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11-09-2009, 05:35 PM
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EDIT: Here's one pretty long one that's a good example of my writing.
PART ONE.
CANYON.
CHAPTER 1
My eyes opened to complete darkness. I felt my face pressed up against something soft, that smelled like strong fabric softener. There was a cool draft on my back, and I realized it was completely bare. Something was wrong about this picture. Suddenly, I felt another presence in the room. When I turned my head a few inches, this sharp throbbing hit my brain like a ton of bricks. All I could think was that someone must be stabbing me in the head. I moaned loudly in pain. “Guy? Good morning.” a soft, innocent voice said to my right. I looked up into bright light, and my eyes couldn’t focus well. When I adjusted, I saw a beautiful blonde woman standing at the foot of the bed. By the smell and the sheet covers, I realized it wasn’t my bed. She looked awfully familiar. Her hair was perfectly straight, she was dressed in a navy blue business suit, and had this look on her face like I was a piece of dirt on a perfectly white rug. “G’ morning.” I mumbled softly back.
There was a silence while we both thought of what to say. I looked around the room a little, and all I could see was spotless white furniture, and my bare back. “I’m naked.” was the most intelligent thing I could say.
She nodded.
“Did we have sex?” I whispered.
“Yeah.”
“Nice.”
She made that disgusted face again as I tried as hard as I could to remember her name. I noticed an envelope on the end table addressed to ‘Diane Owens’. That was it.
“You want to go get breakfast?”
“Okay.” she tried to smile.
We sat in this fancy diner in West Hollywood in silence. I ordered toast, she just got water, claiming she felt queasy. “So, um.” my voice shook. “I know this is weird to ask you after… well… everything that’s happened but… what do you do?”
She furrowed her brow. “I’m a lawyer.” she chuckled. “We, um. We talked about this last night.”
I felt my face get red and heated. “Right. Sorry. Having trouble remembering.”
More fucking silence.
“Did I tell you what I do?”
Her smile was beautiful. “I know what you do. My sister is a big fan of yours.”
I smiled weakly when her face suddenly paled. I noticed a tall, fit man with short and messy black hair walking up to our table. “Diane.” he laughed, I noticed an accent of some sort. “What are you doing here?” he smiled at me. Smile back, you idiot.
Her eyes were wide, and her face was white. “Charlie, hi. I’m just here with a client. Guy Berryman, this is my husband Charlie Owens.”
My stomach flipped.
CHAPTER 2
I busted through the front door of the stadium to find Will, Jonny and Chris hanging around for me in front of the stage. Chris’s daughter Apple was sitting on his lap, playing with some sort of doll. “It’s about time.”
“Not really in the mood for that.” I snapped. “Didn’t have such a great night last night.”
Will furrowed his brow. “What happened?”
“Well, I met this girl at this bar.”
“Uh-oh.” Chris grinned, and put his hands over his daughter’s tiny ears. “Continue.”
“Long story short, we got really drunk and I woke up naked in her house. Oh, and I met her husband this morning.”
The three of them were silent as their eyes bulged simultaneously. Chris looked at Jon, Jon looked at Will, and Will looked up at me. “Are you serious?” he chuckled.
I noticed Jon and Chris trying to hold back laughter. Instead of laughing as well, I just got angry. “Come on, guys. It’s not funny.”
“It kind of is.” Jon chuckled. “Seriously Guy, you can’t help but laugh.”
“If this guy ever finds out, he’s going to murder me.”
“What does he look like?” Chris asked, playfully pulling at his daughter’s golden locks. She giggled loudly and smiled up at him with bright blue eyes.
“He’s tall, fit and British. Might as well be perfect, right?” I jumped onto the stage and grabbed by bass.
“Guy, you couldn’t have known.” Jon smiled sympathetically. “She… she um, what do the kids call it?”
“She played you.” Will said.
“That’s it.” Jon said, shaking a pointer finger. “She played you, Guy.”
My heart sunk. And for some reason, I felt like I needed to defend her. “But.” My voice cracked as I looked into the distance for an answer. “But I really feel like we got along.”
“The alcohol made you feel like you got along.” Chris said as Apple nodded, pretending to know what we were talking about.
