Cinn: Well, let us see if I can break the bounds of stereotypicalness - if that is a word. Which it probably isn't so spell checker will throw a complete fit with it... Then again it didn't reject 'smoothening' so there are chances.
Chapter 3: Reflection; The Joys of Friendship and Studies.
I'm going to Oxford... I'm going to Oxford... It still hadn't quite sunk in yet, I honestly couldn't believe it - I get to live on my own, and my friends will still be near by!
Ah - the joys of being 18. I can leave home - and still study Art! Not to mention all the other stuff I can do. As Debbie would say, 'if you even attempt to prank us into Timbuktu I'm not visiting you.' Ah, pranks, what fun they are. Wait a minute - I've found one problem with moving to Oxford, no more jujitsu with Debbie! I don't even know if there's any jujitsu clubs down there, and I dunno whether it'd be the same without Debbie, Mark, G (Georgia), and Liam.
Oh well, I'd better find somewhere or the bloody tiring and painful grading I'd endured to get a purple belt will be completely wasted. Well not completely, but enough.
However that is beside the point - as I am going and there's nothing anyone can do about that.
Jade and I went down first - we wanted to see what it was like, so we went early - Debbie went to Cambridge about a week later. Our rooms are quite nice actually - we soon covered up any area of the room that we did not like with posters - or my paints, which are already half empty and I've only just got here!
Jade has already joined a debate team in her college - and she spends quite a while with the other people in the debate club. Our colleges are less than 5 minutes apart - more like on opposite sides of the street. Debbie is about and hour away by bus - but the internet is quicker and that's mainly how we communicate, which was quite often.
DbbyRulz: Hi Lu!
CreativeGirl: Hi Deb, you seem really happy...
DbbyRulz: I am, I just found out who's in the same college as mw!
CreativeGirl: You mean 'me' - and who?
DbbyRulz: Oh, yeah, sorry - typo. Well, can't you guess!
CreativeGirl: Kevin?
DbbyRulz: Got it in one!
CreativeGirl: Anyone else you know yet?
DbbyRulz: Not that I know of - yet. How come Jade isn't on - I needed to talk to her...
CreativeGirl: She's with her new friends - she's in her college's debate club...
DbbyRulz: I never thought she'd make new friends before me... I would say or you but you can be pretty quiet when you're not with us.
CreativeGirl: And..? So what did you want to talk to Jade about?
DbbyRulz: It doesn't matter, I'll catch her later... I gotta go; I said I'd meet Kev.
CreativeGirl: OK then, bye!
DbbyRulz: Cya!
Great - all my friends have someone to talk to except me... I'm gonna go look around a bit; however my sketchbooks and stationary are coming with me! I may find something interesting to draw... Or someone, but that's unlikely, I don't draw people.
Time passed quickly - it usually does - and after 4 more weeks the term started. I was really nervous at first, but I soon got over it, as most of the practical things I found fun and sometimes easy and the essays and write-ups started off bog-standardly easy and slowly grew up over the first two weeks to what we was completely expected of us.
There was only one person in my class I talked to outside of it. I only met her because we're the two miss-fits in the class. Just kidding, neither of us knew anyone else at all so ended up with a table all to ourselves and quickly started talking. She's called Melanie Tracy, we became quick friends and she was as creative as me - however she plays guitar in a band and not piano & singing lessons. I went to hear them play a couple of times and they were really good.
She taught me a lot about drawing people when we did Anatomy in the first year of our Art course, whilst I taught her a lot about drawing landscapes - mainly when we started Drawing, but also when we would draw the grounds and people in the grounds at breaks and free time. It's what we both liked to do.
When I introduced her to Jade and Debbie she didn't exactly get along with Debbie straight away, who said 'Oh Good God, not another Art Freak' once I said she was in my art class. Eventually Debbie apologised and said she was only joking and they get along OK now... She gets along with Jade OK too - but that's probably because Jade's nice enough not to say something nasty or potentially insulting to her when they first meet.
However Mel and Debbie's friendship lasted a very short time. As Mel soon took a rather unhealthy liking to Kevin, who was devastated to find out was already going out with Debbie. I know because she came to talk to me about it and it was me who pointed this slightly important fact out to her. I knew Mel wouldn't deliberately go behind someone's back - especially with their boy/girlfriend in tow. Debbie however did not share this view when she found out that Kevin and Mel talked a lot on MSN, and therefore believed that Mel was trying to steal Kevin from her. She almost brought me into the whole thing by saying that I knew and didn't tell her and didn't believe me when I told her nothing was happening until I swore it on my little sisters life that I didn't know anything was actually going on between them other than friendship.
