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Jem…Chapter 47
Chapter 47
I get things ready and I open about four cans of the chic-peas and Rayne’s looking in them as I wash them off in a strainer. It’s kind of cute really she looks so dubious of the whole thing. I grab a big soup pot and the food processor and in the pot I first add some chopped onion and oil and garlic and get that going. I chop some celery and carrots next and they go in and they need some time to cook down so I peel a couple of potatoes and dice them up and the chop up some bacon. Once the celery and carrots are mostly cooked the potatoes go in and I microwave the bacon on a plate in the microwave. I add the bacon fat to the pot seeing as there’s not that much of it from five slices and I reserve the crispy bacon…
Sigh…Rayne’s already into the bacon.
I swear I can hear my Mom’s voice in my head talking about Dad.
~If you need one pound of bacon for something you really, really should cook two. ~
I dig out more bacon and I cook the rest of the pound that’s there giving her the plate with the cooked crispy bits on it. I like the way that she gives me this sheepish grin and I guess all is forgiven as she gives me this really deep kiss flavored by the bacon on her lips.
“Okay…you’re forgiven. How about you play with the stuff we e-mailed from the taping we did at Ace’s?”
“Sure beautiful and I’ll just do that and watch you be awesome around the kitchen.”
Okay that has me kiss her again and I take my phone and plug it into the wall socket with the charger and I go through my songs I have on there until I get to *Because I’m Awesome* By the Dollyrots and I start listening to my play list from there dancing and singing along and rocking out a little bit in the kitchen.
Okay back to my soup.
I’m more or less making a sort of veggie soup not to be confused with vegetarian soup and I take the first can of chic-peas and buzz them into paste with the food processor then I open two cans of canned tomatoes and dump those into the pot and then add two can measures of water then stir it up and let if get back up to being really hot. You shouldn’t really boil soup, get it close maybe a little but really try to avoid a rolling boil. The paste goes in next along with a tablespoon of chili powder and a teaspoon of salt and ground cumin and lots of black pepper.
When it going good I add a cans worth of the un-mushed chic-peas and stir those in. The last stuff I’ll add is a tomato can full of rotini pasta and the bacon. I’d love to add some pastrami to it cut into ribbons but we don’t have any and I never thought to get any.
Next is my mom’s version of hummus. First thing is to mush up the chic-peas in the food processor both cans of them and then a table spoon of salt, and two table spoons of vinegar and three table spoons of honey. After that I add a cup of olive oil and let it buzz up there’s this whole sweet and sour thing going on now with it and salty and all that’s sort of left is to finish it. Mom never used garlic in her hummus and I don’t either that sort of makes a more sort of sour hummus to my tastes and I want to get this whole middle east thing going but a little different so in goes a teaspoon of cumin that’s a common spice there and once it’s blended it the last thing goes in. Mom’s special ingredient Skippy crunchy peanut butter and the sugar in the peanut butter fits in with that whole five flavors thing she used to talk about and the peanut marries a lot better with the chic-peas and the cumin. I know it calls for tahini but sesame can be pretty bitter sometimes.
I taste it myself and smile.
It’s pretty good and I know we have pita’s here in the freezer that I can make into chips. I take them out but I’ll let them defrost on their own.
Rayne looks over my shoulder as I’m transferring it into a bowl. “It looks like mud hon.”
She called me hon. Not honey but that whole relaxed and slipping together hon. I scoop a last bit on my finger and feed it to her and she has a surprised look. She doesn’t sex in up because she really doesn’t need to but I like the yay look of surprise on her face.
“Hey, that’s really good. I wasn’t a big hummus fan before this but this is a lot better than the stuff I’ve had before.”
“Thanks but it’s my Mom’s recipe. I’ll make one of her great dishes for it tomorrow.”
“It might last until tomorrow.”
“Hmm, I’ll have to set some aside but this over crispy fried lamb meatballs and a bit of sweet and hot red pepper jelly.”
