I'm alive! Lol, it's been awhile since I published anything for Perception. Now, this is an idea that I've been going back and forth with since Christmas, but I finally decided to publish it. Chapter one and two are complete, three is almost finished, and four I've made some progress.
Lately I've had a lot of people reading Early Days and I considered updating that, but Scandalous is basically a more improved version of Early Days. I can't seem to write anything Daniel/Kate without being romantic.
While I have the next two chapters done, I'm not sure when I'm going to be able to update. I start school on Monday, I have to read two books and write an essay before next Thursday, my mom is having surgery this Friday, and my aunt and her kids (who I love to death, but honestly they drive me crazy sometimes) are coming tomorrow to help us in the aftermath of Mom's surgery. And when you have an OCD Aunt coming over, your parents are very insistent that the house be spotless that way she doesn't spent her entire visit cleaning (and the house is a mess considering we just got from the beach and while we were gone by brother had a ton of friends over and trashed the place, but that's another story). Anyways, the point is that I'll try to write and update regularly, but I'm the world's worst person when it comes to that, so I make no promises.
Prologue
His favorite class to teach was always the one filled with freshmen, especially at the beginning of the semester. They were always wide-eyed and eager, ready to impress. The older they got, the less willing they became to work hard for a good grade and by the time they were seniors, over half were skipping classes to sleep late and party all night.
That wasn't his only reason for favoring the youngest. He loved that they were excited about learning and improving their knowledge and just thrilled about college in general.
There were downfalls, naturally. Sometimes they could be really immature or be too ignorant to learn. Or how annoying it was that they were always expecting a scandal, practically praying for one. They eyed all the young(ish) professors, trying to tempt them to cross the line from teacher-to-student and into something more dangerous, something that could potentially get them fired. They studied all their instructor's interactions with every student, trying to find anything juicy enough to spread.
In the four years he had been teaching, he had a few fellow employees lose their job, family, and respect over a fun, uncomplicated relationship with a student and Daniel always felt disgust when looking at them. He simply couldn't fathom why one would risk essentially their life- or at least all they lived for- for a meaningless affair. Or, if it was something meaningful, why not just wait until the student was out of their class? It puzzled him.
On some level, Daniel kind of understood. Staring at young, attractive women all day without being able to say or do anything that could potentially be twisted into something it wasn't could be difficult sometimes, but he knew he would never risk anything for a relationship with a student.
Or at least he thought so.
Until the day Kate Moretti walked into his life.
Not much plot, eh? I'll post the next chapter by tomorrow at the latest. And the chapters are way longer this is; this is just the prologue, and the guinea pig to see if anyone else is intrigued by Kate being in Daniel's class as much as I am.
On another note, is anyone else a fan of King and Maxwell? I was so excited when I heard about the show; I read the first book before and loved it, I just haven't gotten around to reading the rest yet. I can't believe the season is already over. Hopefully it gets renewed! And I can't believe some people believe the two leads don't have chemistry; watch the last episode and tell me you don't feel sparks!
Please review and tell me what you think!