Interesting Stories!

While I was surfing on the internet, I found a few links with great stories.
Better share than keep them to myself, right?

Teen Ink: http://www.teenink.com/
It's a magazin where teens write short stories of all categorities: Fiction, Non Fiction, Poetry and even Draws.
Fiction > Romance > Defying Love: http://www.teenink.com/fiction/romance/article/120040/Defying-Love/
Fiction > Sci-fi/Fantasy > Eternity: http://www.teenink.com/fiction/sci_fi_fantasy/article/540326/Eternity/
Fiction > Sci-fi/Fantasy > Characters: http://www.teenink.com/fiction/sci_fi_fantasy/article/350345/Characters/
Fiction > Sci-fi/Fantasy > Monster: http://www.teenink.com/fiction/sci_fi_fantasy/article/134457/Monster/

Tinker Tales: http://thetinkertoyboy.tumblr.com/stories
I think the guy is from USA, mostly because of the way he writes and he uses fahrenheits as a temperature measure.
Fahrenheits are used by Anglo-Saxon countries, in other words, countries that use English as their official  language (USA included).

In a Life Time:
*Gaming - http://shadesingrey.tumblr.com/post/13492203222/gaming
*Relationship - http://shadesingrey.tumblr.com/post/13338497818/relationship
*Tick Tock - http://shadesingrey.tumblr.com/post/12774167770/tick-tock
*To her Lustful Master - http://shadesingrey.tumblr.com/post/12589221813/to-her-lustful-master

New Doodle!

I was kind of tired of my drawings not having any colours, so I went to buy a new acquisition: watercolour pencils.

The hair of them is painted with coloured pens, that I found inside one of the countless drawers of my house.

I love the 'computer' draw that I used as a basis to my doodle, and I decided to add little things of my own to it. Subtle things.

The title of my draw is: Eyes, as mirrors to our souls!
Each 'character' in the draw represents a mystery for me:
* Little girls, whose heart always have a special place to a special person.
* Young men, whose mind are such a tempting piece of them.

Sometimes we might get surprised about how much a little girl knows these days. On the other hand, we might get amazed about how caring can a young man be.

Surely it is a world full of wonders and bizarre things in every corner!

Most popular posts of mine that you can't miss!

These articles are chronologically ordered (the ones linked in green are the posts that you surely can't miss):

Fall in love when you're ready, not lonely

Sometimes we need to let things go...

A Kiss that worths a 100 lifes! - Part II
(This article is from a story with nineteen pieces, so if you like this second part, I think you should read the whole story itself)

White Feather

Two souls, one bracelet

No Ordinary Sunday

Radioactive

Fate's Coincidence

Smiling Cat's Purpose

The Unknown

Temptation

A few Draws of mine!

First of all, my draws are not original. I do not go by the rules, I just create them to spend time and to relax at the end of a day, full of classes and studies.

This doodle was basically the trigger of this 'game of doodles'. I made it from zero point (blank page). 
It's more like a 'lucky shot', that actually got out right!










This one brings me memories of someone that used to be special to me. My first doodle of human beings.
I did it a few days after Christmas.

And with this one, I began to personalize my own doodles.
They usually remind me of places, times that have passed and persons.

And this one is dedicated to my favourite anime character - Kaoru - from OHSHC (Ouran HighSchool Host Club).
It was also a way to get through Valentine's Day alive!

This doodle is the most harsh one, that I've ever done (and that ended up presentable).
I love Fallen Angels, and this draw surely represents a strong passion between two creatures that fell in love, but aren't meant to be together.






And many more are coming out soon enough ^.^

The guy's eyes are a little bit colour faded, but the tension between the couple it's totally cute <3

Temptation

While there's people who stand up and fight, I'm one of those who decide to just walk away and pretend that my problems, as long as my escape gets me, are left behind, far far away.
And of course, before you start a war, you better know what are you fighting for. And this also applies to the ones who prefer to get away.
As for me, I run away from my past, which can't be erased. There's no hope to start again in this world. And because of that, I compelled myself to a non-stop run, as if it would solve all my problems, in a blink of an eye.
I have no idea of where I'm heading to, as long as I don't stop running, everything will find a way out, eventually...
Sooner than I thought, I had to take a break in order to recover my energies. With my left hand grabbing an old grid belonging to an imponent gate, breathing heavily, tucked on myself, memories of why did I run ravaged my mind. His face will never vanish from my head.
It took me five long minutes to realize where the hell I was.

