March 17, 2009
In Chapter 34 of Allison and the Primdales, now available, we leave Jeff and Brit and turn our attention to Lissa, who is on her way to her new school. Before you get on my case about it, yes, I know the semi-flashback to the sailing trip at the beginning of this chapter is anticlimactic and even a bit disappointing. Let me say this in my defense: I plan the progression of the relationships very carefully in my stories. If I hint at a relationship but haven't developed it yet, there's a very good reason for it. And in this case, that sailing trip was absolutely the wrong time to take things further between Greg and Lissa. It will, however, come back to haunt them later, but I won't tell you until it happens whether it will be for good or ill.
This chapter introduces two of Lissa's roommates: Meg and Monique. Meg is my favorite character in the story. Granted, at first she seems pretty one-dimensional, though that one dimension is certainly fun. Basically, she's a pretty archetypal flirtatious lesbian. But you'll see in future chapters that she has much more depth than that. I'll talk more about that later when it happens, and I'm sure most of my readers will probably disagree with my statement that she's at least as interesting as Allison. I just think that with the few peeks I'll give you later into her private life and history, you'll see that there's far more to her than what appears on the surface. She just seems to have a story that's begging to be told, but what makes her particularly interesting is that I never tell it. I leave it up to your imagination. Don't be surprised, however, if she shows up in more of my stories.
Monique, on the other hand, is almost a throwaway character because I needed a fourth roommate for Lissa. She does, however, play off of Meg quite well. Lissa and Alya (who is not introduced yet in this chapter) mostly just accept Meg's flirtatious manner in the playful spirit in which it's intended. Monique, however, goes out of her way to encourage it, teasing her about her sexuality and drawing out comments from Meg.
I made her roommates so likable so that Lissa would immediately feel at home with them. Her future storyline doesn't leave room for tension in the apartment, so I wanted to get her settled in as quickly as possible; by the time we've spent a few chapters with her, she might as well have been living in this apartment for years.
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