Scenes of last night were coming back to me now. She was wearing a red dress, and must’ve had at lest seven Cosmos while I was there. We talked for hours. And that night. She was so amazing. And so married. Then I got angry. “Let’s just fucking play guys.”
Chris’s eyes bulged. “Watch the language!”
CHAPTER 3
EIGHT WEEKS LATER
My fingers danced across the neck of his bass. It’d been what, seven, eight weeks since things happened with Diane? No call. No visit. Nothing. I had to get over it somehow, and I knew the way wasn’t alcohol.
I decided to go to Chris’s house. His wife was out of town filming some sort of movie or something, so, I knew I wasn’t going to be around that happy little loving family thing that I had to deal with every day. When I got to the front door, he was just walking out with his two kids. “Hey, Guy, what are you doing here?” he chuckled, adjusting his green military hat.
“Did I come at a bad time?” I asked, smiling at his kids who were now running around him, screaming like tea kettles.
“No.” He shook his head and tossed a pink ball towards his littlest. “No, we were just about to go to the zoo. Wanna come?”
He nodded. “Yeah, I need to talk to you about a few things.”
Chris’s face froze. “Okay, but don‘t you curse again. Apple was talking about fucking for two weeks.” he whispered the curse word.
The two of us sat on a green wooden bench in front of the tigers as Chris’s kids tried to mimic the animal’s moves. “I just.” My voice was really high for some reason. “I remember things more now about that night. She was telling me about how her and her husband really didn’t get along that well anymore, and they might divorce. She even suspected him of cheating!” I don’t know why I had so much energy. “And after we fu-”
“Colored.” Chris said loudly, looking down at his kids and back at me.
“After we colored.” I repeated. “Chris, she said she was going to leave him. I don’t know if she was drunk or something but, I remembered that.”
Chris turned to face me. His bright blue eyes were full of confusion. “Are you sticking up for this cheating woman?”
“I think I am.” My heart hid behind my lungs, ashamed by it’s true feelings.
Suddenly I felt my pocket vibrating. Chris scrambled to get something brown and dirty out of his son’s mouth as I pressed the accept button. “Hello?” I grunted.
“Guy?” A familiar voice called.
I stood up, completely alert. “Diane. Um, wow hi.”
“Hey.” her voice was shaking. “Listen, um, can we get together for lunch? There’s something I really need to talk to you about.”
Leaving Charlie. Please let it be leaving Charlie. “Okay.” I tried to think. “Geisha house at 12:30?”
“See you then.” She said rather quickly and hung up the phone.
Diane snapped her cell phone closed and threw it on the table like it was made of acid. She stared blankly at it while she felt herself getting sick again. As fast as she could, she ran into the bathroom and threw her head in front of the toilet, staring at that stupid pink stick the entire time she vomited.
CHAPTER 4
When I got to the Geisha house she was already there, dressed in another suit. This one black. I smiled softly as I walked towards her table. “Hi.” My voice was practically a whisper.
Diane smiled. “Hi. Sit, please.”
I took a seat across from her and tried to get used to my surroundings. Diane looked pale, slightly sweaty. I thought of Charlie. “You look very pretty.”
“Thank you.” she smiled blankly.
I think we were both having flash backs of our meeting in the diner. “Okay Guy, I’m going to get right down to the point.”
My toes curled, and I could feel beads of sweat forming on my forehead. Something about this was making me really nervous.
Diane took a few breaths, and stared straight into my eyes. “I’m pregnant.”
Shit. Double shit. She couldn’t have meant what she’d just said. This was a dream. This was all a bad dream. Oh my god. My stomach started to churn as the room started to spin. “W…what did you just say?”
She leaned in. “Listen, I know this is a lot for you to deal with. I just wanted you to know.”
“How do you know it’s mine?” I panted.
“Charlie and I haven’t slept together in months.” She leaned in and put her hand on mine. Either hers were extremely hot, or mine were freezing. “Guy, I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. You were at wrong place at the wrong time. I was terrible to you all those weeks ago. There was too much alcohol, and my perception was off. You were sweet, you were there. And I just fucked it all up.” She paused for a minute, noticing the blood draining from my face. “Guy? Guy are you okay?”
