Face the Music, Melody

0: Full Description, Authors Note, "Original" Explanation

Full Description
Melody Sparks has gone her whole life identifying with one sole word: orphan. Her unfortunate circumstance was nothing more than a simple teenage pregnancy of twins, which had resulted in half a miscarriage and a daughter up for adoption. Melody's always felt like she's missing half of herself, and when your lot in life landed you with a dead twin, that's pretty understandable to most people: but the 'most people' who saw it like that were also the people who saw Melody as a victim of misfortune, the 'most people' who apologize to no avail with looks of guilt and pity for not her but instead something none of them could change. The second Melody hits eighteen without ever growing up, however, she also hits the road with a mission to find the missing half of her identity. Leaving Chicago, Illinois with a handful of cash from acting as waitstaff in the city is a dream come true for Melody.

When Melody wakes up in a pasture full of tipped cows with a pounding headache, an empty bottle of booze, her favorite cello, an airline ticket, a suitcase, no phone and half a wallet less of cash, she thinks she's doomed. Ending up 1,480 miles from home with no memory and half a mind to steal a cow and ride out of town might not be a curse after all, however, when the unmistakable name Broderick Harvey Baine crosses the lips of handsome stranger and apparent free spirit Flynn Ellis.

Flynn Ellis wants to make a deal. In exchange for telling Melody all he knows about her father the successful business man Mr. Baine and his unfaithful wife and spiteful children, as well as her wayward mother's whereabouts in Boise along with anything having to do with Melody's conception in 1998; Flynn wants to teach through-and-through city child Melody how to live with the potato people of Blackfoot Idaho.

Melody knows she will go to any lengths to be reunited with her missing half on her quest for identity, even if that means associating herself with self-proclaimed hippie and ever-migrating commitment-phobe Flynn Ellis and his insane friends for information on her family. The only thing Melody thinks she seems not to know is if she'll be able to learn to play by rules that aren't those of the concrete jungle she grew up in: but Flynn can see through the cracks in Melody's disguise all the way to the young, abandoned orphan girl who isn't sure what in life she's missing. Flynn doesn't know if he can unleash the Melody inside from her self-conscious exterior hardened by her childhood fears, but he'll try, because although he's been to every town in northwest region of the United States, he's from Blackfoot, Idaho: where the potatoes can change people permanently, so the people there try to work the same magic.

"It's time to face the music, Melody. Potatoes change people."

Authors Note
I'll update this if I ever think of something important to say.

"Original" Explanation
So, for those of you who don't know, I'm a bit crazy and way too forgetful, and those two things don't add up well when it comes to passcodes and accounts. So, I lost this account when I was twelve years old, and two years later I found it again. Lots of my stories have "Original" chapters included, because even if you don't, I love to edit things and or see my old work to laugh at how terrible it was. So, I decided to publish my fourth grade works for mine and others' amusement.

Feel free to have any kinds of comments about it: if you want to be all deep and emotional and crap and have a conversation about what similarities still pertain in my writing and what I should still work on improving, then so be it I'll read that. If you want to have conversation about it though and make fun of it, feel free to do that too: I might even join in. However, since I know most people on this app are all fun and happy people or just deep enough to not make mean comments like that because they don't like it when people make those kinds of comments, I totally support everybody and whatever they want to do, including if that means not reading my crappy latest or oldest writing.