Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar, and Tri-Star. I only own my characters. I also do not own "If only, if only" from the movie Holes which I named the chapter, and I used the song as well (it's one of my all time faves), or Imaginary, Tourniquet, and Taking Over Me, by Evanescence. I once again do not own I Wish, which is by my sister. She was 10 when she wrote it, it was published, and she won 1st in all of San Antonio for it. So there's a little background on it. But, I do own Maybe, which I wrote last weekend. I do not own Kila from SeethingxShadow's story, The Future Of The Past, or any of the sayings in here from ebaum's world (it's a web page). I also do not own anything else that I forgot to mention.
Has anyone besides me seen the new episode? I was SOOOO disappointed! All the movements were jerky; none of the characters look the same…ARGH! I want to scream and push and kill the creators of the show! I want to cry from it! I'm actually thinking about writing them. What do ya'll think? Either way, I think I will. Ok, watched it again this morning (Saturday), and I loved it. I'm just weird that way…
The Voting Results—
Aang- 1 vote
Sokka- 1 vote
Zuko- 5 votes
Zuko won the poll! Yayness! As Khazia would say it; he is so hott on my vote (sigh). Anyway, on with the reviews! On the reviews by the way, I only responded to those I could…
SeethingxShadows- For this story to work, she will be able to freeze, actually have to be able to freeze the ocean just like tap water, so no complaints from anyone. I liked the "Aanokko" thing, very cool way of doing the voting.
Lin13- Thank you for giving me your first ever Lol. I am very honored.
Thank you to all who reviewed, and now on with the party. Sorry if this is a little short, but I'm kinda having a bad day. This will make it better though I hope, although, just to warn you, like with Kabira's birthday, I will have to continue this story next week. This is my only free time, right here, and I'm really sorry that this chapter's party is short. I WILL make it up. I promise. Actually, I think that the chapter and how long it is does a pretty good job, but either way, I will make the next party chapter longer.
A little thing about the chapter itself, when you see the …and then the line there, and then the … again, it's just changing POV, but nothing else.
We were all walking to the mall, everyone chatting to each other, but of course we didn't walk there, we drove. And now, we were walking to the front of Katy Mills Mall, to where the movie theater was. We were going to see The Greatest Game Ever Played.
We soon got there, and bought our tickets and popcorn and were sitting in our seats in one of the front rows, annoying some kids in front of us.
"Watch where you're throwing your popcorn!" one of the kids in front of us yelled.
"Shhh! The movie's starting!" we all whispered, to get on their nerves, as the credits started.
The second one in showed a girl with shoulder-length golden hair, and the body of a dancer's, pick up her cell phone from the ground where she had dropped it, while Taking Over Me by Evanescence began to play in the background, the phone ringing, and the girl answering it. As soon as she said, "Hello?" the screen went black, to show Tri-Star in big blue letters and o-dragon in big red letters.
As the commercial started again, it showed the same girl screaming, the audio taken away. She was freaking out, and the camera whizzed to a person across from her wearing a trench coat, and long hair in a ponytail, plus a mustache, being held onto by some people wearing uniforms. It looked like they were in a Supermarket. Then, a man's voice said, "I am your father." And she whispered, "What?" After that, the screen went black again, the music cut.
The girl began to narrate slowly, as the picture showed her riding in a car, her backpack in her lap, and she was holding onto it. She was staring out of the window as rain poured down in a grey scene. As she said these words, pictures flashed across the scene of her doing each thing, then, at the end when she said her name, it went back to her staring out of the window. "I am one of the best figure skaters in America, a bender of two elements, the friend of a Prince, and my name is Kabira Senghore." The screen went black once again, and the song began playing again.
The screen opened again to show Prince Zuko on his ship, gazing out to sea, during a bad storm. Then, it showed the storm on the night that Kabira lost Pavan, where the boat explodes. Then, it showed Kabira doing spins on the ice, while Zuko watched in the stands. "She's really good…" he whispered.
Then it showed Zuko and Kabira standing outside of a building looking up at it as kids went in. "Hey Zuko?" Kabira said, looking up at a building, and Zuko looked at her. "Don't ask me how to find your classes."
"Why?" he asked, confused.
"Because I have no idea where I'm going as well." Kabira said as she kept staring.
