WIPpet Wednesdays: July 17, 2013

July 17, 2013
Written by adrianjsmith

It’s Wednesday! That means it’s WIPpet Wednesday!! You can join us any time just by creating a post of your current WIP (Work In Progress). Your post has to correlate to the date in some way. It can be seventeen words from chapter seven, or seven words from chapter seventeen! Get creative!

Today is seven paragraphs from chapter 5 of Ashes Fall. All you need to know is that James WAS taking a shower, and Lily is her sixteen-year-old daughter.

The suds slid down her body when the curtain to the shower flung open. Lily stood on the other side, hesitating for only a second before she stepped over the edge of the tub and clasped a hand over James’ mouth and moving her into the corner of the shower. James’ heart rapped against her ribs and in her throat, making it hard to swallow and breathe.

Lily made a shushing noise into her ear and took a deep breath, the water raining down onto both of them, the white suds from the body wash sliding down to the tub and swirling around before heading down the drain. James gripped her daughters hip to try and push her away, but Lily held strong and didn’t budge.

Managing to wriggle free enough to speak, James took a deep breath of the hot steam which suffocated her even more. “Lily, what’s going on?”

“Shhh…”

When Lily’s eyes found James’, the dark-brown was filled with worry and fear, her irises large and dilated. James started to breath heavier—something was definitely wrong. She tried again to push Lily aside and to reach for the shower curtain to leave the confines of the bathroom, but Lily held her still.

“I need to see what’s going on.”

“Someone’s here,” Lily whispered back. “Shut up or they’ll find us.”

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18 Comments

  1. Kate Sparkes

    OH HOLY CRAP SCARY! That was freaky, and I had no idea what was going on… just like James. Well done!

    • Adrian

      =P I swear this isn’t any type of horror novel!! This is one of the scenes I had in my head from the outset of the novel. So much fun to write!

      • Kate Sparkes

        Gotta love those scenes!

  2. ReGi McClain

    Oi! I just about had an ear-plugging, eye-squeezing, lalalalalalala! moment. So James is Lily’s mum? I think having my shower invaded would be creepy enough sans invaders. I would’ve grabbed my towel pretty darn quickly or yanked the shower curtain off its hooks!Please tell me that poor James gets a towel soon!

    • Adrian

      Lol she doesn’t! Lily won’t let her move! Yes creepy and invasive. She does get covered eventually. After she calms Lily down a bit.

      • ReGi McClain

        Phew! At least there’s a towel or some such coming.

  3. kathils

    My first impulse would have been Water Fight!!! Um . . . okay, maybe not. Pretty intense moment here. Lily’s pretty insistent . . .

    • Adrian

      Lol!!!! Lily is very intense

  4. Emily Witt

    *shudders* That was really claustrophobic and intense. Knowing what I do of Lily from past WIPpets, I don’t know whether to believe her about there being someone there, or whether this is more of her crazy.

    • Adrian

      Lol Lily thought there was someone there. This happens before the last one. There wasn’t someone there but she really was convinced there was.

  5. Alana Terry

    ooo, creepy. I might not be able to read your book when it’s finished and then take a shower afterwards!

    • Adrian

      Lol!!! Please for the sake of anyone living with you, take a shower lol

  6. Michelle Liew

    Wow! I wonder what’s going to happen after this!

    • Adrian

      Uh huh =P you’ll just have to read it when I comes out I guess!!! Lol

  7. Ruth Nestvold

    Creepy! But I have to admit, I was more than a little confused by the mom being James. Yes, I know it was in your description, but I thought maybe you’d skipped a detail. I know I tend to do that when writing blog posts! 🙂

    • Adrian

      Skipped what detail? Now I’m confused =( but I have a migraine so that could just be why I’m confused and not making sense.

      • Ruth Nestvold

        No, I was so sure James was a man that I thought you’d skipped something in the description. My bad! 🙂

        • Adrian

          Oh!!! Yeah. Nope, James is definitely a woman! Lol