Friday, December 11, 2015

A treat for my readers

Hello everyone. It's been a while since my last post, but I have a treat for everyone. I started working on this when I received an email from a reader wondering about this near the beginning of "The Chronicles of Trey". I started thinking and I liked the idea of doing it.

I wanted to use characters that I felt close to though so I chose the ones from COT. This is a re-imaging of the cast of COT. If I get a good response to this part I plan to make this a short story of about 5 or so chapters. Well without further ado, here's the story. Leave comments and or send me an email to thestoryguy9783@gmail.com to let me know if you all would like to read more.

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We open on an interesting scene:

“Yes Bear, give it to me,” I said. This man was a genius at the art of making love.

My name is Trey and I’m currently being plowed by my boyfriend Bear. Yes his name is interesting. He comes by it honestly because you see my guy is as strong as a bear. He’s big, hairy, and most interesting of all: he’s a superhero. You heard me right. He’s a superhero known as Alpha Man, you know because of his alpha male personality.

“Yeah Trey, I know you. I can feel you baby, I can feel everything,” he shouted as he pounded me.

He was a master at making love to me because of his many powers he is an empath. That means he can sense emotions. He can read me to know what I need and what makes me feel good so it’s an awesome power just for that. He’s also super strong and can fly.

“Oh yeah Bear, I’m close, I’m so close,” I shouted as he hit my prostate over and over.

“Yeah baby I’m there with ya, oh, ooohhh fuuuccckkk,” he yelled as I felt him dick pulsing wildly inside me which signaled him cumming.

“Oh fuck yeah!” I shouted as I came right along with him. He collapsed on top on me which I loved. His weight felt amazing. It also made me feel safe.

“That was amazing,” he said breathlessly.

“You were amazing. You are a superstar at making love Bear” I said between breaths. He was about to respond when his com device beeped. He reached for it quickly because it was probably an emergency.

“Hey I need you. Stop screwing your boyfriend and get down here,” I heard over the com.

“How do you know that’s what I’m doing?” Bear asked as he started rushing to get into his blue and grey suit with the giant red A on the front and the blue-grey cape.

“Psychic here, don’t insult me. Now move your ass,” Justice said and I had to chuckle.

“Yeah Justice I’ll be right there,” he said as he finished getting dressed. He always managed to do that faster than I could comprehend.

Justice was Bear’s partner. She was known as Psyche, and she had mental powers. She was a telepath and a telekinetic. Bear had someone appropriated her telepathic power using his empath power, but it only worked with me. She could also fly but not as well as Bear. She was formally teamed up with her twin sister Liberty and they were called The Freedom Girls. They had a falling out and she teamed up with Bear.

Liberty had since renamed herself Freedom Lady and joined up with Quarter Man and Dark Stalker. Quarter Man is named Sean and he’s a big guy like my Bear but not as big. He’s got super speed and a megaton punch. Dark Stalker is named Carter and he wasn’t a powered person. He instead built his own gadgets and devices to fight crime. Plus he’s a huge guy like Bear and Sean and he knows martial arts. I had heard that Justice of all people was his master but I didn’t know for sure.

I know what you’re probably thinking... How do I know all these people’s names? Well that was simple, Bear told me. I asked if he wouldn’t get in trouble telling me the real names of his superhero cohorts and he just said he trusted me and that he couldn’t keep anything from me. I honored that trust and never told anyone who these people were.

Anyway, after Bear got his costume on and after kissing me he was out the window. I had asked him why he never used the door and he said that using the window was more heroic. I scoffed at that but then he also reminded me that he couldn’t just go traipsing out of my apartment wearing his costume as people would know I was with him and use me against him. I reluctantly agreed.

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I sat at work watching the highlights of Alpha Man and Psyche stopping the Sentinel Building from falling down onto innocent citizens and other buildings as well with my close friends and co-workers Miriam and Dale.

“Wow Alpha Man is so hunky and heroic. I’d like to see just how much of a man he is,” Miriam said dreamily.

