I'm too excited to care that I don't have my promotional picture yet (due to not having my real computer and art program, and due to my mom accidentally deforming my scanner cord, but let's not get into that.) I let myself write the last scene to our nearly completed CP4 part one and wanted to have it posted somewhere. I haven't felt like a writer lately and haven't been able to use my journal, so this boosts my spirits just a bit. And would you believe it's 17 1/2 pgs?! ♥

I was a little surprised how this chapter worked out. I've been in a slightly sentimental mood over Crystal Palace, so when I wrote the last scene, it kind of overrode Cosmo's typical experience with us earlier. I was trying to show that it seems, within the chaos, even though we get on each other's nerves and have affairs (chortle), we're kind of friends and we kind of like/respect each other. Life has just been too distracting for me to show that respect. It seems like he can forgive me more easily than Akira, but then, my crimes are much less severe.

And so, one premise of CP4 has been introduced: he will be doing me the favor of babysitting Crystallina this summer -- with absolute reluctance, and he wonders in the next part if he can get out of it -- but still.

Without further adieu,

( Part 1 - The Man With the Jellybeans )

Favorite Quotes

COSMO
What am I looking for in a partner? Well, I certainly have a penchant for independent women--sisters doing it for themselves, as it were.

COSMO
(self-mockingly)
'I hope you have a lovely day'? Good God, as if telemarketing wasn't enough of a soul-destroying endeavor, it makes one sound like a douchebag, too.

Meanwhile, behind Jennifer's closed, window-paned door, Akira waves his arms like he's signaling a plane. He also presses his face up against the glass before moaning like a severely injured cow on painkillers.

COSMO
(to the sky)
That girl is a toxic wasteland of misery, and I’ve been pulled into it, as per usual. You’d think I’d learn--
(to the officer)
Yes, I sprained my neck today.

JENNIFER
If you would be willing, why don't you come to dinner tonight? It’s the least I can do.

Cosmo looks apprehensive.

COSMO
…And the most?

JENNIFER
What?

COSMO
Nothing.

JENNIFER
As of late, he gets rather… musical when he drinks.