Clueless and The Cure...To What I Know Not

I have to swear off songs by The Cure. They just dont do my disposition any good. Plus they make we wonder how many gothic chicks get knocked up to their songs. Those baby showers would be straight out of a Tim Burton film. M Night Shyamalan is wishing he had thought of it first and Quentin Tarantino is wondering how to steal the idea and add a scene where the prego gothic chicks walk towards the camera in line with each other. I could knock directors all day but how would that help me knock The Cure? So yes The Cure does look like a combination of Michael Jackson and Kiss but thats not the point...Wait that is the point. Why do I even like The Cure? If I was the type of person who talked to themself then I would say "Because your out of your friggin mind with your unoriginal rebelious attitude from an eighties sitcom about punk kids except you cant pull off the giant hair spikes or the tight black clothes." Yep Im very self loathing and I talk about old sitcoms alot. Oh I like Halloween and we just had it but I spent the whole day in class and when I finnaly got home I fell asleep on the couch....Well atleast there is still Christmas. Though I dont like family gatherings "but you hate people" "yeah but I love gatherings, its ironic." Kevin Smith is a director I like. For those that dont know, shame on you, he did the movie Clerks.

So what was the point of this post again?....Seriously I dont have a clue!
So goodbye for now Yours Truly,
The Eighties Sitcom Cinic!

I Talk To My Self Cause I Know You Are Not Listening

So this is the first post in a while so I should probably take this time to use some witty metaphor to describe what I have been up to but you would probably start nagging me about how predicable my blogs are. Oh you so wish you could nagg me but guess what im un-naggable....No seriously dont nagg me about it. Anyways I have this story idea. YES HE HAS ANOTHER STORY....YES HE JUST REFERED TO HIMSELF IN THE THIRD PERSON.....So anyways this story seems a little cliched but bear with me here. Its a mideval fantasy about these three guys on a NON-quest. So one character is a young knight who is one of the best swordsmen in the kingdom and he is the strong silent type but has a very unique inner thought process. The second character is of course an archer. He has a cool back story of how he joined the kingdoms archers at a young age then joined the kings scouts and he is secretly courting the princess of the kingdom despite knowing there is no future to it. The last character is the prince of the kingdom and he asks both of them to come with him to a village to the south of the kingdom to pick up a sword made by a famous blacksmith but he really has another purpose. Well I could go on but I dont know why I would. YOU DONT APRECIATE ME. Sorry about that outburst I will have to consult my imaginary psychiatrist. I dont have an imaginary psychiatrist or I would have to diagnose myself as a pschitso and thats no fun. Ok since I have even creeped my self out with that last line of logic im going to stop talking now.

Cain and Abel Story (Class Work Short Fiction)

Caine and Abel were as different from each other as twins could be. Caine was the first born and the spitting image of Adam himself with his brown hair, dark eyes, and tanned skin but he was greatly over shadowed by his brother Abel who had inherited their mothers looks. Eve was from the elf race of fallen angels, who were cast out because they remained neutral during the war between heaven and hell. Elves were self-centered, arrogant, and most of all beautiful. Adam was a great warrior who fell for her beauty and she convinced him to help her attack the beast guarding the tree of immortality. It wasn’t until after they had eaten the fruit that they realized the fruit made them and both of their races unable to hear the voice of god. For Eve and the Elves it mattered not for they had long ago stopped listening but she had taken something great from Adam and humanity…..Guidance.

Using the tale of how they had defeated the monster guarding The Tree of Immortality and Eve’s considerable charm they created the first kingdom. Some called them the first couple and later they wrongly called Abel the first prince. Though to see how things got messed up you need to know how they lived. Cain always training his skills as a warrior and following his father’s orders to the letter and Abel receiving all of their mother’s love. Adam loved Eve so much that having Abel who had her blond hair, blue eyes, and fair skin made him also love Abel more. Despite everything Cain grew up to be an honest hard working soldier and the kingdoms sword master capable of commanding the respect of every soldier who met him. Abel was still the favorite though and was the heir to Adams throne despite not being the first born. Cain didn’t mind though and he loved his brother more than most which was saying a lot considering how much the women of the kingdom loved Abel.

Unfortunately Abel had received his mother’s impatience and inability to be satisfied so he started planning to kill his parents and take the throne. Abel was so confident that he didn’t even bother hiding it. Not that his parents would have believed it if anyone told them. So Cain found out and charged off to go ask his brother about it. Abel was if certainly not a fool though and he knew that Cain had just as much claim to the throne as he did so he told his parents that it was Cain who was trying to take the throne since he was not the heir. So Adam sent his own royal guard to go capture Cain leaving himself, the queen, and Abel alone in the throne room.

Cain couldn’t explain why the royal guards were attacking him instead of defending the king and queen but he knew that if Abel really was going to do such a thing that now would be the best opportunity so he fought his way through all of them. Even the highly trained royal guard was no match for The Sword Master Cain wielding The Sword of The Archangel Michael. His father had once used it to defeat the beast that guarded The Tree of Immortality. When he opened the door to the throne room he saw Abel sitting on their father’s throne. The first thing Cain could say was “What have you done brother?” Abel just smirked at them “Don’t worry brother they aren’t dead yet. Ha they didn’t even think you would make it here. Well you proved them wrong. Not that it matters since they think you are the one trying to kill them hahahaha.” Cain didn’t know if he should be relieved or not. On one hand his parents were alive on the other Abel had set him up. Abel had been learning magic from their mother since he was little and would be hard enough to deal with but his parents would be an impossible opponent. Cain had to try to talk Abel out of it “Please brother don’t do this.” Again Abel laughed “It’s too late now but if it makes you feel better your death will usher in a new era for mankind. Your death will be the first death brother.”

So they fought for their lives. Abel shooting balls of fire and Cain deflecting them with The Sword of Michael until Cain knocked one of them back at Abel. Abel leaped to the side to avoid it and ended up right in front of Cain. Abel went to fire another attack but didn’t even get the incantation out before Cain hit him square in the jaw. Abel flew a few feet back and he slowly got up on to his hands and knees while spitting out blood. Cain knew that Abel would have some trouble chanting any incantation now but he wasn’t going to take the chance so he kicked Abel on to his back and placed The Sword of Michael’s point up to his throat. Abel looked up at him with blood running all down his face and chin “It doesn’t have to be this way brother. We can go back to the way things were.” Abel smiled and at that moment Cain knew….

Lee(Character Introduction)

Lee was more excited than he had ever been and that was saying a lot considering he had done some pretty exciting things. There was the time when he was nine and tried to steal a Gryphon egg, the time he had scaled that warlords castle at eleven, or that time he crashed the experimental flight machine at twelve. None of that mattered now that he was at Adventure Academy. Lee called it that because its graduates either traveled the world or ruled it. Lee liked traveling but he loved telling tales of his adventures more. Lee didn’t want to just be an adventurer he also wanted to be an adventure writer.

 Lee was from a very low ranking noble family in Limrix. His father refused to hurt the people of the land with taxes like most nobles do and the little they made he gave to the king. In order to keep them from being poor his father became a trader for the many goods Limrix produced. His father was so great of a trader that he traveled all throughout the nine realms. Well everywhere except Baineil. Lee’s Mother died when he was very young, so his father took him with him on almost all of his travels. That is how Lee and gotten to see so many places and meet so many people from nobility to common peasants.