“Psyche has a banging body, but I liked her costume better when she was just Justice,” Dale said and I agreed. Her costume now was more flowing and long while she wore form fitting Red, White, and Blue spandex when she was teamed with Liberty.

“Healey! Where the hell is that report that I told you to get me by today?” my boss Mr. Meadows yelled. I hated my job, especially since my boss seemed to have it in for me.

“I sent it to you last night Mr. Meadows,” I said trying to keep my cool.

“Oh, well you should have told me that you sent it already!” he yelled again even though he was standing right in front of me.

“I just did sir,” I said still trying to keep calm.

“Are you back-talking me Healey?” he asked as he got in my face.

“No sir, I’m just telling you that I had sent in the report last night,” I said and he sneered at me. “Is there anything else sir?” I asked politely while inside my blood was boiling.

“Not right now, but you better not let me catch you slacking off again watching those super-powered freaks or it’s your ass,” he said harshly.

“Sir those “super-powered freaks” protect the city and world from danger,” Miriam said coming to my defense.

“Oh please, if anything they cause all this trouble and danger they’re supposedly protecting us from,” he said to her in a kinder manner than he used when he talked to me. He was a jerk, but he was less jerky to everyone else than to me. He then stalked off before anything else was said.

“Man, what a bastard,” Dale said as he left.

“He sure seems to not like you. What’d you do to him?” Miriam asked, but I had no clue why the guy hated me. I was just waiting for the day to be over so I could see Bear before some disaster occurred and he had to be off. Secretly dating a superhero wasn’t always so cool.

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I was walking down the street after work to meet Bear at the bar. Yeah even superheroes went out to have a beer sometimes. I arrived at the bar at the same time that he was walking down the street coming toward me from the other direction. When he saw me he smiled that smile that he had only for me.

“Hello lover,” I heard him say, only it was him using his power to project the though into my head. I smiled because he had a power that was exclusive only to me and that made me feel special.

“Hello to you too my hero,” I thought to him which made his smile grow bigger.

We were almost to each other when all of a sudden I heard a loud crash. We looked and saw that it was none other than Freedom Lady that had crashed into a parked car on the street. People started running in all directions and the people who were in the buildings came to the windows and looked out and a few brave souls came outside to see.

Freedom Lady got up and charged toward someone before she was blasted again this time with what looked like laser vision from a different direction which sent her flying into a building across the street. Bear rushed to me and told me to run but I stupidly didn’t.

“I can’t run away and leave you here,” I said and he got this really intense look in his eyes.

“I need you to leave now. Things are about to get dangerous,” he said as he dragged me to a safe a secluded place. We heard the sounds of crashes and fighting not far away.

“I know that but...” I said and I hated that I was a normal person with no powers or like Dark Stalker. He looked at me and gently caressed my face likely having heard my thoughts. He pulled out his com device.

“Justice, get down to Hal’s Bar. Your sister is being attacked and I need your help,” he said into the device.

“What?! I’ll be right there,” she said with urgency and worry in her voice.

“Stay right here,” he said before he pulled out this tiny pack that he said he had commissioned from Dark Stalker to hold his suit. He hit the button on the device then threw it to the ground and a tall rack shot out of the device and it held his suit. He rapidly put it on and after giving me a quick kiss he took off to help Freedom Lady.

I stuck my head out just in time to see Freedom Lady deflect one of the lasers fired at her and she jumped just in time to avoid being hit by a car that was sent barreling toward her.

“You’re very agile Freedom Lady, but you will be mine,” I heard in a familiar voice.

“Give it up Jerker. I will never belong to you,” Freedom Lady said and now I recognized the voice. The Jerker was a former superhero, but I’d call him an anti-hero. His name was Drake and he was exposed to too much sunshine and light when he was a kid and so his body adapted by allowing him to absorb heat and light of any kind and project it in different ways such as laser vision.

He aimed his laser vision at her again, but just in time Alpha Man dropped down between Freedom Lady and The Jerker with a car and used it to shield the both of them from the lasers. Seeing him up close I had to agree with Miriam that he looked so heroic and hot. His muscles bulged in his tight suit which I’m ashamed to say turned me on.