Jade stayed out of it until Debbie cooled down - wise move by a wise girl. Eventually everything cooled down and I was able to practise for my final exam in peace - along with Mel as I was still friends with her. That practise was very good help and I came second overall in the class - some boy called Jang Ti came top - which meant I got a good choice as to where I lived for the next year. Summer was well spent as I spent all of it with Jade, Mel, Debbie and Kevin and a few other people who were in various groups with one of us. Granted we all had to return home for the summer - but that meant me and Debbie got to resume jujitsu - which meant that sensei kept enquiring as to why we weren't brown belts yet as we had vastly improved over the last year.
Also I was restricted as to when I could go out and see my friends as I had to baby-sit a now five-year old Nina who hadn't forgiven me for missing her Fifth Birthday Party - I'd sent her present up, granted it wasn't anything special - a box of sweeties and a couple of hair bobbles as her hair is very messy when it's not pinned back. She forgave me eventually. As her five year old memory can only remember so much - and she soon forgot when she learnt that she had to start Primary School at the end of the summer or 'Big School' as she called it.
So returning to Oxford for my Second year was quite refreshing - and I loved it. That was until Debbie and Mel stopped speaking altogether. Personally I think it's more Mel's fault than Debbie's but she swears she had nothing to do with it, well no more than she had to.
DbbyRulz: Do you know what that Bitch has done!
(I'm glad I'm not at her end of the connection - she'd probably have shrieked at me, and believe me, she can be very loud. I knew she was referring to Mel, she's never dubbed anyone else 'Bitch' before and never acknowledged that they had another name.)
CreativeGirl: What?
DbbyRulz: She's only gone and stolen my boyfriend! Not like it's important! I know you only said 'what' in a way that sounded as if you were tried of me not tlaking to her and expecting something unimportant...
CreativeGirl: She's what? And typo...
DbbyRulz: Kevin broke up with me, and the reason he gave me for doing it was becuase he says he loves her!
CreativeGirl: You made another typo - and you can't blame Mel for that! She can't control his brain and mind, you know.
DbbyRulz: I don't care about typos! But she has - she's probably been flirting with him behind my back and manipulating his mind! I bet you anything!
CreativeGirl: She can't help it if she's a similar sort of person to what he finds attractive - you know that.
DbbyRulz: She's hated me ever since she first met me! I bet you anything that she's been telling him all sorts of lies to make him hate me so that he now likes her more!
CreativeGirl: I doubt it - Mel isn't like that. Well, she's never done anything like that to anyone else...
DbbyRulz: She hates me though! You know that!
CreativeGirl: Stop being such a Drama Queen - have you asked her about it? She might not have had anything to do with it. And if she did hate you it's your own fault - you were the one who called her a 'Freak' remember - whilst insulting her interests!
DbbyRulz: I was joking and you know it...
CreativeGirl: Did she know that? She'd known you for five seconds!
DbbyRulz: Shut-up, and who else could she have done something like this too?
CreativeGirl: Other people are in relationships too you know - Jade has a boyfriend, most of our art class has a partner...
DbbyRulz: Jade has a boyfriend? When did that happen!
CreativeGirl: She met him in her classes and they got together over the summer...
DbbyRulz: Oh - tell her to beware of the Bitch then... She'll try to steal him from her...
CreativeGirl: No she won't - at least listen to her side of the story when you hear it...
DbbyRulz: I already know it - she somehow persuaded Kevin to break up with me to go out with her!
CreativeGirl: How'd you know she persuaded him and he didn't just decide to dump you himself because he's decided he likes her more?
(I'm getting really sick of this and Mel isn't online so I can't ask her about it...)
DbbyRulz: I know she did - I know!
CreativeGirl: Whatever - I'm tired so I'm going to go to bed now...
DbbyRulz: You always were a bad liar - you're tired of me being right.
CreativeGirl has signed out.
I hate it when friends fall out because they can't accept that the other side of the story might not be what they assume it is... When Mel did eventually come online - I was typing up an Art practical and had blocked Debbie so she'd shut-up.
CreativeGirl: What's this I hear about you making Debbie even more pissed off with you that she already was?
ArtyMelanie: I swear that wasn't my fault! I had no idea that Kevin was going to dump her to ask me out... She's having a right bitch at me...