Lee started learning practical magic from his mother but he really didn’t start learning how to do the real stuff like fix broken objects, move things without touching them, or unlocking doors until he was older and needed them to either get him in or out of trouble. The magic skills also made for great conversation in new places. He was really shocked when his dad agreed to send him to Adventure Academy but an even bigger surprise was that he took first place in Practical Magic.

He had spent most of his day jumping from place to place on the campus and he had been amazed by the small market that seemed to have everything. There was even an Enchanted Weapons and Objects shop that Lee was amazed by. Just a few months earlier he had found out he possessed the ability to make enchanted weapons which only one out of every thousand people could do. Since most of them never received proper training there was a shortage of capable weapon enchanters.

Professor Gem hadn’t mentioned it when he had given him his tour. Professor Gem just said his team was special then introduced him to his roommate Kalin. Kalin had been weird in that original and interesting way that you just couldn’t help but like. His thoughts where interrupted when he bumped into a tall muscular guy with shaggy hair. Lee stopped and looked up into the guys face. Other than the small scar on his left cheek he had a very kind looking face with dark eyes that looked down when his met them. Lee smiled at the tall guy in front of him and he could swear that the guy looked surprised. The tall brown haired stranger spoke with a shy but level voice that was easily understandable “Can you tell me where the Unili Boarding House is?” The shyness surprised him given this guy was over six foot, muscular, and carrying a sword on his hip he should have had more confidence. While surprising it was also refreshing so Lee gave him his biggest nice to meet you smile and said “Sure, I was just about to head there myself.” His eyes showed genuine shock that Lee was willing to help but the guy managed to respond with that shy but strong voice “Thank you.” Lee gave him another smile “No problem.”
Lee got to know the quiet guy a little better while they walked. His name was Rai. Rai mostly only gave one word answers. He really didn’t look like the normal students here who would ware fine robes made from the silk of Giant Lanidir Spiders and magic jewelry that shined with its on light but to Lee that was definitely a good thing.

Lee looked at the sword on his hip and could easily tell it was a Xiphos. Lee couldn’t actually see the curves in the blade from the hand guard in and then it would get wide again and finally curve back into the blades point. He knew it would have an almost leaf like shape because his father had sold a lot of them with the exact same style at a market in the lower realms. Rai refused to tell him much about his past but he said a few words about his classes and the trip to Maric then politely asked Lee the same questions. Lee talked so much it more than made up for Rai’s quietness.

They arrived at the Unili Boarding House and went all the way to the top floor where Lee's Dorm was. Lee figured he would introduce Rai to Kalin and as they approached he saw their door open. Lee walked in not sure of what to expect with Rai right behind him looking equally expectant. Lee instantly saw Professor Gem, his roommate Kalin, and a person Lee recognized as one of the Nine Princes of Adiel and did a double take. Lee looked at Professor Gem for some kind of explanation but instead Professor Gem was looking at Rai behind him. Lee thought it was only right that he introduce Rai and explain why he had brought him to the room when Gem said “Good now all four of you are here.”

The Tale That Wasn't A Tale!(Part 1)

Where to begin? In order to tell this story you need to know the characters. My brother Adam just got back from afghanistan and The thing about Adam is that he is Funny, Like seriously funny. Out of the four of us Adam is the funny one and not in the witty way that I try for, in that completely natural way like it comes effortlessly. So he invites me to go to a Georgia game with him. Besides being funny he is a die hard fan and those two thing pretty much sum up Adam. So he invites a few more people to go. My brother Jordan is back in town from his job in south carolina where he does....Well I dont really know what he does. Jordan is kind of funny to in a the Rude A Hole way that somehow makes him a hit with women. So ofcourse he is going with us. Then there is my cousin Mike who is somehow a perfect mix of wanna be gangster white kid and red neck who always wears cammo. Then there is Dustin who is the sober and reliable person in the group. Dont get confuse though Dustin was at times the funniest person in the group. Of course there is also me but I dont really like talking about myself(You have a blog where you constantly talk about yourself. Even this story is about you ya dumb Mo.....) anyways we left Darien at mid day on are epic quest for entertainment.......and for my rowdy brothers Bar Wenches(Why are you talking in a mideval dialect?) So we were on the rode and our trip could only be halted by ocasional pee/snack breaks. Jokes went every where from crapy pick up lines, what Adam had on his Ipod, What Mike had on his Ipod, What the rest of us had to say about what they had on there Ipods, Its always sunny in philadelphia, and some rather original locker room talk(I dont think thats a very appropriate name I mean who wants to have a serious discussion in when there with another group of dudes and half naked?) We got to Athens and..........To be continued(I dont feel like typing anymore right now.)

Kalin(Character Introduction)

Kalin was one of the first students to arrive at Maric but for him it couldn’t have been soon enough. Kalin being from Olical in the Middle Eastern area of the nine realms didn’t have far to travel to the Academy Island where Maric was located. Olical is a Queendom where the royalty and nobility where both ruled by female succession. Kalin’s family was renowned for their skills at support magic but their healing skills were by far the best in the nine realms. His mother was the Chief Advisor to The Queen of Olical just like his Grandmother was and just like one of his three sisters would be. Kalin’s Sisters hated him because he inherited his Mother’s talent for Support Magic and he could tell his Mother felt the same. Olical was strong because of its fertile soil and the strong backs of the male workers but The Queen and the female ruled nobility just continued to credit the Queendom’s support magic. Kalin often wondered how he could tell that when none of the supposedly highly educated nobility couldn’t.

Kalin use to run away from the castle and practice his healing magic on the sick and injured people in town. No one ever stopped him and even at a young age his healing magic was still stronger than almost anybody in the realm. He liked getting away from his mother and sisters plus he made lots of friends. The Sailors would buy him mugs of ale that he could hardly ever finish then tell him long and very descriptive tales of adventure and far off places. They were his real family and the only thing he would miss about Olical.

A year ago his mother told him her plan to send him away to school. She used her best attempt at a convincing voice and told him about all the opportunities the school would provide and even said how he would be useful to the Queendom. She went down her list of reasons but Kalin knew that she just didn’t want him there and was surprised that she even took the time to explain it herself. So he trained a few of the kids in town on how to use healing magic and even though they wouldn’t be able to deal with anything serious, they could handle anything else. Then he turned fifteen and left for school.

Now Kalin was laying on one of the two small beds in the tiny room that he would call home for the next four years. His roommate Lee had been a really nice guy and strangely reminded him of the sailors from Olical. Nothing like what he had expected from the preppy school for the children of nobles. Even the small rooms you had to share. He couldn’t see any noble or better yet royalty sharing a room no matter how big. Well except him and apparently his roommate….

Kalin hopped out of bed at the sound of the outer room’s door clicking open. As he stepped out of his room into the living room/kitchen he saw professor Gem leading a guy around his age into the room. The guy had an emotionless face that had a mysterious and dangerous edge to it. Top Class Support Mages could read the auras of both friends and enemies, which was another talent he had inherited from his mother. So Kalin could see immediately that the guy was strong. His aura was large and glowing an extremely bright gold. The Professors gave off a similar feeling but with them you could tell they had already hit there magical peek while this guy made you wonder just how strong he could become. The guy held out his hand and smiled before saying with an almost intimidating coolness “Nice to meet you I’m Navi.” Kalin took his hand, smiled, and replied “I’m Kalin nice to meet you.”