“Stay out of this Alpha Man. This is between me and Freedom Lady,” The Jerker said.

“As long as someone is in need of help, Alpha Man is there to save the day,” he said in his completely corny motto. I told him to change it, but I couldn’t come up with anything better myself.

“Okay, lets see how you like it when I really turn up the heat,” he said as he shot his now heat vision at Alpha Man and Freedom Lady.

“You keep him distracted and I’ll-,“ Freedom Lady started to say before The Jerker went flying into one of the buildings nearby.

“You just can’t stay out of trouble can you?” Psyche asked as she landed near Alpha Man and Liberty.

“I didn’t ask for your help Justice, or should I say Psyche,” Freedom Lady said.

“I will make you all pay!” The Jerker shouted before his laser vision cut clean through the car Alpha Man was using as a shield.

“Well that was unfortunate,” Alpha Man said then stomped the ground and broke a large chunk of the ground apart and picked it up and then threw it at The Jerker. He busted the rock with his laser vision, but was unprepared for the car that Psyche has thrown toward him with her telekinesis.

It hit him and sent him hurtling into a truck and he ended up sandwiched between the car and the truck. The super powered trio looked like it was over before the car melted and The Jerker stepped out looking pissed.

“Now you’ve really pissed me off!” he said in a snarl and the air suddenly got very hot. The three heroes were preparing to counterattack, but I looked behind them and saw a woman with a big energy cannon-like weapon aimed at the trio’s back.

“Alpha Man, look out!” I yelled as I ran from my hiding place. The trio looked at me, then too late the saw the woman before she fired her weapon and everything went black.

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I woke up to see myself in a laboratory of sorts. I looked and saw that Alpha Man and Psyche were tied up like I was. I looked for Freedom Lady and saw her strapped to some machine that looked like it would suck out all her power or something.

“Well I see someone is awake. Silly me I thought that one of the actual heroes would be the first to wake up, not some powerless weakling,” The Jerker said living up to his name.

“I can’t believe someone as big and strong and handsome as Alpha Man would be hanging out with this obviously inferior person. I’ve seen him with you before,” the woman who was dressed in a pink spandex suit that looked really trashy.

“What do you want him or something Miss Nasty?” Jerker asked with a scowl.

“Maybe, after he’s been reconditioned,” she said as she ran a hand all over his chest which made me want to rip her apart touching my man like that.

Miss Nasty was, well nasty. She was wicked in every way and she had the ability to transform her little blaster into any type of weapon with a thought. She was evil and hated any woman that looked better than her, which was a large number. There was an intense hatred between her and Alpha Man’s former partner, Goldilocks who’s name was Jessica.

“Are you okay baby?” I heard in Bear’s voice in my head. I looked over and his eyes were still closed, but I guess he was conscious.

“Yeah, I’m fine, but they’ve got Liberty strapped to some machine,” I thought back to him.

“Is Justice awake?” he asked me with his mind.

“No... wait, she’s coming to,” I said.

“What the hell is going on? What’re you doing to my sister?” Psyche asked explosively.

“Well welcome back to the land of the living Psyche. To answer your question, this machine will drain Freedom Lady of her powers and transfer them to me. You see, she’s very special. Unlike you, she has a great power inside that I need and I have been searching for it for a long time,” The Jerker said.

“Well I’m not letting you get away with this,” she said before she tried to short out the machine with her telekinesis but as she tried to do so a barrier appeared around the machine.

“Ooh, were you trying to use your powers to break my machine? Well I think I should tell you that it’s power proof,” The Jerker said and let out a sinister laugh.

Before anyone else was able to say anything a wall exploded and there stood Quarter Man and Dark Stalker. They were both so strong and strapping, especially Dark Stalker in his black and grey leather/armor costume.

“Stop checking out Dark Stalker,” Bear order with his thoughts. Hearing his thoughts in my head at that volume hurt like hell.

“So you wanna go capturing our teammate? You’ve made a big mistake Jerker,” Quarter Man said in that corny hero tone that I always rolled my eyes at.