CreativeGirl: She thinks you persuaded him to break up with her...
ArtyMelanie: Yeah - she's just mentioned something about that. But I didn't! I swear I didn't!
CreativeGirl: I believe you - it's Debbie who doesn't.
ArtyMelanie: She says she's going to come to my room and attack me with a knife...
CreativeGirl: She's only pissed off - she's said that to me and Jade loads - we're still perfectly fine with no knife scars...
CreativeGirl: So what did you say to Kevin?
ArtyMelanie: Yes - obviously.
CreativeGirl: What's he think about all of this?
ArtyMelanie: That it's just the reason he's broken up with her... She wants to know if you're online...
CreativeGirl: Tell her I'm not... I blocked her till she's cooled down - or at least till I log off...
ArtyMelanie: I don't blame you... Kevin says he's going to explain everything that I knew to her... Hopefully she'll calm down and not punch him in the nose or mouth...
CreativeGirl: She won't - she knows she's not allowed - besides she still likes him too much.
ArtyMelanie: I feel dreadful about all this...
CreativeGirl: Don't, she'll cool down soon enough, you bet.
ArtyMelanie: Hopefully - oh btw, my cousin says your sketches are very, very good...
CreativeGirl: You've shown them too your cousin!
ArtyMelanie: Yeah - they're really brilliant! Why are you so surprised?
CreativeGirl: I don't show my art to people - I've learnt that they don't usually care...
ArtyMelanie: Some people do - Jeff does - he's over here for a while, that's why I've shown them to him.
CreativeGirl: Oh.
ArtyMelanie: You should come meet my family some time - especially while Jeff's home - you'll really like him, and the holidays aren't that far off!
CreativeGirl: OK, maybe, I dunno...
ArtyMelanie: Aw, c'mon... They're only 3 quarters of an hours walk from here...
CreativeGirl: OK then - as long as you're sure it's OK...
ArtyMelanie: It is. I mean even if it wasn't they can't stop you coming for a day...
CreativeGirl: True...
So that was that - I was going to go and meet Mel's family. Which consisted of (not including her) bother her parents, grandma, two elder sisters and her Aunt, Uncle and cousin who were staying over for a while... Was a very interesting meeting actually - as her Aunt and Mother were out shopping with her eldest sister - her Dad was at work and her Uncle and other sister were playing chess (rather forcefully and amusingly) and her cousin (who's a year older than us) was AWOL at that precise moment in time. Her sister and Uncle were very friendly - and Mel and I soon became involved in "helping" and cheering on their game of chess... Her Dad came home soon after - who again was very friendly and very nice - and joined in - but pointed out that when Mel's Mother got home they'd have to clear it away or "suffer the consequences" because she'd want to make dinner to which Mel's middle sister (2nd oldest called Carol) replied "She won't care - she'll only join in with the 'helping' you lot always attempt."
This was evidently very true - it appeared a game of chess between Carol and her Uncle was an event not to be missed... Because when Jeff finally turned up he looked remotely disappointed in missing out on all the fun. Meeting him was fun though - once I saw him Mel introduced us. Almost immediately I had to give her the good ol' you-never-said-your-cousin-was-cute look. Which she replied to with the I'm-related-to-him-I-don't-see-it look...
"Are you the one who does the really good art?"
"You mean sketches..." Mel hissed under her breath. I'm guessing she meant that he'd only seen sketches I'd done because she's usually saying I'm good at most Arty things (except drawing people).
But anyways we got talking about Art - well Mel and I did - Jeff sort of listened looking a little bit confused. Either that or he always looks a bit confused. Then dinner was ready - so we ate - then I discovered that Carol had done a degree in Mathematics and Lois (the eldest of the three) was very musical and was on grade 10 for singing and was trying to start a singing career. Then we got onto Jeff's career - he had just joined the US Air Force. That conversation was on for ages! It was really interesting - and he seemed really passionate about it - I like people like that who are passionate about what they do and what they like...
However some people think things like that are boring and get tired quickly and make people go off and do something else... For example Mel takes very little interest in that and shooed him off to go and do something else so we could talk.
Which we did - we stayed up till 12:00 talking then were told to shut-up and go to bed. We didn't exactly do that - we went to bed (or in my case a sleeping bag) and carried on talking.
I could only spend the day there as my mother was practically ordering me home to look after my little sister for the Easter Holidays. This meant I had to leave rather quickly, but I ended up with Lois and Carol's email addresses because Lois said she usually needed someone to talk to about music and because Carol wants to just randomly talk. That should prove to be interesting.