Rai(Character Introduction)

Rai had been meeting professors all morning. Some were polite and mearly thought he was a new servant looking for the quarters he had been asigned to. Others seemed to not like his presecence at the school and gave him looks like they could see through him, like they could see his past. Though that was impossivle the only person who should know about him at this school was the head master. Atleast thats what mister Talmier had prommised and for some reason Rai trusted him with his life. How had this all happened to him? He shouldnt be at this school. He was way out of place.

Rai had been bringing the fish he had caught in to the small town market closest to his camp sight to sell when he saw a fully mounted wagon just outside of town being surrounded by over half a dozen armed men. They moved like trained warriors spreading out evenly as they approached the wagon. The wagon was clearly the belongings of some weathy person given by its design and the beautiful horses attached to it. Rai's first though was robbers but he quickly rulled it out the eight men moved to smoothly to be robbers. The driver had obviously left it out side of the town while he did business so he wondered why they had drawn there weapons. Rai just couldnt get rid of the feeling that he should protect the wagon even if it ment breaking his vow of nonvilance.

Right before the group could attack the wagon Rai came in behind one of the armed men and hit him at the base of his skull where the spine ran into. The attackers realized that there was an enemy but it was to late for them to escape. Not that the group of several men Rai had decided must be assassins would run from a six foot shaggy haired kid who was wearing severely ragged clothing. Rai had snagged the sword from the guy he had just hits hand and pulled the guys dagger from his belt and before the body could hit the ground he threw the knife at the assassin closest to the wagon. As soon as the dagger left his hand he dashed at the clossest attacker so fast that very few normal people could have avoided it. That guy obviously wasnt one of them because he didnt even have time to react to Rai's slash to his throat. The body hit the ground at almost the same time as the guy Rai had thrown the knife at. The sight of blood made Rai wanna throw up but he didnt have time to repent for it now with five assassins left standing. The biggest guy out of the attackers was around the same hight as Rai but twice as big and all of it was solid muscle. A normal person would have folded under the power of his two handed side slash but Rai had fought bigger, alot bigger and he was incredibly skilled at physical enhancement magic. He blocked the big guys swing with one hand, stepped into his body, and landed an uppercut all in a fraction of a second. The blow was so powerful that the guys body flew a few feet through the air before making a crumpling sound as it hit the ground. Rai didnt watch because he still had to deal with the two attackers coming at him with seriously fast lunges. Though Rai was more worried about the wagon where the last two attackers had just jumped on the roof. He dodged perfectly to the right of the first lunger and stabed him through his left side perfectly hitting the heart. He tossed the body between him and the second lunger then he shot around the body and hit the second lunger with the hilt of his sword knocking the guy out cold. The two assassins on the roof were already in motion to stab there blades into the roof of the wagon so Rai forced all the magical power he could manage into his step and shot himself between the two men. He knocked away the blade of the man to his left and kicked the man to his right in the stomache so hard he flew off the wagon. The last attacker didnt get the chance to try again. Rai slashed him across the chest and his body dropped off the wagon with Rai jumping off after it.

The rest was kind of hazy but he clearly remembered the man comming out of the wagon as calm and composed as anyone could be with a girl about his age clinging to there arm and shaking with fear. The man apologized for not helping out with the fight cause the girl named Mara wouldnt let go of his arm. The man was named Saiz Talmier and he delt with the town guards like it was a common thing for him. Mister Talmier wanted to hear everything and so Rai told him his story and he told Rai about Maric and all of its opportunities. He asked Rai to stay with him and Mara while he tryed to get him into the magic school. Rai wondered why mister Talmier had done so much for him.

Rai was headed to the Masters Building at the very back of the campus. It was where the Teachers Chambers, Student Council, Infimary, and most importantly Head Masters Office were located. Mister Talmier said the Head Master was a very good friend of his and a very kind person aswell so Rai agreed when he said he wanted to explain Rai's situation to the head master. Rai sighed as he raised his hand to knock on the head masters door. "Come in Rai." came from behind the door and caused Rai to almost jump out of his skin but he slowly turned the knob and intered the room. The room was filled with books and weapons. Rai had seen a lot of weapons in his short life but this room had weapons even he didnt know. Swords, Spears, Bows, and these weird star things that looked like they were projectiles. "Take a seat Rai" The middle aged guy said with a smile that reminded him of mister Talmier. Like he was reading his thoughts he answered "Siaz is my younger brother. I am Domic Talmier." he said with another of those smiles that made it clear they really were brothers. The professor continued to talk "I didnt want to bother you on your arrival day but I just had to meet you after hearing your story." Rai swallowed hard and felt pressed wondering what this Talmier would think of him. Professor Talmier again answered like he was reading his mind "You are an amazing young man to hold on to that kind heart of yours even with all you have been through.....The heart is a precious thing that once its lost its hard to find again." He spoke the last line with a sadness like he was speaking from experience. Professor Talmier paused to let the comment set in then continued with a lighter tone "You may go check out your dorm now but I hope we can meet again and at that time you can join the conversation." He said it with a smile that said he didnt really mind though. Rai got up quietly and walked to the door but before he left he turned to the professor, gave him a small smile, bowed, and said "Thank you sir....for everything,"

Navi (Character Introduction)

Navi had finally arrived at school. He had been waiting for this ever since he could remember. The Maric Academy For the Magical Arts was the only real school for mage training in the nine realms. Navi was from the furthest realm to the north Adiel. The world was ruled by strong mages and there families. It had been that way for centuries and the Royalty and Nobility of the nine realms were the only ones to go to Maric. Also the rich and occaisonally powerful military families. The idea that power ruled everything had obsessed Navi's family for generations. Thats why Navi as one of the Nine Princes Of Adiel was happy to finally leave the kingdom and his hellish training behind. No matter how much of a genius his father and his magic teachers thought he was if he had to continue with the training he had suffered through since birth he would go insane. When he turned fifteen and was old enough to go to the Academy his father had just let him go, he even let him travel alone!

 He stared at the entrance arch and all of the bustling buildings beyond it. He starred so intently that he didn't even notice Gem walk up. Gem cast a small fire ball and chuncked it at his head much to the surprise of the other students around him. Navi instinctively created a small suppression barrier the perfect size and power to stop the fireball without waisting extra energy. Then he made a small ball of energy in his palm and aimed it at Gem. Gem looked at Navi and smiled his bigest welcoming smile. Navi smiled back at his old teacher who still had that bad habit of randomly checking his defense and reaction.. "You could have taken my head off Gem." Navi said jokingly. "Yeah right, you created a suppression barrier and an energy bolt in a fraction of a second without chanting. No waisted energy on either, thanks to my training might I add." Navi laughed and replied "You should see what else I can do with an energy bolt."

 Navi was glad his old teacher would be giving him his tour personaly. Gem had been the only fun person out of all of his magic trainers he had and Navi hadnt seen him in two years. Gem had always kept him grounded and stopped him from being a brainwashed political puppet of his fathers long enough that he could be a normal kid. To the left after entering the arch were six buildings in a line with alot of space inbetween each of them. Gem said they were all non-magic related subjects such as Engineering, Weaponry, Nine Realms History, The Study of Wildlife, Business, and of course Polotics. To the right of the arch was the Magical classes and Dorms. There was the Magical Combat Class, The Combat and Sports Grounds, Practical Magic Class, and then the multi-colored and styled dorms from all of the nine diffrent realms. But what most interested Navi was that down the center inbetween all of the classes and scool life was a small market town that seemed to sell everything from weapons to magic items to basic school supplies. Gem answered before he could even ask "Its called Cross Town and was made for the students to hang out in after class or durring free time." Gem lead him towards the dorms with out missing a conversational beat.