And before I knew it, I couldn’t answer because I’d passed out.
“Good morning.” I heard Chris’s voice say. “Come on, wake up. That’s it.”
My eyes fluttered open. I was in a hospital room, dressed in a gown that reeked of cotton balls. The beeping sound I heard must’ve been my heart beat because it was speeding up. “Where’s Diane?” I groaned.
“She had to go back to work or something.” Chris sat on the foot of the bed. “Very nice woman, by the way. She said she’d call you later tonight.”
I looked straight into his eyes. “Did you hear?”
“I did. Congratulations, mate.”
Did I hear that right? “Did I hear that right?”
He chuckled. “Guy, I know it’s not the best of situations but come on. You’re going to be a father! The best job in the world.”
I closed my eyes and rubbed my temples. “Chris. She’s married and we obviously didn’t plan this.”
He tore into something. “Diane told me to tell you that she’s going to tell Charlie, whoever that is tonight, and that you can be apart of the baby’s life as much as possible.” He paused. “Again, very nice woman.”
I opened my eyes to see him eating my jello. “Do the other guys know?”
He played around with the red cube as it danced off his spoon, like it had a mind of it’s own. “They know you fainted, they don’t know about the baby yet.”
Before I could answer a woman in hot pink scrubs walked into the room. “Hello Mr. Berryman.” She said with a heavy New York accent. “I’m Sarah I’m going to be needin’ to take some blood from yah tahday.”
I sat up and put my arm out as I saw Chris’s face get a little pale. “You okay?”
He looked up at me, back at the needle and nodded. “Yeah.”
Sarah took out a long thin needle. She wiped an area of my bare arm with a wet, cold cloth and pushed the needle in. I felt a slight stinging. To my right, I heard a large thump. Sarah and I turned our heads simultaneously to see Chris sprawled out on the floor.
“Well, you’re just a bunch’o fainters, aren’t yah?”
EDIT: A bunch of others here!
http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showpost.php?p=3579617&postcount=15
If you're curious about my stories feel free to PM me. Anything to help get your vote! ;)
And if there isn't, completely ignore this. :P
EDIT: Here's one pretty long one that's a good example of my writing.
PART ONE.
CANYON.
CHAPTER 1
My eyes opened to complete darkness. I felt my face pressed up against something soft, that smelled like strong fabric softener. There was a cool draft on my back, and I realized it was completely bare. Something was wrong about this picture. Suddenly, I felt another presence in the room. When I turned my head a few inches, this sharp throbbing hit my brain like a ton of bricks. All I could think was that someone must be stabbing me in the head. I moaned loudly in pain. “Guy? Good morning.” a soft, innocent voice said to my right. I looked up into bright light, and my eyes couldn’t focus well. When I adjusted, I saw a beautiful blonde woman standing at the foot of the bed. By the smell and the sheet covers, I realized it wasn’t my bed. She looked awfully familiar. Her hair was perfectly straight, she was dressed in a navy blue business suit, and had this look on her face like I was a piece of dirt on a perfectly white rug. “G’ morning.” I mumbled softly back.
There was a silence while we both thought of what to say. I looked around the room a little, and all I could see was spotless white furniture, and my bare back. “I’m naked.” was the most intelligent thing I could say.
She nodded.
“Did we have sex?” I whispered.
“Yeah.”
“Nice.”
She made that disgusted face again as I tried as hard as I could to remember her name. I noticed an envelope on the end table addressed to ‘Diane Owens’. That was it.
“You want to go get breakfast?”
“Okay.” she tried to smile.
We sat in this fancy diner in West Hollywood in silence. I ordered toast, she just got water, claiming she felt queasy. “So, um.” my voice shook. “I know this is weird to ask you after… well… everything that’s happened but… what do you do?”
She furrowed her brow. “I’m a lawyer.” she chuckled. “We, um. We talked about this last night.”
I felt my face get red and heated. “Right. Sorry. Having trouble remembering.”
More fucking silence.
“Did I tell you what I do?”
Her smile was beautiful. “I know what you do. My sister is a big fan of yours.”