Debbie was irate when she found out I'd been to Mel's house after she was the sole reason Kevin broke up with her, not like Debbie hasn't tried to do the same to Mel. Apparently Kevin trying to calm her down didn't go too well, and she's still pissed off with most things - and I couldn't escape as Jade was still in Oxford with her boyfriend as was Mel, and Liam, Georgia and Mark would want Debbie with us. So I had to endure her ranting without trying to inflict it upon everyone or anyone else.
Believe me - it's not fun.
Going back to Oxford was a big relief as I no longer had someone down my throat 24/7. However end of year pressure was again upon us and it meant stress levels were raising. This meant I had to block people on MSN for the simple reason that they were annoying me and I kept snapping and being mean so I was trying not to be. Unfortunately Debbie knows how to get round blocking now and uses it frequently. There was only one person I did not block, and that was because I couldn't stand being in a position where I couldn't talk to him, and I rarely got to talk to him anyways.
However her exams soon took over and she shut-up. Jade says that her revision suffered because of Debbie. Mel and I didn't have revision this year as to pass we have to have satisfactory records in all courses. When we found out we'd passed we were ecstatic because we'd been dreading failing for at least 4 weeks.
It was then that I finally permitted people to talk to me on MSN again and I was flooded with angry messages about it - but they got over it.
DbbyRulz: Finally! You've unblocked me! How dare you block me!
CreativeGirl: I was stressed you know - so it was either that or I treat you with the same annoyance as you've treated me with ever since Kevin broke up with you - and don't bother trying to explain it was Mel's fault 'cause it wasn't...
DbbyRulz: How dare you! You know I'm right! I can't believe you believe her!
CreativeGirl: Well - put it this way - she's explained it and taken the whole thing in a much more mature way than you have - all you've done is point the blame on her. She's actually explained her point of view on the whole thing...
DbbyRulz: I've got to go - I need to revise - because some of us still have exams you know.
Whatever, I don't care - all I've been is something for her to bitch about Mel to for the past month so I don't really care if she never speaks to me again. She deserves it. Oh - someone else is trying to talk to me.
JT: Hello.
CreativeGirl: Hi
JT: Congratulations on passing your 2nd year... Mel just told me.
CreativeGirl: Thanks. How's the Air Force career going?
JT: OK - you probably aren't interested...
CreativeGirl: No really - I am - I like it when people really care about what they do... It shows uniqueness.
JT: You're one smart and unique kid...
CreativeGirl: I'm not a kid! I'm only 1 year younger than you...
JT: Cool down! I was only kidding - what is it with girls your age? Mel hates being called 'Little Cousin'...
CreativeGirl: Because we've been used to being called kids all our lives and now we know we aren't anymore and don't want people trying to pass us off as kids - we don't like being looked upon as if we don't know anything.
JT: That would explain a lot.
(I felt rather proud about that. At least the insult had worn off now and I didn't feel quite as offended. Actually I don't know why I felt so offended about it.)
CreativeGirl: See - all you have to do is listen to people's points of view and something else becomes clear - or at least their reaction does...
JT: How'd you know all this?
CreativeGirl: Experience, having friends who can quickly jump to the worst conclusions makes you realise these things very quickly.
JT: I can imagine. Here we're expected to think things through rationally, but quickly - it's a nightmare at first.
CreativeGirl: I can believe that - it took me ages to learn how to head my friends off...
JT: Yeah, I have to go - I'll talk to you some other time.
CreativeGirl: Bye then...
JT has signed out.
I was unusually disappointed that he'd signed out. But Jade came on soon after and got me lost talking about cures for cancers that she'd conceived. I just kinda listened whilst she explained and eventually signed out to go to bed. I needed the sleep.
I spent the summer baby-sitting, which was 3x worse as now all her little 6 year old friends come round and they're all hyperactive little 3ft energy masses. Until about tea-time, then they settle down until bedtime when they suddenly become hyperkinetic again... Mother obviously went out repeatedly and let me deal with it entirely. But I quickly learnt that Tom & Jerry can still entrance them for about half an hour. I got a lot of time to think during these half hours, mainly about Jeff - something about him kept making my mind return to thinking of him. I don't know why, I don't know what. I can't tell whether I like him as a friend - or possibly more. He is the one person who is able to confuse me a) more than Debbie and Jade have ever managed too, and b) in such a way.