 "Has anybody explained to you about the schools group policy?" Navi anwered no and Gem continued "Well, the school puts students in groups of four usually based on room asighnment." Navi looked confused so Gem went on "Some students get there own rooms and are matched up diffrently." Navi interupted "What is the point of the groups?" Gem looked at him with the I will tell you the truth no matter what look "Well officially its to blend cultures and people as well as form an understanding of cooperation with others but for the students its a way of ranking your self and it is a form of intertainment for the students." Navi didnt realy like the idea of cooperating with people he didnt really know "So what can you tell me about my team then?" Gem had a look like there was something important on his mind but he didnt know how to say it "Your team is special...."

 "Special how?" "We try to keep team strengths even and balanced so that competitions are fair." "How do you determine that?" "The entrance exams everyone takes, we then match you based on your strengths and weaknesses on the test." Navi didnt know what that had to do with his team "So what makes my team diffrent?" Gem was very unclear with his answer "Your team has perfect balance." Navi's face had returned to the usual calm and cold composure that he had inherited from his father "Gem you are going to have to be more clear than that." "Ok how about I explain it this way. You know that you were ranked number one of all the students to take the test this year but you didnt know that you actually scored the best over all on the test in history." "Thats great Gem but it dosnt explain my group situation at all." They had stopped in front of what looked to be the oldest dorm on the campus. "You did the best over all but you were second in three subjects Regular Combat, Suport Magic, and Practicle Magic. Your team is composed of those three people and yourself."

 Navi didnt know how he should feel about that. On one hand he would have a strong group but on the other he hand to work with people who could beat him in certain areas. "How is that fair or balanced?" Gem looked concerned by that fact aswell "The head master made the choice but there scores on the other sections of the test were low enough that most of the professors accepted it." Navi thought about all of it for a second then asked "When can I meet them?" Gem had to think about that for a second or two "Kailin should already be upstairs and Lee was looking at the shops in cross town last time I saw him but Rai has a meeting with the head master right now so you might have to wait to meet him." Navi thought he might know someone named Kalin but he had never heard of the other two. "So this is my dorm then?" "Yes Sir, You will have two bedrooms, one bathroom and a living room with a built in kitchen to share between the four of you." With a sarcastic smile Navi said "This should be fun." then walked in the building.

So What Am I Up To? Who Knows?

So what am I up to? Well im in Tennessee.......Yep thats it.......Oh wait my brother Adam just got back in the U.S. and that is why we are in friggin Tennessee a few days before my first day of college. Now most people dont know but Adam is friggin insane. Example we are shopping for shoes and there are like 15 shoe stores in this mall. Adam wants some Tims or Timberlands as normal people call them. So we go into this store and I am like hey Adam what about these? Adam looks at me and goes "Kevin Bacon wasn't in Foot Loose." I am not sure what that had to do with shoe selections but it was important to him so we went on. Now I would like to say we just kept going untill we found the shoes then got the H*** out of there but no. We went to all 15 stores and Adam wasnt like hey I like this pair. Instead he just kept shakeing his head and saying "Nope Kevin Bacon was not in Foot Loose." He ended up getting a pair of Sketchers even though Kevin Bacon wasnt in Foot Loose he was in A Few Good Men. Also I ended up quoting A Few Good Men for the rest of the day. There is no way I am going to quote Foot Loose thats for D*** sure. I also got to meet his new room mates. I was only there for about an hour and I ended up geting two nick names niether of which I liked. Some how this group of geniuses got a piece of crystal stuck between the two windows and got it out with a metal spatula and two knives. At the end of the day we went to the best pizza joint I have ever been to call Old Chiago and my brother proceeded to drink a beer that smelled like blueberry muffins while my dad criticized.....Yep just a normal weekend with the family.

This is The New Guy saying........Im pretty sure Kevin Bacon was in Foot Loose.

The Theory Of Glasses And Tom Cruiseitude

So you are wondering what this title means. Well me to. You see my brother Jordan wears these aviators ALL THE TIME! That wouldnt be a big deal except he looks just like Tom Cruise from the movie Top Gun. At one point or another everybody wants to start calling him Maverick and obviously they think there Goose in that scenario. Thats fine and all but all the time people tell me how much we look alike and I thought it was just total bull crap untill a few days ago.........So what happend to cause this strange turn of events you ask? WHY a movie of course! What movie you ask? Risky Business. For those who dont know......which is almost everybody and I dont really expect my very small group of readers to be the exception. Its about this high school kid who cant score high enough on the SAT to get into his ivy leagues school choice for business because he is to stressed about doing well. Finnaly he says WTF and this leads him to throw a Kick A** party and get a high class call girl girlfriend who teaches him about real business. If You Know What I Mean ;). So what did this movie really teach me or make me realise? I do look like Jordan because we are both Tom Cruise but im Tom Cruise from Risky Business.(minus the supper hot call girl that makes the movie interesting) What do the glasses have to do with anything? WELL.....Oh I know! The classic smooth move with the wayfarers from Risky Business is my style completely.(I even wear the wayfarers) Though I dont like to run around in my underwear singing and sliding.(I do it naked of course!)

Gotta Love That American Dream! Cause In Our Own Way We Are All Tom Cruise...... Im jokeing cause if we were all Tom Cruise then who would star in the bad movies? This is the NOT naked, girlfriendless, and some how sane Tom Cruise saying WHAT THE F***!?

Long Theory Of Something Completely Unimportant To Life In General

I dont think I have mentioned my theory on the three diffrent types of people you fall in love with. Ok so one is a person you find to be amazing. They are perfect and they have there own dreams and aspirations. Usually this is the first love who you compare everyone else to. These relationships almost never work out because you have diffrent paths to take. There is of course the exception which leads me to to number two. Two is the classic best friend character who you can enjoy talking to about anything no matter how trivial. This is usually the college sweetheart who you spend every second you can with and who you think about when you can't. These relationships usually fail because they don't connect on the deeper levels. TYPE THREE. Three is the idea of a soulmate I guess(its kind of hard to say a soulmate has a type). This person understands you and shares the same intrests, they connect with you and support your goals as if they where there own......The reason I am mentioning  this boring and in noway funny theroy is because I was going to write a story about it at one point but I just remembered it. The story was going to be about a guy who meets a girl who fits each type and he has to choose which to persue. I know its not original but hey neither is anything else I have done. I could now go off on a rant about how nothing is original, talk more about the story I never actually wrote, tell you about my day(why would I do that now?), or I could just stop right in the middle of..........

Not Sure What To Say About That....

So what has happened to me in the last day or so worth talking about........Nothing at all! I did see the movie Sucker Punch and also the movie Assassination Of A High School President. Honestly they were both great but I dont want to talk about them cause it would ruin it for you (Well since I doubt anybody is actually reading this it dosnt really matter.)........COMIC-CON! Oh Yes my friend! Its awsome and im only mentioning it now because I saw the trailer to the show Torchwood Miracle Day and the movie Imortals. As my friends know I like greek mythology so the movie Imortals which is about Theseus should be friggin awsome. None of this is very important to you though is it? What do you want to talk about then? Life? Love? My lack of both a life and love? That wouldnt be very productive now would it. Alright, alright. Sometimes you can meet somebody and think WOW I have never met somebody who I could get along with this well. Sometimes they are friends that you can make for life. Other times there just the kind of person you could fall in love with...... Thats where the problem starts really. You see...... Love complicates things and as soon as you think that you could fall for someone...That makes it much harder to be just friends. What if there is no chance for you to be anything more than friends with them? Well thats just complicated and while relationships are complicated, Your feelings should be easy.

