Calliope?

Okay, honesty…

I feel like shit. I feel like shit. I feel like shit. I feel like shit.

I feel like shit.

I feel like shit.

STOP FUCKING CALLING

Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop…

Life is just like buying a pina colada from the San whatever fair and wasting my money. Life is just like that, just like that and with a straw too short and with a straw too short. NO ON FUCKING ASKS ME OUT

Is that all that bothers you? IS THAT ALL THAT BOTHERS YOU? Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Stop calling. Go away. I don’t want you. I don’t need you. I don’t want to love you. So go away. Go away, go away

It looks like I have a giant tattoo on my left arm. ]

I’m tired, I can’t feel my arms

I’m sore? Bruised all over?

I don’t need you, I don’t need this, stop, stop

I’m caught halfway between being tired

And being overactive

I need….to….I need….

I hate this and everything about this

Yes, sure, I feel like a complete idiot. I am an idiot. Who the hell did I think I was…who the hell did I think I was…oh, forget it, forget it.

I’m….lousy…weepy…fat…ugly….worthless…tired….of all this bullshit….I’d like a bullet to the head…..I’d like to die….

Please, please, please, just stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop

I wish I never met you

I wish I never met you

I wish I was a sophomore again

I wish I had physics with Ricky

I wish I could still go home with Miles

I wish I didn’t really have to care

I wish I could spend late nights with Abu and Ehtesh in a Starbucks

I wish I could be weird and chat with Harrison on AIM

I wish I could go to anime cons

I wish I could sleep over unannounced at Katerina’s

I wish I still had Ms. Brown

I wish I still had two classes with Sahil

I wish I could bitch about things

I wish I didn’t cry

I wish I wish I wished for something else besides someone to love me

I wish I wish I didn’t need it

I wish I wish for something else

Please, can I just be alone

Can I just stop

Can I get over myself and how small and how shitty and how annoying I feel deep deep deep down where commas don’t exist and where all of damn silly feelings are suppressed. Yes. Yes. Yes. I thought I was some sort of savior but I’m not, so whatever, I’m relieved of my…position, my need, I’m no longer needed for a role that I thought was essential, I’m just another whatever the hell

FUCK IT

And maybe, maybe I am using it as an excuse to get rid of him, to just end….so, I’m all good, but I’m not….I can feel the drop of liquid running down my lip

I feel like….shit.

My arms, my back, my entire person, I feel like crying and just crying because I’m not worth a damn thing, I’m not worth a damn thing at all

And I’m the one who drew the short stick and I’m the one that no one likes

So okay, okay, okay, I get it, I get it. I FUCKING GET IT. Spare the pain and leave me alone.

I’m flawed, I’m weak, I’m pathetic.

I wish I could just die.

I have no purpose, no point in living, no one to ask me out, because I’m not cute, I’m not anything, I’m just fat and annoying and fat and annoying and that’s all I am…please stop giving some sort of mock hope that someone out there loves me, please stop giving me hope that someone cares, I liked it better when no one did.

Fuck.

Recovery II

7.09

I have a picture of James McAvoy as my Twitter profile pic. He’s just looking back at me, with his arms crossed and that grin across his gorgeous face and I can’t stop looking back at him.

I should leave. I don’t really feel like. I actually read my New York Times article today, suicide bombing in Afghanistan, the most interesting thing in the world.

After these four songs, I leave.

Every time I hear Just Communication, or like Catch You Catch Me, I feel like crying and weeping. I’m going to write a blog post about it. Maybe, or at least start it.

It’s hot. The sun’s hot. The bench is hot. The asphalt is hot. The only cold thing is the can of soda in his hand, slowly fizzing in the summer heat. Sprinklers from a nearby playground shower him in mist, the screams and shrills of laughing children, the wet plops of their little feet in flip flops, a girl in a flowery bathing suit and dropping pigtails, her mother in her bug-eyed designer sunglasses watching from across the park.

He bought a set of German polyhedral die yesterday, bright blue/silver color as the box read, for no good reason from a comic book store. He feels them clanking in his pocket and pats them, almost asking them why they are there.

He checks his watch, half past noon, perhaps he should leave. He’ll be late. He is already late. When is he not late? Punctuality is a crime.

He fetches the die set from his pocket, opens the packaging and searches for a d20. He’ll roll for it, odds he leaves, evens he stays.

