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Description i am only just thirteen. he is sixteen. i am in love/lust/crush.

my best friends big brother, or friends ex boyfriend, is tall. once or twice i imagined kissing him. but he never would. he is friends with the boy who is sixteen. and besides he is my best friends big brother or my friend's ex boyfriend. and i am not a bad person.

i am tall too, you know. i am stretched skyward but there was no more to stretch, just bone. so i am not really that tall at all. but i pretend i am. how tall are you? oh above average, you know, pretty tall.

the brother says want to come and see j? and my heart leaps and i sing yes but he only hears a nod and there's no time to change. my chest is flat and my shirt doesn't cover my belly button but i don't really mind, you know, it's brown and flat like stretches of australia my father used to talk about. that's me; land.

the air is the kind of cool it only ever is at nighttime. not winter, no that's a different kind. you can tell by the night-y smell and the tingling on your skin like you know she shouldn't be up this late and the air wasn't quite expecting you but you don't care. of course i kind of did but i wouldn't admit it.

i'm not wearing shoes. my feet are tough because of it. not girly at all. i can step on glass and not feel it until the carpets turned a sickly red where i'd just stepped. that's the only time i've been to hospital you know. and i never even cried.

the road is gravel and i'm saying how far away is he and he is saying oh not so far, not so far. but we walk and walk and there are not an awful lot of cars around, mind you it's past midnight and the air won't be expecting them either way. we all know the airs had enough surprises for the night.

when i see him i don't believe it is him. because his shirt is off and if that were him that would be too great and i don't want to think things are too great in case it is not him and then when i see him i am disappointed. but it is. and he has his shirt off. and he is a prettier brown then me.

he is beautiful. he is drunk, but god he is beautiful. he's maybe even high, but i can't tell that. i can only tell drunk. i got drunk at mariahs off half a glass of rum and coke and it made my throat burn but i was dancing to a gwen stefani song and i didn't care about my throat. she told adam i had sex with him. i swear to god i didn't. they had sex next to me in the bed and i pretended i was asleep, i wasn't and i didn't like it. but i didn't want to be impolite.

he doesn't look at me. he just looks at his friend and sighs and says something rather and his voice is what i remembered. that night in the cinema. me in his lap. he said i kissed special you know. he said he loved nothing more than to kiss me. he said things would be okay. and i ate it all up, ofcourse. his eyes were a special shade of wonderful and everything was special, special. i was special and i was going to be okay!

and now he's in front of me and he was right. things are okay. if okay means birds and bees and butterflies in my belly and thoughts that throw themselves off walls and hands that fumble while i mumble under my breath hello j. hi, he says. he doesn't say my name, i think maybe if he said it he would have me right then and i'd have to take off my clothes and make love to him in the shocked nighttime air in front of my best friends brother or friend's ex boyfriend. he doesn't say my name. i still wear the shrinked tee shirt and boxer shorts.

a little way up the road we walk, he is on a bike. i think it is stolen but i don't say anything. a flower lays dead on the road. he picks it up and hands it to me and i want to cry and tell him i love him because he is so beautiful. but instead he hears my nod. and he talks to sam some more. i want to touch him. i want him to touch me.

we are home and i throw the flower aside because after all it is only a silly flower and a dead one at that. but i know where it is and when i find it the next day it will be even more dead, like me, but quiet.

we go inside. it hums in here and it is cold because they have their aircon on. we have an aircon but mum says it's too expensive so i'm used to the heat and the cold air makes me sneeze and makes my nose run. we go outside.

we sit by the pool and sam yawns and i listen to them talk. i'm not even here really. i don't want to be because i'm scared if i am here i will do something with j in front of my best friends big brother and he will tell my bestfriend and my bestfriend doesn't approve of that sort of thing you know.

then i am here. and he is here. and we are here. we, us. my body is hot and he is sliding into the pool. fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

he is fucking beautiful

he looks at me and i don't feel pretty but he seems to read my mind, some kind of super power he must secretly have and he says

you know you're really pretty

and i don't nod this time. my legs dangle down into the water and the water takes away the length. from here i don't seem very pretty. but he said i was pretty. he did. and he's without a shirt floating about in the pool before me.

he says why don't you swim with me? and i almost blush but i don't and i say, because i don't have any clothes to change into and he says why not take them off, swim in your underwear?

