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Wed Nov 13, 2013 12:42 am
JaniceJacot says...



Here is my idea for a novel. I would REALLY like a co-writer, if somebody can please help me. :(

Rebecca is a popular girl at school. Voted as the girl with ‘most school spirit’, she’s on the cheerleading squad, the basketball team and she’s training to join the nursing program at college after high school.
Beth joins the cheerleading squad. She is younger than Rebecca by a few years, but the pair strike up a friendship and soon realise that they feel more for each other. They begin dating, and their secret relationship is discovered when the cheerleading coach finds them kissing. Rebecca is kicked off the team for taking advantage of a younger girl. While Rebecca’s parents are supportive of her, Beth’s devoutly Christian parents disapprove and tell her to stop seeing Rebecca.
Beth defies her parents and continues to sneak away to be with Rebecca. However, one time when they’re together, Beth receives a text from her mother telling her to come home immediately. She is worried about this because she’s been told to stay away from Rebecca in the past and she knows that she’ll get into trouble for having seen her anyway. Rebecca tells her not to worry – everything will be fine. There’s no way her mother could know they were together. She has no idea that they were followed and that their phone calls have been recorded.
She takes Beth home and thinks nothing of it. However, later that night, the police come to the door. She is being charged with lewd and lascivious battery.
Initially, the judges are lenient and in a plea deal, rule that Rebecca can finish her school year on condition that she stays away from Beth. However, the two girls cannot keep away from each other and when Beth’s parents find them together, they appeal to the school board. Rebecca is expelled and the charges increased to include interference with child custody and contributing to the dependency of a child. Beth had kept all the texts Rebecca sent her, despite Rebecca telling her to delete them and her parents give the phone to the authorities.
Rebecca’s previous deal is overturned and she is awarded a custodial sentence of six months. Beth gives her parents a letter to read to Rebecca before she is taken away and swears that she will wait for her.
When Rebecca arrives, it’s immediately clear that she’s in for a rough time. Her case has been high profile in the media and although she’s in a low security facility, many of the inmates think of her as a child abuser and make it clear that she needs to watch her back. The first night she is there, she contemplates suicide but realises that not even that is a solution to her problems.
During her first day, she is constantly teased and provoked and when she attempts to fight back, she is the one who gets into trouble with the guards, who also look down on her. She is mocked for her sexuality and the assumption is made that clearly she’ll want to sleep with every woman in the facility, even though she only is interested in Beth. Things come to a head at dinner when one of the other women starts a fight with her. However, her ferocity in fighting back (she has nothing to lose, so she fights as if it’s her last moment alive) wins her respect from her fellow inmates and although she is put in solitary for a couple of days to cool off, when she returns, she finds that she gets support and advice from her fellow inmates. She opens up to them about how she felt about Beth and how betrayed she feels by her former love.
As time goes on, she gets to know the other inmates, some of whom think it’s ridiculous that she’s in prison. They can’t understand the point of locking her up – she’s no threat to society. Others find that they like her as a person and she ends up becoming popular in prison – just as she was popular in school.
Her parents visit her in prison on a regular basis, as well as her sister Rachel, who is in the same class as Beth at school, and tell her that they are running a campaign to free her. Rebecca agrees to give a television interview and is stunned to discover that there is a lot of hostility aimed towards her because of Beth’s age. The interviewer tells her that Beth has openly stated that being with Rebecca was a mistake and that she’s not gay – Rebecca pressured her into a relationship. This causes Rebecca to be massively upset and once again, she considers suicide.
However, the next day, she is visited by her parents again and she realises that she needs to keep it together for their sake – her being in prison is difficult enough for them. If they lose her, it will break them. She confides in her cellmate, Marie, about how she’s feeling and Marie helps her to see that there’s light at the end of the tunnel and she’ll be free soon.
When Rebecca is finally released, she asks Marie if she’ll write to her, but Marie says that although she’ll think of her and wishes her well, she needs to move forward and forget about her prison life.
Beth comes to find Rebecca when she’s home. She tells her that everything she said was a lie – her parents pressured her into saying it and forced her to undergo therapy to try and turn her straight. She still loves Rebecca and wants to be with her. However, Rebecca can no longer trust her and chooses to move away to another town with distant relatives in the hope that she can start a new life.








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