Okay, okay, I leave, I leave!

Leaving!

So, moments come and pass, moments come and go. I cried for the first time in a really long time and the thought, that passing though that indeed people I love, people I like, things I’ve enjoyed doing, will be gone next year, it was scary, it was just scary.

I don’t want to let go of anything.

This song is as catchy as fuck and it sounds incredibly badass, like I’m going to go out and shoot the living hell out of everyone and love every second of it. I like this song.

I like you.

7.10

The real question is: should I invite him? How do I invite him, if yes be the answer to that question? Will he say yes? How will I feel if he says no? Why do I feel like my own personal psychiatrist, and why won’t I stop smelling like garlic?

I think you come up with good ideas when you’re young only because you’re dumb enough to think they’re going to work. Most of the time, they do.

I hate everything. Hi, Ricky. I can’t even manage a greeting. I can’t click on his name, I can’t click, I can’t type, I can’t greet. Fuck this.

And here I am, my own little mental dilemma that makes my arms go numb. Sometimes I think it’s the fan, but I know it’s just the thought of speaking to him.

I freak myself out sometimes. I don’t like it. If I don’t talk to him at some point, I think I’m going to combust, just implode, or die. It’s awful? It’s weird.

Have you heard the news? Bad things come in twos?

7.29

I have nothing else left to do, and honestly, Old Spice can get annoying after a while.

So, realistically, I’m not really thinking about him anymore. Truthfully, I miss my days of being an obsessive lover, on the verge of tears at the mere thought of this…idea, this person, whatever you, which is really me, want to call it. Nowadays, I’m just in denial about it. Or, maybe I’ve become numb to my fits of emotional insurrection, but I still can’t bring myself to IM him when he’s online, despite my need to ask him, “So, how’s that phone line of yours holding up?” Maybe it’s the fear that he won’t answer that keeps my keyboard happy fingers at bay, but then again, it works against me that he’s been idle for the last eleven hours and counting.

Then, on the other hand, you have the other kid. Of course, even in retrospect, none of this will make sense to anyone, not even me. My feelings for him are a mess, a stew of lovely, incoherent feelings and whatevers, and god, the spell of Old Spice is really, really strong. You know, the other other one, meaning the one above, had a particular smell too. No shit Sherlock, of course I know, I was there the entire time, you flipping moron. Shut up, this really isn’t a time to be schiz. No? Really, now, you’re telling me after some ten odd years you hate me? No, fucking Sherlock Holmes, I’m telling you to fuck off.

Right, anyways, there’s no real purpose, his screen name on AIM just makes me giddy. I really shouldn’t be, because I swear I’ve gotten over it, though I feel I will never actually get over it, but, really, we ought to move along. He’s still idle and he’s still there.

I just hate…being almost there.

I really hate just being almost there.

So much, so much, so much…that it hurts as bad, if not worse, than a headache, than a stomach ache, than anything else…

Well, there, I did it, my wireless just hates me, so much…

So much…

I’ll wait, I’ll wait. I’ll sit it out. This is actually legitimately annoying. I’d like my internet back and functioning.

So, wait, what was that page loading then? Some godforsaken tease my wireless network has become? What in the name of god is this?!

Judgement

I am, now, very satisfied.

Among other things…

Light reading turned out to be very boring, so I’m gonna just go for it when the torrent’s done and hopefully my one point something gigs of a cracked game is going to work. If not, I cry. For now, I suffer the throes of a dying love, unfinished homework and a stomach ache.

The search function is inherently useless.

I’m satisfied, today, with almost everything that’s happened. Jeffrey, Ricky, moomoo, food, movies, TCGs, games, everything today feels exceptional. A very good day, in the fine words of my friend, a very good day. And by god, I hope it stays that way. Maybe it’s because I’m recovering from a week of feeling deeply unwell and sick on the inside. Maybe it’s because I cut prep and stayed home the entire day, rolling around and doing nothing. Maybe it’s because I shared a moment with Ricky Meyer and nothing awkward happened. Maybe it’s because I’m accepting the fact that I’m going to miss him and he’s going to stay a friend. Maybe it’s because YOU ARE AN INANIMATE FUCKING OBJECT! Maybe it’s because that all my college bound senior buddies aren’t going to forget about me. Maybe it’s because I scored a 21-something on that practice SAT and there’s hope for me yet. Maybe it’s because, today, for the briefest of all moments, the world, the whole world, life itself, seems to be going my way, walking right down my block, up my alley, heading my way.

