《Cellphone Swap》Chapter Three
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I woke up and looked at a guy. I was laying on his chest and his arm was wrapped around me. When I realizing what was happening a small scream escaped my lips and I jumped and fell off the bed. "Are you okay?" A husky male voice said.
"Yeah... did we do anything?" I asked sitting up to look at the guy. "Nate?" My eyes went wide and I put my face against the bed.
"We didn't do anything." Nate said, his voice was extremely sexy from just waking up. I let out a breath of relief and picked my head back up. "Do you always cover your face when you get embarrassed?"
"Yeah." I said while giggling. "Wait! Did Aidan kiss another girl last night or did I dream that?" I asked getting off the ground and standing up.
"He kissed Chelsea." He said as my heart dropped.
"What a fucking prick." I said while rolling my eyes. Nate laughed and nodded his head. I turned around and walked into the bathroom that was attached to the room. I looked at myself in the mirror and saw my makeup was still perfect. My hair was a little messy but it didn't look horrible. I walked back out of the bathroom and walked over to Nate. His hair was messy but it still looked cute. I sat down next to him and ran my hand through his hair. "You've got some messy hair." I said while giggling.
"Yeah." Nate said as a deep chuckle left his lips.
"Wait are we still at Mike's house?" I asked realizing I didn't know where I was. Nate nodded his head, keeping his gorgeous blue eyes locked on me. I looked down at his lips as I bit down on my own. I meet his eyes again. I moved a little closer to him and placed my hand on his. I let my other hand trace his jawline and then I looked down at his lips again. Nate started to inch his face closer to mine. Our lips were inches apart from one another.
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There was a loud bang on the door and we both jumped away from each other. "My parents are gonna be home in an hour so get the fuck out." Mike's voice said through the door.
"Okay." I said back.
Nate and I stood up from the bed and walked over to the door. I unlocked it and pulled the door open. "Holy shit, what happened to your neck?" Nate asked moving my hair to look at something on the back of my neck. "Jesus that's one hell of a hickey."
"Where?" I asked. He placed his thumb on a part of my neck. "Oh my god what if Aidan gave it to me the other night when I was asleep."
"You could look at that picture I sent you, maybe you could see it." Nate said as we walked downstairs. Mike and a couple of his friends were busy cleaning up the house.
"Natalie how could you sleep with our rival school's quarterback?" Mike asked laughing.
"I didn't sleep with him." I said back. "Super fun party, have a nice day." I grabbed Nate's hand and pulled him out the door.
"Do you want to go get breakfast?" Nate asked.
"Sure." I said as we started walking down the steps of the house. Nate handed me his hoodie so I could be more covered. "Thank you." I pulled it over my head and was engulfed in the warmth of it. I pulled my hair into a pony tail as we were walking down the street to the closest diner.
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We walked inside the Clove Diner and the hostess took us to a table. She left two menus and walked away, giving Nate a flirtatious wink. I couldn't hold back the eye roll. Nate and I sat down across from each other. The waiter came over and smiled at me. "Hey I'm Ryan, what can I get you two?" The waiter asked, keeping his gaze on me.
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"Can I please have silver dollar pancakes and an iced tea." I said while smiling back up at him.
Nate cleared his throat, which made Ryan and I turn to him. "Could I get some waffles with vanilla ice cream on top."
"Sure it all should be out in ten minutes." Ryan said giving me one last smile before walking off. Nate brushed his legs up against mine, which made me turn my head to look at him.
"You are a shameless flirt, aren't you?" Nate said smirking.
"And you aren't?" I said back with a cocky smile. Nate laughed and ran a hand through his hair.
"I'm only flirty with you." Nate said with a smile across his face.
"What a line." I said while giggling. Nate's smile grew wider and he pushed his knee against mine. I puckered my lips a tiny bit with a smirk dancing across my face.
"Damn I wish I had my phone right now." Nate said. "This would be the perfect picture."
"Why?"
"You just look really pretty." Nate said as he ran a hand through his hair.
"Thank you." I said quietly as a small smile on my lips. I reached my hand across the table and placed my hand on top of his. I bit down on my lip as Nate stood up and came onto my side of the booth. He grabbed my hand in his making me smile. Nate leaned down closer to me and was about to kiss me when two loud sounds came to my ears making me jump back.
I looked over at Ryan who had just put the two plates on the table. "Here you two go." He said, sending me a wink.
"Jesus can you not flirt with her." Nate said while glaring at Ryan.
"She's flirting back." Ryan said with a cock smirk. "You better take control of her. Natalie Andrews is one of the biggest hoes at school." My cheeks started to blaze red and I quickly looked down at the table.
"Wanna say that again?" Nate said as his fists clenched.
"Natalie Andrews is a hoe." Ryan said. Nate stood up and punched him in the face. He fell onto the floor with blood gushing from his nose.