I smiled weakly when her face suddenly paled. I noticed a tall, fit man with short and messy black hair walking up to our table. “Diane.” he laughed, I noticed an accent of some sort. “What are you doing here?” he smiled at me. Smile back, you idiot.
Her eyes were wide, and her face was white. “Charlie, hi. I’m just here with a client. Guy Berryman, this is my husband Charlie Owens.”
My stomach flipped.
CHAPTER 2
I busted through the front door of the stadium to find Will, Jonny and Chris hanging around for me in front of the stage. Chris’s daughter Apple was sitting on his lap, playing with some sort of doll. “It’s about time.”
“Not really in the mood for that.” I snapped. “Didn’t have such a great night last night.”
Will furrowed his brow. “What happened?”
“Well, I met this girl at this bar.”
“Uh-oh.” Chris grinned, and put his hands over his daughter’s tiny ears. “Continue.”
“Long story short, we got really drunk and I woke up naked in her house. Oh, and I met her husband this morning.”
The three of them were silent as their eyes bulged simultaneously. Chris looked at Jon, Jon looked at Will, and Will looked up at me. “Are you serious?” he chuckled.
I noticed Jon and Chris trying to hold back laughter. Instead of laughing as well, I just got angry. “Come on, guys. It’s not funny.”
“It kind of is.” Jon chuckled. “Seriously Guy, you can’t help but laugh.”
“If this guy ever finds out, he’s going to murder me.”
“What does he look like?” Chris asked, playfully pulling at his daughter’s golden locks. She giggled loudly and smiled up at him with bright blue eyes.
“He’s tall, fit and British. Might as well be perfect, right?” I jumped onto the stage and grabbed by bass.
“Guy, you couldn’t have known.” Jon smiled sympathetically. “She… she um, what do the kids call it?”
“She played you.” Will said.
“That’s it.” Jon said, shaking a pointer finger. “She played you, Guy.”
My heart sunk. And for some reason, I felt like I needed to defend her. “But.” My voice cracked as I looked into the distance for an answer. “But I really feel like we got along.”
“The alcohol made you feel like you got along.” Chris said as Apple nodded, pretending to know what we were talking about.
Scenes of last night were coming back to me now. She was wearing a red dress, and must’ve had at lest seven Cosmos while I was there. We talked for hours. And that night. She was so amazing. And so married. Then I got angry. “Let’s just fucking play guys.”
Chris’s eyes bulged. “Watch the language!”
CHAPTER 3
EIGHT WEEKS LATER
My fingers danced across the neck of his bass. It’d been what, seven, eight weeks since things happened with Diane? No call. No visit. Nothing. I had to get over it somehow, and I knew the way wasn’t alcohol.
I decided to go to Chris’s house. His wife was out of town filming some sort of movie or something, so, I knew I wasn’t going to be around that happy little loving family thing that I had to deal with every day. When I got to the front door, he was just walking out with his two kids. “Hey, Guy, what are you doing here?” he chuckled, adjusting his green military hat.
“Did I come at a bad time?” I asked, smiling at his kids who were now running around him, screaming like tea kettles.
“No.” He shook his head and tossed a pink ball towards his littlest. “No, we were just about to go to the zoo. Wanna come?”
He nodded. “Yeah, I need to talk to you about a few things.”
Chris’s face froze. “Okay, but don‘t you curse again. Apple was talking about fucking for two weeks.” he whispered the curse word.
The two of us sat on a green wooden bench in front of the tigers as Chris’s kids tried to mimic the animal’s moves. “I just.” My voice was really high for some reason. “I remember things more now about that night. She was telling me about how her and her husband really didn’t get along that well anymore, and they might divorce. She even suspected him of cheating!” I don’t know why I had so much energy. “And after we fu-”
“Colored.” Chris said loudly, looking down at his kids and back at me.
“After we colored.” I repeated. “Chris, she said she was going to leave him. I don’t know if she was drunk or something but, I remembered that.”
Chris turned to face me. His bright blue eyes were full of confusion. “Are you sticking up for this cheating woman?”
“I think I am.” My heart hid behind my lungs, ashamed by it’s true feelings.