“Sounds good but I’ve never had lamb before either.”
I look at her and she shrugs. “My family never really went for stuff you couldn’t get in the average grocery stores lamb was something rich kids ate.”
“Oh Rayne it’s not like that at all just go to some of the ethnic stores and it’s really good and cheap.”
“Oh no, my family is really white, not prejudiced white but really scared of new stuff Mexican and take out Chinese was as exotic as we got.”
“My Mom was one of those people that wanted to try anything and Dad well sometimes he’d, okay he still lets people pay him in stuff from their farms and gardens or off the back of the truck.”
“Makes sense actually, my dad knew a back of the truck guy and we got a lot of cereal from damaged boxes.”
I nod. “Me too, as long as the bags inside are sealed its fine.”
We’re kind of smiling as I do separate the stuff. I’m serious Mom had five cases of these things once and we ate a lot of stuff with damaged cases of chic-peas. Her Hummus is also great on a chicken or ground pork burger with some bitter greens.
But it’s more than that. It’s us having stuff in common and me getting her to tell me about where she’s from…and her childhood.
“Rayne?”
“Mmm…yeah hon?” Her mouth full of a finger of hummus.
“Where are you from actually?”
“Winnipeg.”
“So…?”
“So….?”
“What was it like out there, I mean I keep hearing cold but not a lot else and the music scene’s supposed to be pretty good out there.”
“It is but nothing like Toronto or Vancouver.”
“So you ended up in Harpers Point because?”
“Summer, we were going to be an all girl band and the Wildcatter does a lot for girl bands and stuff and she’s from here.”
“Summer’s from here?”
“Yeah.”
That, okay that surprises me because I thought that I’d have at least heard of her and stuff with how talented summer unfortunately is. Actually it kind of makes me wonder why I had never heard of her until lately. I know I didn’t get out much but still. It sort of starts to click a bit though.
“So how old is she anyway.”
“Summer?”
“Yeah.”
“She’ll be twenty one in January.”
“So, she was the older one then.”
“Yeah…”
“So Rayne just how old are you?”
“I’ll be eighteen in awhile.”
“Awhile? When’s your birthday?”
She looks at me and I look back and settle against the counter and hold her eyes with mine.
“August seventh.”
“Was that so hard?”
“Kind of, I don’t celebrate my birthday.”
“Why not?”
“They used to be a big thing home and we’d do stuff and since they don’t want anything to do with me it just hurt too much to bother doing anything….you want to know anything else?”
She looked scared sort of again and a bit upset. I push off the counter and walk over to her and slip both arms around her waist. “Yeah I’d love to know everything but I also don’t want to push it.”
(Sniffle.) “S’okay it’s just Summer really wasn’t like this…”
“I’m not Summer.”
“I know…” (More and louder Sniffles.) “I hate that I keep bringing her up around you!”
I kiss her and pull her a little closer to me and smile at her. “Rayne…Rayne look at me it’s okay…she was a big part of your life and in you becoming the amazing girl that you are it’s okay to still be talking about her. You’re getting over a serious part of your life, it’s like having emotional PTSD from the relationship and you have to get it out.”
“But I hate being like this, and bringing her up all the time and…”
I kiss her and a long sweet deep one and I rock/sway/dance with her and do big inhales through my nose like long drawn out breathing and she starts after a moment to take the hint and breathe. I break the kiss and smile at her. “Summer was your first relationship; if that’s all you have as an experience then that’s your frame of reference.”
“You’re not sick of it?”
“Honestly a little, but the bitch really makes me look good so I’m cutting the situation some slack.”
She giggles and hugs me. “You said bitch.”
“Hey I swear.”
“No, not that much and saying effing don’t count Angel.”
“I swear…when it’s appropriate.”
“I’m just teasing actually it’s something I like about you a lot, I’m not really into the whole girls that have a potty mouth.”
I kiss her again. “Better?”
“Yeah it’s just that sometimes I get these moods.”
