Just Another Regular Monday
Disowner: blah blah blah
Quote: "If you're out there somewhere, somewhere
I would give anything to know"
~Sister Hazel~
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Tyler sat quietly in his football uniform after his sweaty practice. He knew something was up with Val. She had been quiet on thier last date to Mario's, that was unlike her to be quiet after chemistry. Normally, after that class she raved about how mean Dr. Vanerio was. She seemed to have this nose that went past her chin and then buttoned down, supposedly she had had it done awhile ago. But the piont was he was worried about her, ever since last winter when Caite's dad died she had been a little more careful about everything. He didn't want her to have to worry about Brooke and her parents, and even Tyler, her boyfriend. He didn't need to be worried about and niether did anybody else besides maybe Caite. But Caite knew how to take care of herself if not Jaime knew how to take care of her.
He was tired now, just thinking about everyone and then having to remember he had to study for bio was too much. The class he had to do good on to make it into Med School. So, he was going to have to study and then go check on his girlfriend, no matter how pschotic she may be at times he still loved Val. So he quickly got off his rear and walked to the showers to clean off. Thinking maybe Val wouldn't be as wierd, as she had been during the last few monthes, tonight.
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Jaime watched the graduation video as his mother and twin sisters kept saying how much thier little baby had grown up. Ophie and Cordie were just trying to embrass thier mother to no avail. That was one of the things that scared him about his mom, Cacelia, that she wasn't ever embrassed. No matter what anybody said or did she never cared. At the same time she reminded him a lot of Catie.
As he thought this the camera kept zooming in and out as his mother kept saying how much this reminded her of her dreams. And he soon saw himself appear on camera. He laughed now out loud about the way he kept telling Ophie to leave his tassel alone.
Soon though he walked off camera and put Val on. She was dressed in the robe, but had a short blue flowered skirt on underneath so her and Tyler, her boyfriend then and now, could go out and celebrate. "I just wanted to tell you, that you have been a great EMT, but you were always a wonderful friend. NowI think someone else has something more important to tell you," the young blonde said gently with a gleam of pleasure and hope in her eyes.
Catie Roth walked slowly up to the front of the camera, looking differently thanthe rest of their friends. She was protesting agianst the system once agian. Instead of the sumber black robe she wore a purple robe that on the back had printed "I am the anti-system."
She sheepishly smiled and then spoke more quietly than he had ever heard from her.
Jaime you have been there for me through thick and then, better or for worse. She paused and quietly chuckled behind the back of her hand.
I feel like I'm saying my wedding vows.
The young man had to laugh at that comment due to the fact everyone that they had known in high school had said at one point or another that they acted like an old married couple. Who faught constantly and disagreed, but still loved and cared for each other no matter what had made them the way they were now.
Catie pushed back a strand of her long hair off her face and played with her fingers before she could continue. Jaime knew she was nervous, and that wasn't very often for her. She had only fallen apart when she had heard about her dad and Val's. And that was a year ago, things hadn't been the same between them since then. He felt differently for her than he had before it was more of a compassion and a since of love than big brother thing.
"So, I know you better than anyone else and my guess is that 4 years from now you will be watching this because Val, as promised, told you there is something intresting on it. Well, here it is.....I love you Jaime Waite, and I know you think that I'm brave. But I've got news for you I'm not. I protest the normalicy, becaue I'm afraid of being lost in the crowd. And the only reason I can tell you this is because maybe by the time we're 21 you will love me the same way I love you. Well, I'll see you soon and maybe if I'm lucky I can pull off the acting like we're just friends. Bye Jaime.
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Catie sat alone in hers and Val's small apartment on the East side of Seattle. She felt cold and alone, which wasn't that different from the way it was normally now. She watched the outside world from her bedroom window. Everythilng was busy and normal. It seemed as if nothing was wrong; except the bruise on her neck that kept growing and changing colors. It had happened agian, her mother had hit her agian. This time she aimed lower, for Catie almost always wore turtle necks in the winter and her long hair abony colored hair would cover the bruise mark.
