Chapter @ MindSay 
And continuing on from entry 32 - here is the scene from Stand By Me that inspired the section below from chapter 42 of Fire Of Glory.
I only realised today that I'm the one playing the FoG role of Lard Ass.
Tee hee... Oh well. :)
"Okay, you all know the rules. This is a NU-NH contest, no hands or forks allowed - 'kay?"
He took out a whistle. "Oh my mark..."
"Three... Two... One..." He blew it hard, and everyone set off.
SPLAT! LuigiGirl buried her face into the pie below her.
Everyone else did likewise, forgetting all possible table-manners, munching like pigs that’d just finished dieting.
Dixie was the first to finish hers first. "Done!" She called, and a Koopa threw another pie down onto the table in front of her.
"Done!" Andrew called, only seconds after Dixie.
"Done!" LuigiGirl called afterwards, as another pie was set in front of her.
A few moments later, everyone was onto their third pies, their faces covered with thick berry-filling.
"Good, huh?" Dixie asked, in-between mouthfuls.
"Nothin' better!" LuigiGirl exclaimed.
"Done!" Dixie announced, onto her fourth.
Andrew glared at her, plunging his face right into the centre of his pie, almost swallowing the whole contents of the dish in one go. "Done!"
"Done!" LuigiGirl called afterwards.
The contest ran steady for the next several minutes, Dixie leading with nine pies, Andrew on seven, LuigiGirl on six, Mack, Donovan, Edward and Zed on five.
"Take it easy Dixie!" Koopinator warned.
"Done!" LuigiGirl called. "He's right, take it easy, eh?" She said, before yet another pie was set in front of her.
Dixie ignored them both. "Done!" She yelled, before shoving her face into her tenth pie.
A few moments later, she began choking, coughing and spluttering loudly.
She grabbed her glass, and chugged the whole pint of 'water' down in one go.
LuigiGirl raised her head, glancing awkwardly at her partner. "Done!" She called. "Geez, we told ya to-"
Dixie stopped, bringing her head up.
"Oh..." She groaned, clutching her stomach. "Suddenly I... I don't feel so good..."
"Are you okay?" LuigiGirl asked, beginning to slightly panic.
Dixie slowly stood up from her chair, her stomach growling rabidly, like a wild dog.
Andrew pulled his head free from his ninth pie.
"Hey-hey, what's up? Has poor little Dixie got a tummy ache? Pah, you'll never make it as far as me!" He mocked.
"Keep eatin' those pies, Bandwidth! It was great to have you quiet for more than three seconds!" LuigiGirl growled.
"Pah." Andrew said again, sneering at Dixie. "She's a wuss, never will beat the almighty Bandwidth at eating contests!"
"Andrew..." Dixie coughed. "You better shut up... Or I'll-"
Dixie gasped, her eyes rolling backwards in fear.
She opened her mouth to finish her sentence - but a cascading waterfall of purple vomit erupted from her throat, tumbling from her mouth, and drenching Andrew in a purple sticky mess.
Dixie didn't stop, she continued breathing fire for around two minutes - by this time, Andrew had almost drowned in the purple sea, and the floor had somehow flooded too.
Dixie coughed hard, before closing her eyes, and tumbling backwards, landing with a hard thump on the floor.
As I mentioned in post 30 - I downloaded the film Stand By Me today, over Limewire.
Emily and I are working on a novel together, entitled "Fire Of Glory."
It's actually a slight work of fan fiction, and thus, the reason why we posted it on FFN.
You can find it right here.
Two scenes from this film inspired two scenes in Fire Of Glory. The events themselves are indeed familiar - but because it's only fan fiction, we have no need for charges being filed. :)
An event in chapter 91 is inspired by a song by The Click Five, Just The Girl.
An event in chapter 25 is inspired by an episode of Dexter's Labratory.
The whole of chapter 45, I got the idea from watching a clip from Balls Of Steel.
The video above inspired this scene from chapter 38:
Dixie stopped, a look of fear spread over her face.
"Err... LG... What's that?!" She gasped, pointing at her partner's neck.
"What's what?"
"Oh... Crap!" Dixie gasped. "Don't tell me..."
"What?"
Dixie tugged her right arm out of the murky water. Several black, slimy creatures were affixed to her skin.
Dixie screamed, wading furiously towards the bank.
"Leeches!" She yelped, attempting to pull them off.
LuigiGirl's jaw dropped. "First Piranhas, now these little buggers!?" She yelled. "We've gotta get some help!"
"No!" Dixie hissed, holding out her arm for LuigiGirl to grab onto.
"Quick, get out!" She whispered, attempting to tug the blood-sucking creatures from her arms.
LuigiGirl took her hand, being pulled violently out of the water. "Get 'em off!" She cried, in fear.
"Don't panic!" Dixie said, although she was indeed panicking herself. "They'll release their grip if you just relax your arm."
"Relax!?" LuigiGirl asked. "How can I RELAX!?"