“I don’t think so Nickelman,” The Jerker said before he let go with a quick blast of light from his hands which hit Quarter Man dead on, but Dark Stalker was able to dodge.
 
He pulled something out of his utility belt and threw it in the air which exploded and engulfed the room in blinding smoke. The next thing I knew my bounds were being undone.

“Stay out of sight,” Dark Stalker said in my ear before moving along and removing the restraints from Alpha Man and Psyche. I looked back towards the villains just in time to see Quarter Man’s punch collide with The Jerker sending him flying across the room, but Miss Nasty used some kind of tractor beam gun to stop him from colliding with the wall at that speed.

“Thanks,” he said as she let him down, but she just let go with a humph

Quarter Man ran at high speed toward the machine aiming to hit it with his mach punch but that barrier hit him hard and threw him against the wall. Miss Nasty headed toward him, but Dark Stalker intercepted her, and they got into an impressive hand to hand fight, but Dark Stalker had the upper hand and had her on the ground before he was hit by a unanticipated eye laser blast.

He hit the wall too and was down, before The Jerker was sent flying into a wall. I looked over and saw Psyche holding him pinned to the wall with her telekinesis. He tried to counter by firing a laser blast but Alpha Man was there with a metal door shielding them both.

I don’t know why, but I felt danger. I looked too late to see Miss Nasty with that same gun from before on the streets. She fired it at Alpha Man and Psyche and they went down. Even though it was stupid, I ran to Alpha Man who was unconscious on the floor.

I couldn’t believe this could be happening. Alpha Man and Psyche were down. The Jerker and Miss Nasty had Freedom Lady tied to the power drain machine and she looked almost tapped out. Quarter Man and Dark Stalker were also down for the count so it was only powerless me that stood between these villains and their evil scheme succeeding.

“Well looks like the heroes are down for the count. Foolish human, look what you’re gotten yourself into by hanging with people who are better than you,” The Jerker gloated.

“Yeah, Alpha Man shouldn’t be wasting his time with a powerless loser like you,” Miss Nasty added.

“Now, as soon as this machine finishes sucking Freedom Lady dry I’ll have enough power to bring the world to it’s knees, mwhahahahaha,” The Jerker laughed with Miss Nasty joining in.

I couldn’t let this happen. I had to do something, but what could I do? I was a normal human with no powers. How would I defeat super-powered villains? That’s when everything went hazy and my head hurt. It felt like I was losing consciousness, and so I did.

I woke up in a purely white place where there didn’t seem to be anything around but a fancy ornate silver chair with someone sitting in it. This couldn’t be. His man was Christian Grey. He was better known though as the Power Keeper. Bear said he bestows and regulates power among powered people.

“Welcome young Trey,” he spoke regally.

“Where am I? What am I doing here?” I asked.

“You are in the power chamber,” he spoke.

“Chamber? This doesn’t look like a place. There doesn’t look to be anything else for miles,” I said. I was so confused.

“That’s just your perception of this place. Now do you want to help your friends? Do you want to stop the villains menacing them?” he asked.

“Of course, but what can I do? I’m not like Dark Stalker who makes his own means to fight crime,” I responded.

“Yes, Dark Stalker is an interesting man, but there are others like him who choose to fight evil without powers. Anyway this is about you being chosen,” he said.

“Chosen, for what?” I asked. This was really confusing me.

“You’ve been chosen for power. Now take my hand,” he said holding out his hand for me to take, so I did. I held his hand for a few seconds and it felt so warm and safe.

“Okay, now what?” I asked.

“Now say ‘I have the power, I am the power’,” he said. It sounded weird but I would comply.

“I have the power, I am the power,” I said. Then suddenly I felt this warm feeling start to get hot and light emanated from me and I felt like I was being struck by lighting. When the light faded I saw that I was different. I was huge, well not like bear but still huge according to me. I had big muscles and I felt strong.

“Now you have the power. Go save your friends,” he said with a smile for the first time.

“What power?” I asked.

“You have to discover that for yourself. Now return and save your friends,” he said.

“How do I get back?” I asked. I had no idea how I even got here.

