Dear Really Awesome and Talented Varsity Football Captain and Musician,

I really like you...like...A LOT. I know myself a lot better than I used to and I know that I give my heart too easily...to freely. But I'm taking matters into my own hands, being the big girl I know I am and I'm going to make this work. I like that you want to take things slow...that we aren't officially together...but at the same time we're no longer single. I like that you can't wait to give me a hug and cuddle with me on Wednesday when we see each other and that we talk for HOURS everyday. You're a sweet guy...basically everything a girl could ask for...just...without the super sexy model looks. You're cute sweetheart...but on a scale of 1-10...you're only about a 6. Anyway...I just wanted to let you know that I'm so glad we met...that you don't mind my quirkiness, that you love the way I write and that you love my originality. You're an amazing person...and I just ask that...if I surrender to you my beaten, battered, and partially healed heart...you'll take extra good care of it. See you soon!!!

<3,
Me

Dear Travis,
 you are one of my best friends, i call you my brother, and i love you to death. i know you hate kyle, and i know you get mad that we talk because you care and you dont want to see me hurt but are you 100% positive its not just because you hate kyle? i mean, there are plenty of things i dont like but i put up with because of you. i know i told you i just wrote i had a boyfriend on myspace so pervs would back up, but i lied to you. me and kyle have been together for a month maybe. i feel bad about it all, but i really see myself with kyle for along time, hes been here so long, and weve been so close, now that we are together, everything is falling into place. i dont expect you to understand for the simple fact that you dont know what hes done for me, and how good he treats me, id tell you but you get that look on your face. i just dont know what to tell you kiddo, i love him.
if we ever get married, i hope you come to my wedding, for me.
love forever,
your little sister Jess.

Dear best friend,

I don't understand why you can't see how much our friendship is killing me. I'm completely and overwhelmingly in love with you. And it shouldn't be this way. You've been my best guy friend for 5 years. But all you do is talk about her. Constantly. Its always about her. Every single conversation we have revolves around her. And if it isn't about her then its about how fucked up you are now as a cause of her selfishness, rudeness, immatureness. What I'm asking myself is, if this girl is so horrible why is she the center of your world? You've got her up on this pedastal and she doesn't deserve to be there. She doesn't deserve you. I mean she isn't even nearly worthy of you. And its horrible that I should even have to compete with that monster. And it hurts, so much. It hurts because you see right through me and just see her. I don't see why you can't realize what you have right in front of his eyes. Yet at the same time I wonder if it would even change anything if you did. All I know is that I feel like I'm nothing next to her. And now that you finally stopped talking to her and you say you're finally over her, you come back to me telling me that you're sorry that you've let our friendship slip away over these past few months. As if I'm the runner-up, the second choice. Now that you don't have her, you want our friendship to go back to the way it was before you ruined it with all of your obsessing over her. Now you're back to telling me that you missed me while our friendship drifted and that you love me and I'm an amazing friend to you. But what you don't see is that silently I'm wishing that you would just realize how perfect we are for each other. I want your love, I don't just want to be friends. I just don't know what to do. On the inside I'm breaking apart every second, and I don't know how to tell you this. You broke my heart once, I know you'll just do it again. I know you don't feel the same way about me. Its an ironic cycle. You were in love with me 2 years ago and I couldn't bring myself to tell you that I didn't reciprocate those feelings. And now, 2 years later it is me sitting in that same position. I feel its almost as if its some karmic torment that I'm enduring. I'm sorry though, but is it really my fault I didn't feel this way 2 years ago and now its too late? I guess it is too late though. And now I have to suffer. I have to bite my tongue, and just be your best friend.

This is a message that i had all typed up and ready to send, but at the last minute i for some reason decided not to...

Under a cut because it contains some graphic language about a f***ed up event.

( I hate the way you've made me feel )

I really don't know why i didn't send this. I seriously should have.

Charlie,
              I can tell you most things. In fact I can tell you everything but this.  I am so in love with you. I know the feelings between us have been growing stronger and I think that you love me as well. I have a million memories of us in my head. The times we would hang out in high school, when I came to visit you at Fort Hood my freshman year of college, the day you told me you were going to marry her. I remember and at the time I wished it was me. I wished for it a few times after that, I rarely let myself wish for things like this it's dangerous. It leaves you wanting things you can't have. You don't belong to me and though I truly believe in my heart that one day we will be together that time is seemingly not now. I can be with you in person and I see how happy I make you. I know I make you feel better than she has in some time. I want to be with you and my relationship has ended and though the ball is seemingly in your court at the time I know you can't leave her. I know her current unstability makes it unsafe for Ellie and for the new baby. Although I could care less about her as a person, and I usually think about ripping her hair out in a jealous rage, it's unsafe for her as well.