In the middle of a road, where cars come and go so rarely, and somewhere behind the dense and dark vegetation on the other side of the road, there is a village with a tower bell which announces the hours. This when I'm turning to South, and to East 'n West the road extends far beyond my vision can reach. However when I'm facing North, that's when odd feelings start to strike inside my tummy (Yesh, just like butterflies).
A big, centennial house made of stone, steel, wood, glass and tile, which structure seems just like a castle, that faced plenty ages of war (mmhmm, it has a lonely tower, bigger than any of the other ones), blessed with  a crystal clear blue lake. The castle rises from the ground as if it was made by the hand of the Goddess.
Unconsciously, I get into the garden of that mythical castle (one way or another, the gate succumbed and opened itself, for me to enter). The garden appears to be infinite and well treated, although that doesn't disguise the traces of sorrow in the leaves and flowers. The trail I blaze, guides me to a gigantic door, with one of those terrifying statues of animals holding a circle in their mouths, as a bell.
Fighting against the urge of turning around and run, I raise my hand and ring the bell, stepping backward then.
Instantly the door slides open, with a loud noise, as if it hasn't been used for a long time.
By the slot of the door, at least half of a dozen pairs of light spots are lurking toward me. I don't have time to think twice, because the owners of them jump automatically over me, pinning me down.
I don't remember of closing my eyes, however there's a short moment that is trapped in my head. A pair of those light spots seemed different to me, drawing my gaze and taking over a special place in my subconscious, and my heart.
When I suddenly open my eyes and steal an amount of fresh air, filling my lungs once again, my vision captures a small Husky puppy with a brown blackened eye, as brown blackened as the sun when it's hidden by the moon in an eclipse day, on the right side of his muzzle; on the other side, the eye acquires the blue contorns of a full moon, pale and metallic, although his expression translates pure caring love.
And then a bond is created between me and the Husky, we both smiled (even with him being a dog) because we knew. Biting my sleeve, he pushes me toward the main door, with the other dogs rushing behind me, leading me inside the house.
A few meters from the main door, there is a staircase that turns to both sides of the house, next to the staircase there's a half covered window, where I can distinguish three shapes.
"Looks like we have a new customer." the lady in red announces.
I open my mouth to justify, that I'm only here because the dogs invited me in, but then I notice that that will sound a bit awkward, especially because the dogs are already gone.
"This is a shop between worlds, the only ones who can find it, are the ones in need, so my little girl, shall I grant your wish?" the lady begins saying these words with a serious expression, ending up with a big sarcastic smile on her face and moving up slightly the flesh (on display) in her chest.
"Daily house tasks; Daily house tasks!" the two small young girls sing repeatedly, holding hands and dancing around the lady in red, as if satellites trapped in their orbit around a planet.
"Wait what?--" I only have time to say.