And now, I’m going to sleep to some good ol’ Yoko Kanno. Or, maybe Nine Inch Nails, though I don’t know how that’s going to help me sleep at all.

8.07

“Lobe, where the fuck is the bus?”

When my breath stops hitching when I see you, when talking to you becomes daily, when you aren’t the tingling sensation down the side of my, I think I’m through.

That song, this song, gets me, it’s catchy. I’m afraid? Annoyed? Can I say both? This feeling, that feeling, down there is bugging me, I hope it goes away. Most prevailing feeling of the moment, dread, annoyance, constipation.

If I go crazy will you still call me Superman?

It needs to go away.

The night is quiet the night is lonely

He walks, morose, through life silently

Lights a cigarette, the flame flickers

He has given me so many things, I’ve given him nothing. Is my company good enough?

If not for me, then you’d be dead.

That song makes a lot of sense to me, a lot, a lot of sense. Lately, I haven’t been feeling anything, none of my usual roller coaster rides into hell, none of my usual ups and downs and rants. Instead, a newfound complacency, have I found a home? Have I found peace, or am I simply at rest, at rest in his arms?

Do I keep him chained? Need I set him free? Is this reluctances love, or greed?

It’s odd, to share? Isn’t it? Because what’s mine is mine and to share with someone, him, this piece of me is like opening a book to the world that is solely mine. What is it now? He hasn’t even read the blurb, calm down.

It’s like holding your breath, for a really long time, until he responds and you get to see what he thinks of you.

Has he any idea how odd it is to have someone tell you they love you and not know what to say back? Like, being caught (without a Twix) and not knowing where to turn, to smile? Grin? Laugh? Reject? What am I to do?

Okay, it’s really distracting, there’s a violent surge, if you will, of emotion that is the completely opposite of emotion. Am I numb, or am I just missing something? Or, is this feeling entirely new?

Mostly, I tell you it’s just THAT, down THERE, that’s bothering me.

I left my body lying somewhere in the sands of time.

No wonder this song was such a hit, good fucking lyrics.

Night, kid.

I feel like crying. Awfully, into the night

Answer all of his questions (?) with laughter (lol).

She’s not sure where she stands anymore, which side of the road she’s standing on. Whether she’s the reflection or the one looking in, whether she’s living or whether she’s dead, whether she’s just a wraith floating mindlessly through the world, passing in and out of memories.

Remember me, when you’re gone.

I didn’t do homework. It’s an odd feeling. I forgot to ask.

Life seems to be so full of shit. All of the days I have lived, I have done nothing worthwhile. Perhaps he is the key to the rest of my life, to the rest of me, the me that’s been sleeping, waiting to rise.

With a summer like this, how can I look forward to September, to school?

With a life like this, have I any other horrors to seek? Have another life to lead?

I lied to my mother today, for the first time in a while, a lie of such a magnitude. I had done neither of the two things I so blatantly told her I did, but I promise to do so tomorrow.

He had, of course, left something here, a pen that wasn’t exactly his lying on my table.

Miles, maybe, had left already. Ricky leaves on the 15th. Harrison leaves on the 20th. Jeffrey leaves the night of the 21st, driven by his parents to Williamsburg, Virginia. I think I’m living a dream, a beautiful, ephemeral dream and the moment he leaves, the moment reality starts seeping in between the cracks of my beautiful, beautiful mirage, everything is going to crash. Life, the fire, Rabbit and Jill, life is but an illusion and all of this curious activity is a break from the monotony, the viscous tar of my life, the untimely reality.

SATs, looming like a knife above my head, in October, life waits.

Still listening to the same song. I like that song. Honest.

Maybe it’s the snare drum. I took a walk around the world to ease my troubled mind. I left my body somewhere in the sands of time.

Beautiful.

Lately, save for Winnie’s party, which was infected by his presence anyway (I’m stuck using words like reek and infect, which carry damn negative connotations, but fit the situation, don’t take it harshly)

fuck.

fuck.

fuck.

(Did you know that I look forward to you coming over?)

