what am i s'posed to do, when the best part of me was always you?

It shouldn’t be this much to ask. To have you call me back, or at least not make it so I end up calling you three or more times before I give up. To not have to feel hopeless and helpless and generally just lost in every sense of the word.

I’m simple. I really, truly am. I like to know I can rely on you, especially on such simple a thing as calling me back.

I feel like I’m just something on the side for you. There when it’s convenient and when you want it, but when you don’t…well, then you just simply don’t. Then you simply just don’t answer the phone, don’t message me back, don’t do anything.

This is why I hate the distance. It would be one thing if I could come see you more, if there were more things we could do. But with a 25 mile distance (though not grand, admittedly) there is less and less I’m finding. Rides are trouble enough – neither set of parents wants even a weekly drive either way, much less both. It’s a hassle, and I understand that. But that shouldn’t be what keeps you away, should it?

All I seem to know is that, lately, all I do is hurt. I’m granted brief reprieve when you decide to answer your phone, or actually follow through with plans (which you always seem to have some flimsy excuse to have to cancel on me for).

I love you, but I do not love this.

And it kills me how much it hurts sometimes.

will you let me stay a while?

I wish you could see yourself the way I do. All the planes and angles and curves of your face, your arms, your chest. All those places I have grown to know so fondly.

I wish you could look through my eyes, through my soul, see and feel all that I do. Maybe then you could understand. Maybe then you would be gentler on my heart.

*sigh*

Today started off so well, then went downhill so fast. Woke up early, got to get some Mickey D’s for breakfast, got to school early and had time to relax (if I get there too late, it stresses me out >.<)….

Then Alex flipped because he forgot a paper for Physics. 

Calmed him down, went to TA and got a terrible scene where my character has a dead 4 year old. Got to math, and we had fun because it was a blow off class today (our teacher realizes that none of us care anymore).

Fast forward to lunch.

He found out his Econ teacher lost his papers. I believe it - he did the same to me last semester. But what does he do? He depresses out, lies down and takes it, and gets in the worst mood ever. And takes it out on me.

 I know he didn’t mean too, that he’s just not a person you want to be around when he’s upset, but still. It’s not my fault!

And now? Now our big 6 month date is cancelled because he is “grounded until further notice”.

I hate everything

the voicemail letter

I am a writer. A dreamer. A reader, most importantly. I am the “poor, mad girl back home”. I am a hopeless romantic, a doer, a mediocre photographer, addicted to Diet Mountain Dew and mini Cadbury eggs and clumsy and listen to bad music and love Disney movies. I triple knot my shoe laces and they still come undone by the end of the day. I’m a girl that, instead of stuffed animals, has books crowded on her bed (oh, the times I’ve woken up with words imprinted on my skin!). I have devoured many a book in one day, in hours, refusing sleep until the last page so I might be satisfied.

           

My blood flows ink and words, colorful allusions and metaphors; and every thought is as a book. I map out conversations such as dialoge and try to figure out the plot of everyone’s lives so that I might one day learn the plot of my own (although I suspect you have some to do with it).

           

            We are reading the story of our lives

            As though we were in it

            As though we had written it

                                                ~ Mark Strand

I am a collector of vague words and lost phrases and people’s quirks. ‘Pulvis et umbra sumus’ – we are but dust and shadows. Sleep-warm. ‘I was dying of wanting’. Tá mo chroí instigh intí. “And from death I return with words.” I speak in some loose collection of words, phrases, thoughts stolen from others. One minute I am Clary Fray, another Lizzie Bennett, another Gemma Doyle, Hermione Granger, Rose Hathaway, Kaye Fierch, Katniss Everdeen, Almathia. I am broken verses strung into a symphony of sound. I am quotes and stars and momentos and books. Oh, how I am books!

I am a girl, a thing usually deemed fragile though I try not to be. But I am, and it’s simply terrible at times. I am strong for others, weak for myself. A caregiver of sorts, latching onto the unfortunate and the needy and the lost.

And then there is you.

You, with your music and guitars and jazz and your smile. That smile, that I love. When it pops out after something particularly clever (or stupid) I’ve said, when I can feel it when you’re kissing me, when it’s so automatic that one side quirks up before the other and the smile starts in your eyes before it hits your mouth.

How your music is everything, and there’s a song for every moment. Is there one for me, I wonder? I should hope not, but I do, darling, I do. How the range of your music is everything I could hope for in mine.

The fact you’re just as comfortable in a plain shirt as a sweater vest (though, no offense to them, but when you’ve taken them off and are down to just the button-down and roll the sleeves up I swoon) and are just so you in everything you do.

Everything you’ve dreamed up for us and how it makes me not want to live in my books anymore. Makes me want to live, with you. To just simply be, together, as two halves of a whole.

Or a hole, one we’ve dug together that could be scary but instead is comfortable and quaint and pretty perfect.

How I can read any book, pretend to be anyone and fall in love through words time and time again (often with the same characters) and every single time it is nothing compared to you. To how you love me.

And maybe it’s not how I feel about you – it’s how I don’t feel anything close to this for anyone else. Maybe it’s how I can never pin down exactly what shade of blue your eyes are or how I can’t explain how I feel about you without grinning like a schoolgirl. Or how I can listen to any love song and relate it back to us. How I have been writing til my hand hurts to try and convey to you the depth of my affection.

How I worry about giving you this, simply because I overthink everything for fear of screwing this – of screwing us – up.

How you are not Mr. Darcy or Peeta or Kartik or Dimitri Belikov, JAce Morgenstern, Ron Weasley, The Great Wizard Schmendrick, Roiben Rath Raye but at the same you’re so much more. You are every good part of every book, movie and song that I was already in love with, some from childhood. Truly.