It ended to show the movie credits, and the title with big gold letters labeled, "One Day", and then reopened again to show Kabira and a group of people sitting in a circle, everyone holding onto their partner's hands, creating a circle. Kabira's eyes closed, but everyone else's eyes open, looking around frightened. A candle was placed between each person, and the flames had begun to spin, creating a shield, the room glowing red, as Kabira said softly, "Whatever happens in this room stays in this room." And the screen cut to blackness, the music ending abruptly.
As the commercial ended, there were groans all along our row, coming from the guests o-dragon had invited, but Kabira just had a wide grin on her face, and so did o-dragon.
Then, the movie began, and everyone got quiet. O-dragon whispered at the camera, "Hope you enjoy the chapter! You'll be reading the chapter while we watch this!" as everyone shushed her. She turned to face the movie, and everyone began watching…
Chapter 12- If only
The rest of the night I stayed up, writing in my journal, needing to let my feelings out. Plus, I felt poetic.
I Wish
I wish I was silver.
The star you wish upon.
The lake that shimmers in sunlight,
That glistens in the dark.
The twinkle in your eye.
The cross on your necklace.
The wings of a butterfly.
Silver
And I also wrote,
Maybe
The water from the waterfall fell in short, even bursts,
As the robin in the tree chirped unendingly.
"Why can't I fly away too?" a young girl asked her grandmother while playing in the stream.
"To fly and be seen by all below!"
"People were not meant to fly." The grandmother answered, looking up at the blue.
"Why?" the young girl asked, splashing in the water.
"I want to fly, just like the robin in the tree.
Don't people look up, and when they see birds flying, they see Miracles?"
The grandmother was silent as a small breeze came through.
"I mean, it should be wonderful to fly, shouldn't it?"
The grandmother answered softly, "It should be…maybe."
The robin fluttered its wings softly and flew away.
Those were just a few of the poems I wrote; I wasn't very good at poetry at all. It made me embarrassed how poetic I really was, but I was in the mood to write some last night. But the strange thing was that I never listened to my ipod once. I shook my head and turned the pages once again to the page that contained pictures of my friends.
Mosho, in one, was smiling behind her books. She never liked to be photographed, but I had finally caught her in this one. She was standing in front of our beige and red school from 8th grade. She looks kind of like Aang…
Then, there were some of my other friends, Honda (her nickname), Ivory, who has been my pen pal since about 4th grade, and she also lives in Canada, Candice, Kelsey, Randy, and Sean. Kila, Kelsey's cousin was also in that picture because at the time she was visiting Kelsey. We were all standing in front of my two-story house in this picture. Ivory had come down from Canada that summer, and everybody got to meet everybody. But she didn't really get to meet Mosho; she had been sick, plus she had to go to camp and her grandparent's house, but other than that, she got to meet everybody.
Ivory was actually a year younger than us. She was in 7th grade when she came down, and my friends and I were in the 8th grade, but we got along great.
I sighed. I miss them so much…I thought as I looked away from their faces in the picture, and out the window. It was just about sunrise, so I closed my Journal and set it on my bed near my pillow.
I slowly got stiffly from the bed, and went over to were my dresser was, and put on the outfit with the top that read, "Fire in my heart". The top was blue and the bottom was denim, still.
I pulled the top over my head, and the bottoms over my legs, I combed my hair, put on my sandals, I grabbed my ipod, and headed up to the deck.
I passed a soldier on my way up, him nodding to me, and me the same, neither of us saying a word. It was still too early to say anything. I was finally there, after about 5 or 10 minutes of walking, and I turned up my ipod, put the little earphones in my ear and the ipod itself in my pocket, and began jogging.
About every 5 minutes, I would stop, but keep walking for 2 minutes, then, I'd keep jogging. I did this about 5 times, and when I finally stopped, the sun was shining over the water, making me want to shield my eyes. Instead, I took long, deep breaths, and began stretching. After this was done, I turned my ipod to the song Tourniquet by Evanescence, while kicking off my shoes.
As it started, I slowly began my dance routine that we had been working on in school. After a while, I turned up my music, so that I could hear the beat and lyrics while breathing heavily. It had been about 2 or 3 weeks since I had worked on it, but I still remembered most of it. By this time, the sun looked like it was about 7:30. The crew should be getting up soon…
Zuko groggily climbed the stairs to the deck, to get some fresh air. When he finally got up there, though, he was met with the sight of Kabira dancing, but to him, it looked almost like she was having a seizure while standing. She was wearing the weird pants again, and her hair was pulled back into that ponytail that she always wore. He also noticed that there were two wires hanging down from her ears, and there was a soft thumping sound coming from where she was.