8.13

I’ve never came before thinking of a man. It’s a vile thought, dirty, but I couldn’t help myself as I edged closer to the zenith of my affection.

Alright, so what am I now? Content? I guess heartbreak is somewhere down this line, but right now, the moment, the molasses of life, as it ambles along, day to day, existence to existence, conversation to conversation, second to second is ample enough for my contentment.

I think I’m in love with. I know I’m in love with him. There’s a nagging sense of incomprehensibility. There’s more that I want than just a kiss, there’s more that I want to do than just a kiss, there’s more, there’s more, there’s a lot more, so much that I want to strangle him in the arms of my abstract ideals.

Yes, yes, I fucking love him. Now, you shut the fuck up. GODDAMNIT. You’re such an annoying bastard, even when we’re happy. Oh, you sick fuck. Yes, fine, go touch yourself. God…

And, don’t forget to shower…at like….four. lol

Death grew up a funny kid. He didn’t have any friends and spent most of his time playing by himself in the corner. He was nearly forgotten when the Immortals

One of these I’m going to run around screaming, “He loves me! He loves me!” in pure joy and still be embarrassed about it.

Egotistical

Death grew up a funny kid. For the most part, he was completely forgotten by the rest of the Immortals and had spent most of Creation sulking in the corner. They’ve always considered him, more or less, to be an accident, an afterthought, the child of a trifle conversation between mortals and immortals, back when they used to speak to each other.

“How are we any different from you?” the mortals had asked.

“Because we cannot die,” the immortals replied.

And thus, Death became his name, and Hell the land he walked.

The worst of part love is the expectation of something in return. The moment I fell for that trap was the moment I became a blind woman, grappling in the darkness for something to hold my hand and walk me through. Loosing control is never something I volunteer for.

Life would be a lot easier if I didn’t feel so useless, so condemned by my physical form, so beleaguered by my existence. Life would be a lot easier if I were dead.

My temperament is not one of action, my temperament in one of laziness, of tired laziness.

Guns N’ Roses, holy fucking shit. NIGHT TRAIN, I can’t do anything but just LOL!!

Azrael never really considered himself a servant

42nd and Broadway, he’s got his headphones, the fancy sound canceling kind, cranked up so high he doesn’t hear the taxi blaring at him. He cuts across the street, through sluggish, busy Manhattan traffic at midday, the sky is a luminescent shade of gray above him, as if it were about to rain.

Yeah, hush up about it. Please, just pretend it is not there.

The funniest thing: getting off on being shot during sex.

8.24

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[inhales deeply, exhales satisfied]

Ah, America. Land of the free, home of the brave.