*

Collapsing backward into the bed, I finally surrender to exhaustation. With my eyes shut and the window barely opened, I start to drift out toward my land full of folclore, bizarre creatures and dark desires.
The half-conscious me starts to feel the twilight fresh breeze playing with my strands of hair, making me relax and down my guard-lines.
This wave of peace leaves my strings of hair behind, passes by my right ear, teasing it with some imperceptible whisper, rolling down my cheekbone and contemplating my neck slowly and protractedly, right before this wave divides itself in two smaller ones, rubbing up and down my chest and ending up by squeezing it, just like human fingers.
With this, my lungs screaming for air and some annoying scratching on the door, reality forces the entrance into my world and I let it in...
All of a sudden, the wave of peace abandons my body, causing an empty feeling in my heart, and exhaustation takes over my body and mind once again. But before that, I'm able to walk toward the door, and let Gilbert (the small Husky puppy with different eye colours) in and leave the door just like it was (closed and locked), checking the keyhole, making sure that is filled with paper (to avoid curious eyes to peek inside).
Gilbert is all jumpy and reclaims my bed as his domain, "No way!" I say, pushing him off my bed. He falls over, barking a squeak and begins to complain in his soppy lonely yelp alongside with his cute big shimmering eyes.
"You should have known better that, that doesn't work with me." pointing out.
Gilbert turns around, climbs up to the porch near to the window and starts to scratch the glass with his paws.
"What is it now?" I ask, a bit annoyed, with my head resting on my crossed arms, while laying on my belly, inside my bed.
He barks at me, as if he is saying Come and see, silly girl.
I manage to get up again (for the second time!) and look out the window, without stumbling in anything, on my way up there.
I have a marvelous view to the lake, but what my eyes capture go beyond that.
Two shapes floating a few inches above the lake tangled deeply in each other. One is laying on the water's surface, with her serene face and a halo (it's impossible not to notice about the enormous white glowing wings of her), and the other one is way smaller, and transfigures darkness. The way he is holding the angelic woman, gives me the sensation that he is sucking her power. Also, that seems to be not, a painful process, but one that provides an unbelievable clímax to both mates. However one has to succumb.
Faced with this scene I close my eyes and squeeze my eyeballs with my hands, telling myself that what I'm seeing, isn't real.
When I open them again, instead of two shapes, there's plenty of fireflies flying through the air, transforming the lake in some eerie dimension.
"Fireflies, how nice!" I admit, switching gazes between Gilbert and the light bugs.
In a blink of an eye the fireflies are dancing into my room, enchanting everything around me.
This spell, this embrace... is so similar to that wave of peace I experienced just a few minutes ago, that the simple memory of it send a shiver through my spine.
Kneeling down to the porch, the fireflies assume the shape of a young man, around my age. His arms block my way out, pressing my existence against the floor.
When he focuses his glare in mine, my brain starts ringing a silent mental alarm. It's him, the guy that keeps appearing in my dreams, Isaac!
"So cute, even after all this time, you still get excited by my presence." his voice is deep and seductive, "That might mean that you are still in love with me." he hums in my ear, moving backward just enough in order to meet my gaze.
Tell the truth, Hannah!
"It Is not that I don't like you--" I begin to say, averting my gaze from him.
"My sweet A-ya. Me and you are bonded. We will be each other's salvation or condemnation." he starts to crawl forward, while I do the same but backward, "Which one will be? Salvation or Condemnation?"
He is, almost, floating over me, and with so much naked skin (except for the jeans).
"I-- I want you to back off!" I try to hide the trembling in my voice, in vain. "And my name is Hannah!"
"Is that what you really want, 'Hannah'?" he emphasizes my name, with a twisted smirk in his face.
Use the power of truth...
I blink, "In this moment, what I really want is to sleep!"
His smile is young and pervy "Then, why won't you come with me, Hannah?"
"Well, y'know if I do that, I wouldn't get much of a sleep--"
He interrupts me, erasing the space between us, by pressing his cold skin against mine, making me purr softly "I could give you so much more, if you only choose to be by my side."
Find the truth!...
"I wish I could believe you. However, whenever you go, death and agony follow. I don't trust you."
"But you could." he insists.
"I don't think so."
"C'mon, my love. One word, YESH, and your life will change forever." his lips are no longer teasing my ear with his harmonic voice, instead, they go down and start rubbing my neck.
In the moment his arms stop blocking me against the floor, I sneak sideways, determined to create some space between us. I need to think, and I can't do that in his arms.
Isaac follows me, this time yarding me against the opening window. I don't need to turn around. I know that the high is stunning and the different tones of colours of the lake await me, deep, deeper inside it.
"You can't run away from me." he squint his hazel eyes. I distinguish his fury lurking beneath his seductive role, "I know your essence A-ya, you ache for my touch."
Isaac's hand rests on my hip, while the other one go up meeting my boob. Isaac slides his thumb by the most sensitive spot, and I feel a freezing emotion of pure satisfaction.
"No, stop it, please." I mean it as an order, but the words are too weak.
"Then, join me and together we will create a new world all over." while he is talking, he descends his gaze to my breast, which he took with both hands, sending cold waves of desire through my body.
Let the truth awake you!
"I want to be with you." I finally say.
His face tranfigures pure sense of victory.
"But the truth is, that I'm Hannah! And I choose my Goddess and the free will!" I scream my last words, throwing myself backwards, into the lake, into it's deepness.

