the windows are a soft black, with pinpricks of orange lights in the distance. she's got her head bowed, there is a book on her lap she's looking thoughtfully at. the pages are yellow and faded, crinked with decade-old dreams. she's savouring each word carefully, ink spirits on white sheet.

for a while, after he sat down opposite her, she doesn't sense him. she's staring at a letter, an alphabet, 'O', she's shaping with her eyes the roundedness of it. it's solid, it's empty. what are you reading, he asks, which startles her and makes her unable to speak immediately.

a poem, she says, after she recovers her wits. a love poem. this said almost sheepishly.

may i? he indicates with his right hand.

she watches him read. he reads the same way as she does, chin tucked down, hair falling into eyes, thumb at side of page. his hair is a soft black. she looks at him thoughtfully. his locks of hair are spirits. of hope and of dreams.

 
 

struggling through persuasion; BJD WAS ADAPTED FROM IT!!! LOVE BJD!!! okay don't quite mean to sound mad. laughing to death over msn's new recording function, i did highpitched squeaks and low grrrs at ben ytd hahahaha. GETTING MY FORTY POUNDS BACK FINALLY thks ben! Discussions about Life with cyrus and carrie till one after mugging together in learning zone (think haunting virgo traits). LOVE KAHYI-CHAN! :P hannah from SCAN (school paper) telling me i've got one of the better articles for this upcoming issue & asking if i'd like to write another one :D:D:D:DDDDDDDD. the awesome fact that i'm enjoying myself so much even without clubbing, and i'd so want to go at first! liking myself for who i am, being comfortable in own skin :D. onerepublic's all the right moves. i make them good girls go bad. so tell me baby pretty baby that this house is not a graveyard tell me how to stay strong and carry you home over corpses of her longlost fathers and unborn daughters goddammit i just can't do it aloneeeeee


in pictures;



curry chicken/ chinese veg/ DUMPLINGS


coke chicken/ orangesauced pork!


strawberry sago :D:D


wholewheat pasta with margarita!


carrie in room with red beret we gave her


mini pre-twentyfirst surprise party with squishy pizetta cakes!


moka @ preston :D


we look like we're in uniform!


red phonebooths


HOTPOTTTTTTTTTT :D:D:D:D:D:D




hotchoc/carrotcake/ > indepth talks at pizetta with carrie & cyrus after ten hours of "studying"


blue vest river island men's white dress fep gray cardigan primark hairclip h&m


plaid top UO belt fep floral skirt f21 white hairband diva



i'd like so much to thank - although i don't quite know who i'm thanking - but i'd like to thank something, a force, fate, maybe, that i'm here, that i've made so awesome friends, that i'm getting so much out of this exchange, that i love it here so much i can feel time flying by, and i don't mean it in retrospect either. thankyou :)