8.27

She slips a finger between her wet folds. She whimpers softly at her own touch, shocked by her actions, by her own response. She runs her middle up and down lightly, almost gliding over her moist, tender lips. She spreads her legs further. She is propped up by one hand on her bed, head thrown back, in ecstasy from her soft touches. Her legs tremble. Her collar bones peek from under pale, white skin, moonlight dips in the shadows of her stomach, the sockets of her eyes, the valley of breasts, a traveler in the land of flesh. She teases herself and feels her tunnels contract. Her eyes closed, she whimpers again, drops her arm and lies back on soft satin sheets. The free hand immediately reaches for a nipple, thumb and index finger twisting the bundle of nerves, eliciting more moans from her mouth, lips glistening with moisture. She dreams of a man to love her. She spreads, when she is unable to resist the heat and tension building in her core, the wet lips of my womanhood and circles her erect clitoris. Her breathing turns to pants as middle finger works the small button of flesh, as her index and ring finger props open her lips. Her mind is blank with the hot fire of pleasure, she is beyond redemption, steeped in sin. Her clitoris takes her past the point of return, shoots her like a cannonball from the mouth of hell into cold, calm waters. Her moans were loud, groans guttural, every once in a while, when she hits a spot to sensitive, turns to a girlish squeal. Her eyes are squeezed shut, skin dripping with sweat, hair is caught between her head and the pillow, the friction she generates as she works only her clitoris. Suddenly, she comes, with a shriek of absolute pleasure, eyes bursting open, shooting up to a sitting position, she parts her legs further, slipping two of her fingers into her wet, dripping canal, two knuckles deep before she gives into the satisfaction of being filling. She pumps, starting over, she grinds against her over hand. She is now on all fours, all threes, one hand working herself to her second orgasm. Her fingers, she finds them inadequate in girth and length. Ripping own her nightstand drawer, she reaches, first, for her egg vibrator. The tiny pink colored ball slips in easily and she shudders, violently, as it begins to do its job. With a shaky hand she reaches for a dildo, purple and large. In her almost sedated state, she inserts the toy into herself after the egg. She shrieks again, high-pitched, like a banshee, her sheets were stained with her own juices. She works the dildo in and out of herself without stop, without pause, rapidly as possible. Her voice is hoarse, but she is unable to keep herself from moaning, the egg vibrates against her g-spot. A spare hand, almost absent-mindedly relative to the frenzy of activity between her legs, pulls at her nipples, another octave to her scream. She is certain that she will die, the pleasure so great and so intense, she cannot go any faster, the zenith of her own abilities. She pumps hard, fast, hard, fast, hard, fast, faster, faster, faster, faster…until her arm, her body, her mind, her very core is overcome with a feeling of numbness, blinding release, as if she’s found god. She screams, loud. She does hear her doorknob turn and does not see the masked man, armed with a knife, until it is too late. His rough callous hand presses the handle of the knife to her face, the cold metal rubs at her cheek. Her raises one index finger, but she screams regardless. Her shrill is muffled by an expert kiss, one, that after her episode, she finds herself unable to resist. He pins her wrists over her head. Shame overcomes her, disgust, but she longs so much for a man, so desperate, in the most vulgar of terms, for a cock, that she returns the intruder’s advance. He is surprised, the kiss becomes, almost, gentle. He lifts his mouth slowly. She does not scream. He is pleased. He drops the knife by her head, examines her face, a beautiful, innocent sort of face, undeserving of this violation, this desecration of her purity, but he is unable to control himself. He grinds his growing erection against her pelvis. She grinds back, a faint tear rolls down her cheeks, her own actions, is she but a simple whore. The rapist extends his tongue and licks the tear off her cheeks and claims his newfound prize with another kiss. The kiss trails down her neck, her collarbone, her breasts. His hands leave her wrists now that she is docile and subdued, like warm butter under his ministrations. He is in disbelief, how lucky he was to walk in on such a horny soul. His hands are rough, but she likes it, as it draws circles over her skin, briefly teasing her nipples, rousing them to attention, perky and upright, he flicks one and sucks the other. She grabs his head, tears off his mask in search of his hair. This takes him by surprise and his head jolts up, green eyes meet her confused-and lustful-brown. He is momentarily angered, then, as she raises her chests to brush at this chin, he continues his work. They have reached an understanding. She subdues the thought that he is strangely handsome. What would rouse such a handsome face to such depravity? She forgoes that train of thought and zooms in on the pleasure of his tongue and fingers. His hand trails down her body, tickling her, she moans, squeals, squirms much to his delight. This is less rape and more love making. He looks up at her, straddles her waist, his boots tracking dirt on her satin sheets. She does not mind. He grins as he hoists her legs over his shoulders and gently eases himself to a low, prone position on the bed. She watches as he extends his tongue, the tongue that had so passionately opened, despite the contradicting situation, her sexual floodgates, to take in this stranger, to allow him to touch her, to reveal to him her innermost desires, the tongue that now enters her womanhood. Her entire body arches, as if touched by fire, as if a jolt of electricity is sent through her body. Hot tears stream down her face, there is a sickness, coupled with love and hatred and lust and desire and a need to implode brewing in her stomach. She presses his head down further. The man sucks, with deceptive skill, at her clitoris. She bucks wildly as he inserts his larger, more adept fingers into her, once again, wet tunnel. One, then two, then, slowly, as if he does not wish to hurt her, he plunges in a third. A moan, a deep moan emanating from chest gives him permission to continue. He plays wilding with her clit and thrusts hard and fasts his three fingers. Her mind races, better than a toy, better than plastic, she is bucking, bucking, bucking as his hand, against his face, juices, fluids, everywhere. In a slow, deliberate motion, he stops. She looks up, confused, horny, needy, ready to explode, but before she is addressed, she feels his tongue, that beautiful tongue, crawling up her tunnel. She explodes, without restraint, and gushes into his mouth. He listens to the sound of himself eating her. His member strains against his pants and is pained by neglect. He drops his pants, his boxers, all in one fluid motion. She is momentarily captivated by his large member before all of it disappears in her. Her eyes widen, pupil constrict, mind blank and for the first time that night, is completely numb. Gone, over the edge, she is an animal, he is an animal, they mate. She reaches for his shoulders and humps his stiff piece rhythmically to his movements. He clutches her by her ass, slapping them at interval, the sound of skin on skin, flesh, urges them on. He spreads her cheeks and devilishly inserts the egg vibrator, though to some resistance, into her second hole. He mutes her ecstatic moan with a kiss. Their love making, what began as masturbation turned rape, is frenzied. The noises are almost incomprehensible, grunts, moans, pants, mouth open, eyes closed, she is taken, intoxicated. He is nearing the edge of his abilities, he finds, in his heart, a strange place for this woman. He fucks her, without regret. He finds that she is shaking, clinging to him, despite herself, she brings her lips to his ears in an almost painful motion and whispers, gives him permission. With this, he fucks harder, thrusting hard, she is almost bouncing on his pulsating member, tunnel squeezing the flesh as she nears another climax. He feels the egg, sometimes, and moves faster. From their upright position, he slams her down on the bed, against her sheets, pushes her legs over her head, caging her, pinning her down and plows into her. Without notice, except for a loud, groan, he comes in her. She feels fulfilled, coming shortly after, her tunnels clenching his cock. She is filled by his semen. He stays in her and does not move, collapses on top of her, pulls out the egg and kisses her. He no longer remembers why he broke into the house, and she no longer remembers that he had intended to rape her. They fall asleep, together.

