Sunday, June 14, 2009

Sessions 8 - Crashed

And I crashed into you,
Like a runaway train.
You will consume me,
But I can't walk away.

soundtrack: Crashed by Daughtry







South Beach – Stanfield Residence – 10AM


Rayne curled up on the rug in her room and scribbled absently all over her algebra homework. It was quiet, Saturday morning – the twins were out of the house; her father had finally gone to the studio after three days of mostly hanging out with her mother like they hadn’t seen each other in months. She brooded at the notebook paper, turning it, looking at what she’d drawn. She hadn’t slept – the math blurred into meaningless menacing equations about nothing.

All those photos in Probe…she’d spent all night looking at shots of Ryan naked, going onto the net and looking at even more. Thinking about it, Rayne felt a flush rising from her abdomen up to her face, the heat of it unsettling and causing her to gasp sharply. This was messed up…why was he so hot for her mother? She’d known it but seeing it like that…

Staring at what she’d written, Rayne started to crumple it all up, then stopped because it was homework she’d at least halfway done and didn’t want to rethink the problems. Ryan; it probably had been him last night; he probably had walked out and maybe hadn’t even noticed she and Randi were even there.

She shoved the papers aside, got to her feet and studied her reflection wondering what Ryan saw when he looked at her. She certainly wasn't a child any more. If she let down her hair, she might even be able to pass for her mother, if she wore sunglasses to hide her eyes. Or if it was dark. Dark like it had been on the beach that night someone took those shots of her mother and Ryan. That was so gross – she had Cooper Stanfield; why did she need to go wreck Ryan’s life? That had to be why he got fired, all because of her.

Her cell buzzed again like it had been doing all night, texting from everywhere about did she know yet and had she seen it and OMFG and Ryan is so hot have you seen him like that and, even worse, your Dad is so hot. Yeah well were they surprised about that?

She turned it off and paced restlessly around her room, finally stopping to stare down at the copy of Probe she’d tossed on the floor. Between the two of them, she and Randi had bought every copy on the stand last night although Randi had said it was stupid and pointless and it would be all over everywhere so she may as well get over it fast. Randi didn’t get it. Ryan wouldn't even be in Probe except for her Dad. Because he got into it with some naked model and so they thought they could use Ryan to sell more of their shit. Even looking at the cover again, her body reacted, pulse quickening. If that had been her...

Needing air, Rayne walked out onto the little deck outside her bedroom, the place her father had talked about wanting to close off because it was too exposed to the street. Pretty funny, him talking about exposure. What was she going to do? Wait for him to find out and come home and tell her mother? And how long was it going to take before Wyatt found out, and he already hated Ryan and would blame him. Everybody would blame Ryan.

She slammed the slider to the left so hard the whole glass wall shook. No she wasn’t going to wait.

Rayne snatched the copy of Probe and started out. Where was her mother now? Probably sleeping, just snoozing away with no idea what was going on or what people were looking at or thinking right now. Yeah, there she was, on the patio, all happy about everything. She’d used Ryan. Everybody was using him.

South Beach – Camilla Lombardo residence - 10:15 AM




“What did I tell you I knew it!” Shaking with anger, Camilla glared down at Heydon, who was slowly and deliberately going through the copy of Probe. “Are you listening to me! Nobody ever listens to me and I told them that woman who messed with my brother would fuck with Cooper too! If you do it once it’s going to happen again!”

Heydon paged through the thing. The shots of Coop were set up, Playboy model, the whole deal, nothing new there. The topless shots of Cam sprawled out on Nikki Beach next to Coop, that popped out at him but he remembered that day. He remembered it because he’d watched her; it was almost impossible not to watch her. She'd wandered off and hooked up with someone else. The rest of it was something Cooper had to deal with, if it was real, and it did look bad. What this had to do with Cammie’s brother escaped him though. That was ancient history. Everything always revolved around her family; it had gotten old a long time ago. “Cam,” he began, stopped, irritated, started again, “this has nothing to do with your brother or anyone else in your damned family. I'm tired of listening to you go on about them! Cut it out!”

“My damned family?” Camilla stepped in close as Heydon got up off the couch, glaring back at her. “Fuck you Heydon! You’re a fucking asshole!”