i am not wearing a bra. i don't even need one, really. they are all too big and i am all too small. i stand under the shower some nights and watch the water skip a beat over my skin where my breasts are forming and i like that they are there. sometimes they hurt though, like now, but it's a nice hurt.

i take off my shirt and he turns and swims the other way as though he is a gentleman and i take my boxers off and i am wearing blue underwear. i want to tear the bow off the top because it looks girly but what would he think to see a bow floating in the pool?

the water is cold, nighttime cold, and at my neck. then, all too soon, he is. but he is not nighttime cold he is warm. he is my sun.

i am shaking. i am shaking all over and he is saying are you cold, but i'm not, i'm love and i am shivering with my teeth, bone hitting bone and with everything. he holds me to his chest in the water and i can feel his, well, i can feel him pressed up hard against my thigh.

i imagine making love in the pool. i stop shaking soon and he kisses all down my neck and collarbone and holds me across his arms so he can kiss down my stomach and around my boobs. i think well maybe he does want to make love in the pool but i don't want to anymore. suddenly it's too real and i am scared. i begin to shake again. i say yes, i am cold. let's go inside and watch some tv.

but i am colder inside. so i turn the aircon off and he groans. i look at him on the couch, strewn across it as though he's lived here all his life and i smile. because he is beautiful and you wouldn't believe it but he had his mouth on my boobs and his mouth on my mouth and his mouth on my almost (but not) my everything minutes ago.

i say are you hungry and i think he says yes so i try and think of something i can make him. i make nachos in the microwave with lots of cheese and i give it to him and his eyes don't leave the television. i wait for a thankyou but he doesn't say it but i forgive him because obviously he is busy watching something. and you know i didn't even know if that was a yes or not. so i say sorry. and he looks at me as if i am out of my mind. but i am!

and so i lay across him. bare skin, such a delicious brown and that heat that comes from no where and goes everywhere. i am happy. i am the happiest i have been in a long time and i try not to smile because i am ugly when i smile and i still want him to think i am very pretty.

my hair is still wet and i think maybe that is why he doesn't play with it like other boys do. he doesn't even eat. my stomach calls out but i ignore it, i don't want bad breath. i want all good and i will be all good if he continues to love me. although i don't actually know if he does. but he has to, right? isn't that why he kissed my almost (but not quite) everything? and said i was very pretty and that i kissed special?

i don't ask him because i am too happy just now. laying here on him. i wouldn't mind to lay back and watch him but i am scared i would frighten him or freak him out. so i quietly pretend to watch it too. watch what? i'm not even sure. it is pay tv and i don't usually watch tv at all.

then we are watching nothing because he has turned the tv off and the house is just night. i say goodnight and kiss him goodnight but miss and then he holds my face and kisses me, deep and i know i'd love nothing more than to fall asleep with him.

i only ever fell asleep with one boy and he was beautiful too. he had freckled skin and blue eyes and was skinny and mean. but i fell for him too. and that night was magic. i wanted magic again, with j now.

and then he pulls me down onto the mattress he is sleeping on and takes my shirt off. i am glad because maybe it means he likes my boobs. but then he tries my pants and i don't like it. i don't want that. this isn't like i thought and i don't know what to do anyway and oh i don't want to be here let's just fall asleep and hold one another and let me breathe OUR breath. but he still tries and then he kisses down my stomach.

it feels nice and tickles. and i do it to his stomach. there is a window above us and a streetlight smiles down upon us, approving with a don't mind me but i don't mind him or it because it casts the shadows drawn around his abs and they are wonderful. so wonderful and i kiss soft because i would never do anything to hurt him, even kiss too hard but his palm is pushing my head down and down and i'm not sure what is happening exactly.

then i don't kiss his stomach and i don't understand and he tells me to give him head and i didn't even know people actually did that, i thought maybe that was something my brother made up to gross me out. but he is asking me and i don't want to say yes. of course i don't want to my butterflies have all wilted and died inside of me and i think this isn't the j i fell in love with. you're scary.

and i run.

i climb under the covers with my best friend, where she'll never ask me to do anything i don't want to. she is snoring quiet and i like the sound. it means she is here even if i close my eyes. i do close my eyes. and when i open them he is gone.

and i am still in love with the boy kissing my body in the pool. but then again i am just land, and all he did was walk along me, over me.
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Comments: 198

BassOvercast [2009-03-26 05:04:46 +0000 UTC]

Long, but definately worth the read. I like it.