Jade came round once - she'd brought Sean (her boyfriend) up to meet her parents and decided she'd come round a see me whilst she was here. Well Sean had gone back down to Oxford after two days and she was staying for another three, so she slept over. I discovered she's good at unconfusing people.
Her favourite topic for that sleepover was Jeff and I. Actually - I let her talk about it, because I felt that then I could try heading her off and she'd never mention it again. That failed.
"And besides, what would he see in someone like me?" I asked Jade, this was the final attempt at trying to prove her wrong, well, wrong is the wrong word but you get what I mean.
"Well, let's see. You're both incredibly smart, passionate about what you do. You've grown up a lot over the past few weeks. You both appreciate good Art - I say appreciate. You both organise things pretty damn well -"
"That's not a reason!" I butted in. I could see were she was coming from, but c'mon - who does she think she's kidding?
"- it is one enough for the purposes of this conversation - you can talk for hours on end with each other. All good relationships are well founded on a good level of communication. Not to mention in any argument or debate you're both a good match for the other. You both have a similar sense of humour." Jade continued - ignoring my input. This didn't really surprise me - Jade's always been able to stick to a topic no matter how many distractions you try to provide. Notice how I say try.
"You're talking nonsense." I said, blushing, as we both knew I would when the conversation began. Granted my hopes weren't exactly dashed with his repeated communication with me or anything and I supposed I always hoped or pretended that there was a possibility that he was at least starting to feel the same way. Whenever I talked to him, whether by email or through MSN, all I could think of was 'god, I love you' because now I could actually tell that I did.
I know I have 4 options:
1) I get over him.
2) I don't get over him and spend the rest of my life thinking about him and wondering whether he feels the same way.
3) I don't get over him, but he doesn't feel the same way.
4) He feels the same way and we get together.
I hoping it's either 1 or 4. If it isn't - I'm kinda screwed.
I saw him once during the summer because Mel came up to meet Kevin's family and he'd driven her up - he didn't look too pleased about it - and was bored of hanging about with them two kissing all the time. So I got to know him quite a bit more that day when we hung around the park and continued baby-sitting Nina and Co. He also took Mel and I back to Oxford for our third and final year - in which we got to take an extra subject as a side on course with Art. I was taking French, Mel was taking Spanish. Extra languages were common because it meant that you could work in foreign places (or at least have a better chance of doing so) and were good for travelling on holiday or the like.
So year three - not only Art papers but French ones too. I had the wonderfully insane idea to take French. I guess I'll survive.
Debbie was now going to the length of spamming Mel's email because of the whole boy-friend issue. That's why I'm glad I didn't get a boyfriend - they're too much hassle. But Mel's going to the length of spamming her back - Mel is also a whiz with computers, which isn't a good thing. So Jade and I are doing our best to avoid all contact with either of them - outside lessons - and whenever they talk about the other. So to get back at me for that one Mel keeps going on about Jeff too me - she's convinced we fancy each other. But I'm not going to tell her that - I have many reasons not to.
So anyways - with little communication between friends (and what communication there is, isn't exactly under the category of 'nice') - things are getting a little stressful. Both Mel and I have had to head Jeff of 'seeing to' Debbie because of the emails... An experience I never want to repeat. Jade and I tried to explain the 'Real Story' to Debbie in hope that she'd listen to Mel and they can apologise to each other. Again - I'm never repeating this.
In the end I took it out through my Art and my music. I've always hated modern Art, because to me it isn't Art, but I ended up creating quite a lot of it in the first term of my third year at Oxford. However I couldn't submit it as I wasn't 'specialising' in that area of Art.
Eventually I became very glad and grateful for taking French as it meant that I could insult Debbie without her totally understanding me... She'd given up French long ago... But occasionally bothered to put what I wrote through a translator (online obviously) and then get pissed off at me for saying whatever it was that I said... This was usually something along the lines of telling her to grow up. I once read somewhere that the principal of learning a foreign language was to tell someone to "go to hell" and make them actually look forward to the trip.
Things changed at Christmas. They changed a lot - well for me. I was at a Christmas party with Jade, Mel and Debbie - the last two were at opposite ends of the room giving each others death glares.
Jade and I were stood apart from both of them trying to have a good time, wasn't very easy. Then guess who turned up. That's right, Jeff.
I was sat at the bar with a drink - which I was trying to drink, but that was short lived as he soon pulled me away from the bar and outside into the cool evening air with the excuse "we need to talk". Please don't scream cliché, things have been used in plots so often everything is nowadays, and I liked the way things turned out. I don't care if it's kinda obvious, because it gave me time to think through all possibilities whilst we actually walked far enough to not be heard but to been seen that all we were doing was talking.
