There's something so soul warming about this time of year, when the touches of summer shine through the dreary winter weather and your heart softens to the texture of the soft sand you lie on. You get tingles down your spine when those sultry rays hit your body, your summer skin creeps through the somewhat translucent paleness autumn begun and winter left you with. I wind down the window and let the supple evening air seep through my fingers as it flicks the ash from my cigarette around in the darkening heat. We drink cheap booze and get our skirts wet in the sea, we take our clothes off and find freedom in the water and the sunset and everything else we decide is beautiful that day. Our hair is in salty locks and sand follows us around, back gardens and the sweet shade from the willow tree becomes our little sanctuary, as the supplies from our parents alcohol cabinets dwindle as various 'warm weather cocktails' are devised and drank with secret freckle covered grins. Insecurities trickle out through fingertips and onto the searing hot ground, every colour lights up faces in good spirits as the days draw to their ends, and every now and again when the rain does come, it is for dancing in not moaning about. The smell of sun cream, smoke and wine lingers on bodies and gritty barbeque food is the staple diet alongside doses of after sun, pain killers and caffeine.
Care to join me? Summer's here!

Basically, I'm Jess: born and bred in merry old England and not adverse to the odd game of Swingball. I shall happily admit that I only signed up for an account due to my intentions of registering as a beta reader, only to discover you have to publish at least 6000 words worth of fanfictions. So, begrudgingly, I shall write something no doubt rushed and out-of-character and full of Britishisms that I haven't even realised are Britishisms and certainly over the 6000 word cut-off point. I like to think with my eyes closed, I like to sleep with my hands clasped together, and shower sat on the floor of the bath. I like the way sky looks when it's winter and all the lights are on and everything has an eerie orange glow, and in the summer when the sky burns red at dusk. I like reading on buses and painting on my bedroom floor in my pyjamas. I like going out with my friends and getting so drunk we can't talk, just giggle and hug, paint the town our own personal shades and ponder on the meaning of everything, and nights in where we don't talk because we don't have to. I like dancing in my kitchen with my dad, and telling my mum I love her. I like watching my brothers grow up and the rest of my family grow old. I like music at gigs, with big lights and big sounds. I like music coming out of my lounge, with my dad and friends making what they love. I like men, I like to tickle and tease, kiss and please, I like the way they sound, the way they feel. I like sleeping naked and sticking my toes out the end of my bed when I get too hot. I like falling asleep to the sound of people, and waking up to complete silence in the middle of night. I like lipstick marks on your pillow, and the way people look when they're stuck in a traffic jam. I like cigarettes when I'm lonely, and when I'm drinking tea outside a café. I like puffy morning eyes and that feeling when you really need a wee and you finally get to a toilet hahaha. I like making memories every step I take, I like the way when you smile you feel a bit happier. I like ordinary people, with their somewhat brown and beige lives, just doing what they do. I like writing in my head when I'm on my own. I like big emotional arguments, and the feeble apologies afterwards. I like long words, and the way blood looks in water. I like the smell of a new book, and putting on old leather shoes. I like running in the rain when it's so heavy it hurts your head, I like watching people transform on a stage, and incense sticks. I like it when kids make up jokes and tell you over and over and over, and the fresh coffee. I like a lot of stuff, but most of all, I like honesty in people, beautiful art and feeling so alive it's like your blood is pumping eight times faster and you fall in love with the world, every entity and every colour, every smell and every sound and so on.. when it feels like you could burst with life... I like that the best.