Catie watched an old woman cross the street and along the way drop an apple, just an apple. But to Catie it seemed like more, maybe her mother was the old woman who lost something along the way and at the time it was nothing. But in the end it made her a bad mother who was alone. The young woman almost felt sorry for the woman that scared her and raised her, but what would her pity do. It wouldn't stop the abuse and it wouldn't end her mother's rage. So agian she felt hopeless and without a friend.
The cordless phone rang and disturbed her thoughts. Catie prayed silently that it wasn't her mother or a family member. She picked up the phone and put her regular voice on hoping the caller wouldn't know the difference in her change of voice.
"Catie have you seen Val?"
It was Tyler, he was the only person who would so bluntly ask that. None of their other friends would just say where is Val without even saying hello. Normally this would bother her, but now it seemed perfectly normal for the foursome. Catie would call thier apartment and ask for Jaime and Val and Jaime did the same. It was a sorta tradition now.
"No. She's at cheerleading practice why?"
"Ohh we had a date tonight it's our annivisary."
"Ahh, well I'm sure she'll call Tyler and what did you get her?"
Tyler sat at the other end of the phone and smiled at how Catie knew what he wanted to know. What would Val want, but this year he had everything planned out. And he didn't need Catie's expert advise.
"It's a surprize. I'm sure you'll find out at 1 when she gets home."
"Great my overly perky bestfriend is going to wake me up at 1 o'clock in the morning when I have an exam tomorrow."
Tyler chuckled at Catie's persistant ever-lasting sarcasim and wit.
"Bye Cat."
"Ugh."
Tyler knew the nickname bothered her and that's mainly why he did it. Jaime had made up the pet name when Ophie had bought Catie a cat for Christmas and she had named it William after Shakespear. It just seemed fit for Jaime to make the name her pet name.
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Brooke Linear laid down on the couch of her room. Ever since Val had left 3 years before they had moved back home and bought new stuff for the house included a grand piano for Brooke. Val had gotten a full scholarship to SU, so they had more money to spend without having to pay for Val.
The young woman was waiting for a phone call from Nick and Ophie. They were all going to Seattle for the long weekend to see thier siblings. Nick and Brooke were disscussing dating, but at the moment were still just best buds. Amanda had moved last year back to New York after her mother got a job offer, so they packed up and left. Brooke and Mandy had kept in touch and since then she had gone to NY to visit.
She was at home alone and really tired. She didn't feel like going this weekend since her birthday was next week, but her sister couldn't come and Tyler insisted. So, she Ophie and Nick would drive Brooke's Toyota to Seattle which was 4 hours away. They were leaving tomorrow, but she needed to hear from the other two to see what time. So here she was lying down when her doorbell rang. She groaned from exasperation of having to get up and answer the door to someone who should know better than to interupt her resting.
Slowly she walked to the front door and opened it with annoyance.
"Hey Brooke!"
It was Ophie and Nick.
"What are ya'll doing here, ya'll were supposed to call not come over?"
"Gosh we love you too," Nick replied in a sarcastic, but still fun voice.
"It's not that I just wanted to rest for the trip and our exam."
"Anyway to the point, I think we should all go tomorrow as planned but leave early so we can surprize them. I wanna get a good picture of Jaime waking up for my project in photography."
That didn't startle Brooke, that's just the person Ophie was. She loved her camera, her sister, Nick, and Brooke had all had to be the victims of her "projects". Brooke personaly thought it was a cover-up to get the most humilating pictures of her friends and family. But she always seemed to make an A in that class, which for her wasn't usual. She was alot like Catie and Jaime, but had a bit more colour to her. She was now dressed in knee high boots a yellow top that had in pink I am different, and then her long zebra printed skirt. But unlike just about everyone else with red hair she could carry it off with her personality.
"Fine. What time do we leave?"
"See that's the problem, we'll have to leave at 2 in the morning to get the really good pictures."
"Are you nuts or on drugs?! Me Brooke Linear get up at 2 in the moring just to take pictures of Jaime and Val when they first get up.
"Well yeah you get up for the squad. And Alex wants some copies."
"I'll think about it.....NO.
"Oh come on Brooke, please."
"Fine but I call the back."
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Jaime sat there staring at Catie and thinking about what he should do now......
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See what happens with Val, Jaime, Tyler, Catie, and Brooke....
