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Chapter 2
Rebecca sat in the back row of seats listening to the reading of Tim's book. It had been good so far, apart from the fact that is was full of clichés and the fact that it all seemed so familiar. He had pretty much, just taken what had happened in real life and then put it into a book. To be fair to him, he had changed the names of most things to disguise them and he had subtly changed the names of Rhydian, Jana, Shannon and Tom. Apart from that though he had hardly be very creative.
She was startled from her thoughts, by the sound of weak applause around her. She joined in quickly and smiled up at him.
"Thank you, thank you." he held up his hands, pretending he didn't need the applause "Now are there any questions?"
There was silence as the 10 people in the hall, evidently had no questions to ask. He looked resigned at this, so with a sigh, she raised her hand.
"Ah, yes." He quickly picked her question up, mouthing a quick 'thank you'
"Where did you get the idea for your book? Did anybody inspire the characters in the book?" she asked, giving him a poignant look
"Erm… well, the names for the characters were came from my old students," he started to flounder "the idea for wolf's came from a lot of the young adult novels on the market at the moment. Kids seem to like that kind of thing at the moment, so I thought that I could base it on that but also place more on an adults perspective of these events."
Another 3 hands had risen with questions, so he moved on.
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"Thank you all for coming, please tell your friends about the book." Tim preached to his retreating audience
He had made an extra three sales and was seemingly very proud of himself. Once everyone had left he directed his annoyance towards her.
"Well thank you very much, for that 'oh so helpful' question Becca." He complained
"You looked desperate for a question." She defended
"Well couldn't you have thought of a different question?"
"It was the first one I could think of and anyway you should be grateful."
"How did you work that out?"
"Well you got more questions and my question might have inspired people to buy the book." She explained
He just looked at her and shook his head.
"Right, you've done your reading, now please take it off the market, for your own safety at least." She pleaded with him.
"You know, Jana came to see me and said the same thing." He told her
"Well then, if you won't listen to me, listen to her then. She knows better than me, what would happen to you and who they would send to deal with your book."
"Hang on, I'm still thinking that my book, isn't exactly threatening."
"Well, your 17 sales-"
"20 sales now, 20." he corrected her
"Whatever Tim, the sales are still sales and soon the book will spread and more people will read it and someone may figure it out! Then everything will end up in the limelight and the Wolfblood secret will be finished, because it certainly won't be a secret anymore." She finished ranting
"Do you really think that my book, could grow so popular that it reveals a secret that big?" he looked slightly proud at this
"I don't know, but I know that Segolia, feels threatened enough by it to try and make you take it off the market."
"Have they even read my book? Have you even read my book for that matter." He asked
"Yes actually. I picked up a copy from your house last week. I left £10.99 in the kitchen."
"Why didn't you just buy a copy of it?" he asked, confused
"You looked like you could get rid of the clutter. Anyway, it made for interesting reading."
"You liked it then?" he looked intrigued, waiting for an answer
"Well I liked it in the fact, that it was a cliché and reminded me of a time in my life that I wanted to forget, yes."
"It wasn't that bad!" he looked offended
"Did you really have to write about all that stuff, with Kinkaid and how nobody believed me when I said they were wolfs."
"In the book I believed you!" he argued
"That is not the point, I didn't want to drag all that up again. I got over that and now you've brought it back. You really don't understand how hard it was for me, trying to find someone who would actually believe me!"
"Alright, alright. I'm sorry." He tried to defend himself "Upsetting you wasn't intentional. I didn't mean to upset anybody, it just got caught up in the book and that part had to be in the book for the rest of it to make sense."
"Well you know what, maybe I shouldn't have told you to take the book off the market, maybe I should have just left you face Segolia on your own!" she shouted "That's it, I'm leaving, have fun selling your book, Tim."
With this she left the hall, leaving Jeffries standing alone surrounded by a multitude of empty chairs.
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