Fighting with Riley

    Usually Riley and I could joke or fiercely tease each other. But with my comment, I'd hit a nerve and hadn't meant to. She dropped the stop watch 
right there in the dirt and walked away. 
  I jumped to my feet. Before she could open her door and stepped in front of it. She was mad. Her eyes narrowed at me; her jaw clenched and arms folded across her chest. I held her by her shoulders with hopes I might apologize.

    “Riley, I was just kidding, I didn't mean anything by it.”

    “I know, you never do, but I'm not in the mood for it today.” She said, hitting the screen door against my back. I pushed the door closed as she continued to pull on it. Her stubborn attitude, against my hopeful resistance playing out in front of us.

    Knowing I'd have to act fast or things between us would spiral out of control. I changed the subject.

    “Okay – then how about we go out? We'll leave the attitudes at home and have dinner together.” She looked at me confused. I knew I was putting myself out there, giving her another chance to dismiss the connection we had for each other. Every time I tried I hoped it would be the moment that she gave in and let her guard down.

    To my surprise she smiled at me, “Okay, I'll go with you.” The feelings that flooded my soul were amazing. It was like no other high I'd ever felt before. Nothing compared to this feeling, a cheesy smile from my face gave away all my emotions.

What a Character!

Riley White

Having lived in Overton, Nevada her entire boring life she's working towards obtaining a scholarship and get the heck out of this Podunk town.  Sophomore year becomes interesting when the town's first human clone moves in. Being a teenager in the year 2031 is hard enough, but having a clone in town is adding pressure onto an already difficult time in her life.

Liam Kingsley
The first human clone the Moapa Valley has seen. His father is Dr. Kingsley a renowned scientist in cloning research. His first day at school proves to be troubling when Riley nicknames him Xerox and the entire school joins in.

Jax Flores
Riley's best friends. He has a tendency to get into trouble from the boredom of living in a small town, he loves technology and movies and even knows how to hack into computers, but has kept that to himself.

Teagan Linfield
Loves drawing, sewing and dreams of designing clothes, She just got to know Riley last year when she moved to the area.  Her fashion apparel isn't always what's in, but has a flare for style all her own.

Sabrina Roberts
Lived in town for years. Her father is a local Reverend and she's "the rev's daughter." A tough stereo type to brake. Riley and her don't always see eye to eye, but in the end their friends.

Principle Marlin McFarlin
Probably the least bias of all adults in Riley's life, he's known for listening to the students and gives them a chance to tell their side of a story. Underneath it all, he likes Riley and finds her entertaining.

Sharleen White
Riley's single mother who's in over her head raising her daughter. Sharleen feels two steps behind and trying to keep up with her "too smart for her own good daughter" is proving to be constant struggle.

Dr. Martin Kingsley
A founding father of human cloning and Liam's dad. He started as a pediatrician, but after the death of his first son gave up his thriving practice and began working for Cel-Tech Corporation in scientific research.

Elaine Kingsley
Liam's mother, who's overly protective of her son, but it's not without good reason. Liam has limits as a clone. Going to the hospital for any emergency is always a roll of the dice when it comes to his rights as a human clone.

Madden Kingsley
Liam's cute little five year old brother. Riley doesn't know much about him, when ever the subject of Madden comes up Liam brushes her off or changes the subject.

Sheriff Keith Parker
Born and raised in the Valley, even attended the same high school as Sharleen White. He's always looking after Riley and her renegade crew. Riley thinks he has it out for her, in-spite of her not knowing he's the one who helped the charges from the tractor indecent go away.

Jax Flores

Jax's Movie picks

Movies that ROCK!
Matrix(only the first)
Transformers (again, only the first)
The Terminator
Blade Runner
Children of Men
Star Trek (2009)
Alien
Lord of the Rings (all Thee)
Jurrassic Park
Avatar
Close Encounters of The Third Kind
The Shawshank Redemption
The Godfather
Pulp Fiction
Se7en
Inception
The Silence of the Lambs

Teagan Linfield - Riley's B.F.F

Riley usually didn't wear much else than black when it came to picking out clothes. I would have loved to have seen her in a light pink, or even a rich blue once in a while, but she rarely wore anything out side the black, white, or gray color chart. School uniforms also made it difficult to express ones clothing style.

In fact I would have to agree with my friend, School  uniforms sucked! I loved creating new clothes, starting with the design, and moving into sewing them. Typically I took an already produced piece of clothing and accented it, giving it my own flare. It didn't matter if it was a pare of jean, hat, or even socks I'd changed all of these a time or two in order to create my fashion designs.

Most people didn't know, but I especially loved to analyze clothing choices of random people and change it in my mind. Finding a better style that would fit their body type or color choice. Most of the time it was ways to make their own outfit pop and give it a little zow!

I was currently working on a project, a jacket for Riley. I'd gotten at a second hand store with the intention of slicing it up. I'd cut the back of the black denim, sewn in a back casing and added a pink ribbon with eyelets crisscrossing the pink ribbon . It had turned out better than I'd anticipated and so feeling confident with my design choices, I was inspired to change the selves too, bring in the same pink into the cuffs.  It was amazing and the best part is that I'd made it better than the sketch I'd jotted down in my book.

Riley would love it, I knew she would. Even if it wasn't completely black I figured I'd work in a little color into her wardrobe. Pink always looked good with her skin color and I figured she wouldn't notice minimal color palette with little here and there and then in no time at all I'd actually get her to have more than black in her closet.

I guess some might have considered this manipulative, in reality I really did have her back, however-with a little flare of color. I felt like she'd gotten into a funk when it came to her clothes, but then again I was obsessed with clothes. I understood her "goth" style was a statement, I liked her in it, but sheeze!  Add some color to it once in awhile. Black, white, and gray is okay, but really adding some color here and there could really make it pop. (Now, if I could only get her to give up the rouged Docs.)