Yet another story, and a Reminder!!!

Sophie-the-Legs

 There is a minor thread in the Helen story that begins soon after she starts teaching at Westfield.   She is invited to a reception in Pittsburgh, and a young composer challenges her to premiere a still- to- be- written violin concerto.  Helen agrees, and it amounts to a commission, which is not an uncommon occurrence in the music world.

The concerto is written, and Helen plays it, but I always forget the name of the young composer.  Okay, it's Bill Yves!!!  This is so that I will never forget it again!

Back to the early days at Westfield.

Helen On the Run, I feel, marks the point at which Helen actually stops being a kid, and becomes an adult.  Even after this point, Helen still breaks out in some self-indulgent nonsense, and never totally grows up, even once she has met Marissa, at which point she grows up in some ways, but becomes sort of a baby in other ways.

In any case, the story of how she meets Sophie, the tennis player, and Rain (Evelyn Woodford), the language instructor, about her first semester at Westfield College, is very crowded.  Sophie-The-Legs, as Helen's students call her, is a lovely person, but she does not set herself as a potential love interest, which makes her very attractive, is a fun story, especially because she is a fun person, who is entirely outside the music world, and sees everything as new and fascinating.  This part was a lot of fun to write!  Meanwhile, Rain is an intense person, and that part was fun to write because it was so full of emotion.  I think I will have to cut one or the other of them out, and I can't decide which.  I can make Sophie a minor character, who is not a romantic interest, but (Spoiler alert) Rain continues to be an important character, who brings out certain very ugly aspects of Helen's personality.  I love both girls, and with some work I could feature Sophie in a little episode that doesn't interfere with the plot line.

By the way, don't forget: the two new stories, (Helen on the Run, and Helen and Sharon) are uploaded.

Kay