Dad, I can’t believe you left your binoculars to ME!!! First, the journal and now the binoculars?! You must really trust me, Dad. ❤️

It does feel like a big responsibility to take your binoculars on this road trip. You know I tend to accidentally break things… like your record player, your walking stick, my headphones, Charlie’s yoga ball, Mom’s coffee mug, and (I don’t think I ever told you…) yo...

She accepted the gift, feeling a swirl and mix of feelings inside of her.

I know this because how could Draya not be feeling that when accepting a gift from her party crashing ex? Also because of the kind of person Ruby was. Although not all bad I had more reasons to dislike Ruby, too many to overlook and too many for me to like Ruby. I didn’t hate her, but I didn’t like her either. However, I was...

How does one accept this?

How can one accept the heart of someone?

Yet I’m left here with another body and their beautiful beating heart.

All to myself.

Some call me a psychopath, others a masquerade murderer.

I’m not what they think of me.

Every time I see their heart slow to a stop and their breath drop

I regret it but it’s needed in my life.

“You’re getting sloppy, 5-1-10.” **He** said.

My real...

I accepted the gift, feeling a swirl and mix of feelings inside me. It had happened. Just like my mother and sisters, the goddess Ashiyana had chosen me to be a patron. All was as it should be, as it had been destined to happen. So why was there a pit in my stomach?

Joy errupted. My father patted my back, my mother bowed down at Ashiyana’s feet, thanking her profusely for taking a chance on her c...

She accepted the gift

A swirl of feeling inside her

A teddy bear and candy

Oh how sweet

She gives him a jersey

And candy

And a crafts she made

And a note

The note has a message

Something hard to read

In another language

我愛你...

I jolted away, gasping, as soon as I saw it. “I can’t-“ I broke off, my heart beating wildly. My eyes were wide as they flickered around the room - except at him, I couldn’t look at him - and I knew I looked like a wild animal, trapped in a corner. “I can’t take that.”

It was irrational, I knew, to be so afraid of that one little object. But his gift scared me in so many different ways.

I backed...

Tonight is the dance. The dance I have waited my whole life to go to. It’s just a simple school thing.

And I’m not going. It was a easy choice. I could choose to face the facts that I won’t have Mom to help me get ready. Or I can stay home.

It won’t be as fun, but lately my life doesn’t seem to have any fun in it.

I lay back agaisnt my pillows as I open the front cover of a book. I’ve never ...

(Not me fantasizing of a boy acting like this to me while writing this. But on with the story!)

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“This is for you.” My who-I-thought-to-be- just-best-friend, Luke says, holding out a necklace to me.

I accept the gift, feeling a swirl and mix of feelings inside of me. Excitement and surprise and one more emotion which I can’t quite name. All I know is that it leaves a warm, fluttery feeling i...

If I had given you my letter. I’m not sure what would have happened.

In that letter, I spilled my heart out. I told you that when I’d look into you eyes I felt something. Something I don’t know how to describe.

I told you that I think about you nonstop. You’re in my dreams, my life, my mind. When I wake from dreams with you, I find myself feeling like you were actually there. And I wish you we...

For a brief moment in time, I had forgotten anyone cared about me at all. The beat of my heart in my own chest sounded unfamiliar. I couldn’t recognize my eyes in the mirror no matter how hard I stared. This brief moment was brief only in the span of our vast universe. In actuality, it lasted years, with only intervals of relief. I lived like a mammal confined to rough seas, breaking the surface t...