In a far away reality, I still hear Isaac's voice, calling my name.

Paris, France - Guide

18/03
Futuroscope

First amusement park (There's mostly simulators, so it doesn't give you a real trip filled of adrenalin):

Best ride - Danse avec les Robots (3x)

Giant Robot's Hand + Round 'n Round + Disco Songs = Headache or Dizzy or Completly Crazy Mood




Final Show (I love the multicolour water effects <3 + fireworks)

19/03
Petit and Grand Palais

Petit Palais

Grand Palais

Les Invalides

Something that intrigued me was the sun clocks hanging on both walls. One of them had the zodiac signs.

Eiffel Tower

Yesh, seeing the Eiffel Tower (with your own eyes) always makes you release some kind of squeak or sigh. But the thing is... There was a funny scent in the air (as funny as smelling rotten eggs). It wasn't pleasant at all, and removed instantly the magic about being the 'Eiffel Tower'. And it was a rainy day, I spent it talking with one of my friends. That surely was lovely, except for the cold wind always freezing my bones!

Georges Pompidou Center

It was already dark when we arrived here, and it was closed, and I was hungry and with tummyaches!

Champs Elysées

Arc de Triomphe

As you can see, not what I call a sunny day!
Although, up there, we definitely have an amazing view of Paris - The old piece and the modern one.



20/03
Louvre Museum

The Louvre Museum is definitely a place you cannot miss in Paris. There are so many interesting paintings for all types of persons. One of my favourites paintings is this one below:

The northern lights behind the scene create some kind of a eerie envirionment, while we have deadly mountains rising up toward the skies, and a freezing lake right behind the main scene - People dying in the middle of nothing...

Cathedral of Notre-Dame

















I wasn't able to visit the bell or any part that appears in the well-known movie about the Hunchback of Notre-Dame. Due to that fact, it lost all the 'ohhh' and 'ahhh' about being the Notre-Dame and stuff!

Opera of Paris

We passed by it, while the bus was driving us through Paris (to be honest I barely noticed it).

La Madeleine

Place de la Concorde
















We had our lunch at this place (picture above). Completly lovely the environment around us, especially because while we were resting and enjoying our meals, the birds started to beg us for food. There were even a few ones that came and ate on our hands. Amazingggg!

When we had finished our meal, we kept walking, discovering every piece of Paris.
While walking towards the Arc de Triomphe, I (partially) heard the conversation of some british girls talking about french boys. 
One word - Hilarious!





Place du Tertre

It would have been quite an interesting experience if I had had time to sit for over an hour and have a picture of my face. But, because we were out of time (again), I contented myself by only looking at the draws and the way those people create art. Unfortunately, a few of those artists were free and started waving toward me, as if saying Hey you, come here, let me draw you!!! And I was like, Start running Dolphy! Ohh my, I hate when this happens...

Basilica of Sacré Coeur

One of the most beautiful places I visited in Paris, indeed!
It brought me some childhood memories, because I saw one of those traditional carousels.
And all the way up there was more than enough for my physical strengh (nahh, I'm kidding, kind of), however at the end, I was delighted with a whole view of Paris and entertained by one of those persons who do stunts in the middle of the road.

Yep I'm amazed too!

21/03

Cité des Sciences

Actually it's really similiar to the one Portugal has at Parque do Gil, however this one is way bigger! I just visited the Astronomy, Biology (rocks), Geology (genes) part of this whole exhibition. Ohhh and watched a documentary about the seasons, plants, constellations, Big Bang (everybody that was asleep, jumped with the explosion of colours and sound) and yadda yadda...

And of course, I ate a caramel sunday and my BFF ate a chocolate one, Yummm!!! The best.

La Défense

Here we have the most atractive part of Modern Paris. Hmmm, I guess I'm old-fashioned, because this didn't catch my attention at all.

Place de la Bastille

Sincerally, I don't even remember walking by this plazza. Maybe it was after dinner, and we just wanted a nice comfy bed...

Sainte-Chapelle

No way, I didn't visite this, maybe it was captured at a distance with my camera (in the middle of our rushes from one place to another), but I didn't have the pleasure to explore this part of Paris.