He slowly approached her, and when he was about halfway there, she made a quick turn, and kept dancing, not noticing him slowly coming upon her.
"1…2…3…4, and repeat…" she kept whispering to herself while she was doing the movements.
"Kabira?" Zuko said cautiously, but she didn't face him. "Kabira!" he yelled, grabbing her left shoulder…
…Suddenly, I felt a strong hand grab my shoulder, and so, on instinct, I swung around, and kicked the man who had touched me in the chest.
Zuko stumbled back in shock, but because his armor, he was protected from receiving the full blast of power, and we stared at each other for a minute, my hands up to my mouth after I had realized who it was. "I am so sorry! Are you okay?"
"What was that for?" he steamed and practically yelled.
"I'm sorry. That was just instinct. Are you sure you're okay?" I said, taking a few steps forward slowly.
"I'm fine." He said, standing up straight again and brushing himself off. I hid a laugh expertly. "I'll be below." He said stiffly as he walked away, and I began to practice again.
"Ok, where am I?" I said to myself as I turned away from the place where the Prince had been standing. "Oh yeah. 5…6…5, 6, 7, 8…" and I kept going.
By about 9:00, I headed down to my room to get my clothes and head to the washroom. I stopped, staring down the hallway. My door was open. Hmmm, that's weird… I thought. As I rounded the corner at my doorframe, I saw Prince Zuko sitting on my bed reading my journal. I panicked, but then rage came over me.
Before he realized I was there, I was walking swiftly over to him saying, "Why you no good, fuzz covered, filth wrenching, slime covered sleeze ball!" My voice got louder with each word. He finally looked up and was about to say something when my hand met the side of his face.
"How dare you read my journal!" I was yelling now, while punching him, blood beginning to run. At first, he had just received the blows, but now he was beginning to fight back. He stood up and lunged for me, but I dodged him, swung behind him, and picked up my journal and threw it into the drawer next to my bed. Then, I turned back to him, and he turned around. Fire burned in his eyes, but more burned in mine. I saw fear shine through his for a split second, but then it disappeared as my foot came up and met with his arm.
"3 years of Tea Kwon Do really pays off!" I yelled as I grabbed him and threw him onto my bed. He was up in an instant, yelling, "What are you attacking me for? I didn't do anything!"
He shot a lick of flame at me, but I expertly dodged it, and began my own Fire Bending. Iroh taught me well, but Zuko had also been trained by the old general. I shot a weak flame at him, but he dodged it a smile on his face. I dropped to the ground and kicked his feet from under him, just like he did to Zhao in episode 3. As I got up, he tried the same, but I played jump rope with them, and by doing this, dodged them.
"You read my Journal! That's why, you good-for-nothing assortment of spoiled cow pies!" I yelled, copying something from Ebaum's world (it's a web page). He looked confused, but kept going at it.
"I thought it was a book!" he yelled, as he shot a stream of flame at me again, but I barely dodged it. Not only was I getting tired, but I had also done a complete workout within the last 3 hours, so I was already tired, and he knew this.
"Of course it's a book, you blundering vat of synthetic hog livers! But do you even know what kind?" I screamed. Then, I did something that amazed both of us.
I brought up a veil of fire, or a wall rather, then I shot flame out of both my hands and feet as I spun around like a top. The flames coming from my hands reached out and went right through the wall of fire, hitting him square in the chest. The force of both things combined caused him to not realize what was coming, and was thrown backwards and onto my bed…
…As Zuko looked up at Kabira, she was literally steaming, or smoking for that matter, and she held a stance like she'd won the battle, fists clenched, and a look like Zhao's on her face.
Zuko, was still lying on the bed, and he whispered, "What did you just do?"
She then realized that she had indeed done something, and so she looked down at her hands and back into Zuko's eyes, pleading with him like she was afraid, and that she didn't want him to explode with her. Her facial expressions showed all fear, more so than when he first found her in the water. She was genuinely scared.
"What did I just do?" she whispered softer than Zuko had, backing up to the wall.
