. She sat perched in the passenger seat of the vehicle; her sandaled feet rested on the ledge of ( Read more... )

“Is it so hard to believe me?” she asked softly, running her fingers across the surface of the pale plush carpet underneath her. She had long since given up trying to hold back her tears, now allowing them to fall freely down her cheeks in thin rivulets. Her back was pressed firmly against the side of the couch with her legs tucked tightly to her ( Read more... )