A Note From Me

When I first started this story it was a simple piece of entertainment. I hadn't meant to make it actually mean something. But along the way I actually started realizing that there is more to a story than the entertainment factor. Have you ever finished a book and just sat there for a moment thinking about it? I have. The fact is that when someone reads a fictional story they seem to feel like it is real. "It's like TV in your head!" When I started thinking more about Sammy and the relationship between her mother, how she was always angry at her mother for leaving her, and that passage in Cold Hard Cash how Sammy said there is this weird bond to your family that is hard to explain. It made me want to write a story that made everyone sort of learn something in the end. Like Heather, for example. I had never meant for Heather to form a truce with Sammy in the end of this story. I actually was going to make Heather still hate her. But I didn't want the whole Nice Heather person to be a complete Waste of Story.

Anyway, this whole story put together on one Word document is 46 pages. And the fact that makes it even more strange, is that I originally wrote it all on my iPhone on the Notes app. I actually just wrote it when I was bored. Like when I had a little bit of spare time here and there I would write a chapter real quick. Eventually I started really enjoying the story myself. I've got to say it has been my favorite story to write, ever. It's the only story I have completely finished with over 10 chapters in a matter of four days.

Yes, it's strange that I'd do that. Who has that much free time? Not me. The reason I finished this in four days is because it was on my iPhone, not my Macbook so I could easily write passages whenever I could squeeze in five minutes. I'm a really fast writer, and some of you may know me for that. I then email the story to myself and open it on my computer, edit the hole story completely (the editing took me two days. Last night and tonight) and then I'm finished.

I just wanted to let you all know that I really had fun writing this and I'm sure if I was the one reading it I would have enjoyed reading it too. I'm not saying my writing is fabulous on FF because honestly, I don't use my best writing here. I use my best writing for school papers and stuff like that. Usually on FF stories I just write for the story, not for any advanced literature purposes.

I have a teensy question. If I was to do a spin-off type of story that centered around Sammy and if she moved into her "dad" (Danny's dad according to this story)'s house, would you guys like reading it? Like, would it be something you're interested in? That is all.

So thank you for reading! If you actually read this far, all the way from Chapter One to Chapter Fifteen. Please give me elaborate feedback on what you thought of this story?

Credits:

Sammy Keyes series by Wendelin Van Draanen

"What Dreams Are Made Of" song by Blood on the Dance Floor

"Imagination Can Be the Death of You" title taken from line in "What Dreams Are Made Of" by Blood on the Dance Floor

South of Nowhere TV show on The N

"Fool Me Once" title taken from The Vampire Diaries TV show on The CW

"Vanity Affair" title taken from Vanity Faire magazine

"Not in Kansas Anymore" titletaken from The Wizard of Oz

"In This Rhinestone World" taken from Blood on the Dance Floor album It's Hard to Be a Diamond in This Rhinestone World

"Every Once in a While" taken from Miley Cyrus song "I Miss You"

"Hate, Rage, Lies, and Insecurities" title taken from Blood on the Dance Floor song "You Done Goofed"

"Fallen in a Black Hole?" title taken from Lindsay Lohan song "Black Hole"

"Sneaky Little Fly on the Wall" title taken from Miley Cyrus song "Fly on the Wall"

A Sound of Thunder novel by Ray Bradbury

"Let's Jump the Sun" title taken by Miley Cyrus song "Forgiveness and Love"

(I copied someone on Fanfiction on this arrow trick, but…)

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