So im just a boy siting in front of a computer asking it why nobody loves me.(You totally didnt see that quote coming.) This is the New Guy saying "Back to you Jeff."(Who's Jeff?)

Summer In A Cracked Nut Shell Or Something

CAPTAINS LOG STAR DATE.....TODAY. So I havent posted in a while...A really really long while. BUT! I think I will from now on cause I have to give the fans what they want. You know what they say "BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME." Actually that dosnt really apply and I dont even like Field Of Dreams...BUT! back on topic. I have been reading all summer and soon all of the new books in series come out but thats not important BECAUSE ITS SUMMER! I should be chilling on the beach or busting it on some dance floor with my sick moves.(By sick what I real mean is compleatly terrible. I mean come on most of my moves are the worm, the dice, and and the white boy shuffle.) Lets just call it a disappointment and move on. Ok a catch up of what I have done so far. I started the summer with the intent to finnaly start learning to write code but I then killed my computer. I had a summer sweetheart for all of 2 weeks. Who would have thought with my smart mouth, nerdy comments, and general lack of game I couldnt hold on to a girlfriend.(Sarcasm is better when not used as a list but I think I proved my point.) I had college orientation with the actual up in comming freshman and now I have to go again for the orientation with the other high school students. That should be fun!(I dont think I needed the sarcam there but I put it there anyways.) I wonder if the school will let me take drama? I know I dont really have time but maybe with some acting lesson I can pretend to care about how little time I have.

I would do some great sign off line but I cant think of one so just imagine me yelling "HIT IT!!!!" then lasers start shooting and a DJ starts busting some major "Grooves" as kids now days refuse to say.

First Impression(Short Story)

You somtimes meet someone and things just kind of click. Everything seems kind of easy and your even kind of happy. Its nice having someone to go see movies with. Guys wouldnt be caught dead watching romantic comedies but when your dating someone its just beeing a good boyfriend. But eventualy you are at the point where you ask yourself "What am I doing? How do I realy feel about her?" Ofcourse when your a guy that dosnt register above the endless amount of hormones. Men are controled by there two most important organs. One is the brain and two is...Well you can figure out what two is. Mabey the answer was there all along but I guess it just hit me that day. Mabey you should think with your heart idiot!

Like any story it has a begining and the begining of the story should obviously be the begining of my day. I woke up that morning in my by then common mixture of tiredness from text fighting my girlfriend and depression from text fighting my girlfriend ALL NIGHT! I was so tired I put my white t on insideout. I didnt even notice at the time. I trudged down the stairs and into the kitchen. Our kitchen was a good size with marble counter tops on each side, a table at the farthest end, and an island in the middle directly across from the fridge. I grabed a poptart out of the cabinet and tossed it into the toaster. I didnt like waking up at five thirty in the morning but I did like running in the mornings. Running is somthing my dad had me do with him before him and my Mom got divorced. I thought about that now while I was eating my poptart. Did my dad get that clarity from running? Did he think about breaking up with Mom the way I thought of breaking up with Lea?

I decided not to run this morning. It didnt seem like a good idea to run when I was this tired. I wondered if Lea was this tired. She never seemed tired, she was always talking even when we were watching movies or the other thing you do at the movies. I grabed my bookbag and keys then walked out the door. I threw my bookbag in the back of my Jeep. Lea hated my Jeep, mabey because it was family sized instead of a convertable made for the beach. Lea was a typical blond cheerleader type girl and she was so easy to read that I knew when she was about to blow up. Despite everything I pulled into the school's empty parking lot at around six fifteen. Lea would pull into the parking lot a few minutes before the bell then be excused from first period like always.

I didnt see anybody in the hall when I walked up which was good because I realy didnt want to talk to anybody. The office was right next to the entrance so the second I walked in miss Jacobs walked out of the office. I could tell she was in a good mood. I had her every year for art class and she liked me for some strange reason. Behind her was a girl I had never seen before. I was compelled to stare for a few seconds seeing her insanely white teeth attached to an amazing smile. Normaly I would have the thought "Wow this girl has a beautiful smile." but I had spent all night being angry at Lea and missed my morning run so I just turned to miss Jacobs kind of hopeing to explain why I was there so early. Also kind of hopeing for an introduction. Half of it happened atleast.

She motioned towards the girl with the beautiful smile who I had then realized had black frizzy hair about shoulder length pushed back behind her ears. "This is my niece Jenna. She is transfering here" I remember it mainly because it was followed by somthing not easly forgoten. Jenna never stoped smileing, In fact it might have become even brighter if that was possible when she said "Your shirts on inside out?" I might normaly look surprised or look worried about it but today I just sighed. Miss Jacobs knew what the cause of my pained expression was. She had seen it almost every time I had a fight with Lea and she wouldnt hesitate to push one of her favorite female students on me as "A better alternative to the girl I was dating." Well thats how she would say it. Miss Jacobs always disliked Lea. Lea was late to the first day of her class freshman year and walked in with a giant breakfast muffin which she then ate. I wondered if she would even try to set me up with her niece. I kind of wished she would.

Just like I had jokingly thought she said "I have to get my classwork ready. Can you show Jenna around the school?" I had seen miss Jacobs actualy create a lesson plan only once. So I knew that couldnt be the real reason but I was kind of hopeing for it so I just agreed. Besides I had about an hour and a half to kill before school started. I looked at Jenna not quite meeting her dark eyes that were probably sizeing me up. I played it off as normaly as possible "Have you gotten your scedual yet?" She looked disapointed with my choice of questions but answered all the same "Yes. I have Advanced Physics first period. Do you know where that is?"

I was surprised for a second and that gave her time to follow up with "Its fine if you dont" I guess my tired and depressed look didnt show my usual intelect but I wasnt offended. I just responded with a smile and a "We have first period together then." She didnt seem surprised at all and she kept smileing back. I had all advanced classes excecpt electives. That was somthing Lea and I would always fight about. Lea wanted me to take normal classes with her and didnt understand that I liked being in advanced classes. I pointed to the left hallway at the end of the room and said "Its this way come on"

We had just started walking down the hallway that lead to the Adv. Physics lab when Jenna started talking "Why did you agree to show me around? My aunt is always like that but she wouldnt have been mad if you had said no. I mean.... Im sure you are here this early for a reason?" I started to smile again. It was odd I had just met this girl and already she had made me smile more times that day then I would have normaly. I waited for a second to respond so I could take in her facial expression "Im not realy sure why im here but I dont have anything better to do anyways. Besides your aunts pretty cool." We were just passing the library so I pointed it out. She looked so intrested I asked "We can stop to check it out if you want?" She seemed to like that idea "Lests check it out on the way back then." We didnt spend much time in the lab probably because she was excited to see the library.

When we walked in you could see the surprise at how big it was written on her face. I probably had a mild surprised face also since that was the first time I could realy read her expression. She was smileing now making me wonder if she was smileing the whole time but I would have noticed something like that before if she was. Seeing her smileing made me smile "Our schools big and our library is even bigger than the average library for our size school. Plus the students make sure its stocked with all the best books." Her eyes were beaming around as if taking it all in. We started talking about books and her face showed all of the emotions to fit her words, instead of just using her dazzling smile to freeze me in place. I just couldnt help but smile while listening to her talk.

