Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Kitty lamp and Chapter one
Hi people,

well my cat has been turned into a lamp. Shes got a nasty bite on her leg which got infected and to stop her from licking at it she has to wear a huge plastic cone collar. she looks so depressed, its unbearable i cant look at her, it makes me feel guilty.

Anyway heres chapter one revised, rewriten and now reposted.

Chapter 1 – The Life Lost

Toni was on stage with the band, the night club was packed and the crowd was loving it. Her guitar solo was about to begin, the bass and keyboard had faded out, the drummer had set the pace, Toni raised her hand and waited for her cue from the drummer, the count in 3….2… Bang! Toni’s head snapped up as she was pulled from her daydream, before her was the massive biology textbook that Mrs Hannaway had just slammed onto the desk. Mrs Hannaway had to be the most stuck up teacher in the entire school, everyone knew she barely understood what she was talking about even though she thought she knew it all. Everyone hated her.
“Now that I have everyone’s attention, I will continue”.
As she spoke she glared at Toni, and spoke in her annoying fake English accent, Toni had always loved biology until this woman had taken over her classes since then she lost her love of the subject and when possible skipped class all together. As the teacher began to waffle on, clearly reading off from the text book, and Toni tried to fake interest in what she was saying, some thing to do with the Hardy Weinburg equation, but she just wanted out of there. Her gaze drifted to the window and she looked out over the waterlogged front lawn of the school. Rain, rain, rain it had done nothing but for two days but then again its Ireland, it always rains here. The rain was falling fast and it would more likely keep going though the weekend. ‘Great‘ she thought to herself.
Toni jumped as a second bang rang out thou the room but Mrs Hannaway’s attention was on someone else for once.
After another fifteen minutes of struggling to stay awake the final bell on a Friday afternoon finally rang. The massive rush of green flooded out the school doors as all the uniformed girls of St Catherine’s Academy headed home for the weekend. Toni was in the uniform just like everyone else, a green knee length skirt, black tights, a white shirt, green tie with a black and grey stripes and an extra yellow strip for the seniors and a grey jumper and large green blazer. Toni, like the rest of the school, hated the uniform, the skirt made it impossible to stay warm while waiting for the bus in the mornings which normally resulted in almost constant colds and flu’s. The buses where waiting at the bus bays, for once, after a long half an hour drive she finally got off at the end of the Crosswalk Road and began the five minute walk up the hill to her house. Half way up another bus drove past and though a puddle, causing a large splash and soaking Toni up to her waist, water ran down her bare legs and Toni cursed loudly and her bad luck didn’t end there. The Cartan’s had left their gate open and Puff was on the street. Puff was the Mc Cartan’s spoilt vicious dog, he was a huge Doberman crossbreed and he loved chasing cats, cars, balls and anything else slower than him, Toni was one of these things.
Toni slammed her house door in the barking dogs face and bend over to catch her breath, it had been a lousy day and it would get worse if her luck continued.
“Hello, mum ……….. Hello” She shouted as she moved though the house to the kitchen. All she found was a note, and a small wad of ten and five pound notes.
The note read:
“I’ve gone to Belfast for the weekend, here’s money for a pizza or Chinese or whatever.
Cya when I get back
Mum
P.s clean house”

