10 [Report This]Date: March 21, 2010 10:02 pm Title: Sometimes you smell like peaches. Sometimes I want to throw up in my mouth.
::sigh:: What would happen if they had met that night? I enjoyed reading about Jim's side of the story and especially loved how instantly smitten he was with Pam. They're meant-to-be's!
This line made me smile so widely: "She smiled sheepishly and any last shred of lie Jim was holding on to that he wasn’t in love with this girl anymore went flying out the window."
Author's Response: I'm so happy to have made you smile!
If they'd met that night? Hmmmm.... they probably would have dated for a while as teenagers and eventually something would have happened to have soured it. I think they found each other again when they needed to.
10 [Report This]Date: March 13, 2010 11:24 am Title: Sometimes you smell like peaches. Sometimes I want to throw up in my mouth.
Aww, this was so cute! This story is so fun to read, and I like how these little flashbacks and memories are (hopefully) helping them to rekindle their friendship because they realize they have so much in common and that they love about each other.
Please, please, please keep going, I just love this story so much! It's always so well written, and the short chapters capture my attention then make me want more to read!
Sorry about your lice experience, that sucks!
Author's Response: Haha, thanks! The lice thing happened 17 years ago, so I've recovered now, but it was definitely a charming moment.
Date: March 12, 2010 08:19 am Title: Sometimes you smell like peaches. Sometimes I want to throw up in my mouth.
How did you get so good in capturing what it's like being a teenager? I noticed that when reading In My Life... too. It's like I'm right there again. All those feelings that hit you with such a force, I feel them perfectly when reading these last two chapters. It's remarkable. How do you do it?
Plus there's the fact that season 3 AUs are always such a treat, so I'm eagerly waiting to read more of this.
Author's Response: Wow, thanks. I think it's a combination of a very long memory and being at the age (I'll be 30 in a couple weeks)where the teenage years are still recent enough that I can remember them, but far enough in the past that they don't have any emotional impact on me.
I'm really glad you like young Jim and Pam in this story. They were really fun to write in "In My Life..," though I think they were both a lot more confident as teens in "IMLILYM." I like to think it's because they bring out the best in each other.
Thanks so much for reading and reviewing!
10 [Report This]Date: March 12, 2010 04:18 am Title: Sometimes you smell like peaches. Sometimes I want to throw up in my mouth.
Aww, poor Young Pam, injuring herself before her date with Young Jim. Poor Young Jim, getting stood up by the first girl he kissed.
I enjoyed getting the same story as last chapter, from Jim's POV. Looking forward to wherever this story is taking us....
PS-I miss OnlyOneKitchen too.
Author's Response: Sometimes those two just don't get a break, do they? Poor kids.
Thanks!
10 [Report This]Date: March 12, 2010 03:45 am Title: Sometimes you smell like peaches. Sometimes I want to throw up in my mouth.
Duddddddddde, this is really good, I can't say that enough. I can totally see Jim feeling like an outcast when he was younger - and I think you showed that really well.
Everything about this is brilliant. I love how you have a tiny bit of the present at the end - just perfecto :)
Author's Response: Thanks! I love writing young Jim because honestly, I can see a lot of myself in Jim, so hearkening back to some of what I remember from being a teenager and then applying it to a male is a lot of fun.
I think, in general, what's great about the character of Jim on the show is that for the most part you have either real life guys, who, bless their hearts, are just idiots a lot of the time. And then you have movie guys, who are often unrealistically perfect. I think Jim is a good meeting in the middle and it makes a very subtly layered character.