We kept up the conversation untill after I had showed her all of her classes and by that time people had already started to show up. The people who showed up where staring at us. Probably friends of Lea and would be texting her about it as soon as we walked away. I realy didnt care besides I had all but two classes with Jenna anyways so I would get the chance to talk to her durring the day anyways. We had made our way back to the entrance when the thing I most dreaded happened.

Lea walked in with her two friends like always which I always wondered how they managed to show up at the same time every morning. I wondered why they were here before the bell when they were usualy late. They walked straight towards us I began to try to stutter out somthing but they just walked past making Jenna side step there red rover walk. I realized that they were here on time simply to do that as I glanced at there backs. Jenna starred at me and asks "Girlfriend?" I just shrugged and gave a "Mabey" Then she asked the million dollar question.

"So do you like her?" I sighed and answerd honestly the question I didnt even know the answer to untill that moment "Thats the problem I dont like her. I dont like her attitude, The way she does childish things like walk away instead of talking, and most of all I dont like how I act around her." She smiled kind of knowingly and said "That last line was a little cheesy" I smiled back "agreed" then she said somthing kind of cool "You should probably figure that out while I go see my aunt."

I walked into the Adv. Physics lab thinking about what Jenna said but the thought just kind of left my mind when I got there. My friend Jay was sitting at the back of the room reading. I went over and set my stuff down by the seat next to him. Jay had this personal rule where he wouldnt stop reading untill he was done with a page no matter what the concequence. I once saw him ignore a teacher and keep reading... but now teachers just left him alone. Jay looked up from his book to say "I heard you and Lea had a huge fight." I wasnt even surrprised that he knew. Lea liked to tell who ever would listen about any problems with our relationship. That was another thing that we would always fight about. I shrugged "Where did you hear that?" He gave me a sideways glance "I have my sources." I gave him a simmilar glance " I bet you do." then I through my bag on the lab table and sat down. He put his hands behind his head and looked up at the cieling "Everytime this happens it makes the school go wild. So is the other rumor true?"

I was a little curious as to what he ment avout the other rumor so I asked "What other rumor?" He looked at me like I was somehow out of the loop "If the rumors are true then you found another girl and you where with her all morning?" I was a little shocked about how things like that could spread so quickly and I was worried that Lea would be pissed about it then I quickly wondered why I cared if Lea would be mad. "You mean Jenna? Shes not my type." That was a lie for sure but I couldnt realy explain how I felt about a girl I just met even to my bestfriend. Jay looked at me with an almost pitying expression when he said "Lea is not your type but this girl must be extremely your type since you smiled when you said her name." Jay was realy observant, especialy for someone who spent most of there time in a book. He was right though, Just thinking about her black eyes and her amazing smile made me smile so big my face muscles hurt. But even if I felt that way I had just met her so I said "It dosnt matter I have a girlfriend." Jay went back to his book and sighed.

Jenna walked in a few minutes before the bell smiling like an angel of course. I guess because I was the only person she knew she came to the back and tossed her stuff in the seat beside me. I looked over at her and said with the calmest tone I could manage "Did you get the chance to talk to your aunt?" She looked at me like somthing funny had happened "Yeah but she did most of the talking." She smiled at me and I smile back like it was an inside joke. Jay looked up from his book, streatched his free hand out, and said "You must be the famous Jenna. I have heard so much about you." I turned a little red. Jay being as observant as he was atempted to repare the situation "Your the rumored new girl that everyone is talking about." She shook his hand and said in her usual happy manner "I guess I am."

The rest of the class was uneventful. Well except for Jenna mumbling funny comments that only Jay and I could hear. She had us busting out laughing so much that we were called out more than once. Jay and Jenna realy hit it off mabey becouse they both liked books so much. I was a little jelous of how easly there conversation came. I thought Jay might have a better shot than me with Jenna but then I was mad at myself for being jelous of my friend. I thought he might have gone for it to except in second period wich was one of the two clases I didnt have Jenna he said in an unusual joking manner that he normaly wouldnt use "You marry that girl. You marry her right now." It was so old of a line and so unusual for Jay that I just bust out laughing even though I was actualy relieved.

Third period was math with both Jay and Jenna. I was still getting funny looks but nobody said anything. The good thing about having advanced classes was that most of the kids in those classes didnt like Lea anyways. I wasnt worried about any of them telling Lea how much fun I was having when I should have been stressing over our fight. Math class went the same as Physics except I was able to follow this conversation better this time. Fourth period was my other no Jenna class and it was also my art class with miss Jacobs.

I loved the class and I liked miss Jacobs but I knew she would hastle me the whole time to find out what I thought of Jenna. I wasnt sure what to tell her when she asked though cause Jenna was realy amazing but I had a girlfriend no matter how screwed up our relationship was. She acted just like I had expected "So what did you two do this morning?" I could tell that there were a couple people waiting for my answer, not just miss Jacobs. I took a few deep breaths then answered with a smile "I showed her to her classrooms and we checked out the library. She realy likes books." She looked at me with her most questiong gaze "Max, Is that all?" I was surprised to hear my name but not surrprised at her acusation. She had never cared who heard or if it was the middle of class she would just casualy bring up personal discussions. I looked around to see who was paying attention then I said in a low voice that only the people around me and miss Jacobs could answer "What do you want me to say?" She looked at me as if she was disapointed "You know what I want you to say. The question is will you actually say it Max?"

I doodled the rest of the class with little comunication with anybody including miss Jacobs. Lunch was after fourth period so I grabbed my stuff and headed for the lunch room as quickly as I could. I saw Jay up ahead of me so I spead up to walk next to him. He looked at me with a small grin like he had heard a good joke that he wasnt going to share. I went straight to the point "Do you mind if I sit with you guys today?" I usualy sat with Lea and her friends, also Lea's friend's boyfriends but with us fighting I didnt want to sit there today. Actually I didnt want to sit there ever. We were about to walk into the lunch room when we were cut off by Lea and her two friends and some how it made me think of cinderella's evil step mother and two step sisters instead of three snobby cheerleaders. Lea had her usual superior look and began to talk first "I think you should just hurry up and apologize. I will even forgive you for flirting with that new girl all morning."

I was pissed the night before when we talked about college and she sugested I should just go wherever she does but somehow the idea that I apologize for getting mad at such an idiotic idea was worse. She just continued to stare at me as if waiting for my apology and I just kept getting madder at how stuppid the whole idea was. She then somehow said somthing that calmed me down enough to say what was on my mind that I think was "Im waiting" or something "Im not going to apologize because the subject isnt important" She looked at me confused and I realized nobody would understand what I meant so I tryed better to explain "What I mean is that im breaking up with you so going to what ever college has nothing to do with you." Now she looked even more confused and I was a little surprised at how easy that was to say. She didnt sound anything like she usually did her superior tone was gone. "but...But!" I looked at Jay who was grinning from ear to ear and we both walked away from the group of shallow girls.

The rest of the day went smoothly. We ate lunch with Jenna and she made us laugh so much it wasnt safe to drink our milk. I also made her laugh telling her about my break up and Jay would cut in and explain about the problems we had for so long. I didnt realize how funny the stories about our fights were untill Jay explained it from a non envolved point of view and now I WAS being a little flirty. Can you blame me? The rest of the day went like that I made her laugh and she made me laugh. I was happy, REALY HAPPY so much so that I forgot Lea was in my last period class and just ignored her. Jenna realy opened up and she told me about how her parents where having problems and thats why she moved in with her aunt and changed schools. It was the first time I saw her not smiling and it made me realized that it wasnt just her smile that was beautiful it was all of her.

