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fredtheflyingfish
Novel: Opening My Eyes
Genre: Young Adult & Youth
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About fredtheflyingfish

Location: Florida

Home Region:
United States :: Florida :: Tampa

Age:17

Favorite novels: Uglies Series, The Book Thief, Stargirl, Gemma Doyle series, Looking for Alaska

Favorite writers: Scott Westerfeld, Marcus Zusak, Libba Bray, Sarah Dessen

Favorite music: Rock and show tunes

Non-noveling interests: Acting, singing, listening to music, hanging out with friends

Joined: Octubre 2, 2006

This Year: Official Participant

NaNoWriMo History:
'06 '07

NaNoWriMo posts: 76

NaNoWriMo buddies: 6

 

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Synopsis: Opening My Eyes

The Webber sisters, older sister Lyla and younger Annabel, and the Farmer brothers, older Jude and younger James, have been together as long as they can remember. And Lyla and Jude and Annabel and James have been couples since they were old enough to know what a couple was. And they plan to stay that way and get married and live in their rural Alabama town forever and ever. To them, it's just the way life is.

But in the summer of 1968, their whole lives are rocked when Jude and Annabel get in a car accident and face their own mortality together. Soon, they realize what has always been true: it is not the two older and two younger siblings who are meant for each other.

Faced with hard decisions, the two new lovers decide to at first hide their love from their families. They continue with this for a long time, until Annabel learns Jude has more on his mind than just her. He is planning to escape their town, and she is going to go with him. And finally, they will be together and not have to be secretive anymore.

But of course, nothing turns out the way it's supposed to and as naive Annabel learns about other ways of living, her and Jude's world shatter around them and they have to make their toughest decision yet: family or love.

Excerpt: Opening My Eyes

As we stood in our separate corners, I thought about what I was about to make happen. What I was about to make happen with Jude. Jude. Jude, boyfriend of my sister. Jude, older brother of my boyfriend. That was what he had been to me my whole life, and was the primary thing I thought of about him. But now I had many more secondary things to add to that. Jude, night owl. Jude, lover of Magical Mystery Tour over any other Beatles album. Jude, very bad at small talk. Jude, smiled and laughed at anything. Jude, quiet poet.

And above any and all of these things, Jude, man I loved.

With these thoughts and many more in my head, I walked to Jude. I was a princess walking to my knight in shining armor. No, I was just Annabel walking to my Jude. I realized then I didn't need a fantasy anymore. Life was too perfect.

I walked to just Jude as just Annabel, and I kissed him.

And he kissed me back.

And everything was magical.

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