#ttye tag

WIP INTRO / TO TELL YOU EVERYTHING

title → To tell you everything

genre → Lesbian Romance, Epistolary (told through letters), Short Story, New Adult, Drama, Slice of Life

tropes  → Pen Pals, Fluff, Strangers to friends to lovers, Modern, Cottagecore, Adventurecore, Mutual Pining, Long Distance Relationship

POV → 1st Person (with some 3rd limited)

status → First draft complete-ish, 11k words/30 pages

major themes → Friendship; purpose in life; career; family; self improvement; change vs tradition; overcoming fear; finding happiness

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(Jesse’s letter)

Dear Charlotte,

I took an afternoon nap today. It sounds silly, but I haven’t taken an afternoon nap… ever. Well, maybe I did when I was a kid but I don’t remember that far back. There’s a large bay window that overlooks the garden, with all of it’s vegetables and the trees with flowers blooming, now coming out of their buds with the spring time sunshine. I sat on the ledge at lunch with a cup of chamomile tea - my teacup has this wonderful painterly design with 5 red cherries and leaves on it, I think my grandmother owned it, the design looks like a vintage botanical painting - and I was looking outside. The grass was so lush and green (thanks to my hard work at fertilizing it!), the warmth of the sun must’ve made me feel so peaceful that I closed my eyes and basked in its heat like a lizard. I drifted off for an hour and dreamt of tunnels.  

I hear there are a lot of tunnels in America (just miles and miles of them beneath your feet... How do you sleep at night not knowing what could be down there?!) I went through those cold, dark tunnels, touching the rocky and dusty walls. Sometimes there would be new passageways, new turns to make, but it all looked the same. I didn’t find anything special. I kept walking and walking, and woke up before they led anywhere. Maybe there was no exit, I wonder if I had slept longer I would have smply spent the entire time in those tunnels, wandering aimlessly.

I got tagged for this by @thechapelscrow over a MONTH ago, I’m sorry, I missed out on a bunch of tag games while on my semi hiatus 😅 Thanks for tagging me!

My last line is from my new WIP To Tell You Everything:

Finn splashed me then I got sea water in my eye so I had to towel off for a while. I built lopsided sandcastles. The sand gets more firm and darker the closer it is to the water so I wrote poetry in it with a stick of driftwood.

(not exactly my last line, but I’ve been writing the ending and don’t want to spoil it haha)

(Charlotte’s letter)

Around Midnight the concert ended. Downed a couple of beers afterwards. My friends found this abandoned shopping cart behind an Arby’s and we took turns pushing each other down a hill on it.  Midnight is my favourite time of day, what’s yours? I love how cool the night air is and everything is shrouded in darkness and mystery and excitement~ Maybe I should do more stuff during night-time, ooh I wonder if I could do ghost hunting?! That would be cool as hell. Naiche might know where to find an abandoned building to look for some ghosts, I’ll keep you updated and let you know if I end up getting a ghost gf lol!

When I was in that shopping cart, my vision went all wavy as drunkenness kicked in, and you know those tunnels at fun houses that are full of fairy lights and the mirrors make it seem like they lights are completely surrounding you? (google says they’re called Infinity Mirror rooms) Flying down the hill in that cart was just as brainweirding as that, I kinda felt like an alien zipping by all the stars in a UFO.

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