I'm thinking about writing...

KS, you should write a story but not about some lass you actually know. Disaster will occur.

 

Wouldn't a story about your cousin be better?

 

I can do that. xD

 

Thus why I decided to make it about an original character and have it set in my life featuring a mix of my friends and a few OCs.

 

You're still involving friends. :|

 

And so chapter one is finished. Judge for yourselves if I should continue publishing these on KHV. If it is liked, I'll repost it in the Creativity Corner. If not, I'll just continue publishing it in Notes on Facebook. And it may be a little dry, but it's really only exposition to just who I am and what Katrina is like. That, and it's a sort of pilot chapter to see how people like the concept, not the writing style.

Disclaimer: All characters in this story, as far as the whole of KHV knows, are fictional. While there will be real people, they are to be treated as characters in a story by anyone reading it here. Any resemblance to real people is totally by coincidence. Any events or activities which occur in this story have never happened unless otherwise stated. This story, however, is still set in my life, just with the addition of an original character with a rather unique outlook on the universe. I feel the need to say this because it is based in my life.


I'm a pretty normal guy. I go to school. I take tests. Do homework. All that stuff. I'm normal, right? Wrong. If you knew all the stuff I've been through , you’d think differently. If I knew that one girl could have caused that much trouble, I’d have stayed away and never thought of it again. But it figures that I had to be the one guy willing to accept her as just a friend. Oh Katrina, what did I ever do to deserve you?

It all started on the first day of my senior year. It was a normal day. I went to first period Physiology, room 404. I sat through it for 50 minutes and moved to Religion. Just short of an hour later, American Government came around. And after that came my mentor group, which was conveniently in the same room as Government. And so she sat behind me. Why? And so after we all introduced ourselves, we had free time to talk and get to know each other personally. I turned around, as if it were the most natural decision I could ever make. And I asked, “Hey, what’s your name?”
With a bored pouty on her face, she replied, “Katrina.”
“Oh? That’s a nice name. It makes you sound powerful.”
“Oh really?”
“Yeah, like the hurricane all those years ago.”
“That’s not very nice to say.”
“No, no. It may have been destructive, but it brought our nation together.”
“Oh? I never thought of it that way. You know, I like you. Let’s hang out some time.”
“I’d like that. After school sound good?”
“Yeah. Meet me in the alcove attached to the lobby. We’ll work out a plan from there.”
“Sounds good.
As I would soon learn, “we” usually if not always meant “Katrina,” and “work out from there” was only to give me the illusion of choice. She had it all planned out from the get-go.

And so the bell rang. I continued my day. Precalculus, Lunch, Latin, Independent Study and finally English. I rushed to my locker and then to alcove that Katrina told me about. No biggie, right? This is a normal girl who asked me to an outing. On the way I ran into Sara Boyer, a girl in my grade, but a different House and Mentor Group. We chatted for a moment, and she decided she wanted in on whatever it was Katrina was planning. So we went to alcove, where Katrina said that Sara just couldn’t get involved in her plan. So after much protest from Sara, I finally got her to leave, promising to tell her all about whatever Katrina had planned later.

What Katrina had planned was, much to my surprise, to go on the COTA bus to a replica of the Mayflower downtown. I’d ridden the bus before, but only home from school, so I had to trust Katrina on her route. We got to our stop pretty easily and walked to the boat for about a half hour. To my surprise, Katrina had a snack for two in her backpack, as if she expected me or someone else to talk to her and agree to the outing she had planned from the start. We ate as we walked, discussing her first day at Hartley and how she liked the school. We were both seniors, but she transferred to my school this year. She said that she loved being able to use a computer in class. Looking back now, she probably only used it to play games while she absorbed the material without even actively listening.

Once at the boat, Katrina made me pay for the tour, saying that to carry out her plan we’d need to be on it. I was sort of afraid now that I knew she didn’t just want a tour, but I paid anyway. She was just one girl. What could she possibly do? As it turned out, a lot. After about twenty minutes into the tour, we were escorted out because Katrina tried to plant a camera at the top of the mast on the logic that if anything supernatural happens in this area, she‘d be the first to know about it and solve the mystery of what caused it. How she got up with nobody noticing is still a mystery to me. We, in this case meaning me, were given a hefty fine for abusing public property. I tried to tell Katrina that she should pay the fine, but she wouldn’t have it. So I ended up using what little money I had left to call my parents on a pay phone to ask them to pick us up, although I’ve no clue as to why I did that. An hour later I learned that Katrina was NOT family friendly and would do anything to keep my parents teasing me about her for months. And it didn’t help that she’d decided to force me to hang around her every day. I knew then that this was going to be a long year.

 

So...she's a fan of the paranormal?

 

I have to agree with Kitty here. That's all.

 

Yes. Katrina loves paranormal mysteries. And as the disclaimer explains, none of these characters are to be treated as real people by residents of KHV. Katrina was created out of my own mind and is not based on anyone that I know. Other characters may or may not be real, and as previously mentioned, are to be treated as fictional.

With that in mind, should I post it in its own thread in the Creativity Corner?