Heydon stood unmoving, heart beginning to pound in his chest and fired back at her. “Yeah? Take a look at those shots again, Cam. You’re right in there. If it’s good for her, it’s good for you. I’m an asshole? You’re a fucking bitch!”

“Go fuck yourself!” she snarled, stabbed a middle finger in his face and left the room.

Without a moment’s hesitation, he slammed right after her, reached out and pulled her hard against his bare chest. Camilla made no effort to move away and ran her open palms across his skin and nipples, her touch slow and deliberate and sensual. “Is that what you want?” Heydon demanded.

Camilla was breathing hard, those famous breasts rising and falling with each rapid breath, mouth still turned down in a growl, but her eyes were shining. “That’s what I said didn’t you hear what I said. I said fuck you Heydon Mitchell.”

Grabbing a fistful of black hair Heydon pulled Camilla close feeling the heat of her skin against his as he leaned in. “Any time,” he murmured and lowered his mouth onto hers, finally. It had taken years to get there, for him, and for her, too many years to let it go now. “Any time Cammie.”

South Beach – Stanfield Residence - 10:30 AM


Yesterday’s clouds and rains had blown out to the east, out to the ocean. Rainie paused on the warm stone patio and looked down at her mother.

And it was hard to look at her now and not think of those photos with Ryan all spread out on the beach…it was just weird to think about her mother that way.

“Mom,” she began, deciding her mother probably wasn’t all that asleep yet since her dad had left less than an hour ago, “I need to ask you something. What happens to the people you go out with but they don’t work out?”

Beth blinked at her hazily, all those rings she wore glinting in the sunlight. Rayne had asked her once about them but all her mother would say is that they meant something special to her father. She stirred, slid her head sideways and responded in a sleepy voice, “What? What are you talking about?”

“You know what I’m talking about!” Rayne glared at her. “You know exactly what I’m talking about! So you take a hard left turn and what happens to them?”

That got her up on her feet, that smooth slinky thing her mother did when she stood up. She glared right back at Rayne. “Excuse me? I’d better be mistaken about what you’re saying because you are way out of line!”

Rayne was, for a couple of seconds, uncertain. Those shots of her mother and Ryan, and those shots of her father and the woman…that was going to be bad. If it was me, she thought…if it was….

Rayne took a step back. It wasn’t her though and she would never have done something like that to Ryan. “The ones who don’t make it,” she repeated. “You just kick them to the curb, run over them and leave them there like road kill. Right? Is that the way it works?”

Her mother stepped right back up into her space, folded her arms and aimed those eyes at her. Rayne could see the anger, feel it. “What on earth are you talking about? Who have I kicked to the curb and run over? You’ve got about half a second to explain yourself.”

Rainie drew a hard breath, pulled the copy of Probe out of her pocket where she’d stuffed it. “Ryan is the road kill, isn’t he, Mom? And you know what, take a look at this. You’re about to be run over by the same truck.”

She dropped the tabloid on the stone pavers, turned her back to her mother and walked away, her heart beating fast. Behind her, Beth dropped to her knees and picked it up without looking at it yet.

Eyes boring holes into her daughter's back Beth snarled, “You stop right there and look at me! Rayne? What’s going on?”

“Take a look, Mom,” Rayne replied over her shoulder, smiling. “Take a good look. You’re right there on the pavement with Ryan now. And that woman with Dad isn’t going to offer to scrape you up with a spatula – I don’t see where she could hide one with what she’s wearing.”


South Beach – Starfish Pier - 11 AM


Completely dissatisfied with what he’d gotten from Tyler, an interview that was more an effort on his part to wake the man up and keep him awake, Rafe parked his bike and walked out onto the pier to get a cup of coffee. Tyler should have been an easy piece but the man had shut down on him. He’d go back, keep at it, once Tyler woke up, if that ever happened.

While he was grabbing a cup of coffee, why not bring home doughnuts or cookies or whatever they had here. Rafe took a look around the place – about a hundred different kinds of bread and very fancy cakes. Gayl might like one of those, if he could figure out which one to buy. Maybe they had morning buns; she liked those. He hesitated and looked around again.