I keep on having these dreams, dreams about people who love me, or almost.

I mean, listening to really happy, almost unheard of pop makes me happy sometimes. Fuck it, who cares if I’m listening to Good Charlotte or something, I like it right now, I’m good right now.

Okay, goals in life:

Fly to outer space and therefore, loose weight, make a shitload of money, maybe win the lottery

Paul Drugs

Quiet honestly, I wouldn’t mind any of it. I’d be his little girl. I feel so small in his company, so dainty, so clumsy, so small, so tiny, so child-like and full of wonder, like I’d want to stay with him, cling to him, lie in his lap….

I feel like a cat. I feel warm. I want to hear his heartbeat. I want to hear him. I want him, so much. I want him to be with me. I want him to stay.

Where are you?

It’s like, it’s like, it’s like….I can’t even really describe it. It’s just this longing, this deep, desperate longing for something, a longing that I can’t seem…to get over.

I’m tired. There’s a headache brewing. I need to write that oratory before Friday. If I closed my eyes right now, I’d be gone in seconds, minutes.

He cooked me lunch that day. And, sitting on the couch in his house, watching him from the back, his round, hunched shape, with his god awful haircut and shorts, with him, I felt the most incredible thing, something so delicate, so perversely innocent and sweet I can’t edge it out of my mind at all.

Every time I think of us fucking, I get a warm feeling in my heart. I wonder, what’s the real difference between making love and fucking? Which is sweeter, and which is more brutal? Which is it?

I need sleep.

He lifts her chin and brings her lips closer to his. He gazes at her, through hooded lids, a milky, opaque look in his eyes, clouded by desire, hunger, love and need. She’s wide-eyed and stunning in the reflection cast by the mirror of his eyes, looking back. She is cornered by his body, one arm extends to the wall, hand next to her head, his support. Eyelids sink deeper, he is taken by darkness as he, on instinct, presses his lips to hers. It is brief, mere contact, he breaks away, but does not move away, noses touch, foreheads resting against each other. Her eyes are closed, a faint pink taint her cheeks, and she grabs a handful of his shirtsleeve.

Had a dream about Ricky last night, it was like a conglomeration of the school year. I dream pretty symbolically. I was in Time Square, I think. Perhaps doing the English project, but I was never there for that shooting. There was McDonalds with a two customer lines, two alcoves and one was larger than the other. Some people doing a photo shoot, I think Tila Tequila was there. It was an odd photo shoot, they were all dressed up. One of them, some black lady, bursting out of her costume, was in a variation of some qi pao like garb, and she was the photographer. They were doing it in front of the second McDonalds entrance. The whole place didn’t resemble Time Square in the least, but my mind told me it was.