“I know, goes with the make-up.”
“Hey…” But she’s smiling again.
I giggle little and hug/pull her a little tighter. We kiss and kiss some more. “Better?”
“Yeah, much. You just seem to be able to do that. I’ve never been with anyone that can pull me out of my funks or stop me when I’m spiraling like that.”
“I’m your girlfriend Rayne it comes with the job description.”
“I…I just sometimes feel like a big needy sponge around people so I shut things down because I hate to feel like I’m draining the life out of them.”
“Yeah well it just so happens that I have a rare condition that leaves me with way too much love and I need to have someone that needs it so we’re perfect together then.”
She just sort of looks at me and stares and then there’s that shy girl really happy smile that’s just so absolutely awesome. I love it when she looks at me like that.
“You know that was so sweet it was corny right?”
“Hey, corny is good. Besides it’s the truth.”
“I know which it just why I can’t help but feel things with you that I’ve never felt with any other girl.”
I smile and do a little curtsey. “Aiming to please as always.”
We look at each other for a few more seconds before we hear the Brooks car pull in and the Mike’s? I look out the window. “Huh, looks like we might be feeding Mike too on occasion.”
“That’s cool, as much as I’m not into guys like as y’know I do kind of feel better having him around some of the time.”
“Yeah me too, maybe we can hit him up for some lessons too. He’s showing Brooklyn self defense and stuff and I heard he helps or used to help teach some of the YWCA classes.”
“That’s not a bad idea I might feel better actually knowing more than Leblanc-fu.”
“Leblanc-fu?”
“Older brother and then two older twin sisters and a little brother, you learned a few things.”
“So Leblanc’s your last name?”
“Yeah and Connors on my mom’s side hence the pale skin and big breasts from my Irish side.”
“Well then yay for the Irish.”
Rayne blushes and I smile and bat my lashes at her and right about then an air sniffing Kimmie comes in ahead of Brooklyn and Mike. “See, I told you she’s be cooking up something all lovely and yummy.”
Mike grins. “It does smell really good in here.”
I smile and go to stir the pot a bit before getting the bacon and the fresh bread and setting it on the table. “What you’re not getting fed at home?”
“A man cannot live on steak and pizza and French fries alone y’know.” He says.
“Since when?” Brooklyn asks.
“Since I’d like to actually live heart attack free before the age of like thirty.”
“Hey, I grew up on that stuff it’s not that bad.” She sort of actually pouts leaning into him.
“Yes but compare that diet to the food that Angel serves up.”
“Okay, I really like Angels cooking.”
I smile. “Well good, I’m glad that I’m appreciated.”
Kimmie’s got a mouthful. “Mmm…bacon is always appreciated.”
We all kind of laugh at that and then it’s this whole family kind of thing of getting out the bowls and getting the other stuff on the table I’m one of those people that soup, to really be a meal needs stuff to go with it and I have the bread and the bacon but I also set out some cider vinegar and some of the balsamic we have it’s just the cheep stuff but sometimes a little drip or two is good in soup or it is for me. There’s sour cream and I actually divide that and stir some sweetened coconut into one half with the some of the curry paste we have and the other half is plain.
“I should have made a salad.” I say looking at the table.
“It’s fine hon.” Rayne says looking too and hugging me.
“More than fine.” Mike says.
We actually sit around the table and we eat, we eat and we just talk about the stuff that we did today and surprising us all is Mike as he tells us about spending the day going over his recordings of stuff that’s going on at school. We had no clue that he actually somehow has recordings of stuff.
We don’t really ask how and I’m getting now that this is why I’m sort of Mike’s contact because I don’t need or rather can’t know how he’s gotten what he’s gotten before I pass my info along to the officer that I’m working with.
I’m the only one that really gets a lot of the context though of the stuff he’s saying. I know everyone even more than he is and I might actually be able to guess what this stuff all means.
“When you get time bring me those on disc Mike, there is some stuff there that we might be able to use.”