I want you so much. I want the good and bad. I want the ups and downs. I want to know that when I fall asleep you'll be there holding me when I wake up. I know we've talked about being together after the divorce but that seems so long. I will wait for a while, but I wont wait forever. I know we've had feelings for each other and the timing has never been right but I'm just praying that you're the one for me and things will be ok for us at some point. I hope that the reality of you and I is as good as I'm thinking it will be. I can see myself spending the rest of my life with you, that includes the fact that you have children who will be with us. I've had the horrible stepmother experience and I want to be the one you love and I will be a good stepmother and love them as if they are my own.

That being said, I cannot sleep with you until you are well and properly divorced. Not that I don't know that your marriage is done, I know it is. When we're together I have to know that you're with me only. I don't think I can emotionally handle you being with me until she calls you to be there for her. I don't want to sneak around that way. I want to be able to go anywhere and do anything with you and not be worried about who sees. I want you to be only mine. I felt so crushed when I found out she was pregnant and though I know it was an accident I know that when you leave and go back to your home she still expects you to be her husband. I know she doesn't value or appreciate you the way I do but she's your wife. So for the time being, I'm going to see you and have a wonderful time and I'll just wait until you belong to me.

 I hope you love me too.

Laura

Dear Adam,
I should not be this hurt and worried this early in our relationship.
I cannot deny that I've gotten what I wanted. A while ago, I wrote another letter to you... I never sent it though. Just posted it here. I can't deny, that now I'm in your arms. I'm getting the kisses I wanted, that title I wanted... "yours."
I love you. I really, truly do. I have for so long. And just a few days ago, you told me you loved me, too. You said it first. I felt so light when I heard those words. I had been waiting so long to tell you, and the fact that you felt a fraction of what I felt for you made my mind spin.
I'd been waiting so long for all of this.
Waiting for the chance to kiss you.
Waiting for the chance to hold you.
Waiting for the chance to.. well, that sort of happened before...
But still..
Shit, those few nights before you asked me.. You came over, because I was sick. And you kept saying I looked tired, and maybe I should lay down. Just an excuse to get into my bed. I didn't mind at all. I thought you wanted something else, but all you wanted was to hold me. I was so impressed and swept away by that. We lay in my bed for four hours. Talking, humming, kissing, rolling around, whatever we did. I was so happy. Two days of that cute, close nonsense.
You've been my best friend for how long now? Nine months maybe? The birth of love or some cliche claim like that. And now we're more than that.
We both say we're working out so well, and we want this to last.
But.
There's a but. A few buts.
You have so many friends. This isn't really a problem, it's just that I'm so socially retarded, and you keep going on about how you and so-and-so did this and that and... I feel a bit like you're making fun of me. Or like you're saying you're better than me. You know I have people problems, and you know my best friends live miles away. All of my friends live miles away. You, socially, outrank me by miles. I am an amoeba and you are a human. On the social scale, that is.
So many of your friends are girls. This isn't a problem either. But it becomes a problem when you spend so much of your time with them, and not me. I feel bad for being jealous. I feel guilty when I bring this up with you. But today! We haven't spent time together since last week, and after what we went through this past weekend, I think we should have some time to ourselves. But today. I text you and find out you're with her. A girl you met two days ago and she's already next to me on your top friends? Of course I have a fucking problem with that. I wasn't even on your top friends until a few months ago. I do not like her. And I do worry. I trust you. I don't trust them. And I know men can be swayed, I've done some swaying myself. So with you spending so much time with other girls without me around, I worry about you cheating. I don't like feeling less important than some girl you met two days ago, I'm your fucking girlfriend!
And the fact that you sort of ignore me at school... it's not blatant. Or intentional. You don't do it all the time. But sometimes we'll be having lunch and you seem to forget I'm sitting next to you.


What do I have to do to amaze you? I want to be perfect to you. You tell me I'm gorgeous, but only when I say something bad about myself. I want you to find me fascinating. I want you to want to spend time with me. I want you to be the one texting me and asking "What are you doing today?" or "How are you feeling?" at random times...
but maybe I want too much.