I realized that I liked her and despite the fact that I just got out of a relationship with someone Litteraly a few hours before. I walked with her to her aunts classroom after school. Her aunt was her ride home so I was realy conscious of the fact that I should ask her out. Of course I didnt because I am a compleat idiot. Its true just ask anybody but luckily for me miss Jacobs gave me another chance to ask her. When we got ther she was doing her best to look busy. Jenna looked tired like she knew what was about to happen. Miss Jacobs looked at us and said "Sorry I have a meeting so I cant take you home right away." She paused for a second and looked at me with a fake surprised face "Oh Max, Can you give her a ride!? You still have that family sized Jeep dont you?" Now Jenna was looking at me and of course she was smileing like an angel or mabey a devil I cant decide which is hotter so I can explain it "You have a family sized Jeep? I bet you just like the spacious back seat." She made me laugh like she had been all day and I agreed. When we were walking out I saw miss Jacobs wink at me.

We didnt have along drive from the school but it felt even shorter since were in a heated conversation about how good the band Vampire Weekend is. I pulled into the drivewayd of the house next to hers and we kept talking for about another half hour until she said somthing I wanted to prolong as possible. "I had better go before the neighbors show up." That comment made me smile though. She hopped out of the Jeep and I hopped out to. She looked at me curious and I pointed to the house where my Jeep was parked "Actualy I live here." That probably would have been the perfect moment to ask her but I didnt and we both went inside our houses takeing turns glancing back and forth at each other mabey she was hopeing I would ask but again I chickened out.

 I was in my room beating myself up for not asking her when my cell phone rang. Oxford Comma was the ringtone which was ironic since its by Vampire Weekend and it was the ringtone I had set for Jay. I picked it up on the first ring ready to talk but Jay beat me to it "Did you ask her?" I was shocked there was no way he could know I planned to ask her out so I kind of mumbled "what?" I could hear the heavy sigh over the phone "Did you ask her out!? Fool!" I was caught off gaurd so my words stumbled out "n-n..No I didnt." Again there was a loud sigh over the phone "Is there somthing wrong with you?" He said slowly the continued "That girl is awsome and for some reason she is into you." I was still under the metaphorical bus in a manner of speaking "Realy? She Likes me?" I said with genuine surprise. Another sigh even heavier than the others then he said "Listen, She lives right next door, Correct?" I stuttered an answer "Ye..Yeah" he started again "You hang up this phone, walk over there, knock on the door, and ask her out or the next time I see you I will slap you!" I didnt respond I just followed his orders instead.

I hung up th phone sprinted down the stairs and out the door. My mind was blanking on what to say but I kept going untill I was in front of her door with my hand ready to knock. I breathed slowly to keep myself fom hiperventilating. I had never been this nervous when asking a girl out. I knocked akwardly after that came some hurried footsteps behind the door then it opened to show her beautiful face and I said what came naturaly before I could screw it up again "You are awsome and you have the same odd taste in music that I do. Thats rare enough as is!" She was smileing at that. "Im sorry if this is a little sudden but will you please go on a date with me some time?" She was still looking at me smileing with a relieved expression and said "Yes! Of Course!" and we went on that date. It was the best first date of my life, that came with the best first kiss of my life at the end of the night in the same spot I had asked her out. Then there was the best second date of my life followed by the best second, third, fourth and WELL YOU GET THE POINT!

Not Looking For Love

Im always talking about love. In fact it is implied in everything I talk about. I have said im a hopeless romantic right? What I havent said is that im not looking for love. Yeah thats confusing right? I am one of those people who believe you dont find love, it finds you. Dont take that wrong becouse you should always have your eyes open. There are just so many things that I want to do with my life. I guess what im saying is that right now im kind of empty and how can I expect to find someone who will love an empty me? If you havent noticed both of my short stories end before the dating faze. There is a reason for that. Im not used to dating and I wouldnt even know how to begin that process. Yes I have dated before but obviously things didnt work out. The main disadvantage is that I have known most of the girls around me my whole life. Dating someone you have known for a long time can be great in the long run but its hard to get your rythm so to speak when you dont have to get to know the person.

Most highschool relationships eather go nowhere or end in heart break. Why put yourslef through that when you will probably have to go your seprate ways sooner than later. I probably wont be liveing where im liveing a year from now. Mabey I will want to go to MIT or study abroad mabey even NYU. What im saying is I dont know where my life is going so I cant take sombody and there feelings with me. Theres no future and barely a present for any relationship I would have. Besides I dont think I have found that girl yet someday I will but it wont be untill I have a right to look. Do You Understand?

Love Stories and Just Stories(short story)

What do we ever learn from love? Love is a simple fuel that powers us intead of other aspirations. The geniuses and Philosophers through out time have lived with there work as there love. Love Requires nothing and frees you from the burden of other expectations. Not everyone can be Enstine or Socrates because if they were there would be no future generation to learn from them. Love is a need and a very strong one at that but what of loves concequences? Yes love makes us ignorant of aspiration, so that when love is lost so to is that protection from our own Aspiration.

I had never truly thought of my future because it seem almost as if it belonged to someone else. Now after the major heartbreak by she-who-will-not-be-named I face my fate with the same unchanging expersion in my brown eyes, my matching brown hair pulled back so it would not get into them. My hair was almost pinned between my head an the pillow. It wasnt long so much as shaggy, the way I liked it to draw attention from my slightly large ears. I just layed there streaching out across my queen sized bed that was pushed into the corner of my room. My room looked empty almost naked now with nothing but my bed on the left and my computer desk and tv on the right. The only thing not depressing about the room where the blue sheets on my bed that where now made that way by my sad figure laying on them.

Once upon a time that room had lots of personal photos and items from she-who-will-not-be-named but I had taken all of that and put it in a box labled you guessed it She-Who-Will-Not-Be-Named. It was a bad break up and I cant even see how it happened. We had been dating since freshmen year and we did everything together or Mabey we had done everything together. Well except for that. Then mabey thats the problem or I wasnt paying enough attention to her? I stopped tha process before it could start. I had never been the kind of guy that looks back because whats done is done but now thats just what I was doing looking back.

I laid there looking at the cieling and feeling stupid for both looking back and not having anything else to do. I was ofcourse the one to get hurt this time around because I am so frigin emotionaly fragile. I couldnt be the guy that gives just chocolates or flowers on valentines or the guy who dosnt do somthing stupidly big for her birthday. I always listened when she wanted to talk and I asked what was wrong when she seemed troubled. I am the kind of guy who couldnt be two inches from her without thinking about kissing her. What could it be? Again I stopped myself but added a distraction to the mix. I poped off my bed and grabed my wireless keyboard from my desk, turned the computer on and sat back on my bead. I watched as the fifty four inch tv connected to my monitor came to life. My parents did two things right work and buy presents. This gift was a great christmass present and certainly wouldnt sit by the guitar I had wanted so bad two years ago. With all the free time I was spending staring at the wall I could learn to play that guitar.

The computer was already on and I had started up Word Document and named the file Reasons to Never Fall In Love and Tips To Avoid it. Now this was probably the worst idea I would ever have but dang if it didnt feel right at the time. I typed away reason after reason starting with Broken Heart and ending with she-who-will-not-be-named with a few hundred words inbetween. Our First Love is the thing that sets all of our future relationships up for failure and at the rate I was going I would be doomed for life. I even realized that while typing but I just couldnt stop. That list became an idea and an odd one at that, given that it was not somthing that I would have usualy done but I hadnt done anything that was like me in years. Well except for being the hopeless romantic I was. Believe it or not that list of reasons became a rather long short story about a rather odd domino effect.