“Just wake up. When you do you’ll find that only a second has elapsed since your last thought,” I said. It sounded weird, but I did what he said.

When I regained consciousness and everything looked the same as before, even me it seemed but that only lasted a second as I was again engulfed in light and when it faded I had my new body and it still looked good on a second glance.

“What the hell just happened,” The Jerker said.

“Idiot, he’s awakening. We need to stop him,” Miss Nasty said.

She then pulled her hand cannon out and fired a rapid shot at me. Where Sean and Carter weren’t fast enough to dodge it, I found I was able to with ease. She fired 3 more shots which I dodged as well. The Jerker then used his laser vision to cut a huge chunk of the ceiling away that was big enough to crush me easily. It fell toward me and I instinctually raised my hands. The ceiling fell onto my hands, and it felt like nothing. I held this huge chunk of ceiling in one hand to the absolute shock of the villains.

“What the fuck?” The Jerker said.

“I’ll save the day,” I said then I realized how bad that sounded. “Wow that sounded corny” I added.

“Yeah, it did,” The Jerker replied.

“Yup, you totally need to work on this whole thing,” Miss Nasty said.

“Fine, I’m gonna kick your asses... how’s that,” I asked with a sneer.

“Much better,” The Jerker said.

“Now, try this,” Miss Nasty said as her hand cannon morphed into some weird looking laser rifle. She fired it an me, but I was able dodge every shot. I was digging this.

“You’ll have to try harder than that,” I said as I dodged another laser.

“Can’t you hit anything woman,” The Jerker mocked.

“Shut the hell up,” she replied. “Damn you, stop moving” she said to me. The Jerker then joined her firing his laser vision at me. It was harder to dodge the attacks. One headed towards Alpha Man and I had to rush to him and get him and Psyche out of the way.

When I laid them down I was distracted and hit by that gun of Miss Nasty. It made me weak, and I almost lost consciousness, but was able to keep from doing so. I barely stood back up, and took a step, but my body felt heavy.

“Hahaha, you may have resisted my diffusion wave gun, but it’s still working on you. Now’s your chance Jerker, get him,” Miss Nasty said gloating. The Jerker readied his heat wave, and fired it at me, but I dodged and a now conscious Psyche redirected it at the machine Freedom Lady was strapped to. I guess the barrier wasn’t set up to repel his powers as it hit the machine and she got free.

“You… failed… Jerker, Freedom Lady said in halting speech as she was probably still very weak.

“Your power will be mine!” The Jerker proclaimed loudly.

“I don’t think so,” Dark Stalker said now awake. He then threw a device in the air, and I felt weird and floaty. The next thing I knew we were all in a secluded area unknown to me, all except The Jerker and Miss Nasty that is.

“You idiot, I can’t believe you used that thing on us. You said it was a prototype,” Quarter Man exploded at Dark Stalker.

“Well it worked didn’t it. Besides how else do prototypes get tested anyway?” Dark Stalker said as Quarter Man glared at him.

“What happened anyway?” Alpha Man asked.

“It’s a teleporter. It broke down our cells and transported them to this place,” he said the walked over to a device that was near us. “This is the return point,” he said gesturing to the area we were in.

“I think we have more important things to worry about, like Trey having powers and what The Jerker wanted with my sister,” Psyche said sounding very concerned.

“You saw the power keeper, didn’t you,” Alpha Man said looking serious.

“Yeah,” was all I said.

“Okay, we need to split up and track down why the Jerker was after your power Freedom Lady,” Quarter Man said.

“I agree. Trey and I know someone who can help us with this,” Alpha Man said. They all agreed and after agreeing to meet there in a few days, we all separated with Alpha Man and I leaving together. We had a lot to talk about, especially with me now being a powered person.

To be continued….?


Thursday, October 22, 2015

What's going on with me and writing

Today I will be telling you about what I'm doing in regards to writing. This story really opened the floodgates and I have all these ideas now for different stories. In addition to "Chronicles of Trey", I'm doing some planning for the spin-off short story. I have the first chapter almost done, but I can't post it now as it's based off of things that haven't happened yet in the main story and has characters that haven't been introduced yet. I hope to post it by chapter 24 maybe.