Suddenly I felt my pocket vibrating. Chris scrambled to get something brown and dirty out of his son’s mouth as I pressed the accept button. “Hello?” I grunted.
“Guy?” A familiar voice called.
I stood up, completely alert. “Diane. Um, wow hi.”
“Hey.” her voice was shaking. “Listen, um, can we get together for lunch? There’s something I really need to talk to you about.”
Leaving Charlie. Please let it be leaving Charlie. “Okay.” I tried to think. “Geisha house at 12:30?”
“See you then.” She said rather quickly and hung up the phone.
Diane snapped her cell phone closed and threw it on the table like it was made of acid. She stared blankly at it while she felt herself getting sick again. As fast as she could, she ran into the bathroom and threw her head in front of the toilet, staring at that stupid pink stick the entire time she vomited.
CHAPTER 4
When I got to the Geisha house she was already there, dressed in another suit. This one black. I smiled softly as I walked towards her table. “Hi.” My voice was practically a whisper.
Diane smiled. “Hi. Sit, please.”
I took a seat across from her and tried to get used to my surroundings. Diane looked pale, slightly sweaty. I thought of Charlie. “You look very pretty.”
“Thank you.” she smiled blankly.
I think we were both having flash backs of our meeting in the diner. “Okay Guy, I’m going to get right down to the point.”
My toes curled, and I could feel beads of sweat forming on my forehead. Something about this was making me really nervous.
Diane took a few breaths, and stared straight into my eyes. “I’m pregnant.”
Shit. Double shit. She couldn’t have meant what she’d just said. This was a dream. This was all a bad dream. Oh my god. My stomach started to churn as the room started to spin. “W…what did you just say?”
She leaned in. “Listen, I know this is a lot for you to deal with. I just wanted you to know.”
“How do you know it’s mine?” I panted.
“Charlie and I haven’t slept together in months.” She leaned in and put her hand on mine. Either hers were extremely hot, or mine were freezing. “Guy, I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. You were at wrong place at the wrong time. I was terrible to you all those weeks ago. There was too much alcohol, and my perception was off. You were sweet, you were there. And I just fucked it all up.” She paused for a minute, noticing the blood draining from my face. “Guy? Guy are you okay?”
And before I knew it, I couldn’t answer because I’d passed out.
“Good morning.” I heard Chris’s voice say. “Come on, wake up. That’s it.”
My eyes fluttered open. I was in a hospital room, dressed in a gown that reeked of cotton balls. The beeping sound I heard must’ve been my heart beat because it was speeding up. “Where’s Diane?” I groaned.
“She had to go back to work or something.” Chris sat on the foot of the bed. “Very nice woman, by the way. She said she’d call you later tonight.”
I looked straight into his eyes. “Did you hear?”
“I did. Congratulations, mate.”
Did I hear that right? “Did I hear that right?”
He chuckled. “Guy, I know it’s not the best of situations but come on. You’re going to be a father! The best job in the world.”
I closed my eyes and rubbed my temples. “Chris. She’s married and we obviously didn’t plan this.”
He tore into something. “Diane told me to tell you that she’s going to tell Charlie, whoever that is tonight, and that you can be apart of the baby’s life as much as possible.” He paused. “Again, very nice woman.”
I opened my eyes to see him eating my jello. “Do the other guys know?”
He played around with the red cube as it danced off his spoon, like it had a mind of it’s own. “They know you fainted, they don’t know about the baby yet.”
Before I could answer a woman in hot pink scrubs walked into the room. “Hello Mr. Berryman.” She said with a heavy New York accent. “I’m Sarah I’m going to be needin’ to take some blood from yah tahday.”
I sat up and put my arm out as I saw Chris’s face get a little pale. “You okay?”
He looked up at me, back at the needle and nodded. “Yeah.”
Sarah took out a long thin needle. She wiped an area of my bare arm with a wet, cold cloth and pushed the needle in. I felt a slight stinging. To my right, I heard a large thump. Sarah and I turned our heads simultaneously to see Chris sprawled out on the floor.
“Well, you’re just a bunch’o fainters, aren’t yah?”
EDIT: A bunch of others here!
http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showpost.php?p=3579617&postcount=15