"Well, I can't do that, and I've been Fire Bending for as long as I can remember!" she whimpered at this, as Zuko got up. He slowly came over to her, and touched her softly on the shoulder, much unlike he had only 2 hours ago, but she twitched away.
"I'm not going to hurt you." He whispered, softly, like a father. He was almost confused at how she could think this.
"It's not that. It's just when you read my Journal, how far did you get?" she looked up into Zuko's eyes, searching his soul, with that same frightened look in her eyes.
"I was just looking at the pictures. I read nothing." He paused. "Who was that man with the girl hanging on him?"
She looked away. "That was me…and my father." He could tell that she didn't want to go further into the matter, and so he dropped it.
Instead, he said in his usual tone, but without the anger, "Let's go ask Uncle Iroh about it." She looked back up into his eyes, and some of the fear was taken away. Then, she followed him quietly out the door.
Before they reached the Helm, she turned to him. "You know, I'm still mad at you for even opening my Journal." She passed him as he stopped to think about what she had just said. Then, he realized that she was already down the hall, turning the corner, and so he jogged to keep up.
September 17, 2005
Dear Journal
Today was interesting. I was finally able to practice my dance routine, Zuko read my Journal, and I did a Fire Bending move that even stunned Iroh, though I have no idea how I did it. After the move, we went to Iroh, and asked him about it. I couldn't show him how I did it, because, like I said before, I had no idea. But, he said that from what he could tell, that was a really advanced Fire Bending move. This news really ticked Zukie off, hehehe, since he's been practicing his element since he was born basically, and I only have for like a month, and I can already do the advanced stuff. Luckily for him, though, the Avatar is now in sight, and he forgot all about the moves once this bit of info was presented to him.
Anyway, we'll be stopping at a port-of-call soon, on the same island where the Avatar is suppose to be, and so I'm going to go in and use my money. I already know what it is I'll be spending it on, too. I haven't ice-skated in forever, and so I'm going to try and make my own skates. Plus, I have plenty of money from winning the game that I don't know how to play…go fig, but in case I mess up, I'll get enough. And if this works out, I'm going to make a pair for Zuko as well, so that I can teach him.
His mind has been really far away lately. Ever since he came back from the night that he let the Avatar escape from Zhao, he's been different. And I know why. He's been thinking about what Aang said to him. And I don't blame him. I would, too.
Anyway, we're docking now, so I better get going.
Kabira
I recapped my pen, and put the two items safely away into my bp. Then, I got my money sack, and headed up to the metal deck, the coins clinking loudly.
As soon as I entered the air outside of the ship, I immediately felt it.
Before Iroh could even get the words out of his mouth, I opened mine and said, "It's gonna rain." Iroh and Zuko were standing at the rail, opposite me, and looking at me strangely.
"How did you know that?" Iroh asked me curiously.
"Can't you feel the rain in the air? Plus, you can smell it." I walked over to the rail, next to Iroh, as the men rushed around, pulling the ship up to the dock. I couldn't stand it. I felt as if I should be helping. My muscles began to twitch from wanting to help in some way or another. I needed to help
"Can I help sometime?" The two looked at me like I was really weird.
"Uhh…" Iroh said.
"Don't worry, I have lived on a sailboat before." I said, taking a deep breath of salty sea air. I never got tired of that smell.
"Ok, then, you may, but you may find it a little different than one of your sail-boats." Iroh answered my question. I could tell he didn't evenknow what a sailboat was. But I smiled, and he smiled back.
Soon, we were off the boat, the men on the rhino's, going off to search for Aang.
"Prince Zuko will come and get you when we are ready to leave. Stay within about half a mile of the town, and on the south side, ok?" Iroh leaned down to me, and I nodded. Then, I watched them head into the forest. I looked up at the big, steel ship beside me, and just stood there in awe for a minute or so. Then I began walking into the town. I had always been amazed by technology, and I wanted to design things like that one day. I just always had thought that ships like that were so cool, and technology in general. But I mostly war items were awesome. Those were the ones that amazed me the most, including ships.
About and hour later, I had come across a store, that sold boots, knives, and some other stuff. Perfect. I thought, and proceeded in.
