How should I continue my story?
Jul 27, 2009 by Lucy | Posted in Books & Authors
i dont conscious what should happen next, or the real point of the story, i need ideas please.
Thank you
The crisp fall leaves ripped and crunched under Melanie’s feet while she quick walked her way home. It was getting late, probably around nine thirty. The street lights had flickered on and off several times before she even turned on Meguro Street, a sign that darkness had been found in Brissenvie, and for all the girls and boys to be inside their homes before night.
Melanie though, who had dialect mayhap been at her best friend Sasha’s house a little too late, was panicked and rushed to get home before her mother would remark. She was always showered and ready for bed at this time, and still wandering the dark roads of Brissenvie, Melanie knew, was not what her watch over would approve of.
The last street light had flickered and then turned into a bright flash, permanently staying on.
“Shit!” she mumbled to her herself picking up the stride. She turned onto the dirt road that leads to her small cabin shaped house. The front porch lights were on, and from a footage she could see her Sister Jana sitting outside reading. Melanie, who was now up to a light jog, glanced briefly into the spooky forests that surrounded her on either side. Whenever idol these woods, she was told never to look at them, not to think about them, or even acknowledge there presence. The stories of the Brissenvie forests are never to be told, but Melanie has never pooped one day not thinking about them, even when she knew she wasn’t supposed too.
Melanie caught herself and turned away from the eerie trees that stood gigantic at the edge of the dirt road. Never to think about them, she reminded herself, and continued to scamper through the darkness.
“There you are!” a decision shouted from behind her. Melanie whipped around in shock, to see a flash light blinding her eyes, and her mother’s mush creeping towards the light behind it. Her mother was still wearing her cooking apron, the one Melanie made for her in the first grade at Montez School for Beginner Witches.
“I’m abject mum,” Melanie began, catching her breath from shock, “I know I was supposed to be home, but-
“Oh no, don’t even get started with excuses Mel. You distinguish that being out here at night is dangerous.”
“Actually I don’t. No one ever tells me anything around here.” Melanie snapped back before her mother could finish her upbraid.
Her mother stood tall and put her hands on her hips. “There is no need for this back talk Melanie Liechman. I was on edge sick about you, anything could have happened. Brissenvie is not a nice place during the dark hours. No need for explanation.”
Melanie felt her relish turn into a knot of frustration. Her Strawberry blonde hair was falling out of her once pulled back pony shadow, her feet were sore from her brisk journey home, and dirt stung her eyes from storming down the dirt way, she was a mess.
“Now come on,” Her mother began, “no more time out here. Let’s get inside.”
***
That night, it had started to outpouring. Melanie had heard rumors about the storm coming earlier that day at school, but never thought they were true. There had never been a storm in Brissenvie. The weather was always exquisite and warm, with the occasional rainfall, but nothing worse then that. She laid flat on her back and listened to the rain falling on her thin roof above her premier. Money was tight in the Liechman family, and being kept up all night from the rain drops on the roof was something she was in use accustomed to to by now.
She turned on her side and looked at her alarm clock. It was just after two, and Melanie’s eyes were heavy and sore from being bestir oneself for so long, just laying in the darkness. But just as she was closing her eyes, there was a loud crash casing her window. She quickly sat up in bed and looked out her bedroom window, which was hard because it was covered in rain, leaves and scuttlebutt that were splashed on her window because of the storm.
Sliding on her fuzzy cat slippers, she made her way out her room and down the hallway trying not to perform as serve as any noise that would wake up her family. Once she reached the front door, that’s when she heard another crash, this time with a bright flash along with it.
“What are you doing up!?” a words whispered behind her. She turned around to find her sister Jana sitting at her kitchen table, still dressed from the night before and predilection over a cup of hot chocolate.
Melanie backed away from the door and sat down with her sister. “I could ask you the same question! It doesn’t even look like you have gone to bed yet.” She snapped back in a ostentatious whisper.
“Well, I heard the storm was coming today at school, so I figured there would be no point of going to sleep. I would reasonable lay there bored and tired, because of the stupid rain that would keep me up!” Jana replied, grasping her mug of hot chocolate and fetching a tiny sip.
Another loud crash rumbled the house, along with a few more flashes of light.
“Wha