Bateau-mouche

A Bateau-Mouche is like a Riverboat. It was a nice trip, except for the cold wind blowing in our direction, the fact that it was drizzling and it was already dark. Good side - exploring Paris at night might be more exciting than under the daylight (Scout's Word).

22/03
DisneyLand Paris

Yesh it's magical and fantastic, The Land of our ChildHood's dreams and memories!

Best ride - Space Mountain (2x)

Dark Tunnel + Super Sonic Speed + Trip through Space = Completly Out of your Mind and Begging on your knees for MORE!!!




Childhood's memories - Cups of Tea and Wall-E

The little kid inside me got enchanted by this cute cups of tea!!! I mean colourful cups of tea, who wouldn't get tempted by them?

I also have a video @

Those are mostly my background squeaks and complains for such a lame speed of rotation of the cuppa!

Wall-E!!!
One of my favourite animated movie of all times.







Final Show (Short Stories about all Disney movies) - The one I liked the most (Soundtrack + Light Effects) was Tangled.

The lamps floating up toward the sky, wakes up odd emotions and mixed feelings inside my soul.
Just ignore my trembling and my background voice trying to sing alongside the soundtrack!

Dragon's Oath

Plot:

In early 19th Century England Bryan Lankford is a troublesome yet talented human teen who thinks he can get away with anything... untill his father, a wealthy nobleman, has finally had enough, and banishes him to America. When Bryan is marked on the docks and given the choice between the London House of Night and the dragon-prowed ship to America, he chooses the Dragon - and a brand new fate.

Becoming a Fledging may be exciting, but it opens a door to a dangerous world... In 1830's St.Louis, the Gateway to the West, Dragon Lankford becomes a Sword Master, and soon realizes there are both frightening challenges and beautiful perks. Like Anastasia, the captivating young Professor of Spells and Rituals at the Tower Grove House of Night, who really should have nothing to do with a fledgling...

But when a dark power threatens, Dragon is caught in its focus. Though his uncanny fighting skills make him a powerful fledgling, is he strong enough to ward off evil, while protecting Anastasia as well?

Will his choices save her - or destroy them all?

My Opinion:

The first impression that I have from Bryan is completely different from the one I have now (after reading his book).

And I have to say that, this book, wasn't really what I was expecting, and I loved the surprise!

I'm not really advanced in the House of Night's sequel, so I don't have many things to say right now.

Just that I'm glad that now I can imagine Lankford on a different perspective!

For more curious facts about House of Night sequel, click below:

House of Night

Untamed and Hunted

Plot:
Life sucks when your friends are pissed at you. Just ask Zoey Redbird - she's become an expert on suckiness. In one week she has gone from having three boyfriends to having none, and from having a close group of friends who trusted and supporter her, to being an outcast. Speaking of friends, of the two Zoey has left, one is undead and one is unmarked. And Neferet had declared war on humans, which Zoey knows in her herat is wrong. But will anyone listen to her? Zoey's adventures at vampyre finishing school take a wild and dangerous turn as loyalties are tested, shocking true intentions come to light, and an ancient evil is awakened.

My Opinion:
Finally I'm back reading my House of Night sequel, tempting as always!
In this book the bonds of friendship get stronger than ever, new characters show their faces and Zoey is obliged to follow a path to save the world from the prominent apocalypse.
There you have a small piece of the book below:

"So, even in the midst of craziness and exhaustion and life-changing chaos, I was filled with peace and the sweet knowledge that I was walking the path my Goddess wanted me on.
Not that that path was smooth and pothole free. But still, it was my path, and like me, it was bound to be unique."

Plot:
What if the hottest guy in the world was hiding a nameless evil, and all he wanted was you? At the start of this heart-pounding new installment of the bestselling House of Night series, Zoey's friends have her back again and Stevie Rae and the red fledglings aren't Neferet's secrets any longer. But an unexpected danger has emerged. Neferet guards her powerful new consort, Kalona, and no one at the House of Night seems to understand the threat he poses. Kalona looks gorgeous, and he has the House of Night under his spell. A past life holds the key to breaking his rapidly spreading influence, but what if this past life shows Zoey secrets she doesn't want to hear and truths she can't face?