"May I help you miss?" the store-keeper asked, rushing forward, like he couldn't believe that someone was actually in his store. He was about a head shorter than me, and he looked like he hadn't shaved in days. He wore his hair slicked back with grease, and he had huge glasses on that magnified his eyes just a little. His clothes had black grease or paint on them, and he also wore an apron around his waist, that was almost spotless, compared to his clothes. His eyes were beady little cockroaches, and he wore brown hunting boot-things on his feet.
"Um, I'm actually looking for something." I said calmly, and told him exactly what I needed. He soon rushed back to the back to retrieve my items. It was then that I was able to get a good look at the store that I was in.
It was covered in swords of all kinds, even daggers. Some had fake blood "dripping" off of them, or the swords were shoved into a manikin. I could easily see why nobody was in here. Then, I noticed the boots in a corner; some had all kinds of designs on them, those looking like they'd cost 100,000 gold pieces, while others were as plain as daylight. Then, there were the masks. There were celebration masks, and some that looked like they were made to scare the devil out of little children. There were some other trinkets were here as well, but I didn't have a chance to really look at all the different things here, because the keeper was back with my armload of supplies.
"Here you are, miss!" he said cheerfully, placing my items on the counter. He was beginning to scare me from being all happy all the time.
I picked them up, examining them to see if I could work with them or not. It took about 10 minutes, the keeper getting a little impatient. His grin was plastered to his face the entire time, so I pretended not to notice. Finally, I picked up the boots. They were a Fire Nation style, and the pair had the same colors on them, but lace-up like the ones that I had at home. I finally said, "How much do I owe you?" digging out my purse.
"2 gold pieces." I dug them out from my 4 gold pieces, and left with my supplies.
"Thank you!" I called as I left the store.
It was now almost 2 hours since Iroh had left me here to join his nephew on "the hunt", and so I began walking slowly towards the docks, thinking if they weren't there yet that I could wait for them outside of the ship. I had my eyes to the ground the entire time, not even paying attention as I walked down the streets, singing Imaginary by Evanescence, or half singing under my breath anyway. It had been stuck in my head the entire day.
I finally got to the docks, but when I looked up at where the ship was supposed to be, the place was empty. I looked around at all the fillings in the dock, but it was nowhere. Finally, thinking the worst, I looked out to sea. I saw Zuko's boat about halfway out from the mainland. I cursed under my breath. How could they just leave me here! Ugh! Zuko…! Wait, they'll be back for me. I know they will. I waited there for about 45 more minutes, putting my feet in the water after about 15 minutes of waiting for them to turn around. But, they didn't, and they were past the horizon after 20 minutes. Finally, I gave up and went to get food for the night, knowing that they wouldn't make it back in time before dark.
After I got another bag load of fruit, and some water, then I headed into the forest to findshelter (I didn't really trust the people in this world yet). I soon began singing the song Imaginary again, out loud this time, once I was far enough away that no one would hear me.
I linger in the doorway
Of alarm clock screaming
Monsters calling my name
Let me stay
Where the wind will whisper to me
Where the raindrops
As they're falling tell a story
In my field of paper flower
And candy clouds of lullaby
I lie inside myself for hours
And watch my purple sky fly over me
I climbed over rocks and logs, searching for the perfect place to camp.
Don't say I'm out of touch
With this rampant chaos - your reality
I know well what lies beyond my sleeping refuge
The nightmare I built my own world to escape
I sang this verse as I neared a clearing…
"Hey, Aang! Do you hear something?" Katara whispered.
The young Air Bender listened, and then heard singing. "Yea I do. It sounds like it's coming from over there." He pointed to where Kabby was making her way from the forest, still not noticing the two standing there.
In my field of paper flowers
And candy clouds of lullaby
I lie inside myself for hours
And watch my purple sky fly over me
Swallowed up in the sound of my screaming
Cannot cease for the fear of silent nights
Oh how I long for the deep sleep dreaming
The Goddess of Imaginary Light
Then, I heard shuffling as I finished the verse, still having a few more to go, but I stopped and looked up. There, stood the Air Bender Monk that I knew as Aang, and his friend Katara, of the Water Tribe, and they had Sokka's boomerang and club, one in each of their hands, poised, ready to strike if necessary.
There was a short pause as Aang and I recognized each other. At the same time we both said, "I know you!" Aang lowering his weapon as he said this.
"Aang, who is this?" Katara asked, turning to the Monk, but keeping her eyes on me. My bags were hanging limp at my sides, and I wanted to run and hug Aang (I had always thought he was so cute), but I didn't dare approach just yet.
