Listening to: Some Deejay prattling on Power98

I read 2 romance novels yesterday. *cringe* too much. too much. Put me in a sappy mood.. and I reckon it'll stay like that for the rest of the day.
Of course, the question would be: why did I borrow them ANYWAY..
Not sure really.. couldnt find any good books at the library and those 2 books caught my eye.

The first book was called "A Class Apart".. about how a "middle class girl" settled for a "working class guy" and how their very different upbringing and values were wrecking their marriage. Then again, the story starts itself 10 years into their marriage.. where the stuff that attracted them to each other are now the reasons for their fights. Then she bumps into her rich-and-sexy exboyfriend and erm.. things get sticky. I found it interesting coz.. well coz it isnt the typical "girl meets boy then they kiss (or screw) and get married" kind of story. Kinda makes you wonder how your parents and grandparents managed to survive living together for 10 or 20 years =/

The 2nd book was called "Goddess of the Sea". I took it off the shelves on a whim really.. there were mermaids and merman involved.. so I was like "Ooo.. i'll take a look at this" Aaanyway.. the story's abt this girl called CC who works at the airforce. It was her birthday and she was.. alone coz her parents AND her best friend forgot about it. So in a bout of depression she drank 2 bottles of champagne and got high enough to do rather crazy things. She went to look for an old book her best friend bought for her. It was one of those commercial spell/ritual books. She looked up Gaea(sp?) and did this ritual to call for the goddess' attention while she wished for magic in her life. The next day, she departed on some expedition thing in a helicopter and her assigned seat was the "propeller" seat.. meaning.. if was where the propeller would slice into the heli if there was an emergency. of course, the person sitting there would die.. but such situations didnt happen much.

Aaaanyway, this cute guy exchanges seats with her coz she looked absolutely terrified when she was informed like 5 minutes before take off. Needless to say.. something DID happen, The guy gets half his head sliced off and they crashed into the ocean. Something unusual happened (not gonna say what.. too complicated) and she found herself in the body of a mermaid (who exchanged bodies with her to escape from the kingdom). To cut a long story short, Gaea the Goddess was responsible and aids CC in getting used to the water kingdom. There's the bad guy, of course. A crazed merman who wanted to marry the mermaid.. And there's our lead called Dylan (I've decided.. if I ever have a son, i'll call him dylan) who is another merman. Anyhow, to escape from the crazed merman (called Sephe.. something) Gaea casts some spell which allowed CC to be a human. only she had to return to the sea every 3 nights, else she'd die etc. she would be permanently human if she managed to find true love on the land. Soo.. we have a handsome knight in shining armor who "rescues" her when he finds her washed up ashore. But this chauvinistic prick wasnt our girl's type.. Sides she's kinda in love with dylan. so she petitioned to Gaea and said she didnt exactly want to be human.. and with Dylan saying stuff like "i'll wait for all eternity" .. which girl can resist?

To cut an extremely long story short, the crazy merman was out to kill dylan for "snatchin his girl", so to speak. With Gaea's interference, he was on the verge of failure.. so he kinda decided that if he couldnt have her, no one else would. So he throws this spear thing at her.. which our Dylan (*sighs*) intercepts and dies in the process. With the bad guy dead (I cant remember how he died. I think another God killed him.. Gaea's erm.. lover? I think).. As I was saying, with the bad guy dead, Gaea gives CC a choice.. CC could return to her realm or stay with the gods. And she could choose whether she wanted her memory of her time in the realm erased. So she figured it was too painful to stay there, but at the same time she didnt want to forget Dylan. So she got transported back to the time just after the crash.. She rescues the guy's body (remember he got half his head sliced off for offering to exchange seats) and they find that he was still alive.. She goes back to her normal life.. only she finds that she misses the water and would swim every night coz it calms her. A year after that whole "incident", she was swimming when she heard a voice call her from the edge of the pool. It was the guy whose head was half sliced off. She said Hi.. and asked if he would wait for her while she got out of the pool and dried off before she talked to him. that was when he said "I'll wait for all eternity" and at that point I was like "OMG OMG!" Apparently, Gaea placed his soul in the dude's body.. that guy's soul had vacated the body anyway, so it was a simple replacement. He took so long to heal , that was why he couldnt come to her before.

There. Happy Ending.

How come I dont have a guy who is willing to take a spear in the chest for me? (prolly coz of the lack of bambi eyes and long legs..)