“Really?”
“My school, I know the people involved more than you do.”
“Okay, I’ll get on that.”
The rest of the time is actually talking about the fact that apparently Skummer has gotten an exclusive for the rest of the year gig doing every dance and even the prom. There’s no secret why. Adam did it, because according to Mike he’s starting his own label and recording company. Yeah the girls aren’t happy.
Brook’s tearing some bread apart angrily. “Great Adam and Summer joining forces it’s the Axis all over again.”
I’ve been thinking then shake my head.
“No, this is a good thing. The school has a dance every week and they’ll be doing proms and stuff so that’ll keep them busy with that. Plus the dances are almost every Friday or Saturday nights so that’ll free up gigs they’d be taking from us and we’ll get more clubs. Then Adam…he a control freak so they’ll be in the studio a lot too. We’ll pick up the slack and we don’t need all that. We’ll put our originals on I-tube and maybe some of the covers and we’ll still get paid through there. If anything Summer and Adam trying to play the other might keep them out of our hair for awhile.”
That cheers them up and I get hugs and stuff from Brook and Kimmie and after by Rayne with a long kiss. “I love the way you’re so calm about this.”
“There’s nothing we can do about what they’re doing so when they do stuff like this we got a whole other direction. We’re all over the net stuff and once we get our website up and things we can do stuff ourselves and not have some label tearing a hole through our profits or dictating how we do things, we don’t have to slave ourselves out to the trends.”
The girls do the dishes up and I make pita chips for later which is just pitas cut up like a pizza slice and I toss them in some olive oil and salt and pepper. Just ten minutes on a cookie sheet at about three hundred degrees F. take them out and just leave them they’ll harden up nicely.
Then Rayne and I head up and get changed. I freshen up and get into a faded ripped pair of jeans and sandals and I put on a mid drift revealing camisole top and go with sandal wedges and touch up my hair and make up and perfume.
Rayne’s in a tucked tight black tee shirt and a black mini skirt and her hair and make up and we get into the van and head off to Sudbury. I’m looking forward to it, I haven’t been there since I was a kid and this is still one of the first times I’ve ever been on a date but out cruising too.
And of course Mike and Brook and Kimmie are in the back of the van pleading to come with is with puppy dog faces and Mike offering to pay for the movie tickets.
It might have bee nice to just be us but stuff like this we wouldn’t be us if we all didn’t go. And it’s really just us and right and everything as Rayne pulls onto the 17 and we crank the stereo and start singing along to the tunes on the mixed CD all together.
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Angel for Prime Minister!
Angel has a fantastic gift... she seems to be able to look at any set of circumstances and instantly grasp the positives. Bailey, you are so good at writing this kind of character; it must be a big part of who you are too.
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The girl in me. She's always there, often struggling
to decide which Bailey recipe to try next.
(Did I get any on me?)
Angel wouldn't have a clue to be a PM.
But the one thing she would do. Make all the government accounts open to public scrutiny at the least there's too much corruption with the cash flows. That and a form on your income tax that lets you put ten percent of the income taxes taken off each pay to go where you think is important.
Thanks for the wonderful compliment Lora:)
*Great Big Hugs*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
They live someplace they can
They live someplace they can buy Kraft peanut butter and they use Skippy?! The horror! :) Aside from that, the hummas recipes sounds...different. I tend to use tahini and lots of garlic when I make mine. Great to see another chapter of Jem!
Kraft makes peanut butter?
Who knew? *grin* Unless they brand it with a different name in the states. I shouldn't be surprised, though. Kraft is into EVERYTHING. I expect Kraft Brand Predator drones to be available at Walmart sometime soon. *smile*
Randalynn
They make three brands/types of peanut butter.
Smooth, Crunchy, and Creamy which is like a whipped version...it's kinda gross.
Adam would have a drone. The Marshals have money invested in Walmart Canada.
Kinda fits with the scum-factor.