"LG...!" Dixie hissed. "Stop yelling!"
"Sorry." LuigiGirl sighed, watching the black parasites squirm along her arm. "It feels disgusting."
"I know..." Dixie winced, tugging the final one from her wrist. Both girls were now covered with red bite marks, most of them bleeding.
i think my last post was about how i love chris blablabla... well that turned to shit to put it bluntly, we ended up having screaming matches at work in the middle of the canberra centre and i just never showed up the next day coz id totally had enough.. kinda regret doing that, but i just knew i couldnt work with chris anymore.. we didnt speak for several millions of months... weston (the friend of chris' that hallucinated that my head was a police car) and i became pretty good friends and i found out that chris and holley the chick from boost were together and moved to melbourne..she got over him for the millionth time and they were still living together when she started seeing someone else..so chris got the shits and moved back to canberra.. i got a phonecall the day before i left for poland that he wanted to catch up.. LOL.. god. i learnt a lot from that year i have to say.. i learnt what is tolerable and what is not and what will never work out..
i also permanently (and i know ive said this a thousand times already ) ended and form of relationship, friendship or communication with ben appleton.. as i was saying to kim last time i saw him, it used to be "aw i cant have that".. now when i see him its "ew dont let that near me with a 10 foot pole.. i DONT want that".. id like to say i was being patient with him, but i know thats not the case.. more like i wanted to have fun with him like we used to and i missed what used to be... kinda in hope that it could happen again.. ergh its actually making me sick writing about him to be honest right now, but i feel like i need to let the last breath of air go and never mention or think about it again. basically things got to a stage where we couldnt live with each others presence.... he found himself another girl to be interested in, and im well aware that he only really tried because she was 14yrs old and he knew he couldnt have her...he needed someone to chase..someone who he could try to impress with everything he did and had.. and it worked.. i guess at a young age people like him seem very impressive.. like when ur little, the bigger the present the better it must be. with her history, its not surprising she agreed that she wanted to be with him..i believe that may have lasted about a month.. in which time of course he cheated on her.. not that she knows.. but ive just totally given up fighting with it.. so we spoke for a while in this period, he taught me how to snowboard which was pretty fun..i then started seeing one of his mates in sydney.. well not really mate, just someone he also knew.. that was the shortest relationship i have ever been in as i wont tolerate bullshit.. a long distance relationship doesnt work if there isnt even any communication.. so i ended that... this was followed by a lot of bullshit such as "i tried to kill myself because of u" and "i got some girl pregnant".. i retaliated, however that has now been sorted out and its back to square one..anyway.. ben and the 14yo (now 15) started seeing each other again..for her it meant escape from her parents and life in qbn and free entry into any event which came hand in hand with stays in 5 star hotels... i mean cmon.. who wouldnt agree to that... for ben it was a "i got what i wanted game" although if he reads this he would never admit it..because apparently a sexual relationship between a 15yo and a 21yo is PURELY based on love?? *cough**cough*..that boy wouldnt know what love was if it smacked him in the face.. and kassy, well all i can say is she is just another easily manipulated girl....this she has proved by her actions towards me, even tho i have absolutely no contact with her bf... when they are together, she could be looking through glass.. however when shes on her own, its chit chat time.. wants to know whats been going on all that crap.. i just laugh at her behaviour secretly because its just childish... theres nothing i can do about it and nothing i want to do about it... ben has made some attempts to talk to me, however i have no such desires and have informed him if he doesnt leave me alone i will notify the police of his pedophilic relationship with kassy..i have the proof to do so luckily. ever since then no words have been swapped and i honestly have to say im glad for it... its like a big rush of fresh air slapping me in the face and saying "thats what you get for being so stupid".. but now i have kim and bee still which is all i need right now..(not in a sense that friendship with them would change)..they are both really supportive and arent scared to give their honest opinions of the things i do, which is a great help as sometimes i get caught up in the moment and dont think straight. nothing much else is new really.. im overseas atm as i think ive already said.. in poland... we had some adventures in rome when the whole city went on strike and we couldnt get out of there.. our flight was cancelled....we had to spend like 25hours on a train to poland rather than 2 hours on a plane.. that was rather gay...but we got to poland safetly.. got to see the alps again on the way.. we started off living with my grandma in a little country town not far from Cracow..but during the first 3 hours there i got so offended with her comments to do with me, my mother being a whore (which i agree with just quietly but it doesnt have to be said out loud by a party that has no right to judgement of her) that im not to speak about my mother around here but then going on to say that i should respect both my parents coz ive earnt it...all this crap that my dad has fed her about how and why i dont live with him (for good reasons which he most likely would not understand.. i mean who wants to admit to their own faults?).. so when we made a trip to Cracow, i informed my dad i was staying.. he came to get me this week and i told him i wasnt coming again..i think i have to go back next week to see my grandma a bit..but i really cant deal with her bullshit. if i go i think ill go under the condition that i get driven back 3 days later. i love the city. im a city person.. i love the lights, the business, the shopping, the people and the part of my family that im living with..if i could brin kim and bee here, i would never want to leave. one very last piece of news... we went to the snow last weekend, and i decided to be tricky and try some shit out that i didnt know how to do.. and so i did... so unsuccessfully that ive fucked my tailbone.. its been 3 days and i can barely sit down.. only when ive dosed myself up on painkillers..sleeping on my side is painfull too.. but if it doesnt get better i have to go have it xrayed.. hopefully it does get better as im going back to the snow for new years for like a week... i definately need full usage of my bum by then lols. if not, i want drugs to dose myself up on, prescription and illegal if possible.. i want to feel nothing.