Please, give me a sign that we'll be okay? Please make these bad feelings go away. I shouldn't be feeling like this so early in our relationship.
I love you.
So much more than I can tell you.



Love, Eve.

Dad,

I have to put my foot down on this one, and maybe if I say it here, I won't say it to your face and get into an unnecessary pissing contest.

If you have no money - and I know there's not much to go around, considering you keep asking me to help you guys pay for things - you have no business considering getting another dog.

I get that you want to do something before the current dog dies, if you can. I get that you think puppies learn better when there's another dog around. I get that you're used to having a dog, and don't necessarily want to see that streak end when the current dog dies.

But it's money you don't need to be spending. It's time Mom and I don't particularly want to put into caring for an animal - and she's got a good point, in that we'll see a hell of a lot more of the hypothetical dog in question than you will. You can't feed a puppy the same thing you feed a 12-year-old dog, and even if you could, we'd go through it twice as fast. There's the vet bills. There's the fact that the floors need resurfacing anyway, in some spots because the current dog or one of the three previous couldn't hold it in - and we've only had the one dog come housebroken. I really don't think you'll have that kind of luck again.

Mom said she's going to talk to you about this tomorrow, while I'm at work. I'm glad I'll be missing that conversation, but... please, actually listen to what she's got to say about it and don't just brush aside her concerns on the matter. Yes, this includes the fact that she's creeped out by long hair on dogs; you were brushing us both aside on that last night.

(Just because you found more ticks on the boxer per year than you say you have on the Australian Shepherd his entire life doesn't mean the ticks aren't biting. In fact, I'd guess a lot have fallen off before you even noticed them.)

Her plate's full. She doesn't want to have to worry about finding a dog-sitter indefinitely. Money is tight. Please, stop going 'ZOMG DOGS' long enough to hear this.

She also said earlier that if you get the puppy anyway, she's going to be very pissed for a while. I think I will too, and I'll also be making a condition: The money I give you, when I can, does not go toward the dog. It goes toward my phone, car stuff, groceries, utilities, the stuff I use - but not the dog. You're the one who wants to make this mess, so I'm not going to clean it all up for you.

Maybe you think we're heartless, saying we can't take in a new puppy right now. I look at it the other way; a puppy deserves a home where everyone in it is willing, able, and enthusiastic about the prospect. Right now? That is so not here. Mom and I barely tolerate the dog we've got, some days.

So... please, hear Mom out tomorrow. And I stand by my assessment that, when there's not much money to be had, you can't afford a new dog.

Love,
your daughter

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Bro #1: I'm gonna get him... I wish I was gay so he could suck my dick!
Bro #2: Man, don't say that.
Bro #1: I said it. I wish I was gay!

--Franklin Ave.

...and I'm sure other people do, too, JoAnn's is having a ..... sale (what holiday are we on, now? veteran's day, maybe?) and all Simplicity patterns are $1 for this week only. I got 9 patterns for $9 [plus tax, duh] and so I stocked up on several patterns that I wanted for myself for a while, as well as one for a friend's costume I'm working on and my best friend who does belly dancing (the belly dancing costumes aren't amazing, but it's a good jumping off point).
I'm thinking about going back and grabbing non-costume patterns for myself for the imaginary projects I'll never get to, but I like having the patterns in my supply that is completely disorganized and probably has several duplicates of the same thing...
anyways, go there! get cheap patterns! :D

please tell me what you think!!!

Prologue

 

It was a fall night and the trees were losing their leaves making them look dead. The moon was full high in the sky and the wolf howled at it. The grass was already turning brown and every time you stepped on it, it made a crunch. It was late November in the country of Estro. This country was in a time of unrest, anything could happen and no one would know. A woman named Astra was running through the woods with a baby in her arms.  He was the son of the King’s brother. His name was Akon. He was only one week old. The king was a bastard; he was cruel to his own family and worse to his kingdom.  His name was King Sinstrol.

                The king had no heir and he was not able to have a son. Akron was the next in line for the thrown and if he was found he would be killed. Astra ran for dear life knowing that the soldiers were right behind her. She ran through the woods and she could feel the moon on her face and the little heart of Akon beating against her chest. Her back was throbbing because when she left the castle they spotted her leaving and shot at her and one pierced her in the back. She began to feel that she would not be able to make it and that the soldiers would be able to catch them.  