*Smiles and hugs.*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
Kraft peanut butter isn't
Kraft peanut butter isn't sold in the states for some reason. When I moved down here, I kept looking for it to no avail. The lack is what finally got me off of processed peanut butter, and for years I've not bought any that was made from anything but ground peanuts and salt.
There was a really good homemade PB here....
but the guy that did it moved away and he's really missed because he made other great stuff but you can make really decent PB with a Magic-Bullet blender.
Bailey Summers
Probably
Probably because Kraft USA owns Planters which makes it's own peanut butter.
Cool:) I wonder if I'd like the Planters PB.
I'm assuming it's USA only as I've never seen it before.
Bailey Summers
Angel likes Skippy better than Kraft...
She used to like Squirrel but they don't put the peanut on the top anymore so she stopped buying it. But she grew up on Skippy. Kraft PB does make better peanut butter cookies though.
I make different kinds of hummus. I find you can make them all sorts of flavors and stuff. I'm not a fan of tahini since I too find it bitter but oddly love Halva. There's a nice one with cashews and roasted garlic and roasted eggplant that's really good.
I'm so glad that you're enjoying this still:)
*Great Big Hugs*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
love the "family" feel here
dinner is one of those occasions that seems to symbolize family to me, so this dinner scene was wonderful for that. Mike, Brooke, Angel and Rayne truly are becoming a family of sorts, and that's an amazing thing.
Angel has a thing about dinner too and there's just...
something about eating family like around the dinner table that she really treasures.
*Great Big Angel Hugs*
Bailey...A Proud Big Brother.
Bailey Summers
great friends
the people that are there for you. what a great group. regardless what Adam told Summer I'm not sure he can stop them playing anything, she admits that Rayne wrote those songs, i'm not sure how Canadian common law on one underage girl would be in Summer's favor. oh well we will see.
great chapter, thanks
Well actually he can stop Summer but not Rayne.
But if he took her to court over it she'd have to stop pending the court's ruling and he knows that he'd lose but he'd do it with the intent of messing with them if he felt he'd get ahead by playing games with him.
Yeah Rayne was of legal age in Canada in regards to relationships when they were together. The age of consent is 16 years old.
But that was mostly Adam pandering to Summer.
*Hugs and Howls.*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
Sounds like a good life!
I hate to feel like a downer, but into each life some rain must fall. Adumb and company aren't going to let it go easily, especially if he truly is as obsessed with Angel as I think he is. Besides, Skummyslut can't handle Rayne being happy without her. She's a ticking time bomb.
And then we already know someone's got it in for Mike, and that can't be good.
They say you can measure how good you are by how bad your enemies are. Wow, Angel's name seems to be appropriate!
Waiting eagerly for more!
Wren
You're right about all that Wren but especially the Angel part.
There's stuff that'll happen but things don't often come crashing down again and again overnight. There some stories that do the action for action and cliff hanger after cliff anger it's strange the main characters aren't in the nuthouse.
More will be coming:)
*Big Hugz*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
Angle and the band.
Are real talent who earn respect by doing the hard work of being real people working real hard. Yes Summer is talented but the rest of her is greasy cardboard, one dimensional and to slippery and dirty for any use. Yes Adam is from a powerful family but if he stupidly uses that power he will not get the results he wants. Adam is a simple minded thug who thinks with his little head more than his larger one so ego is all of him. The team of Summer and Adam is like nitro and glycerin bang it wrongly and it lets you know you screwed up.
Bailey another great story chapter. I need to ask this question? Are your sure that these people are not real people that you are writing about?
Huggles
Misha
With those with open eyes the world reads like a book
Yeah they're fictional Misha:)
But there's this thing that I love to do is to try to make these characters be realistic as people with hopes and dreams likes and not and all the stuff in between. It's really left to you the reader to get them breathing.
I thank you for that:)
The feedback makes them more real for me.
*Great Big Hugs*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
Adam's clueless...