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undeniably [2009-03-26 02:14:55 +0000 UTC]

This is beautiful and wonderful...

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The-Royal-Pudding [2009-03-24 22:31:10 +0000 UTC]

Ever writing of yours is beautiful...
You have a wonderful way of portraying thoughts and emotions, without saying very much at all...

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SakamotoAsuka In reply to ??? [2009-03-23 19:12:04 +0000 UTC]

Oh... wow.
I'm speechless.
God that was good.

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aquaria [2009-03-23 01:48:40 +0000 UTC]

Wow. That's breathtakingly aching.
Aq.

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SasukeUchihaFangirlx [2009-03-22 23:38:45 +0000 UTC]

this is so powerful... absolutely amazing...
you have to be one of my favorite writers on dA ;w;

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AVolatileCalm [2009-03-22 12:37:37 +0000 UTC]

wow... just land

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x--Mannequin [2009-03-22 07:23:38 +0000 UTC]

Full of emotions.
You're talented. Photography and writing.
*thumbs up

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Besotting [2009-03-21 01:30:14 +0000 UTC]

I'm beginning to think that some people are born with wisdom beyond anything the years could give them. It frightens me, for some reason.
Whatever it is, you have it. There is no denying that.

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nicolehumphrey18 [2009-03-19 16:47:04 +0000 UTC]

Great piece of work. You're such a unique writer. I've never read things like this before. I always enjoy your work.

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circledot [2009-03-19 12:58:42 +0000 UTC]

this really gets to the core of me, beautiful writing.

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Anna-bananaa [2009-03-19 06:42:07 +0000 UTC]

This is simply amazing.

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liebe-sie [2009-03-19 01:44:40 +0000 UTC]

This is too perfect.
and it's sad. Nostalgic.
And beautiful.
I don't know. It speaks to me.

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Ennuiiunne [2009-03-18 06:29:00 +0000 UTC]

You are beautiful. Truly one of the few most beautiful people I think exist.

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ragingveela [2009-03-17 23:10:19 +0000 UTC]

this was absolutely incredible. it made me wish i had a crush on someone again - it's been a while - and it also makes me wish i had made the same decisions as in this story.

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ShiroiYoru [2009-03-17 19:23:52 +0000 UTC]

and i am still in love with the boy kissing my body in the pool. but then again i am just land, and all he did was walk along me, over me. <- this right here.

wakes up emotions in me. really beautiful.. reminds me of something that has happened to me recently...

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Awasteof-paint [2009-03-17 17:18:51 +0000 UTC]

you write so honest and so amazingly.
wowwww <33

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violetstripes [2009-03-17 13:56:19 +0000 UTC]

You write differently. And you were just thirteen then.

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IceMoon-Wraith [2009-03-17 10:11:01 +0000 UTC]

wow

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xobriexo [2009-03-17 02:35:32 +0000 UTC]

this is sad and beautiful and i really dont know waht else to say.

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city-in-surrender [2009-03-16 22:45:25 +0000 UTC]

The way it is makes me want to cry.
His name...
Are all beautiful boys named j?
I'm starting to think so.

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gummy-bear-power In reply to city-in-surrender [2009-03-19 06:01:56 +0000 UTC]

I, too, am beginning to see it as fact.

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Maivale [2009-03-16 18:49:48 +0000 UTC]

Horrible, but good.

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Bloggg [2009-03-16 17:11:37 +0000 UTC]

I love it, beautiful
the only thing I'd say is I kept getting confused witht eh best friends brother bit

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pencilfold [2009-03-16 16:08:44 +0000 UTC]

This makes me sad because it happens.

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Cinnamoncandy [2009-03-16 00:44:31 +0000 UTC]

Hello!

You have been featured in my journal [link] and in this news article [link]

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Akajork [2009-03-15 06:43:23 +0000 UTC]

hey Nirrimi,
lovely writing.. I read this twice

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CharlesAndMaggie [2009-03-15 03:38:39 +0000 UTC]

Amazing, again.

