Blog:Derek and Christina - デレクとクリスティーナ

I´m working on my newest book. It's about two schoolchildren in New York City, and it's inspired by anime. It's a parody of (and a love letter to) giant monster clichés. It´s set in the same universe as my Larry series and is set three years before the series started, but it uses an anime-like art style, to fit in with the premise. It consists of 15 chapters.

Chapter One
It was 12:30 p.m.

The gentle, soothing breeze of New York City was blowing away.

Lunchtime had passed, and Derek Gaylord and Christina Foss, 16 and 14 respectively, were getting to their class. Their teacher was Michael Donalds, in his 45th and final year of teaching before retiring.

“Ready?” Derek asked Christina.

“As I’ll ever be” was her response.

The two went inside their class, and Mr. Donalds said, “We’re in our final day of school, so we need to make this good. Open your textbooks to chapter 14.”

All the students got out and opened their textbooks, and began answering questions.

“Excited for the summer?” Derek asked to Christina.

“Yup”, she replied.

The two continued answering questions before raising their hands. Mr. Donalds came, gave them a 100, and Derek and Christina went out in the hallways, where they met the leaders of a gang.

Led by Robert “Brick” Howard, the gang, called the Big Blood Bringers, was considered the toughest kids in school. They had been known to punch weaker kids, gaslight, cyberbully, pinch girls, spray graffiti, among other heinous and bizarre vices. The gang was easily identified by wearing red hats that said, in darker red, BLOOD. SWEET BLOOD.

Brick and his right-hand, Kenneth “Panther” Johnson, stood by Derek and Christina.

They laughed, and Brick said, “You normies are so weak, that you are weaker than silk!”

“And not only that”, Panther sneered, “you are so nerdy, too!”

Derek said, “Not if I can do something!”

“What will it be?” came back Brick. “Blowing up the gym? That’s where we hang out.”

Christina replied, “Nope”.

“You are silky kids”, sneered Panther. “And not just silky, you are absolutely bogus too”.

Brick kicked Derek in the crotch and walked away with Panther.

“You OK?” asked Christina.

“I’m fine”, replied Derek. “Those guys are so heartless”.

The two walked to their homes, and just on the street, they saw their neighbor Zoe Thomas and her boyfriend Jace Muller. Their belief was that “all humans were equal, but some humans were more equal than others“, as said on Zoe´s t-shirt. “Hey, Gaylord!“ she shouted.

Derek replied, “Zoe. Jace.“

“Just look at yourselves“, said Jace. “White and privileged“.

“You´re white yourself, Jace“, said Christina. “The irony is not lost on us“.

Jace whispered in Zoe´s ear. “The difference“, said Zoe, “is that you´re white through and through“.

“And you´re self-hating. Both of you are“, came back Derek.

Zoe responded, “Come back when you ever amount to anything“.

“We will one day“, said Derek. Zoe scowled at Derek before walking home. “Idiots“, Derek told Christina.

When they

Illustrations
Sorry for the way they are, I accidentally got them sideways on my phone.