Disowner: blah blah blah
Quote: "If you're out there somewhere, somewhere
I would give anything to know"
~Sister Hazel~
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Tyler sat quietly in his football uniform after his sweaty practice. He knew something was up with Val. She had been quiet on thier last date to Mario's, that was unlike her to be quiet after chemistry. Normally, after that class she raved about how mean Dr. Vanerio was. She seemed to have this nose that went past her chin and then buttoned down, supposedly she had had it done awhile ago. But the piont was he was worried about her, ever since last winter when Caite's dad died she had been a little more careful about everything. He didn't want her to have to worry about Brooke and her parents, and even Tyler, her boyfriend. He didn't need to be worried about and niether did anybody else besides maybe Caite. But Caite knew how to take care of herself if not Jaime knew how to take care of her.
He was tired now, just thinking about everyone and then having to remember he had to study for bio was too much. The class he had to do good on to make it into Med School. So, he was going to have to study and then go check on his girlfriend, no matter how pschotic she may be at times he still loved Val. So he quickly got off his rear and walked to the showers to clean off. Thinking maybe Val wouldn't be as wierd, as she had been during the last few monthes, tonight.
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Jaime watched the graduation video as his mother and twin sisters kept saying how much thier little baby had grown up. Ophie and Cordie were just trying to embrass thier mother to no avail. That was one of the things that scared him about his mom, Cacelia, that she wasn't ever embrassed. No matter what anybody said or did she never cared. At the same time she reminded him a lot of Catie.
As he thought this the camera kept zooming in and out as his mother kept saying how much this reminded her of her dreams. And he soon saw himself appear on camera. He laughed now out loud about the way he kept telling Ophie to leave his tassel alone.
Soon though he walked off camera and put Val on. She was dressed in the robe, but had a short blue flowered skirt on underneath so her and Tyler, her boyfriend then and now, could go out and celebrate. "I just wanted to tell you, that you have been a great EMT, but you were always a wonderful friend. NowI think someone else has something more important to tell you," the young blonde said gently with a gleam of pleasure and hope in her eyes.
Catie Roth walked slowly up to the front of the camera, looking differently thanthe rest of their friends. She was protesting agianst the system once agian. Instead of the sumber black robe she wore a purple robe that on the back had printed "I am the anti-system."
She sheepishly smiled and then spoke more quietly than he had ever heard from her.
Jaime you have been there for me through thick and then, better or for worse. She paused and quietly chuckled behind the back of her hand.
I feel like I'm saying my wedding vows.
The young man had to laugh at that comment due to the fact everyone that they had known in high school had said at one point or another that they acted like an old married couple. Who faught constantly and disagreed, but still loved and cared for each other no matter what had made them the way they were now.
Catie pushed back a strand of her long hair off her face and played with her fingers before she could continue. Jaime knew she was nervous, and that wasn't very often for her. She had only fallen apart when she had heard about her dad and Val's. And that was a year ago, things hadn't been the same between them since then. He felt differently for her than he had before it was more of a compassion and a since of love than big brother thing.
"So, I know you better than anyone else and my guess is that 4 years from now you will be watching this because Val, as promised, told you there is something intresting on it. Well, here it is.....I love you Jaime Waite, and I know you think that I'm brave. But I've got news for you I'm not. I protest the normalicy, becaue I'm afraid of being lost in the crowd. And the only reason I can tell you this is because maybe by the time we're 21 you will love me the same way I love you. Well, I'll see you soon and maybe if I'm lucky I can pull off the acting like we're just friends. Bye Jaime.
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Catie sat alone in hers and Val's small apartment on the East side of Seattle. She felt cold and alone, which wasn't that different from the way it was normally now. She watched the outside world from her bedroom window. Everythilng was busy and normal. It seemed as if nothing was wrong; except the bruise on her neck that kept growing and changing colors. It had happened agian, her mother had hit her agian. This time she aimed lower, for Catie almost always wore turtle necks in the winter and her long hair abony colored hair would cover the bruise mark.