One other story I'm working on is a completely new story that I still have to visualize all the components for. I have 3 of the main characters all set up and have written an excerpt for the story. It'll probably take a while before I have this story ready to maybe preview.

Then I have another new story that I want to write. Well it's not new in my head as the idea and the characters in it were realized in my head long before the characters in COT were "born". Well long as in early last year. I want to write this story, but am unsure about it at the same time for one simple reason. It is centered around music. The premise begins with a shy teen who loves music and writing songs who is recruited by some of his school mates to join their band and the story takes off from there. The problem is that I'm unsure how to proceed with a musical book as I suck a writing lyrics and I'm sure that at some point there will have to be some original lyrics perhaps in there. I hope to have this ironed by the time I get ready to start writing it.

In closing I like to thank all my readers for giving my story a chance and actually liking it, lol. I'd like to thank my editor JD for helping me with the story. I'm closing in on the end..... of the first part of book 1. I had you worried didn't I. Due to the amount of content of the story I thought it would be a good idea to separate the book into 2 parts. It doesn't really affect anything unless I decide to publish the book though I'm not sure I will do it at the moment.

Until next time... Nicky Smith out.

Saturday, October 3, 2015

COT Chapter 14

THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS SO SKIP IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE STORY YET OR MADE IT TO CHAPTER 14...






Now that chapter 14 is up I thought I'd give some insight into what I was thinking. I wanted to show how the separation of Trey and Bear affected not only them but their friends that really wanted to see tem together. The situation was hard for these guys. They have been so much a part of each other’s lives for so long and now there is a new dimension to their relationship that has deepened the love they share so they of felt the weight of the separation.

Jessica and Sean also felt this as they truly want them to be together so they try everything to make sure of that which brings us to the war of wills between Jessica and Lawrence.

People who know Jessica know think of her as maybe an airhead, or perhaps shallow but I wanted to show that Jessica is extremely clever. She came up with great ideas and plans that would help the to guys have some kind of contact, to the point that she didn’t even know how she was doing it. Sadly though Bear’s dad was even more clever than her.

There wasn’t a lot of Trey himself in this chapter but don’t worry because he will be back next chapter. In face I think that will be the only chapter like that for a long while where Trey doesn’t have a POV in it.

Some people may be wondering why Bear doesn’t just tell his dad off and leave. Well even though his dad hasn’t said it out loud, he’s intimated that Bear should think of Trey’s well being before he tries to rebel against him. Lawrence is a man with means and Bear knows this and doesn’t want anything to happen to Trey because he was stupid and angered his father.

Also no other adults are getting involved because they don’t know. As with most teenagers, these kids haven’t done the logical thing and told another adult just how bad things are for Bear, thinking they can solve this problem themselves. All Trey’s parents know is that Bear’s parents aren’t allowing them to see one another. They don’t know the extent that Lawrence is going to ensure this.

I will say that after a reread that I found this chapter kind of sad myself. I didn’t know that extent when I was writing it so if some were turned off by it I apologize. I will say that I think it was needed to see how bad things were for them emotionally. Things will get better though very soon so be on the lookout.

In closing I just want to thank everyone who is following my story and for sending me emails. I appreciate that and I just want to say that if you were lead to my story by my blog, if you decide to send me an email to let me know that my blog led you to the story.


Until next post… Nicky Smith out.

Monday, September 28, 2015

COT Chapter 13

THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS SO SKIP IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE STORY YET OR MADE IT TO CHAPTER 13...







I thought I should post this message as a notice going forward. I know that some might not like how chapter 13 played out. Some will say they read this story, as well as most any story as an escape and I understand that. I want my story though to be as realistic as possible when dealing with behavior between people.

Sometimes the things I will write will be crazy but unfortunately what happened in chapter 13 happens. It's a reality and I wanted to portray that. I didn't want this to be an unrealistic "everybody accepts and loves them immediately" sort of situation because even in this day and age there's people who just don't want to accept it and I know from experience.

