The first time that Ben Solo enters the little bookstore down the street from his office building, it’s to avoid an annoying coworker that left work at the same time as him. But in his haste to dart out of sight, he crashes right into the display at the front of the store, causing a big mess and a bigger racket and earning himself a glare from the pretty brunette shopkeeper. It’s not love at first sight but he’s flustered at first glance and smitten from the moment she orders him to clean up the mess he caused and then offers him a cookie from the bag she was snacking on at the register.
From then on, he comes in once a week to buy books he rarely ends up reading, just to have an excuse to see her. He asks for an occasional book recommendation and learns her name – Rey – from her name tag, but mostly he’s just silent and awkward when he goes in.
But one day he comes in with a friend (or rather, the coworker he hates the least and ends up socializing with most by default) in tow. Hux keeps not-so-quietly whispering about Ben’s silly little crush and how he should just do something about it already or move on, but for the love of god, stop mooning over her like a schoolboy. Ben tells him to shut up even as the telltale blush creeps across his face. He glances around, thankful that Rey is nowhere in sight. What he doesn’t realize is that she’s one aisle over, shelving books.…
When he finally gets home that night and pulls his most recent book purchase from the bag, a folded up note flutters out from between the pages and falls to the floor. Perplexed, Ben picks it up and opens it up to find a hastily scribbled phone number and a cheeky little message that if he really wants to shut that obnoxious ginger up, he should go ahead and give her a call.
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So total fluff, and there would probably be lots of scenes of blushing Ben and awkward accidental touches and Rey trying to make sense of his purchases because there seems little rhyme or reason to the titles he buys.
Wrote 2K words tonight – woot!!! I’m over 12,000 words total now, and I neeeeed to get crackin’ this weekend!!! I’m proud of what I wrote tonight, though, because the writer’s block was hitting HARD, but I pushed through it anyway. I didn’t give up.
What is sucking my will to live recently, though, is that I’m a contract IT worker, which means I don’t get paid time off. I took 4 days off 2wks ago because I was sick with the flu, and then Thanksgiving is coming up. Six days off costs me over $1200. Soooo I’m working 10hr days for pretty much the rest of the month and it’s having a pretty serious impact on my available writing time. BUT I’m doing what I can.
I’m on the last section for Ch17. So close to being able to release it. But my current word count is 12,155, and I’m cookin’ up words every day.
Which I should have hit days ago…. lol. I should actually be at more like 15K, but I’ll take the milestone anyway. Doing the best I can, but I have a nice, free weekend to hopefully get caught up, and I have dedicated time I can write during this week.
Chapter Seventeen is nearing completion. I’m hoping I’ll be able to post it this week. Yay!!!!
Well, my progress got huuuugely interrupted this weekend because I had plans to spend the weekend in Branson with my family =) I had a GREAT time… but fell behind. I had hoped to make it to 10K words, but I came in short at 9200. So tomorrow I have to write like the wind and see if I can meet 11,500.
Vespaer's Dark Side 