Toni grumbled her mum did this a lot since her dad had disappeared six years ago, but you had to admit she did work hard for the money she always left for Toni and was good enough to wait until Toni was eighteen before she started disappearing for weeks on end. She pocketed the money and headed up stairs to change out of her dripping uniform.
A while later she was curled up in the living room with a chicken curry, a bottle of cola, and a hour of the Simpson’s on TV.
“This is more like it” she sighed to herself as she tucked into her curry.
The plate was on the floor, licked clean, and Toni was comfortable when an advertisement for the fright night movie on the movie channel came on, Toni wasn’t really interested, the movie sucked.
“ …. Showing tonight on Firday the 13th, Fright Night!”.
It was this that woke Toni from her doze. She jerked up.
“Friday!! Dammit.”
Her eyes shot to the clock, 6:03, “Damn, I going to be late”. That was the last thought in her head while she rushed for the shower.
“I’m supposed to be at the Stop at half, damn, damn, AAAGRRRHH”. She had kicked the doorframe and now had a throbbing toe to add to her problems.
The Stop was short for the Music Stop, it was a small club not far from her home, when it first opened they could never get any DJs to play there, so they opened up the stage to wanna-be bands from all around Dublin. It was this that made then so popular now. But tonight was high profile it was Friday the 13th. Every Friday the 13th there is a major battle of the bands, and the winner is almost always signed up by a talent scout. Toni’s band was able to slip into this one tonight.
Toni was washed, dried and dressed in world record time. Jeans, T-shirt and a large hooded top, this was Toni’s normal dress, she never wore a skirt outside of school and when she could avoid it never wore make-up, she was the meaning of the term guy-girl. Again she passed by the make up in her room, her skin was normally clear anyway she didn’t need it, her face was slightly round and she had a small pointy chin, her nose was a small normal shaped and her eyes were deep set into her face and gave a threatening aura which was the complete opposite of her personality. Her dark brown hair was thrown back into a pony-tail still damp, but she was too late to care. Toni grabbed her drumsticks and guitar and bolted into the kitchen she glanced at the phone.
”AGH, a taxi would take to long, I’ll jog it”
She turned and darted out the door and down the hill, again having to outrun Puff. Toni’s band was Back Round Noise, they had played at the Stop a few times which was why they were allowed to compete in the battle tonight. Toni was the drummer and lead singer and when needed could play guitar. Also in the band were Charlie and Chris, twins and good fun. If it wasn’t for the difference in hair length you could never tell them apart which was funny because it was boy-girl twins. Both had dark hair Charlie had let his grow long and looked like a surfer, Chris had cut hers short, very short and spiked it with hair gel and looked like a proper punk rocker and both always wore Jeans and hoodies like Toni. Charlie was a singer too and played lead guitar, Chris was the one on the keyboard and sometimes the flute. Next was Raymond who Toni affectionately nicknamed Rave, Rave was black, no one seemed to notice or care, he also seemed to keep with the rest of the band style-wise hoodie and jeans. His hair was in shoulder length dreadlocks which Charlie was envious of. Rave played bass and also he could beat out a tune on the drums. Last was James, James moved from England into the house next to Rave, and Rave’s mum forced him to be nice and meet the strange little English kid and from that they became good friends, James could play the trumpet and was learning guitar and soon got an invite to the band. He had been nicknamed Chippy because he more or less lived in the local chip shop, although he never seemed to gain any weight which confused the two girls. He was more likely to be seen with a track suit bottoms and a heavy jumper on him than anything else.
Three of them were waiting as Toni skidded to a halt outside the Stop, she overshot the group by a few feet thanks to the slick path and had to turn to face them and for the second time today bent to catch her breath, Toni was not the fittest person in the world nor the thinnest, she was slightly overweight.
“’bout time Ton, we’ve been waiting for you” teased Rave in his strangely deep voice. Toni was always early and now that she was late Rave intended to take full teasing rights. Toni, who couldn’t talk forgasping just gave him a trademarked glare she had a reputation for.
The twins laughed as Rave faked a heart attack at the glare. After a certain finger gesture from Toni, Chippy appeared from the side door of the club.
“Oi, over here, Hey Toni”
Toni waved as they moved towards Chippy, He began to tell them the line up, Back Round Noise was up after The Go Lads. As he talked Toni couldn’t help but smile at his English/Irish mixed accent he had picked up after hanging with the band for a while.
Cheering was heard from inside as the first band started up. Maybe her bad luck had ended.

The Go Lads were booed off the stage, they were terrible. Back Round Noise took up their places and set off with a fast paced dance track. They played three songs and left the stage to mixed cheers and boos.
“Well, we aren’t the best ..” started Chris.
“but we’re not the worst”. Finished her brothers statement, they had a habit of finishing each others sentences. Toni, Rave and Chippy had a standing bet of whether they practised it or not, Toni was convinced they did. Toni couldn’t help but feel disappointed they hadn’t won.
“There’s always next time kiddies don’t worry” said Chippy who was in a great mood.
“True” commented Rave “that is if Ton’s Friday the 13th luck doesn’t kill her before we get to the stage” He turned to grin at Toni and was cuffed on the head by her making the rest of the group laugh at him.
After talking in the club for a few hours and cheering and booing the bands they decided to head home. They said their byes to other friends in the club and headed outside. Toni was going to br on her own as her house was in the other direction from the others.
“Sure you don‘t want me to walk up with you?” asked Rave.
“Nah, I’m sure I’ll live I only live up the hill.” Toni replied smiling at him.
“Yeah, he’s always late when he walks you home fishing for a kiss” teased Chippy who danced out of Rave’s reach, who raised his fist threateningly, the twins laughed.
“We haven’t been a couple for months, but seriously I’ll be fine. See you lot tomorrow.” She waved and started up the hill with her guitar case on her back. Toni and Rave had been dating for a while but it wasn’t really working out so they just stayed friends to the relief of the others, their relationship was putting a strain on the band anyway.
“Come Rave, you can walk me home” Chris said jokingly and linked onto his arm and the rest of the band headed off in the opposite direction, Chippy was still poking fun at Rave.
She was heading though the football field when it went eerily quiet, no traffic noise or muffled music from the clubs, the only sound was a distant rumble like thunder, Toni shivered and walked faster. She was now out of the pool of light from the street lights and the wind picked up. Toni stopped halfway across the field and looked up, the half moon was visible along with an army of stars, there where no clouds so the noise couldn‘t be thunder, the wind stopped as quickly as it started and everything was still and quiet.
Suddenly the world seemed to jerk out from under her and she flung out her arms to save herself but the ground didn’t come, she fell for what felt like a long time when she did land she hit the ground hard,
“I didn’t have that much to drink” this was the first thing she thought of in her vodka clouded mind, it was then the pain hit, she felt her head and could see a red stain on her hand and on a stone in the moon light, Toni started to panic and she swung her head around trying to find help.
“Where’s the street lights?” she gasped looking round she tried to stand but the bang on the head made her dizzy and she fell back onto her knees, the lights where indeed gone the only light the moon, but even that faded as Toni’s head wound was pulling her into unconsciousness and the world blackened.


Hee hee its long but a good read. skip read it over for me and she loves it what do you think?
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