How I could write tens of hundreds of things, compose sonnets, write novels, compose music or stand under your window with a boombox like those 80’s movies (though with my luck, you’d choose that night to sleep in the basement) and it wouldn’t be enough.

            “Time together is just never quite enough.”

            “When you and I are alone, I’ve never felt so at home.”

            […]

            “So tell me darling, do you wish we’d fall in love?”

            “All the time, all the time”

                                                            ~Saltwater Room, Owl City

You, with your jokes I don’t get and your coffee and every little thing about you. Blue and green. Your scarf. Chase. You want to do graphic design. You want to get out of this place as much as I do.

You, with your soothing words and just-right comments. How you can be talking to someone else and yet tracing circles on me and I melt. You with your games and friends and secret place I don’t know how to find yet (I can’t wait to, one day). How I want to one day understand you, all of you, how I understand myself. Maybe more. How you say things and I believe you, and it scares the living hell out of me most of the time because everyone has left me at some point for some reason and I’ve learned to not trust. But you, you, oh you make me trust you with every word of the future you offer me – and I take, quite greedily. 

alex: so there’s this absolutely gorgeous girl in my class. ive been in love with her since, like, 7th grade

me: wow

alex: she means near the world to me. she always has. sometime i don’t really know if she knows that, to be honest

me: well, maybe she’s one of those annoying people who always need to be told stuff like that. one of those insecure girls, who can’t believe how lucky she is.

alex: well i’ll gladly keep telling her. and she’s not lucky - she deserves it. every bit of it

me: how so?

alex: she’s fantastic in every way. everything she does is great. she’s worked hard in everything ive known of - she deserves someone who will give her the kind of attention 

dear alex

I love you because you say things like ‘wacky’. And like waffles with PB or Nutella. Because you know how to make me feel special and beautiful, which is a really hard thing. Because you do crazy things like saying 

you: yeah, really :) hell, for all i know i might love you or some crazy shit like that ♥

me: woah woah woah man. that there are so heavy words. you sure you mean them? ;)

you: if i said yes would you hold it against me? :)

just because you know it’ll make my night while you’re at work and we can’t really talk. And it did. 

I love you for you and how amazing you are. How you are sweet and kinda and good and it’s all like a fairytale. One five years in the making, and it’s like good wine - it got better over the years. 

I love that you are my best friend and my boyfriend. That I can trust you with all the crazy going on in my life and know you’ll still be there for me no matter what. I love that you’re you and I’m me and we’re together. Finally. At last. After all the stubbornness and “No, not going to” and generally just being dumb (all three on my part, since you were always the smart one)

I love that you let me steal your hoodies and don’t complain when, a week later, I want a different one because the one I have doesn’t smell like you anymore. I love when you’re playing your guitar, when you’re singing (you’re going to make it into Varsity Voices, I know it), when you’re cracking jokes. When you squeeze my hand and look into my eyes and all I can see in them is love. 

I love that you love me, and make me want to be more. That you listen to me rant or make up silly plans and just go along with it. That you protect me for little things (like certain people we know) and don’t even question why I don’t like being around them. How you are gallant and noble and amazing. Like my own personal knight out of a storybook.

How you’re persistent, and convinced you’re going to win me a Kindle. How you make me believe you about that, even if I do think you’re being ridiculous.

I love how you’ve made me secure and grounded and made me realize that you really do love me and I need to shut up about being all insecure about it. I love that you love my weird, random little notes I write you at the end of the day with whatever’s on my mind. Or doodle really weird, crappy pictures.

How you understand me at my oddest. Like my “we need different levels of love” rant I went on the other day. How you will give up seeing the movie you want to see to go see the (terrible) one I want to.

But mostly? Mostly I just love you for everything that you are. 

I just love you, Alex. 

Plain and simple. 

Forever and always.

"they get together in the end, don't they?"

daydreamin~

so, we were in college, probably, mid or at the end. idk where we were, i think somewhere around dave and mike because we were cleaning our apartment and they were coming over for dinner or something. and we were like “gah, we have to clean up,” but neither of us wanted to get out of bed because we were snuggling and all happy and still half asleep. 

so i said “well, i’ll go make french toast or something” as an incentive to get you up.

it didn’t work. i tried to get up and you just pulled me back down around my waist and buried your head in my shoulder, kissing my neck. “no, not gonna happen.”

and i fake grumbled about it, because i didn’t want to get up anyhow, and we just laid there for a few minutes.

“i like this,” you said. 

“i know, me too.”

“no, i really do.”

“i know”

but you kissed me and kept telling me i didn’t understand and how everything was just amazing and cool and great.

county fair

i don't know where or when this would be, because to my knowledge we don't have these sort of things around here, so maybe we were down south visiting my family or something?

but we were at a county fair. you know, all the old-school carnival rides and stuff? cotton candy and giant slides and horse-churned ice cream ♥ those crazy mirror mazes and the huge spaceship things? gravitrons? i love those. i rode one when i was littler about seven times in a row and wasn't even dizzy when i got off.

so, we went on all the rides, and you convinced me to go on the ferris wheel so you could kiss me at the top, even though i'm deathly afraid of heights. and we did it, and i was scared, but you held me and kept whispering that it would be fine because you were there. because you would always be there. and the sun was setting and it was beautiful and i looked into your eyes and told you how much i love you and how i always would. 

we got off, finally, and went to go through the mirror maze. i got scared inside it (don't like being enclosed in small spaces) and kept thinking i saw you but it was a reflection of your reflection. finally, you ended up sneaking up on me because i started ignoring the mirrors and trying to get out. and you just held me and we laughed because i was freaking out.