...as to how the current makeup of Starlight Butterfly are motivated. He probably thinks that by giving Skummer a record deal and school gigs, that somehow Kisses and Thorns will outcompete Starlight Butterfly, to the extent that when he offers them money or a record deal, they'll jump at the chance.
He's noticed that Starlight Butterfly have released the videos of the trio of old songs online which Skummer directly attributed to Rayne, but evidently hasn't seen the dozens of hours worth of footage of the current band. He porbably thinks that being forced not to use their old songs will be a disadvantage to Starlight Butterfly, but given they've composed about a dozen songs since Angel turned up, that's unlikely. No doubt in the near future, Angel will start investigating the costs of membership of a copyright clearing house, so if/when they start making a reasonable profit they can get their covers legitimised with royalty payments.
As Angel's said, they're not looking to be tied to any record label - they'd rather remain independent and completely in control of their output - besides which, in the modern world you don't need to produce CDs - creating a website, recording tracks themselves and selling on iTunes bypasses most of the functions of a record company and appeals more to the youth of today who pay for what they want, rather than a CD half filled with less than a dozen tracks, half of which will be skipped.
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
Adam has a decent grasp of business but not the music industry.
And he really doesn't see the point of most of the whole social media thing. It's cute but for people with lives less interesting than his. Angel, Angel isn't even going to try to compete with them and just is going to continue honing what they're doing and getting things down right online and using that freedom to boost the bands freedom to work on the tightness of her live shows.
The eventual fact that they're not really faltering but expanding and thriving will piss him off at a Marshal level.
*Big Hugs.*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
"chic-peas"?
Like regular peas, but more stylish? :)
Yes they are:)
And one of my personal favorite ingredients. Really good in...
Pureed chic-peas 1 can.
Add to some diced onion and some chopped garlic that was simmered in olive oil.
Add favorite curry spices or if you don't like curry a tablespoon of peanut butter.
Stir until the contents are mixed.
Add 1 can of coconut milk stir until it's a broth.
Then add Prawns!
You'll either have curry coconut prawns or pad thai prawns in moments.
If you do the onion and garlic in the food processor it's only 10 minutes between empty pan to full plate.
*Great Big Huggles and scratches.*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
SQUEEE!! =D
That sounds uber yummy, even without prawns! ^_^
"chic peas" are Chick Peas, or another type of Pea?
Hey, don't be dissn' Kraft
I remember my mom coming home from the hospital in 1961 -- after giving birth to my EVIL BLONDE SISTER TM -- with these little plastic packs of jelly from Kraft, left over from her breakfast. I was seriously impressed as any not quite yet four year old would be. Kraft's original facility is still in operation -- doubt if it is the original buildings -- just barely in Illinois near the Wisconsin /Iowa/Illinois border.
It is, of course, a cheese factory. Not far from Galena.
Ah the power of cheese!
BTW nice tale.
Hum? As Scummer used those songs without giving proper attribute for months, would that mean Starlight, or at least Rayne CAN use them? Plus there is Scummer's multiple recorded public admissions Rayne wrote those tunes. I would think if you found a decent judge you could easily block or even dismiss any suit Adam filed to prevent their use.
IF Scummer had claimed they were hers and NEVER preformed them, that would be different IMHO.
That she performed them I would think gives Rayne equal rights to do so.
Her *voluntarily* deciding to not use them after the fact of having used them heavily in concerts post break-up seems so hollow on the face of it anything but a pet judge would laugh at it.
There is little of monetary value here or that Adam could hope to gain. All comes down to the annoyance factor and inconvenience he can cause for Starlight Butterfly I suppose. That and to further sink his claws into Scummer. There is really little to be gained by a court suit. Unless he is an arrogant prick .... Never mind. Time to call on some of her friends to end run these scum.
Evidence the Adams Family used influence would go down hard on them.
Fun to see where this goes.
John in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa
I & Angel Love cheese John:)
"Cheese is man's way of eating Butter more than he can already eat butter...unless you're Homer Simpson."