Catie watched an old woman cross the street and along the way drop an apple, just an apple. But to Catie it seemed like more, maybe her mother was the old woman who lost something along the way and at the time it was nothing. But in the end it made her a bad mother who was alone. The young woman almost felt sorry for the woman that scared her and raised her, but what would her pity do. It wouldn't stop the abuse and it wouldn't end her mother's rage. So agian she felt hopeless and without a friend.
The cordless phone rang and disturbed her thoughts. Catie prayed silently that it wasn't her mother or a family member. She picked up the phone and put her regular voice on hoping the caller wouldn't know the difference in her change of voice.
"Catie have you seen Val?"
It was Tyler, he was the only person who would so bluntly ask that. None of their other friends would just say where is Val without even saying hello. Normally this would bother her, but now it seemed perfectly normal for the foursome. Catie would call thier apartment and ask for Jaime and Val and Jaime did the same. It was a sorta tradition now.
"No. She's at cheerleading practice why?"
"Ohh we had a date tonight it's our annivisary."
"Ahh, well I'm sure she'll call Tyler and what did you get her?"
Tyler sat at the other end of the phone and smiled at how Catie knew what he wanted to know. What would Val want, but this year he had everything planned out. And he didn't need Catie's expert advise.
"It's a surprize. I'm sure you'll find out at 1 when she gets home."
"Great my overly perky bestfriend is going to wake me up at 1 o'clock in the morning when I have an exam tomorrow."
Tyler chuckled at Catie's persistant ever-lasting sarcasim and wit.
"Bye Cat."
"Ugh."
Tyler knew the nickname bothered her and that's mainly why he did it. Jaime had made up the pet name when Ophie had bought Catie a cat for Christmas and she had named it William after Shakespear. It just seemed fit for Jaime to make the name her pet name.
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Brooke Linear laid down on the couch of her room. Ever since Val had left 3 years before they had moved back home and bought new stuff for the house included a grand piano for Brooke. Val had gotten a full scholarship to SU, so they had more money to spend without having to pay for Val.
The young woman was waiting for a phone call from Nick and Ophie. They were all going to Seattle for the long weekend to see thier siblings. Nick and Brooke were disscussing dating, but at the moment were still just best buds. Amanda had moved last year back to New York after her mother got a job offer, so they packed up and left. Brooke and Mandy had kept in touch and since then she had gone to NY to visit.
She was at home alone and really tired. She didn't feel like going this weekend since her birthday was next week, but her sister couldn't come and Tyler insisted. So, she Ophie and Nick would drive Brooke's Toyota to Seattle which was 4 hours away. They were leaving tomorrow, but she needed to hear from the other two to see what time. So here she was lying down when her doorbell rang. She groaned from exasperation of having to get up and answer the door to someone who should know better than to interupt her resting.
Slowly she walked to the front door and opened it with annoyance.
"Hey Brooke!"
It was Ophie and Nick.
"What are ya'll doing here, ya'll were supposed to call not come over?"
"Gosh we love you too," Nick replied in a sarcastic, but still fun voice.
"It's not that I just wanted to rest for the trip and our exam."
"Anyway to the point, I think we should all go tomorrow as planned but leave early so we can surprize them. I wanna get a good picture of Jaime waking up for my project in photography."
That didn't startle Brooke, that's just the person Ophie was. She loved her camera, her sister, Nick, and Brooke had all had to be the victims of her "projects". Brooke personaly thought it was a cover-up to get the most humilating pictures of her friends and family. But she always seemed to make an A in that class, which for her wasn't usual. She was alot like Catie and Jaime, but had a bit more colour to her. She was now dressed in knee high boots a yellow top that had in pink I am different, and then her long zebra printed skirt. But unlike just about everyone else with red hair she could carry it off with her personality.
"Fine. What time do we leave?"
"See that's the problem, we'll have to leave at 2 in the morning to get the really good pictures."
"Are you nuts or on drugs?! Me Brooke Linear get up at 2 in the moring just to take pictures of Jaime and Val when they first get up.
"Well yeah you get up for the squad. And Alex wants some copies."
"I'll think about it.....NO.
"Oh come on Brooke, please."
"Fine but I call the back."
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Jaime sat there staring at Catie and thinking about what he should do now......
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See what happens with Val, Jaime, Tyler, Catie, and Brooke....