Also I should note that just because chapter 13 went the way it did doesn't mean things won't ever get better for Trey and Bear. They still have people who do accept them and I will say that I've read stories where this sort of thing happens but I wasn't turned off by it. I felt sad for the character and any real people who have faced similar situation. I realized it's a story and authors reserve the right to tell their stories a certain way.

I will apologze though to those who are offended by the way chapter 13 played out, and I just hope that you will stick around to see how things play out from here on out.


Until next post.... Nicky Smith out

Saturday, September 26, 2015

Me and Writing

As I stated in the first few chapters of "The Chronicles of Trey" this is my very first attempt at writing a story. I have read so many books, especially M/M stories that finally I decided to try my hand at writing pulling upon all I had learned from the books I had read.


THE STORY:

I've had this story idea floating around in my head since around January of this year. I developed the main characters of Trey and Bear and the people around them and I spent the better part of this year basically going through their lives in my head. I made it all the way to Trey being 30 before the thought came to me to actually write a book.

Due to this though how Trey and Bear's story will truly end is still a mystery to me. Fear not though as I have a plan for how to proceed. I will seperate the lives of the characters into 3 "books" with the current one being "book 1". I plan to end it around the characters' highschool graduation and as you probably know they are juniors so we have a while yet t go there. I plan "book 2' to span the characters' college years and end with graduation from college. Then "book 3" will be their adult lives after college.

It's the third book that's unfinished in my head, but that's a while off so I'm sure I will find a way to end the story. I'm even thinking of an ending that will leave open a place for a "book 4" but the details of which would spoil things to come that I already have planned out.


THE CHARACTERS: (there will be spoilers up to chapter 13 in this section so skip over it if you haven't made it there yet)

I wanted to develop Trey and Bear and their dynamic before putting them together and before any sex happened between them. I didn't want this to be like the stories where the two characters meet and hardcore sex happens before the first chapter is over. I like those types of stories well enough because some of them turn into some really good stories.

Often times though those stories devolve into just sex sex sex all the time and meanwhile the leads aren't well developed and even the reason they're even together is a mystery because all that you know about them is they have sex. There are no sweet, tender moments, no heart wrenching teary-eyed moments, no breathlessly funny moments. There's only sex and no other chemistry between the leads.

I wanted to show that Trey and Bear are extremely close to each other. I wanted to also show their obliviousness toward each other. I wanted the reader to be screaming for them to just kiss, do something because it was so obvious they wanted each other. I also though wanted to develop the characters around them, even the female characters because some M/M stories only include other gay men. I wanted both gay and straight characters in thsi story and I wanted them developed.

As you read the story you will see that perhaps pne of my very favorite characters in this story is Justice. Some may just call her a mary sue though because she can do most of it all. She's insanely intelligent, she really pretty, and she's deadly. Some people, well okay all people will hate Drake and Zane as they should but I will say that they aren't just bastards but both do have reasons for their hatred of gays. Zane's will be coming up soon in book 1 while Drake's won't be revealed until near the end of book 2 which is quite a while out.


OTHER STUFF:

This isn't the only story I've done in my head like this, just the first that has begged to be actually written. I've had a few that would have been great stories if only I could remember the details, lol. Now though I'm also thinking on 2 other story ideas, maybe 3. One is a short story of maybe just a few chapters that's connected to "The Chronicles of Trey". It will feature all the characters just in a different way. I got the idea from a reader who sent me an email about something else but I wondered how I could incorporate it with The COT characters. It will be seperate from the main story but still contain the characters.

When I'm done with the first chapter I'll post it here and depending on feedback I'll continue with it. The second one is a completely different story with all new characters that I've gotten a couple ideas down about. The maybe is a spin-off featuring Marcus and Wayne. I've gotten a few emails from readers telling me that they really like Marcus and Wayne and at least 1 reader expressed a desire to read a story about them, but I'm unsure if I wanna go this route based on events that happen in the main story. I'll have to see when I get there.


In closing I'm a new writer but I'm finding I like it. I hope one day to get a story published as a book but until then I hope everyone who reads COT enjoys it.


Until next post... Nicky Smith out.