On the far side of the shop, between bread and jam and cheesecake and the prissy little cakes, Rafe noticed the magazine rack. Curious if they had the latest issue of Stone with his recent piece, he took a break from examining baked goods and walked towards it. Don’t keep staring at this shit looking for your own work, he warned himself. You’re making a good living now, don’t worry about it.

Pulling up short in front of the stand, Rafe stared at the cover of Probe. Right there, right in his face, right in everyone’s face – Stanfield with Asteria. Yeah he knew who she was – body beautiful centerfold with ambition, her 15 minutes of fame and she'd stretch it out if she could. That didn’t surprise him; if it wasn’t her, it would be some other hot piece of ass. But the split shot, that shook him. Beth and Ryan McDermott. That was unbelievable. “What the fuck…”




Rafe left the shop and strode down the pier, glancing briefly aside at nothing, his anger so intense he was having trouble breathing. He’d known Cooper was playing around, but all this time she’d been at it too? He shoved his hands into his back pockets and remembered that scene backstage in Paris. McDermott had been uneasy and he’d picked up on it but completely misinterpreted it. Son of a bitch…had his dipstick right down in the goods and standing there bullshitting about Stanfield. Not going to forget that – if there was anything he could dig up, he wouldn’t hold back, not now.

Rafe stopped at the end of the pier and let the wind and spray sting his face and bare arms. He felt it. He felt it like he felt how he’d put himself out there for her, getting up in Stanfield’s face, over and over again, taking him on for Beth’s sake. It stung like hell.


“Girl,” Rafe growled quietly to himself, “if you don’t have to answer to him, you sure have to answer to me.”

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NEXT CHAPTER: Sessions Chapter 9

32 comments:

S.B. said...

The tabs look fantastic! This was so much fun to do! Thank you!

thewynd said...

Thank you! And we have only scratched the surface...

KDSGS said...

Ladies, stunning piece. Rayne with her crush, damn, I would be looking at naked pictures of Ryan too on the internet, whoops, I have! LOL!
She is thinking of passing herself off as her mother? Hmmm.
Wonderful work on the tabloid! 'Rock hard Body guard', love it!
Love Camilla's reaction, a fierce tigeress with reagrd to her family, her and Heydon, sizzled.

Love the scene with Beth and Rayne. I like Rayne, she hits things right on the nail and speaks her mind.

Navy seal takes beach...LMAO!
Well, this has stoked Rafe. Love that shot with Rafe by the pier.
Rafe on a mission...love it.
Great piece all the way around, thoroughly enjoyed!

S.B. said...

Thanks Drew - we really did have fun with this one, and there's plenty more to go!

About the only good thing to come out of this mess is Heydon and Camilla finally getting together. And yes sizzle LOL.

thewynd said...

It was fun coming up with those headlines Drew and yes, not too hard to look at Ryan in all his glory.

I have to agree with you on the Rafe shots too. Stunning man.

As always thank you for your constant support.

Muzegoddess said...

I am a new comer to this blog, but (after several sleepless nights) I have read all preceeding chapters of DD, RJ, RA, and TOSOTS, so I am up to date. First I have to say that this is some of the best writing I have read in a long time. I love the characters, scenery, and the story.
I have laughed, cried, and right now I am screaming!!! :) OMG!!! What is Beth going to do now?? What the hell is Cooper doing with Camilla? WTF!!! I have to calm down. Please don't ever stop updating this blog...it is my new guilty pleasure. I will be here panting until the next update.

S.B. said...

Wow! Muzegoddess THANK YOU! I'm stunned and overwhelmed and so happy you took the time not only to read all that (only "several" sleepless nights LOL?) but to leave such a wonderful comment. Thank you!

We don't plan on stopping anytime soon...

Yeah what is she going to do? We're working on it right now.

Again, I really appreciate it.

thewynd said...

Muzegoddess thank you so much, it means a lot to both of us! Your vision must be shot at this point with all the reading! I am speechless that you read all that.

We are already putting the next pieces of the puzzle together so stay tuned! There is LOTS more to come.

Thank you again!

thewynd said...

Just one more thing...I've been curious about readers lately...wondering how you found our story? It is always great to hear from new readers.

Thank you again!

Muzegoddess said...