                Astra was the king’s sister in law. Her husband has already been killed for sneaking them out of the castle. Now it was up to her to get her son somewhere safe. She was headed for a little village that she had watched from the castle there were only two houses that she could see over the trees. One was the bakers and the other the blacksmith. She could see the village up ahead with the smoke coming up from the chimneys. She ran to the house of the blacksmith and knocked. A little boy answered it.

                “May I speak to your parents please?”  The little boy nodded and went back into the house. A few seconds later a man came to the door.  The man was in his mid forties with black hair and he started to have gray hairs come in. He was tall but had a little weight on him. He was wearing pants and a baggie shirt that was stained with ash. “May I help you?” he said. “Yes I am in a hurry and I ask that you please take care of my son. I have been watching your home from the castle because I was afraid that if it would come to the king killing my son and I had to leave him I wanted a nice loving family. His name is Akon and he was born only a week ago. Please, can you take him in and raise him as your own? His father has been killed and now they are after me. We have done nothing wrong but had a child. Please, my name is Astra the king’s daughter-in-law. This boy is the next heir to the thrown and he is going to be hunted for the rest of his life but please raise him and keep this night a secret to him.”

The man looked at her and then the child for a few minutes. “If what you say is true then I will be happy to raise the future king. I will raise him as my own and he will grow up like any other boy, away from the pressures of the life he may one day live.”

“Thank you sir, but I am afraid that raising this boy will one day bring you pain. I am also asking that if anyone comes looking for him that you send him away from all of this. I don’t want him to grow up knowing about his uncle and who his family is. I ask that you not tell him anything because one day he will find out on his own about the past. If you have to tell him anything tell him his parents loved him so much and that we hope he will make us proud.”

“I will miss you my son, take care of yourself.”  She whispered and handed Akon to the man and kissed the man and her son. She looked at the man and then her son smiled and turned around and ran.

When she ran the man looked at the woman running into the woods and noticed that she was hurt. He called out to her but she had already vanished into the night. He looked at the boy and said in a loving father voice, “Come and meet your family little one,” and he walked inside the house.

Name: Lindsey
Age: 17
Gender : Female 
Location: Small town in California
Occupation: Student
Languages Spoken: English
Religion: Agnostic
Sexual Preference: Straight
Satus: Taken
Email: bucketlove@live.com

About Me:
Man I hate about me's! I never know where to start off. I'm shy at first but once you crack the ice I'm very outgoing. Some people call me crazy but I just like to have fun. I love the outdoors. I'm always outside. Camping is one of my favorite things to do. I love to walk. I walk almost everywhere. I always have to be doing something productive. My dad is my best friend in the whole world. Star gazing is fun. The beache is my favorite place to fun barfoot as fast as I can. I'm a huge bookworm. I'll read anything. Someday I'll be a park ranger in the great red wood forest. I like to drive fast and my boyfriend makes me smile.

Music: I listen to everything!! Some of my favorite bands are: Good Old War, Bon Iver, Sea wolf, Sufjan Stevens, Elliott Smith. The Beatles. The Mama's and the papa's, Iron & Wine, Paolo Nutini, Rocky Votolato, Blind Pilot and many many more.

Books: Everything! I love books more then air! My favorites would be: Harry Potter 1-7, Perks of being a Wall flower, Midnighters, The Host, A Child Called It, The Lovely Bones, Sara Dessen novles, and so much more!  


Penpals~

How many penpals have you had? 
I have three! Liz and Jessica are the best!   

How many do you want?
A couple more.

Handwrite / Email? 
I don't want e-mails, I want letters. Snail mail! :)

How long does it take you to reply to a letter?
3-4 days. 
I enjoy sending photography and anything else that comes to mind, along with letters. 

What are you looking for in a pen pal?
Meet new people and make new friends :)

What age would you like your pen pal to be?
Around the same age as me.

What Gender would you like your penpal to be?
Dose not matter.

Where would you want them to be from?
ANYWHER!