"Let's go." I said standing up and grabbing his hand. I pulled him out the door and kept walking down the street. "Guys say that all the time. It really doesn't matter, you didn't have to hit him."
Nate stopped walking and spun me around. "Guys say that to you all the time?" Nate asked.
"Yeah cause a lot of guys said we slept together, even though I'm still a Virgin." I said while laughing. "And even Aidan did it." A tear rolled down my cheek as I looked down at the concrete. Nate pulled me into a hug and wiped away the tear on my cheek. I looked up and stared into his blue eyes. "I loved him..." I said while biting my lip to stop myself from crying.
"He isn't worth it." Nate said, "Natalie, you're gorgeous and he should count himself lucky that you gave him a second of your time." I wrapped my arms around his neck and pulled his head down closer to me. Our lips were about to touch when there was a honk coming from a car.
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Sword System Academia
2/17 NOTICE: I'm putting this on hiatus, possibly permanently. I didn't want to spam with an "update chapter", so hopefully here and in the story blurb will get enough eyeballs. There are a couple reasons for ending SSA for now. 1) I wrote the next chapter but wasn't happy with it. I've been less and less satisfied with SSA's quality the more I thought about it. Part of the reason is... 2) I am seriously thinking about trying to publish some novels to help pay the bills, since I don't have my other source of income anymore. I have never asked for anything from SSA readers, no money, not even a review or rating. SSA is written for fun to amuse myself, primarily, and I would kind of feel bad actually charging someone money for something as unserious as that. I don't think it is good enough to ask anything in return. To use an analogy from music, SSA is more like a jam session with a bunch of friends. You're just chiling and having fun playing some music. I mean, if you are Mozart or even Eminem, your jam session is good enough to sell, but for an amateur beginner like myself, haha, no. If I want to publish something, I feel like I need to go the proper route of practice and rehearsals, which might be more similar to a classical concert performance. With SSA, I work from worldbuilding notes and a loose outline, but what you are essentially getting is the first draft with lots of so-called pantsing. Pushing out a web novel like this also means it is very difficult to go back and improve things without breaking everything else downstream. I wanted to try this "jamming" approach, as it was a good way to teach me about another aspect of writing, but to move forward, I think I need to hone my "classical" techniques, which emphasize rewriting, or at least, revising outlines. 3) While I intend to try to make $$$, my actual current goal is to "get gud". I've spent a lot of time recently trying to understand the self-publishing industry, and I'm pretty sure I can make some money by using short-term strategies with my current amateur skill level. But I've seen too many authors come and go/burnout, and really, the only way that I think I can enjoy writing and still make money on a long-term basis is to become a better writer. And the next step for me, which I haven't done much before, is to spend more time on rewriting and outlines. That is pretty much antithetical to the way SSA is developing. I've always been kind of 20/80 plotting/pantsing, but I want to spend a lot more time outlining before I even start writing. SSA jam sessions don't really fit my goal anymore. If you're curious about what's next, read on... Among other regrets, I regret not finishing SSA. It's the first story I've dropped, but then again, it's the first web novel I've attempted, so I suppose that's not a surprise. I don't think traditional web novel formats suit me that well. The whole SSA story I had loosely planned (beyond a first book or major arc) is way too large as well. Big story = good for neverending webnovel with Patreons, bad for penniless and fickle writer like me. I am currently outlining a complete trilogy to another story in great detail. I want the story to end concisely, and I also want the chance to really spend a lot of time on the full outline to spot pacing problems, character issues, lost themes, and so on. I'll still share this story on RR. What I intend to do is finish book 1, flash-publish the whole thing here for a few weeks, then publish on the big Zon. Repeat for books 2 and 3. The upcoming story will be about crafting heroes. The backdrop is an isekai-like setting, where elves will summon humans to their world as heroes, but the whole hero crafting business is still in its infancy. The elven mage researchers are figuring out how to imbue heroes with power, while the heroes are trying to figure out how to use the powers that they gain. Humans are the best hero templates because they are blank and have no intrinsic magic. Or at least that what the elves thought. The human MC has his own secrets... There will be some similarities with litrpgs, but I would call it more a progression fantasy or gamelit story. For example, the stats are very low, at least initially. Say we have a stat called Str. Going from Str = 1 to Str = 2 is a huge deal. Also, going from Dex = 0 to Dex = 1 is an even bigger deal. I guess you could call it a "low-stat litrpg", haha. Also, the heroes won't be gaining stats simply by killing things or leveling up. You can't increase stats arbitrarily, either. There will be rules to how stats can increase, and how they work with each other. The elven mages will be figuring out these rules in order to craft stronger and stronger heroes. Some inspiration will be from cultivation magic systems, but there won't be overt cultivation, at least for now. A theme I really want to explore is the idea of interactions. That includes things like hero crafter vs hero, tactics vs strategy, skill synergies, racial interactions (dwarves, elves, etc), and son. Yeah, so hero crafting. I'm super excited about this project and venturing into publishing. If you want to check out the upcoming story, you can follow my RR author profile to see when it drops here. Finally... THANK YOU TO EVERYONE! I'm very sorry that SSA is stopping, but I hope at least some of you will find the next story at least as enjoyable, if not more. Thanks to all the readers who gave SSA a shot. Big hug or solid fistbump to all of you, whichever you prefer! I hope this message is not a downer but an upper, because I am psyched!! -purlcray -------------- BLURB: Talen, youngest Master of the Koroi, makes his way to the Empire's capital to salvage his clan's fate. But the bustling city has few opportunities for the traditionalist. For the old sword clans are fading. With the rise of alchemy, gold can purchase strength that ordinarily took years of training to cultivate. Sword artists, once rare and accomplished, are quickly growing in number, especially among the wealthy noble class. Even with such alchemy, though, no one has advanced to the rank of Grandmaster in countless years. Talen's true dream is to walk the path of a sword artist to the very end while fulfilling his clan duties. And then the Swordgeists return, fabled founders of all sword arts, gods who had touched the world long ago and vanished. These myths turned into reality warn of a coming threat. Alongside this warning, they issue an invitation to the Sword System Academy, a path to power beyond the mortal realm. But first, they will hold an entrance exam... Story notes:Sword System Academia blends elements of western and asian fantasy such as xianxia and litrpg. I took parts from different genres I enjoyed and twisted them into my own creation. There will be an explicit system, both of the litrpg kind and the hard(ish) magic kind, but it is embedded within an academic structure that will develop over the course of the story. This is my attempt to design a unique type of system, the System Academia.
8 153Jaeger Saga
The Veldt Empire has fallen to pieces after the Age of Judgement, and its people have been trying to reclaim their land from the monstrous beasts and hostile environments with steel, lead and fire ever since. However, the armies of the empire is spread thin and beasts would often slip into the liberated territories, terrorizing its settlers. Luckily for them, so long as they have silver or gold to pay, Pyrik will kill their menace for the right price. She is a Jaeger, a mercenary who travels across the empire hunting monsters. She is proficient with an axe and blunderbuss, frighteningly so, and a power resides within her, wrestling for control. It wants to totally consume her whole, and she seeks to find the answers to the nature of her power before it does. The cover is illustrated by Alex Chow. NOTE: the chapters after "Update" are a prequel story! START AT "GOOD AS WEEDS" FOR VOLUME 2! A NEW CHAPTER WILL BE RELEASED EVERY WEEK ON WEDNESDAY BETWEEN 5PM TO 6PM.
8 287Pokemon Integration Project
As Gods began their new project, making a new Entertaiment just as they let their last project free of control because it's getting boring as they became more powerful. And they go back to a planet in a universe called earth, most idea of their entertaiment come from here and the player too.So the gods began searching the most interesting one from popular show , movie, anime , comic, manga ,etc. While in earth live a young man called Michael Lu in a country named indonesia full of coruption and poverty.He griefed always beacuse he can't get what he tought he want. But unfortunately even tough he probably could get what he want he will be soon became entertaiment to gods, lest unknow to him. The gods finaly find something interesting idea based on popular anime show called pokemon. The idea is to integrate powers of pokemon in the show into someone they chose using system simliar to their previous few project and they wonder how long will this project will keep them entertained. DISCLAIMER: I don't own pokemon neither the system I am just a beginer writer with non-english as native langauge and school to worry about. So i probably will update once a week or once a month. Thank you for reading
8 153The Lost One
At 19, life has given Aislinn Nox many things, most of them she never wanted. Like dead parents at the age of six. Scars.A slaughtered pack.Nightmares. To be forced to live with humans. Thirteen years of hell. A new name.An old legacy. All of them are hers, all of them have broken her, but none of that will matter when she finally gets the one thing she desires: revenge.For five years she has been planning her revenge for the brutal murder of her parents, and the vicious slaughter of her entire pack. And for five years, it has been all that she has lived for.And nowhere, in those neat little plans did she included a pack, friends, a mate she could never deserve, or remembering everything and everyone she lost. But life is cruel. And rarely do we get what we want. ..Kaiden Salvatori is the first born son of Alpha Sergio Salvatori, who thought he had life all figured out. He was easily learning the ropes of the family business, taking over his roles both in the pack as Alpha, as well in the corporate world as a powerful CEO. It was all simple and predictable, boring even.But that all changes in a single night when he happens to stumble across a she-wolf being hunted on his territory, discovering that not only is she a rogue herself but that she also happens to be his mate...In that one fateful encounter everything changes. Lies will be uncovered. Truths revealed. Enemies exposed.When secrets and betrayals come, both Kaiden and Aislinn will be forced to choose; what are they willing to give up, and what they are prepared to fight for. Fate has destined them for each other, but sometimes even that just isn't enough.©The Lost One (2015)
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