A/N: I got reviews! Like, Ohmahgawd! :p Thanks for all the ideas, I'll work them in where I feel inspiration.
Also, on the fifth I leave to go camping, no internet, no computer, no nothing. (Oh noes!) I will write while I'm there, so sit tight, and when I get back I'll update for all the days I missed. Enjoy!
January 2nd, 2010 – Decade
The start of a new decade never meant much to the high school society of Lima. But, despite common belief, Brittany saw great importance in it.
As each decade passed she could look back and say she had lived a full 10 years, and everything that had happened in those ten years she had witnessed, cried or cheered for, or Googled meticulously to understand (including the word meticulously itself, which she had been using in conversation the past few days to show off her new smarts). But who could understand? Brittany was a person who didn't see the world as others did. She didn't understand a lot of things, and so she couldn't look for a deeper meaning. She saw things as they appeared, and sometimes that was a part of her own intelligence.
Take this for example – January 2nd, the day after New Year's where you sleep in extra late to make up for lost time on the first day of the year. Most people don't think it's important. It's just a day.
But Brittany wakes up early, takes a step outside and sees a world with no one watering lawns, no cars driving by and no construction on the new house across the street. It's like the world is abandoned, where she can mow the lawn for that spare ten dollars and dance about all she liked, and everyone was too busy living in dreamland to interrupt her. It was one of the few days of true freedom, not because of a lack of control, but because no one was there to try and force her into submission. It was like living in her own world.
A part of her mourned the loss of that world when she returns to it, midday rolling about as people decide to finally wake. But she knows that it's only a matter of time before that day rolls around again, and she can have that rare glimpse of freedom where there is nobody to judge her.
Brittany was a person who didn't see the world as others did. She knew that being smart didn't make you understand, but being accepting of things as they are makes you understand.
A/N: It's very difficult to convey what I was talking about here – I couldn't think of a good person to go with the subject with, so I just chose randomly and prayed it turned out. As usual, this was made up on the spot. Review, let me know what you think and what or who you want to see next.