I wrote about heartbreakers one would break anothers heart making them break anothers and it went in a circle until someone broke the heart of the origional heartbreaker. I was so impressed with the work that I had been doing that I emailed it to a big short stories contest that I had looked up on google at three in the morning. It was a good feeling geting all the crap that was my relationship out of my system even if the story would probably never be read.

I guess its true that time heals all wounds but it happened surprisingly quick. I started jokeing with my friends about all the old things, even the stuff I couldnt when I was dating she-who-will-not-be-named. I never told my friends about my new writing hobby mostly becouse they wouldnt relate and partly becouse they wouldnt understand. My ideas were flowing and after a month of akwardness around she-who-will-not-be-named I began to not notice the fact that we had every class together. Sometimes I would see her glancing my dirrection and a few times she looked like she was going to say somthing but my facial expression probably had a "Dont Even Try" look that dissuaded her.

After another week or two I recieved an email from the book publisher in charge of the writing contest I had entered. and to my surprise they wanted to meet with the top eight writers and I am one of those people. I sent the reply back with a yes with out even telling my parents about it, not that they would have much of an opinion on it eather way. The meeting was set for two weeks after my reply and I was realy excited about it. I was so excited that my friends even took note of it and I almost told them about the whole thing but I liked the secret part of it so I couldnt explain it.

As the time got closser I started writing more and more. I even started paying atention in english class, well when I wasnt writing that is. It wasnt a well kept secret by then I was writing in class all the time, though I never explained what I was Writing but my friends and even the classmates I didnt normaly talk to would ask me what I was writing. I would always look at them, smile, and then go back to writing. My writing must have also gotten better because all of my essays recieved higher scores and notes on how good they where. Usualy when I recieved notes it was to comment on the sarcastic remarks I added for humor. When the day finnaly arived for the contest meeting I had memorized the location and planned how I was getting there and back. I was excited to see what the inside of a book publishers office looks like and I was also preaty excited to hear about my story. Even if I was the worst of the eight authors I would still get the thousand dollar award for it.

When I walked in there was a lady waiting at the counter for the short story contest winners. Since I had my invotation printed out in my had she knew who I was. She introduced herself as Mrs Sadie and gave me a firm hand shake with a warm smile. She seemed like a realy intresting person and because of her age I couldnt believe she was already an editor. When you think editor you think gray haired gentlemen not a twenty three year old (my asumption) red head with pink lipstick and hazel eyes. Meeting such a beautiful young editor would normaly be the highlight of anyones day, week, or month but just like me a girl came stumbling in carrying a printed out letter in her left hand.

The note was the first thing I noticed, then the odd assortment of braclets on that hand. and slowly I had a picture of the girl from head to toe. She had long brown hair that hung down , shinning brown eyes that werent hidden behind her glasses. She also had pink lipstick but you couldnt notice it becouse of her amazingly perfect white teeth that showed with her large smile. She wasnt so much beautiful as just perfect. She was what my brain would come up with as the most possibly my type a girl could be. More than any actress, model, or she-who-will-not-be-named could ever be. I was about to introduce my self or try because it would have mostly come out in "ugh's and um's" when Mrs. Sadie cut me off(thankfully) and gave her the same greating she gave me. We recieved badges with our names on them. Mine had my full name posted first and last but I couldnt see her badge without looking down and there are risks to looking down.

We walked to a small room where there were already six more people sitting in classic school desks and facing a smartboard. I was surprised at how young everyone was in the room. There was only one person who looked older than Mrs. Sadie and he could have been more than thirty. I just chalked it up to being that mostly smart college kids intering these contests. I sat down behind the older guy who I knew was Tom Warsaw from his name badge. The girl with the bracelets sat up front before I could read her name badge. Mrs. Sadie went to the front, hit a few keys on the computer conected to the smartboard, and began to talk to the eight person crowd.

I kind of spaced out when she talked about the history of the contest but I was probably the most attentive when she started talking about the short stories themselves. The braclets girl was apperantly a writing genius and she was the winner, closely followed by Tom and a half asian college girl. To my surprise I was number four despite my lack of literary techniques. It felt odd when they were making plans on how to publish are stories. Since my story was about hearbreak it would be displayed next to braclet girl's. Her story was the exact opposite of mine, even the names were diffrent. My story was called "The Karma Of Heartbreak" and hers was" Meeting That Special Someone" I didnt realy like the name of her story but I could tell why she won when they let us read each others stories. Tom's story was more my type though. His story was about rebellion and the founding fathers, It was like James Bond set durring the Revolution. I wanted to talk to him about it but I wanted to talk to braclets girl more, for a diffrent reason though.

We had the option to stay or we could take a tour of the company. Both Tom and bracelets girl were staying so I decided to stay aswell. Also I realy wanted to see the inside of a book publishing office. Only four of us were left but there was a tall guy who joined Mrs. Sadie in giving the tour. While we were walking down the hall I moved over next to bracelets girl and in a whispered tone said "Hi, Im Jasper" she didnt seem surprised that I talked to her and she responded with "I know".

I wasnt sure what to say after that so we walked in silence stoping ocasionaly to listen to the tour guide. After a long and quite five minutes I began to talk again "MarryLou is a preaty name" It was a dumb comment but I had caught a glance of her name tag during the silence. She smiled as if what I said had been funny and sighed like she was going to give a long speech next "It is my pin name. Its from a character in one of my favorite books". I now had a good idea of what book it was too but she was still talking in her sighed explanation voice "The book is On The Road by Jack Kerouack. It is one of my favorite books and I doubt you would like it".

I was right about the book and It was also one of my faovites. I had read it last summer when she-who-will-not-be-named went on a cruise with her family and when I tried to bring it up she would just talk about Nicolas Sparks books which looking back I hated. I ofcourse jumped in automaticly "I loved On The Road!" We spent the next thirty minutes talking about our favorite parts of the book and only stopped to listen to occasional things that the tour guide said.

We sat down at the buildings cafeteria and she said what I had expected to hear since the begining "I didnt think we would have anything in common becouse of how diffrent our stories are." I tensed up a bit thinking about how she-who-will-not-be-named used to joke about how we had nothing in common and that was why we made such a good couple. she continued but I eased up at the next words "I mean your story seems so love cynical". Now it was my turn to smile like she said somthing funny. I opened the bag I had been carrying and pulled out a five subject spiral bound notebook and handed it to her saying "I am most certainly not a love cynic". She opened it read a few pages and obviously got what I ment. My latest stories were in that notebook and they were all just as romanticly sappy as hers(but probably not as good). She looked at me and a confused expression spread across her face "Then why is your story like that?"

I looked at her almost trying to explain it with my eyes since my mouth and brain couldnt find the words. I paused and then started again with a question "Do you remember the character Sam in my story?" she nodded "Do you remember how she broke up with the guy using the classic its not you its me line? she noded again. "Well that is how my ex-girlfriend Samantha dumped me" I looked at her trying to read her expression before I asked another question to clear the topic "So what is your real name or do I have to keep refering to you as braclet girl, MaryLou, or She-Who-Will-Not-Give-Me-Her-Name in my head?" She smiled and leaned back in her chair leaving me feeling kind of foolish. The smile appeared again and she started talking in a way so sweet that it can only be described as milk chocolatey "Its Abby and What your saying is that you dont have a girlfriend?"