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Hyphenatedhyphenwolf [2009-03-15 02:07:04 +0000 UTC]

Wow.
That was just.. Beautiful.
Damn.

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Xenomaren [2009-03-14 20:27:01 +0000 UTC]

1...2...3...

awwwwwwwwwwww


thats pretty sad n, but I love hearing your stories. I see one of your deviations and I just scream "storytime!"

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Sharypery [2009-03-14 11:40:29 +0000 UTC]

beautiful ...

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licoricefactory [2009-03-14 11:39:34 +0000 UTC]

Wow. You were just thirteen when you wrote this? Well then, you're amazing and you're pretty much very descriptive for a person so young back then. I'm really glad that you didn't edit the grammar because it shows realism, depth and it shows how young you were when you wrote this diary entry.

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licoricefactory [2009-03-14 11:39:26 +0000 UTC]

Wow. You were just thirteen when you wrote this? Well then, you're amazing and you're pretty much very descriptive for a person so young back then. I'm really glad that you didn't edit the grammar because it shows realism, depth and it shows how young you were when you wrote this diary entry.

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Iyeshana In reply to ??? [2009-03-14 09:20:30 +0000 UTC]

such an honest journal. your writing is beautiful here, almost like poetry. i'm honoured you'd allow us to read such a painful memory

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Chkaal [2009-03-14 00:40:55 +0000 UTC]

Wow.... I think what I find so incredible about this is not the fact that something like this happened, or the fact that your writing is absolutely phenomenal let alone for a 13 year old at the time. It's the fact that you can feel those emotions so fully and with so much detail and describe them so coherently. I think it's a rare thing to find people that can actually experience almost anything that strongly, let alone depict it. You're writing is wonderful.

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ChocolateAddiction In reply to ??? [2009-03-14 00:08:30 +0000 UTC]

wow this is so so ...wow. that feeling when something is so beautiful and your love is so strong, its just overwhleming. i love it when stories and poems are written with this grammar, i think it makes them even more powerful

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decemberdawning In reply to ??? [2009-03-13 23:17:19 +0000 UTC]

this helped me in so many ways.

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Asunaphel [2009-03-13 14:09:53 +0000 UTC]

It's beautiful, like you are. You're very brave and did the right thing!

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00CHAOS00 [2009-03-13 10:30:21 +0000 UTC]

wow i loved it .. nice really

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alduYa [2009-03-13 09:55:50 +0000 UTC]

very strong
and also brave of you to post something so personal. it makes me want to read the rest of your diary to.

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mintred [2009-03-13 09:23:20 +0000 UTC]

You have a wisdom and maturity that reaches far beyond your young years.
The last sentence - incredible.

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MargotSorensen [2009-03-13 04:05:09 +0000 UTC]

That is.... very real. If you know what I mean

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TheRainQueen [2009-03-13 02:32:13 +0000 UTC]

I love this (and good for you)

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Jaker30528 [2009-03-13 01:23:19 +0000 UTC]

awesome ending

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neverwishes [2009-03-12 23:46:12 +0000 UTC]

Your imagery is astounding..."it's brown and flat like stretches of australia my father used to talk about. that's me; land."
And the continued symbolism of land, even in the last sentence. Just wow. <3.

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NAL01 [2009-03-12 20:35:11 +0000 UTC]

It's such a beautiful piece of art. It's so true. You're amazing writer.
I like to write as well. I wish one day I'll be able to describe emotions as good as you.
I feel sorry for you. Men are mostly liars. It's hard for me to trust them after a few of them hurt me. But I still believe in true love.

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assemblit [2009-03-12 18:51:54 +0000 UTC]

This felt real as I read this, I know it is, but just the way you described the emotion, appearances, and feelings just felt all to real. A beautiful journal

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savvykat [2009-03-12 18:41:27 +0000 UTC]

"i say goodnight and kiss him goodnight but miss and then he holds my face and kisses me, deep and i know i'd love nothing more than to fall asleep with him."

This is by far my favorite part. Amazing writing.

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strange [2009-03-12 15:50:50 +0000 UTC]

This is beautiful
I sometimes wonder if I had kept a diary of my life, what it would say when I looked back at it.

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HarasNirhtak [2009-03-12 15:09:15 +0000 UTC]

just beautiful

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