"Her name is Ka…Ka…Kabira?" he said in a questioning tone to me, and I nodded, the bison, very randomly letting out a loud rumble. I giggled.
"He's even cuter close up." I said, then my mind landed on something.
"Wait, isn't Zuko suppose to be following you?"
"That's what he thinks." Aang smiled and said mischievously. I half-smiled, still not getting where he was coming from. Then he explained in further detail. "I got on Appa, and made my way into the clouds, and turning back about halfway from shore, making sure he was still following the path I was in, and then I headed back here." Katara had slowly begun to lower the weapon, but she still kept her eyes on me. Aang's weapon was now tossed to the side carelessly.
"Wait, where's Sokka?" I asked, alarm coming to my voice.
"He's…sick." Katara said, finally looking down. I walked forward slowly. I was finally able to reach the girl without her striking at me. I guess she thought that if the Avatar trusted me, she could, too.
"Where is he? How bad is it?" I asked, placing a hand on her shoulder, knowing what it was like to have a sib sick, and you didn't know what was wrong with him. Pavan had gotten sick when I was about her age, and the doctor's hadn't known whether he'd live or die. Even my mother didn't know what was up, and she was a doctor as well. I was scared out of my skin during those long weeks.
She looked away, tears welling in her eyes. Aang spoke for her. "Behind Appa. He hasn't eaten in days, or drank anything either."
"Lead me to him." Katara looked up into my eyes for a shred of hope. Aang led us there, Katara in a half-daze from it all.
I saw him by the campfire, still as I had ever seen him; sweat forming on his forehead, in his sleeping bag. Even though he was really still, he sometimes kept twitchingtoo.
"What have you done for him so far? And do you have any extra cloth and some yarn or string?"
While Katara rushed off to get the things I ask for, Aang explained again. "We don't know what to do-"
"How long has he been like this?" I asked swiftly, putting my bags down and accepting the cloth and string Katara offered me when she got back. I knew that he didn't have much time if he'd been like this for over 2 days with no food or water.
"About 3 days…" Katara's voice broke. I pulled her into a hug.
"Don't worry about him. My mother is a doctor. I'll take care of him." I released her, and Ibended two holes into the cloth with my Fire Bending. They watched me apprehensively, knowing thatI was aFire Bender from that day at the Market, but they let me keep going without speaking up. I tied the string into the holes, and put it onto my face like a doctor's mask. I'd need all the protection I could get.
"Ok," I said, going into my little "mode" that I sometimes get into. "Do you have any water here, another cloth, and a cup that I could use? Also, I will need you, Katara, to go into the town to get a few things. I'd have you go Aang, but you're wanted. Thankfully Zuko isn't here." They were too busy listening that they didn't ask me how I knew about Zuko. "Katara, I will need you to get a slab of meat, some broth of some sort, lots of water, and some more cloth. There's my money pouch in my bags. Take it, use whatever you need, and go." I leaned over Sokka, examining him first. Katara left to get my first askings and came back a moment later. Then, knowing she didn't have much time, grabbed the bag and headed into the forest quickly, towards the town.
As I was wetting the cloth, Aang asked, "What can I do?"
"You'll need to stay here, in case I need you to do something." He nodded to show he understood, and then went to sit on a nearby log to quietly watch me work.
As the water hit the cloth, I slowly froze the water, careful not to let it totally freeze, or let Aang see, but just enough to get it cold. I sang a song into my mask while I worked, not really wanting anyone to hear me, but I knew that Aang could.
"If only, if only," The woodpecker sighs
"The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies."
While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely,
He cries to the moon, "If only, if only."
"Ok, guys!" o-dragon said after the movie, standing in the row in front of them, while everyone else sat in the row they were originally sitting at. "Now, we can do one of two things. The first one, watch an Avatar movie, and then go shopping, or go shopping and totally skip the Avatar movie. Which one?"
You guys have to vote here. Oh, and 15 pages! My longest yet! Whooo! Hope you all enjoyed it, and I will get the next one out ASAP, but I don't know how long that will be, so hang on for me.
Please review. Just writing this has put me in a better mood already…
Oh, and I wrote this on Friday, so all the bad day stuff happened yesterday, just to let ya'll know.