My Opinion:
The first chapter begins with a dream, where Zoey is seduced by Kalona. There he called her A-ya (the woman who the cherokee women created with Earth, in order to seduce Kalona and capture him underground, inside a cave).
Kalona is a Fallen Angel, and on Earth he is like a God. Alongside with Neferet, both of them take over the House of Night and set themselves to conquer the whole world.
But there's still hope!
One heartbeat at a time, the war between humans and vampyres is closing in, and Zoey is running out of time to stop it.
However, she still has a hidden trick in her sleeve.

True Believer

Plot:
Jeremy Marsh is the ultimate New Yorker: handsome, almost always dressed in black, and part of the media elite. An expert on debunking the supernatural with a regular column in "Scientific American," he's just made his first appearance on national TV. When he receives a letter from the tiny town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, about ghostly lights that appear in a legend-shrouded cemetery, he can't resist driving down to investigate. Here, in this tightly knit community, Lexie Darnell runs the town's library, just as her mother did before the accident that left Lexie an orphan. Disappointed by past relationships, including one that lured her away from home, she is sure of one thing: her future is in Boone Creek, close to her grandmother and all the other people she loves. Jeremy expects to spend a quick week in "the sticks" before speeding back to the city. But from the moment he sets eyes on Lexie, he is intrigued and attracted to this beautiful woman who speaks with a soft drawl and confounding honesty. And Lexie, while hesitating to trust this outsider, finds herself thinking of Jeremy more than she cares to admit. Now, if they are to be together, Jeremy Marsh must make a difficult choice: return to the life he knows, or do something he's never done before--take a giant leap of faith. A story about taking chances and following your heart, True Believer will make you, too, believe in the miracle of love.

My Opinion:

Jeremy was married, once with a woman, before meeting Lexie. Both of them admited that they weren't in love, it was just a relationship that could work, seeing that the couple wanted plenty of kids (Jeremy was from a big family).
The relationship seemed to be working perfectly, untill the day that Jeremy found out that he  couldn't have kids. So, it appears that the ultimate New Yorker was a defected product.
Meanwhile, Jeremy enfolded himself in many projects around the state, and pushed himself away, little by little, from his wife. After knowing that Mary (Jeremy's wife) couldn't get pregnant, she packed her bags and returned to her mother's house, leaving Jeremy with the divorce papers to sign.
No one knew about this piece of his past, until he decided to tell it to Lexie.

I have to say that my favourite character is Lexie's grandmother, Doris. She has been like a mother to Lexie, since her parents died in a car accident. She was the trigger for all this story to begin. She was the one who called Jeremy's agent suggesting him to unfold the ghosts myths at the South. She was the one who encouraged Lexie to give Jeremy a second chance, when everything seemed to be falling apart.
And as if her personality was a contagious disease, Jeremy started to release himself from the webs that were holding him to reason and Lexie opened her herself to the strange city man, giving him an opportunity in her life.
It's an amazing book, where Science and the Unexplainable are joined together (where those words represent two persons: Jeremy and Lexie).
And just like this, a simple trip to the South became an adventurous challenge, with secrets being revealed, relationships being put to test and second chances being giving to TRUE BELIEVERS.
Now I leave you, my dear readers, with a small piece of the book:
"There was science and then there was the unexplainable, and Jeremy has spend his life trying to reconcile the two. He dwelt in reality, scoffed at magic, and felt pity for the true believers. But as he gazed at Lexie, trying to make sense of what sha was telling him, he found his old sense of surety slipping.
No, he couldn't explain it, and in the future, he never would. It defied the laws of biology, it shattered his assumptions about the man he knew himself to be. Quite simply, it was impossible, with sudden, euphoric certainty the words he never thought he would hear. 'Here's our miracle,' she whispered. 'It's a girl'."

The second book is At First Sight, the sequel to True Believer

* Books of Nicholas Sparks to read:
1) The Notebook;
2) Nights in Rodanthe;
3) The Best of Me.

Paris, France

Hello dear readers,
Unfortunately I've run out of stories.
Due to that fact, probably my next posts will be about a book I've read or a movie I've watched or some short story version of a song I've enjoyed.

Easter holidays, finally arrived!
And what's better than spending them at the city of lights?
It will be great to harass my inspiration, y'know new faces and new places have that effect in me.

Happy Easter to everyone @
Carpe Diem and Respect the Free Will ^-^