Janet and Helen fall in love, and Janet, Jason and Helen live together for a couple of years, during which Helen become famous as both a singer and an instrumentalist, and as, well, various other things. This was all written by me just for my own entertainment, and the plot is fantastic, or at least, seemed fantastic at the time. I was at a fairly low point when I was writing this stuff, and it more than served its purpose, looking back. I discovered that I was fairly good at writing fiction, which gave me a boost, and it brought be through those bad years, culminating in 9/11, which was a bad time for most Americans.
By the time Helen's junior year is drawing to a close, Helen has fallen in love, and had sex with dozens of girls. My own private life was pretty much a desert, so I had a lot of sex vicariously through Helen. She was never just about sex; she would fall madly in love with each girl, or some girl would fall madly in love with Helen, and she could never turn her face from any pretty girl who fell in love with her, and so they always ended up in bed, or making out on a bike while going at top speed, or things like that.
Anyway, the multiple relationships ---and they were definitely relationships--- and Helen's schoolwork, and her musical performances: opera, concerts, recitals, all began to tear her apart, and Helen snaps, and she wants to give it all up, and go live with a certain girl, Leila, whose mother owns a sort of classy nightclub in Florida. (I have never been to Florida, so I wrote about it as if it were some fantasy land where anything could happen.) Leila was crazy about Helen, but what was more, Leila and Helen performed nude at this nightclub, and Helen loved it. (Unlike most nightclubs, the nude dancing was just that: dancing; the customers were not allowed up close to the girls, and there was no sticking money in the belts of the girls, and so on. It was very high-class.)
But Helen has made friends with this mysterious woman called Sandy, who seems to be in the business of helping people have all sorts of adventures in disguise. Sandy has a lot of people working for her, who can supply wigs, hair color, costumes, makeup, so that they can disappear for a time, and do things they couldn't do normally. Sandy suggests that Helen attend a tennis camp for nudist girls, in Canada. Helen goes along with the plan, with her long, curly blond hair straightened and cut short, and colored pink. She has a great time, but becomes a captive to the spell of the camp nurse, called Sylvia. Sylvia wants nothing to do with the camp kids unless they fall sick. But Helen pursues Sylvia relentlessly, and Sylvia gives in, and lets Helen stay with her after the camp is over, for a whole year.
Once Sylvia finds out that Helen is a musician, and a girl who has dropped out of college, she and Sandra want to send Helen back, to finish her education. To encourage Helen in that direction, they first urge her to assist at another camp; this time, it is a ballet camp for girls in the French Alps. This episode is in Helen at Ballet Camp.
Then Helen returns, goes back to College, where a surprise awaits. There is a lovely girl from India who has just arrived as a freshman. They fall in love, and when the Indian girl is asked to go back home to get married, Helen follows her. The girl is married off to a fellow she barely knows, and Helen is broken-hearted, and bums around in India, gets sick, and lives in a sort of Indian convent for ten years, where she gradually loses her memory of her life in the US. She is discovered to have a brain tumor, and the nuns at the convent seek help from the US Embassy, which decides to ship her back to the US for treatment.
She is recognized at the hospital, and after the surgery, returned to her family, which has had no idea where she has been for so long. Meanwhile, not knowing all this, the Indian girl, now a widow, has come to live with friends in the US. When she finds out that Helen is back in the US, and has lost her memory, she hunts her down in California, where Helen is now a construction worker, having lost all her memory of being a musician.
After a lot of interesting adventures (well, interesting to me, because, as you can imagine, all the things that Helen is interested in are exactly the things that I am, and I can honestly expect few of my readers to be interested in all of them! This is why I can only hope to put these stories before the public in the form of e-books, because I expect the readership to be minute, at best), Helen has acquired two daughters, Gena and Alison, who are tragically orphaned. The Indian girl (Lalitha, now a woman, with a son of her own,) manages to bring Helen, who regains her memory, back to the College, and then to graduate school in Philadelphia, where they settle down for a couple of years of relatively stable existence, the kids going to school, Helen doing well, and as usual, taking on a lot more than she can handle, and lusting after various women, until Lalitha in her turn snaps, and walks away.
So I wrote down all this over the last month or so, and I'm getting it ready to put on Smashwords in the near future. As usual, I had trouble trying to find a photograph of an Indian girl whose face would come close to my mental image of young Lalitha. Lalitha ages from a youthful 17 to about 30 over the course of this story, but I have a fairly good prospect; I need to work on it a little.
Kay
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