I stumbled onto this blog via a link on Emily's Sims Stories page and read Sessions # 1. I was intrigued by the Cooper,Beth,
Ryan triangle and decided to start from the begining (thanks for TOC by the way, really helps newbies follow the storyline).

S.B. said...

You have to let us know if you have a blog we can look at...

that TOC was a pain to do but our work has legs that go everywhere so it was necessary. Glad to hear it worked!

Mizzgin03 said...

This story is amazing! I love the tabloid! Can't wait for the next Session!

S.B. said...

Hey Taylor! Wow thank you so much! For reading and taking the time to leave us a comment - that means so much!

Gayl did a fantastic job with the tabloid!

Ok, I'm going to ask...how did you find us? And again, I really appreciate that you left us a note. It's great to hear from the readers that they like what we're doing! Thank you!

Mizzgin03 said...

Actually I'm new to blogging and once I created my blog I started looking at other's sim blogs and you were listed as a link in one of the blogs I viewed.....I don't remember which one at the moment.....by the way thanks for the comment on my site!

S.B. said...

You're welcome! Your site is awesome! The detail and the design are wonderful.

thewynd said...

Welcome TFL (hope you don't mind I abbreviated that) and thanks so much for the comments! Looked at yours myself and it looks really good! I plan to go back and really get into it as soon as I can.

Again, welcome and thanks!

Mao said...

Okay, please pardon this ladies, but I need to get it out. Okay, here we go... what the FUCK.

Phew. I feel better. Holy crap on a cracker. I feel like I've just missed this huge piece of a puzzle and now I have no idea what to think. I'm just... baffled. When was all this illicit banging taking place? It must be the blinders I'm wearing, because everyone else in the story seems to have known!

This is like, a whole new level of dysfunction. I can't believe Beth hasn't reacted to the Cooper thing, but Ryan. How could you miss those shots? or did he tell her? Is that why they've been hanging over one another?

Dude, this is so crazy, LOL. My mind can't wrap around it. I did enjoy Camilla and Heydon, though. And at least Rafe seems to have his head on straight. This is becoming a pattern of mine... saying, at least there's Rafe. Please tell me he's not out banging random broads, too, LOL! I will be crushed!

Oh, and aside from my jaw dropping and the confusion of the century... the tabloids? OMG. LOL! Those lines! Those are so hilariously fantastic! I love it.

S.B. said...

Hello Mao...LMAO!

When? Well let's dial up the wayback machine and see...back before the trip to Paris.

And I think the reaction to Cooper and the model will come. Self-preservation trumps jealousy.

Ryan had no idea anyone was taking shots of them. None at all. So he has other reasons for doing what he does. His reaction is coming.

Rafe. Yes at least there's Rafe. No he's not banging anything he shouldn't, random or selected, no LOL. He definitely learned his lesson.

Aren't those tabloids fantastic? Gayl...take a bow!

Anonymous said...

My first thoughts.

Okay... wow. Wow. Wow.

Okay.

Wow.

Second thoughts. You know what, now it's completely appropriate, but when the model shit show was going down, even though I knew it was going to screw Cooper in the ear, I did not realize just how serious it would be for Rayne. That's her dad. This is her life. In that sense, I feel really bad for her. Having your parents labled as adulterers for the whole world to see has to be tough for a teen her age.

That said, she's beginning to annoy me. SHe is completely irrational over Ryan, and I feel like its skewing her emotions on how she should really feel about this. I would be pissed at my parents to. Oh my goodness, I'd want to set the house on fire, but, she's pissed at her mother for something that she has no business caring about.

And that scene between Rayne and Beth was fantastically tense, although that it some way to find out that your bare ass is plastered all over a tabloid.

My jaw is all over the floor, I have to go sweep it up and reattach it to my face.

That was amazing. That. Was. Amazing.

AND THE NEXT UPDATE IS GOING TO BE CRAZY ISN'T IT?

S.B. said...

Veron, thank you.

Yeah Rayne should annoy you. She's not rational. Not at all. But she's motivated.

Will the next piece be crazy? Where's Gayl...will it? Might be.

Thank you again for taking the time to read.

Emily said...

Ahhh, I feel like I've just eaten a full helping of delicious pastry...patting my belly affectionately!