anyways that is what has happened in the millions of months since my last post.
i have to go now as my aunty and uncle just got home.
might post again soon, untill then take care
xoxo
Mrs. Bader grabbed her prse and followed out the door behind the officers. She was scared to death that this would very well be the end of her little Hailey's life. If this were all really happening, it could be the end of their life as they knew it.
The ride to the morgue took longer than she anticipated. Time couldn't pass any slower than it already was. The tears were slowly sliding down her cheeks, cutting like razor blades. She tried holding them in, but it just wasn't working. Finally, the car came to a stop, and the officers left the car. They opened the back door and she stepped out, her feet barely making a sound as they hit the pavement. Numbly, she followed the officers inside as they lead her through the long halls and into a cold dark room.
Turning on the lights, her gaze went straight to the bed in the middle of the room with the blanketed body on top of it. Mrs. Bader watched as the police pulled the pale white sheet off of the cold body. She stepped closer as they moved out of the way.
This was her Hailey...but just not the same. The girl's blue lips were slightly parted, and her hair was matted to her head. Hailey's once smoothe skin was covered with bruises and cuts. Her small hands were cold and stiff. Mrs. Bader's little girl's once sparkling eyes were dull and closed forever.
She could almost see a full vision of her daughter running through the door behind her, laughing as if this horrible situation was a hilarious joke. But Mrs. Bader knew it would never happen. Her baby girl was gone from her life, and her heart was way past beating. It was all her fault for not leaving in time to pick her up...forgetting at first, and when Hailey called--saying it was okay for her to walk home from her friend's house during such late hours. Because now she was gone.
Dropping to her knees, Mrs. Bader cried softly to herself. "It is her..." she whispered over and over. "My little girl is gone..."
A young woman walked quietly into the room, and pulled the white sheet back over Hailey's body. Mrs. Bader watched the woman do this, and knew it was for real.
"May I have a few moments alone with her?" she asked.
"You sure can, " the woman repied with a soft smile. Mrs. Bader noticed her name tag. It read "Brooke."
She smiled back, or at least attempted to, and said, "Thanks, Brooke. Thi means a lot to me." Brook walked out, and shut the door behind her.
Mrs. Bader didn't know why she did this...she didn't know what to do now. Turning around, she flinched when she saw the body under the lumpy white sheet. She glanced back and saw Brooke through the glass windows, her head in her hands. She moved the sheet down so she could see Hailey's face, and hold her hand.
A tear slid down and landed on her daughter's hand. "I'm sorry, honey. I shouldn't have let you walk across town that late at night by yourself. This is all my fault...I killed you," she waited for Hailey to pop up out of bed and tell her it wasn't her fault at all, but there was no reply. "I'm missing you already, and it's just so hard to believe that you're gone. I'm afraid to call your dad. He's still in Chicago. And your brother? I'm soo afraid. He's going to blame it on himself for not coming home from college this weekend, because he could have picked you up instead. But it's no one's fault except my own."
She rubbed Hailey's hand softly with her warm fingers, and leaned down to kiss her cheek. "I love you..."
She took one last look at her daughter and pulled the sheets back up. Mrs. Bader walked towards the door, bead down and arms crossed as if she was outside on a chilly fall day.
As soon as Brooke heard the door open, she jumped. "Mam, I understand what you're going through..."
"Do you?!" she snapped at her.
Brooke looked up at Mrs. Bader, and she could see the tears forming in Brooke's soft blue eyes. "Of course. My little girl got killed almost the same way when she was thirteen. I moved here to get away from the publicity and all the memories, but instead--I found myself here, helping other families cope with death."
"Honey, I'm really sorry. It's just hard...you know? I could've been there, but I just had to tell her it was okay to walk across town by herself," she hugged the woman. "And I'm really sorry I freaked out on you like that. It's just..." she stopped. "The tears started running, and she had to lean up against the wall in order to stay standing.
"You're more than forgiven," Brooke replied gently. She gave Mrs. Bader another hug, and walked back into the cold room.
Mrs Bader watched her slowly trudge away, wishing there was something she could do to help them both escape something like this...their thickening grief. Hearing footsteps behind her, she turned around to see the two police officsers that had brought here here.
Well, that's it for now. There's the end of Chapter TWO.
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