August 20, Summer, year 20

Sheesh, my head… It still hurts after two days! I didn't know that he could drink quite so much!

That's the last time I buy Uncle T drinks at the Blue Bar for a birthday celebration. I don't even know how I got involved in the drinking! Or, now that I think about it, how I got home.

I bet Muffy and Griffin got us home. They're usually pretty good at seeing the smashed people on their way… What with Patrick and Kasey, it's no surprise. The drunker they get, the more they hit on any girl who goes into the bar!

And Uncle T wonders why I've stopped going there at night. Feh!

I've been re-reading that journal Win loaned me, since it's been raining all day. There's some amazing sketchwork in it, and it makes me wonder even more why Skye left his home. Maybe it's just because I live here, but I have a hard time figuring out what it is about the earth that draws these guys down.

The… okay, there's a name here, I'm going to use that. Lady Alora makes mention of robes that remove the need to feel any emotion… Is that part of it maybe? People sending their children down here to actually live life until they're ready to take up whatever duties they have back in their palaces? Or maybe they're sending them down here to just get them away from something up there… There's a couple of mentions of how the heirs of the family are supposed to be raised on the earth because that will give them a better understand for their life up on the moon, but no matter how much I think about it, I just can't see it.

I mean really… It seems to me that it's kinda like being able to paint beautiful paintings one day (Karen does this, she promised on for my birthday!) and then suddenly losing your eyesight or hands or something!

That's really sad to think about. It makes me wonder if Skye might have to don one of these robes some time in the future. I hope not, the PoM (okay, it looks silly, but it's easier.) are supposed to have long life-spans, longer than us humans.

I talked a bit more with Win too, apparently the one trait all PoM share is bright silver hair, and even if they have half-blood children, it's more likely that they'll be born with silver hair. She told me that about a century back there were a lot of them here, though most of them went up to the Moon Palaces, and never came back down.

(Win actually said that she's one too, and that she took after her human parent, but if I tell anyone she'll turn me into a frog. Kinda like how if I tell anyone her name is actually Winifred she'll turn me into a newt. Hehehe)

It just makes me wonder about a former acquaintance of Damien's… uh… Jerry? No… Jerry was Damien's kid brother. (Poor kid.)

Oh right! Lauren! Sheesh, how could I forget her? She was the only person in Damien's 'crew' that was nice to me on a regular basis that wasn't affected by the drugs or booze.. Her hair was streaked with silver, and she said she's like… fifty-four to everyone's late teens/early twenties, though you'd never guess it by looking at her.

I wonder if I still have her phone number in the rolldex? I should go check. Maybe ask if she wants to hang out some time.

She always did say she had a lucky streak a mile wide, what with drink and drugs being ineffective to her. Poor thing was always our DD because of it. If I do have her number and she does agree to come out, I'll make her some chocolate cookies! She always did like those…

Phuuuu… not a sign of her number. Damien did take a lot of numbers from the rolldex when he messed with the house though, so I guess I shouldn't be too surprised.

It's strange, I've only been seriously out here for two seasons, but already I find myself looking for someone to catch up with. The sanest someone I knew too. I don't think I miss it… I think it's just that I want to see one of the few people who actually was my friend.

But if I tried going back now, Damien would think he'd won. Besides, I take enough time out of my day with writing and reading, I can't really afford to take a whole lot more. There's been more wild dogs around, so Dakota's been really busy. So has Puppy, he's starting to turn into a real guard dog.

Serri's started sleeping most of the day. It's better than her clawing at the window screens though, wanting out. Looks like she's finally realized I'm not gonna let her out of the house until her kittens are old enough to be walking around on their own.

Hard to believe it's almost the end of summer. It's raining now, but I bet it'll be hot for the rest of the season. Heck, it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if we got another storm on the day of the fireworks!

Though that would be just awful. The season ending fireworks is the best festival of the summer! And there's the Firefly festival in a few more days.

I wonder if I'll cry… I know there's some people that do, and Pony probably will over in Mineral Town… but if Mom and Dad are in the ocean, I want to light their way to Heaven. They don't need to be there after all, or here! I've got everything in good hands.

I do have rough days though… More recently than before, what with all the stress and drama. Days where I just want to sleep in and let Mom or Dad handle the chores, before I remember that they're not around anymore… It's hard then.

Oh, I've seen Skye a couple more times. I think he's plotting another thievery, and nothing I say will make him change his mind. He's so stubborn! I swear, next time I see him I'm going to ask him why he steals. He never really gave me a straight answer to that…

And I want to know more about his past too. Was he raised in the Rainbow Palace? Or the Serenity Palace? (I know there's more, but those are the two big ones I can remember.) What was it like looking down at the Earth? And the most important question of all, why did he come down here? That's just going to bug me until I find out!

Though I'll probably have to work my way up to asking it, considering how well he dodges questions. I guess that's part of he fun though, finding out how to ask him a question so that he's stuck with giving me a straight answer.

Oh, and the bracelet! I told Uncle Carter I lost it, and Skye says he's going to keep it until the Harvest Goddess comes back. The Goddess will be able to dispose of it safely, and it wouldn't work in Mineral Town, since it was found here.

Wow… run on sentence!

I need to go to bed… Let's go put the animals away.