Anything else?
Just leave a reply if you'd like to be my pen-pal or email me!! Thanks.
Oh and here is a photo of me :)

I don't know if any of you remember, but I needed ways to get my bangs to swoop across my forehead.
Well, I did it!
Blew dry forward & over, and a little bit of hair spray.
Just wanted to share:




and this was the picture I used before to show you:

Name: Jenny
Age:18
Birthday: September 26th
Gender: Female
Location: New York
Occupation: None at the moment -_-;;
Languages Spoken: English. Hope to someday be fluent in Spanish. I'd also like to learn more basic Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and French.

About Me: I am a rather shy and quiet person, but I do love getting to know people and making friends. I am a dreamer and there's so many things that I would love to do with my life if I get the chance. I cherish the simple things in life the most. I am always experimenting with new hobbies. I love exploring unfamiliar places. I am a bit of a nerd. I love having interesting conversations. I like giving things deep thought. I welcome all kinds of knowledge that I don't already know to fill my brain. I am always thinking of how I can make myself a better person and I always push myself to do better. I like to make others smile. Yep, that's me in a nutshell :)

Music: Anything and everything, and I mean that. I can listen to anything from Fall Out Boy to Regina Spektor to 50 Cent to Taylor Swift. I love sitting down and looking at the scenery ouside my window while listening to smooth jazz and drinking tea. I am a fan of every genre of music, as long as I think the song/artist sounds good. Oh yes, and I do like J-pop, J-rock, C-pop, and K-pop. I also someday dream of seeing an opera...

Books: I love children's books for some reason. Roald Dahl books are so amazing and always paint pretty pictures in my mind. I like books that push your imagination and make you feel somewhat creative after reading. I also like fantasy and romance novels (none I can remember right now though :( ). I love reading things that make me think seriously about things I probably wouldn't have give much thought to beforehand.

I also occasionally like to read the newspaper to catch up on things going on in the world.

Movies/TV: For movies, let's see... I love Studio Ghibli films. My favs would be My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Whisper of the Heart, The Cat Returns, Laputa: Castle in the Sky, and Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea. I also love Disney movies like Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Mary Poppins, Hercules, and The Princess Diaries. Other movies I love off the top of my head are Willy Wanka and the Chocolate Factory, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Young Frankenstein, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, The Indian in the Cupboard, October Sky, The Island, The Prince and Me, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Hairspray, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, The Great Gatsby, and The Wizard of Oz.

I don't watch TV much but shows I do like are Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!, Tom Goes to the Mayor, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Shin Chan, Seinfeld, and Arrested Development. I also love watching cartoons from the 90's and back -- anything new stinks (what the heck is that garbage they are they putting on for children these days?!).

I also have a love of Asian dramas and movies.

Anime: I don't watch anime much anymore, but some anime I do love are Azumanga Daioh, His and Her Circumstances (Kare Kano), Love Hina, Gokudo, InuYasha, Sailor Moon, Pokemon, Ghost in the Shell, Onegai Teacher, Detective Conan, Gravitation, Junjou Romantica (I am not one of those girls obsessed with yaoi, I just like short anime series with some kind of love story), annnnd some others I can't remember because I am not that into anime anymore.

Video Games: Ahhh I love video games :) Some favorites are the Tales Series (Symphonia, Vesperia, and Abyss being my favorites), the Ace Attorney series (ohh I love Phoenix Wright), the Harvest Moon series, the Resident Evil series, the Pokemon games, Animal Crossing, Left 4 Dead, annnd anything else that I find fun.

Some other things I love: cute things, baking, drawing, writing, romance, nature, traveling, and cheetos.


Pen Pal info:


How many pen pals do you have? None :(
How many do you want? Three or four :)
Do you want e-mail pals? Sure.
Do you want snail mail pen pals? Yes!! I want to send and recieve letters!
How long are your letters? Depends. I do tend to say a lot though :3
How long does it take you to reply to a letter? A day or two.
Would you like your pen pal to be male or female? Either is fine by me.
Age preference? Doesn't really matter to me.
What are you looking for in a pen pal? Friendship, someone who will share their stories with me as well listen to mine, someone to exchange new and different ideas with, someone to joke around with, just someone to talk to about anything and everything.
Where would you like them to be from? Anywhere.

i've looked through the memories and i cant seem to find what i'm looking for..

has anyone here had any experience with micro ring extensions? i'm trying to get an idea of whether its practical enough for me to do on my own or even to have my friend help me.

thank you so much (:

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Girl #1: Why should you have him? I've been single for 20 months.
Girl #2: 20 months?! I'd be ashamed!

--34th & 7th