Don't Look Back: Part Two
(A Sadie Saga)
Sadie's Diary: September 8th, 2013

 September 8th, 2013
Dear Diary, 
                My artistic juices are really flowing at the moment!! I met Jewel's other housemate today - Cynthia Benton - and she was so so nice to me. It's so wonderful how everyone seems to trust in me, even though they don't know me much yet. It's doing great things for my confidence and I'm having such fun sketching pictures from the holograms that machine of Cynthia's father's produced. It's helped such a lot to have real subjects and Cynthia promised she wouldn't tell Topaz and the rest that I got out of bed at all. It bothers me a little that they're so trusting, when I'm still hiding so much but then again, I did make a brand new start when I left prison and rehab behind me, so I don't see why I need to broadcast everything I've done wherever I go. I'm a different Sadie now, so it will all work out okay. It's in the past.

The name Benton is kinda familiar to me, and when I was flicking through some of the magazines Topaz gave me to work from I found some mention of the Benton Family and their links to Starlight Music. I wonder if Cynthia is a relation of theirs or if it's just a coincidence? Seems odd to me if they are related that she chose to work for Phyllis Gabor and not her own relatives, but I suppose it depends on the situation. Maybe there's something I'm not seeing. Topaz has mentioned Cynthia more than once and I know they're good friends, so perhaps that's it. Maybe blood isn't always thicker than water.

One other thing bothers me a little bit, too. Much as I'm trying to tell myself that it was my fevered brain playing games with me, I'm still not sure that it was. I'm convinced that I saw that knife hit Cynthia straight on the arm and I'm certain it would've gone pretty deep and caused a lot of blood. Heck, I know enough about arm circulation now, I know where the veins are! But she didn't even have a scratch on her and she certainly didn't cry out in any pain. That was just strange to me, but I can't make any rational sense of it, so I guess I probably did imagine it. After all, if it had been me, I would probably have wound up shrieking and swearing, so I guess the logical answer is that it didn't hit her after all, and it just looked that way from where I was standing. My head is still muggy, after all.

Oh well. It doesn't matter much. The important thing is that Cynthia is really nice and sweet and I like her a lot.  If everyone in Los Angeles is as nice as her and the others, I won't be homesick long. I can't help thinking though about this meeting with Miss Gabor. I'm a lot better now and I gather she's impatient, so I suspect it won't be long before I'm there speaking to her. The more I hear about her the more frightened I am...please let her like my work!
Please let her help me stay in LA!!

Chapter One: Conference
Chapter Two: An Unexpected Houseguest
Chapter Three: The Wannabes
Chapter Four: Sadie Confides
Sadie's Diary: September 6th, 2013
Chapter Five: A Spy

Chapter Six: Inspiration
Sadie's Diary: September 7th, 2013
Chapter Seven: Cynthia Lends A Hand

Sadie's Diary: September 8th, 2013
Chapter Eight: Into The Lion's Den
Sadie's Diary: September 9th, 2013
Chapter Nine: Latisha Admits
Chapter Ten: Dinner At The Starlight
Chapter Eleven: Truth Will Out
Chapter Twelve: The Newest Jewel

DISCLAIMER: PLEASE NOTE
Copper, Nancy, Sylva, Anna, Blade, Raesha, Sirena, Topaz, Aaron, Sophie, Justin, Elliot, Rosita, Luis and any other characters in this fiction which do not appear in the animated Jem series are copyrighted to me (E.A Woolley) as of January 2002 <unless otherwise specified> and are not to be reproduced without permission ANYWHERE. Jetta, Pizzazz, Stormer, Roxy, Raya and all other original Jem characters are the copyright of Hasbro Inc, Sunbow, Christy Marx and the other writers of the Jem series. The future world of Pizzazz, Raya, Jetta, Roxy, Stormer, Clash, Synergy, the fate of Jem and her memorial are all copyrighted to me. The future world of Kimber and Shana is copyrighted jointly to myself and Gemma Dawn.
The concept of 'Jewel' is entirely my own, and any apparent link with any fictional or actual person or persons of this name is entirely coincidental. Equally the characters in this fiction are not based on any real life individual.
The concept behind the future world of Danse, Aja and Craig, the idea behind Jerrica's futureworld and the split of the Holograms is copyrighted to Gemma Dawn, whose Teenangel Outsiders fiction is directly twinned with Just a Dream. The character Sammi and any of the other Teenangel Outsider characters mentioned in this fiction are entirely copyright to Gemma Dawn and appear here only with her permission.
Pay her page a visit!