From the tabloids to the shizz hitting the fan...this was one awesome, incredible update gals! I am in total shock, spill-just how long did it take you to do that magic tabloid business Gayl? :D

*Clapping loudly* I loved this one, every single solitary word and picture. Take a bow, this was superb!

S.B. said...

Emily thank you! We had such a great time putting this together, and we've been planning it a LONG time. Months. I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

Gayl will have to spill about the tabloid magic!

cheripye said...

LET ME PICK UP MY JAW!!!

Oh dear, Rayne is a handful isnt she and still oh so stuck on Ryan... T-R-O-U-B-L-E!!! that is what this whole thing is!!! I am certainly biting my nails, how is cooper going to react!

Wonderful update and excellent work on the tabloid!

Anonymous said...

O_o I knew a tsunami was coming, but dayumn! There is only so much everyone is going to be able to explain away this time, even if Rafe does go kick some ass.

And Rayne did have a good reason to be a bit of a cow about the whole thing to Beth, it was a bit of a shock, but I don't know, I just get a hint she is more angry about it involving Ryan than it could possibly cause the end of her parents relationship.

Fantastic job on the tabloids and the headlines!

S.B. said...

Thanks Cherie - Rayne still has a crush. Gayl did those great homework papers with the R+R hearts LOL.

thanks so much for reading and commenting when you have so much going on.

S.B. said...

Goodbye_sun - you're exactly right. Rayne is not reacting to a potential breakup the same way Cadence did, not at all. Right now she's embarrassed and ridiculously self-righteous about Ryan. Who is certainly no saint himself.

thank you - it means a lot to both of us that you continue to read and leave us such great comments!

Phoenix said...

Gah! I'm late!!!

OMG!! This was a crazy good piece!! So much drama! The tabloid was wonderfully done. It looked exactly like something that you'd see on the shelf in the store in RL! Haha!

Things are about to get explosive...for everyone! Don't know who's gonna be left standing after the dust clears but it's gonna be a heck of a ride that's for sure!

Drama, drama! Y'all do it so well! Your shots were amazing!

thewynd said...

Poking my head in to say thank you to all of you who have read and commented. This one was crazy but there is a lot more craziness ahead. Oh yes there is. Drama, craziness, heads rolling, and chaos everywhere.

The tabloids...it was easy and it was unbelievably hard. You don't want to know how many layers there are there. Really. I knew basically what I wanted it to look like but the execution took a long, long time. It was, however, a boatload of fun coming up with the headlines. Even named the layers...hehe

Anyway thank you all again so much for continuing to support us. It means so much.

S@n said...

OMFG!!!!!
What the heck!!! What a mess!!!
Amazing! wonderful writing, absolutely breathtaking pictures and the tabloid idea EXCELLENT~!!
Bravo ladies, bows to both of you... wow!!! like I said, you never cease to surprise and amaze your reader!!! YAY I don't even know what to say, this chapter was beyond fantastic, and unbelievable... looks like a hurricane is about to hit South Beach!!!
Wonderful!!! BRAVISIMO!!!

S.B. said...

So glad you enjoyed it, S@ndy! We planned this for a long, long time. And finally got there.

Gayl's work with the tabloid is just fabulous!

Colliegirl said...

Talk about the dysfunctional families of America! Where does this soap box opera end??? Lol!

What a mess! These scandals are certainly going to rock the house... quite literally, I am guessing, to its foundations! It will be interesting to see how things turn out... what will happen next? Are heads going to roll? Or certain other body parts... private body parts? Maybe they should! Lol!

Heydon and Camilla looked really hot together. And Rayne? Whatever is she thinking of doing? Would she really try to impersonate her mother? I hope not. That surely would end badly on her part... at least, I think. And what is rafe going to do? Uh oh, I think sparks are about to fly!

I can hardly wait to see what happens next! Great read, girls!

S.B. said...

Hi Colliegirl! It's great to hear from you again!

Heydon and Camilla are definitely an item. Rayne...never say never about Rayne. She will do whatever she thinks is necessary to get what she wants. What she thinks she wants. Not having any very clear idea exactly what that is...

soap box opera will continue!

and thank you so much for reading and leaving us such a great comment!