Chapter 1
The shower was good. Wonderful even, but Elizabeth still lacked the resources for her next big project.
The next obvious step to curing her severe, case of writer's block was to stand on her head while reciting pi. But that didn't work either.
Hair still wet and head aching from the sudden and then continuous rush of blood, there was no choice but to choose THE choice. The most dreaded choice of all: she would have to go...outside.
As she stepped into the lurking jungle, aka her front yard, Elizabeth wondered why she so dreaded coming out of her own house. The sun was shining down lightly on her weary body, the warmth shooing the aches and cricks away; a gentle breeze pushed its way under her hair, cooling her neck; harmonious buzzing and chirping rang through the air giving way to an annoyingly, greasy, nasally...wait what? Elizabeth snapped back to attention and felt growing annoyance as the next door neighbor came into her line of vision.
William Collins. Like his namesake in Pride and Prejudice, was most definitely the horridest, annoyingest alien being on the face of planet earth. Perhaps he was the reason she kept indoors.