I waited for him to talk first; it was his idea after all.
"I'm going to be reasonably straight forward about this." He started, after a long pause, "Would you ever be able to play a part in a long-distance relationship?"
"I guess..." I replied, unsurely, I mean I'd never had a boyfriend in the same area as me, let alone somewhere completely differently. But he didn't need to know that.
"Well, would you be interested in, err, trying one. OK, what I mean is I like you, a lot, and I would like to at least try a relationship with you. It's just that you're here and I'm over in America, well, most of the time." He paused; I could tell he was expecting an answer, who wouldn't be?
"There's no harm in trying is there?" I said, eventually, half laughing, "No, I mean yes, I'd like to try, because I like you too, well, more than a friend." He grinned in such a way that told me inside he was heaving a huge sigh of relief. He kissed me; I guess it's a mark of just how patient I can be. I'm 20 and this is my first kiss. It was nice, very nice, but I don't really have a comparison.
Once we'd broken apart there was a tiny bit of slightly awkward silence then he said,
"We should head back in, they'll start talking..."
"Let them, it's nicer out here, quieter, less stuffy..." I trailed off as he grinned and we again started talking about some of the random things we usually do, well it wasn't actually as random as it could've been. It was about how often we could see each other and stuff, he was only in England for another week, granted he was staying locally, but then he was back in America and work, and his work wasn't exactly the safest there is.
Only after that I had to go back to Oxford and back to stopping my best friends murdering each other. I think Jade was very, very wise to not get involved in any of the whole Debbie/Mel thing - but she has a lot more reasons not to than I did. I was friends with both of them and unfortunately was the first person available for Debbie to rant too. I've never seen her this much pissed off before. I went over to Cambridge around this time and told her too get over Kevin and look around at some of the other guys, which failed when we actually saw Kevin with Mel. Next time I make sure Mel stays in Oxford.
So - yeah - I had a difficult third year because of the social hell my friends put me through. Not to mention a long-distance relationship with one of their cousins, who could very easily end up seriously injured or something. Preparing for my final exam was a nightmare; most nights were something along these lines.
DbbyRulz: Are you still talking to her!
CreativeGirl: Yes - go away - I'm busy...
DbbyRulz: Your status disagrees with that...
CreativeGirl: Debbie - go away.
DbbyRulz: No.
CreativeGirl: Are you trying to make me fail my final year?
DbbyRulz: You don't want me to answer that, anyways - exams are ages off!
CreativeGirl: Maybe for you - but not for me - my finals are in a month! And I have loads of prep work to do!
DbbyRulz: Take a chill pill! Anyways - La Bitch still has loads of free time...
CreativeGirl: How'd you know?
DbbyRulz: The amount of time she's spend getting me back for spamming her...
CreativeGirl: Well it's her own fault if she fails... I'm not going to let you distract me...
DbbyRulz: Wait one moment!
CreativeGirl has signed out
So yeah - I took that up with Mel - who said 'yes, she had been spending a lot of her time getting her own back on Debbie.' I warned her about failing the exam, but she said she was fine. So it's her own fault. Jade rarely talks to anyone other than her boyfriend who she spends ages revising with...
Eventually our Art exam came upon us and I passed as 3rd top of the class, Mel passed quite a lot lower on account of a lot less prep.
So year three over with, I had to start my own life. No idea where I want to take it yet. But I'll find out soon enough - or at least eventually. So after being congratulated many times on passing the whole Art course I ended up being back home looking forward to one last whole summer babysitting my little sister, incidentally my mother had no words of congratulations for me and I doubted she would ever even consider it. She was irritated at me for leaving to go and finish my studies meaning she couldn't go out every evening whilst I looked after Nina.
Lucky me, I get to spend another summer doing just that. Though I've told her a millions times I'm not doing so once October comes around and I'm starting Job-hunting during September - she agreed at the time and I haven't let her forget it. But at least I have the added bonus of Jeff coming round this summer - that'll be great.
Cinn: Well, I didn't quite intend it to be as long as that... But hey - it was. I think I got the cliché down pretty well - j/k I didn't mean to do that, but every scenario's been covered so many times it's difficult not to get into one... My next problem is deciding how to end this - which story of her death do I go to? Hm, childbirth or avalanche..? I'll decide by the time when I need to.
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