Not Just A Notebook

Chapter 3-Once You've Started...

Song above is 'Rush' by Aly & AJ which I think best describes Liana's feelings :)

Pic of Liana's bedroom above :P

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I still had my hand clamped over my mouth in shock, the tears from earlier still pouring down my face as I slowly walked towards him, Winter glancing between the two of us, her tail still wagging happily.  "Are you. . .real?" I asked slowly and softly, scared of what he might answer with.

He simply nodded his head and I exhaled lowly, my hands going to my hair and pulling roughly on it as I tried not to scream.  I had to get home.  I couldn't stand to be here any longer.  I took off in a run towards my car as I threw open the door and left the school, driving over the speed limit in my haste to get home.  Once there, I parked my car in the garage and ran up to my room, locking the door behind me and curling up on my bed, the fear coursing through me erratically now that I knew that these people I felt I knew, were actually my very own book characters.

But then I frowned.

Then does this mean that I'm Zoe in this freak show of a living nightmare?

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A low knocking outside my door sounded through as I stirred from my nap, blinking my eyes open and wiping the sleep from them as I slowly got up and went to answer it, sure that it was my mom checking if I had gotten home alright.  I yawned and unlocked my door before opening it, only to stare wide-eyed at what I was seeing.  "We thought we'd return this to you," Quinn said as he held up my backpack before him, and I backed away further into my room.

"Leave me alone!  You can't be real!  Just go away and don't ever come back!" I shouted, tripping over my chair and falling to the floor before crawling back towards my bed on my elbows.

Quinn sighed and entered my room with a roll of his eyes as Dante followed in behind him quietly.  I noticed Cyrus lingering in the doorway as Winter just trotted right in herself and plopped down next to me.  The dog was even starting to freak me out as well.  "I'm afraid we won't be able to leave even if we wanted to.  You're our Creator, and we'll only leave once you finish the book."  Quinn dug through my baackpack and pulled out my notebook, holding it out for me to take.

I flinched away from it and him.  "There's no way I'm completing that book now.  I don't want anything to do with it."

Dante knelt down in front of me, his hands placed on top of his knees lazily.  "Then we'll just be stuck to you like glue."  He grinned, like that thought actually sounded appealing to him, and I gaped up at him.

"You can't be serious," I said to them, and they all shook their heads.

"We couldn't be more serious," Quinn started, and dropped my bag as he sat down in my magenta rocking chair, flipping idly through the pages of my notebook to see the progress I had made.  He frowned before glancing over his shoulder at Cyrus.  "So that's why you can't speak.  She hasn't written any speech for you yet."  Cyrus nodded his head vigorously and walked into my room, closing the door softly behind him.  "Hey, Lia, we need you to write something for Cyrus so he can speak."  Quinn got up and placed my notebook on my desk along with a pen as he waited patiently for me to get to work.

I frowned and glanced between the two.  "What do you mean?"

Quinn sighed, but Dante was the one who answered my question, "In order for us to speak, you would have to have written something down that we say in the book."  He gestured towards Cyrus.  "Which means you haven't written any dialogue for Cyrus yet, so he can't talk to us at all until you do."  He nodded towards my desk where my notebook sat and Quinn stood waiting.  "So please write something down for him to say."