Somewhere down the line, Ricky and Miles come down the street, like they did the eighth floor hallway second term. Ricky’s wearing black, a strange piece of cloth zipped up all the way to the collar. I don’t really remember much of Miles, you can tell why. Ricky, for some reason, like he always does, comes down and talks to me, maybe it’s because no one else there really knew him, or maybe it’s because I wanted him to. I think I wanted him to. We talk about something and most of that bit of the dream is a blur. We noticed them, if I remember, down the street because a friendly, yet smelly bum was headed in our direction with a group of other bums and they were behind them.

I was under the assumption that Ricky was in the golf club and there was some sort of violence involving a golf club. But, as it turns out, he was on some Ultimate Chase thing. You know, if you remember, like that game we played at Katerina’s with Eva and her. So, basically, he gets on a bus, then, after receiving radio, or some form of communication, instruction, he dodges off the bus and runs after someone. All the while, I’m watching, with some sort of food in my hand, my mind tells me that that’s appropriate as such. I watched the photo shoot.

There was also a mild interlude about walking down hill on a street, something like a row of brownstones with the air of San Francisco to it. And movies, I don’t remember much.

So, when he gets back, I was hoping that’d he’d eat and he does. He buys some sort of McDonalds food and we sit. He whips out of a map, several maps and I suddenly have this ephiphany that it was like that board game. I was dreaming that he was playing the board game. Instead of Mr. X, the culprit was like Sexy something.

Right before I woke up, I think my hand was settling in his, in a really mute, really stifled and crush-like and high school way, the way it’s always been and always will be in my memory, nothing more, nothing less.

I think, the first I said to him when I saw him was to take him by the arm and tell him I missed him. I forgot his response.

I’m not sure, I miss him, I miss it, I miss loving love for the sake of love, I miss being perennially occupied with a figment of my imagination, some grand seal I placed upon this poor man as a symbol of my idolatry. I miss physics class, I miss his computer, I miss arm, covered in fine, gold hairs that brushed briefly against my own, I miss that curious look on his face, when he would turn to me and I’d see his blue and amber irises, I miss him, I miss him. I don’t know why I still do, but it comes back to me with a dream, all of the bits and pieces of the man I fell in love with, a man that never loved me back, the ephemeral moments I spent with him. It all started with that hair.

‘Still typing?’

‘Yeah.’

The reality is something I can never handle. Where I am now, it’s a strange place. I’m not with somebody I’d ever imagine being with, yet I can’t let him go because I’m afraid of being alone, of being hung up on, of being signed off on, of being by myself again, why am I so cruel to him?

I love him, too. I do, I do, I do, I do, I do, I do. If only….perhaps life was just not meant to be. I want to stop being a coward. But if you, me, I, looked nice enough, maybe we wouldn’t have to do the talking, maybe we wouldn’t have to do the work and suffer the heartbreak. Human emotional is fickle, power over this capriciousness in a wonderful gift.

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I had a dream about Paul Drugs. Paul Drugs does not exist. So, basically, it was like a Stuy crossed with Hogwarts and every time I stepped outside, the school courtyard grew. So, there was this redhead guy, who looked a lot like some famous ballet dancer and he kept inviting me to do drugs and I wasn’t exactly refusing. But every time we tried to smoke, something stupid would happen, like he drops in sand and can’t find it, a gust of wind blows the cocaine away, or something. It looked a lot like the courtyard from Atonement, with the fountain, but more green and minus James McAvoy. A lot of weird shit happened, I remember some people wrestling in the third floor atrium, near the gym. I remember some weird water ballet performance by the faculty. They wore hideous costumes and dove into the pool, which was outdoors and in an alcove of sorts. We watched by the side, huddled together because the pool deck was slippery and skinny. And, the end of this dream was marked by a strange Call of Duty game commercial involving a man named Paul Drugs. Paul Drugs, as I remember it, lay in a military cot, with tubes running in and out of his body, a little military experiment gone wrong-esque, with bandages and what not, a little anime-esque as well. There’s the commercial guy’s voice in the background, Paul Drugs’ eyes fly open. He goes crazy. Every time he is shot, the bullet would turn into a spike growing out of his skin and he would rip it off, like that Naruto guy, and impale the shooter with his own bullet. And, that’s about it.

Paul Drugs, man….