I like Kraft for Cookies but it's too thin? Or it's too thin here in Canada for my liking. I do really however like they're Jam and Jellies except for Strawberry, Smuckers makes the best Strawberry other than homemade.
Adam will only use that as a bothering tactic, and to manipulate Summer like you said. He knows the case is useless and pointless but legal fees are weapons. Mind you this is something that Angel might not get a lawyer to defeat but she might just have a lawyer for free. All those people that her Dad's helped? They have family.
I'm glad that you liked it so far John.
*Great Big Hugs*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
Poisoning the Well
The image of Summer poisoning the well of Rayne's family life seems to come to mind after this chapter. Clearly Rayne comes from a close knit family from the way she talked about previous birthdays. If she's only 17 now, I'm assuming she was 15 or 16 when she met Summer? It strikes me that Summer would actually kind of want Rayne split from her family so she was dependent upon Summer and Summer alone for any sort of emotional wellbeing. I think Angel definitely needs to see if she can repair things between Rayne and her folks. Maybe Mr Powers could even help in that respect, also being the father of a lesbian daughter (right now anyway).
The episode had a lovely family feel to it (as Dorothy pointed out) and was a lovely antidote to the Adam chapters. A few interesting lines in the chapter. Angel refering to herself as Rayne's girlfriend for a start and the revelation that Summer is a local girl. A chink in her bitch-fu perhaps?
Good chapter as always Bailey.
*hugs*
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
That's really what happened with Rayne.
Summer found herself a young talented singer songwriter and rather than fight her family over anything she had planned she seduced her and cut her away from anyone who might have told her anything different.
Angel is really seeing herself as Rayne's girlfriend seeing as the way that their emotions are running and even the way that they just are together. She's not male with Rayne in the way she acts or even feels and she's getting more right with thee feelings.
The thoughts of getting Rayne together again with her family but there's no plan to do that yet...yet she's just getting to know more about Rayne on a deeper level.
*Great Big Hugs*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
I debated posting this
Debated with myself, of course!
>> “A man cannot live on steak and pizza and French fries alone y’know.†He says. “Since when?â€
“Since I’d like to actually live heart attack free before the age of like thirty.â€
Kimmie’s got a mouthful. “Mmm…bacon is always appreciated.†<<
It's pretty clear, from chemical analysis and experiments showing what these chemicals do, that bacon should be classed with the above group as a "heart attack enhancer/causer". As far as carcinogens, either bacon or fire charred steak could have more, who knows?
The problem is that most people like the food that is worst for them, sugar and grease and salt. They will mostly eat what they like, even knowing the damage such food might bring them.
Hugs and Bright Blessings,
Renee
Since Mike is a martial artist and a semi -pro one at that
of course he's more prone to watching the things he takes into his body. But it was mostly a commentary on the stuff his dad and Angels dad tend to eat as middle aged guys. You get tired pretty quickly of those things.
Bacon or fire grilled steak? I'd say the steak might be safer because you might not cook the steaks all that long while the bacon has been sitting and curing. And the grilling methods would matter like gas vs charcoal.
I'm not one to be the healthy food nut. I like good food but I like my junk too it's just moderation for most of us. Though it's not the fast food that are the big killers...that's pop and chips and bars all way to easy to get and really bad for us.
But Not really what the story's about:)
*Big Hugs*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
It's great that Angels taken
It's great that Angels taken the news of K&T doing gigs at the school and made a positive out of it, the girls whilst growing into themselves are still getting used to finally being a group. Looking forward to more, we know Scummer will lose just not how or when. Starlight as a group have a better idea of what they want and doing it themselves is better business, they will own the copyrights, the profits and their dignity.
Big hugs
Lizzie :)
Bailey's Angel
The Godmother :p
I've been
married now for 35 years, and my wife is still damaged from her ex and it still has an effect on our relationship. I know just how Angel and Rayne are feeling. This is just so real, and so wonderful.