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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

Midnite-Angel [2009-03-12 14:52:09 +0000 UTC]

i hate how i can relate to that,
but it's beautiful.
you write wonderfully.

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Innocence-bottled [2009-03-12 13:26:14 +0000 UTC]

Wow, I think I fell in love with you about halfway thru, thats some really good writting you got there. Its so personal so chaotic, and yet so slow and precise. How we all feel in situations that we don't have a handle on, the writting conveyed a picture I could see, my mind put in people I knew, and it made it all the better. Really good Job.

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k3Liaaa [2009-03-12 10:44:35 +0000 UTC]

wow, such great writing at a young age. plus a want for it too, I would've NEVER thought that. Beautiful piece nonetheless, I love the comparison between yourself and land.

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i-love-snape-3 In reply to ??? [2009-03-12 09:44:11 +0000 UTC]

this is so great, so raw and honest - it reveals so much of the instincts and thoughts and hopes that we have when we're 13. thanks

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ayesha-may [2009-03-12 09:40:26 +0000 UTC]

What do you want to be when you grow up? I hope you always write, no matter what you do & where you go.

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leap-frog [2009-03-12 08:22:15 +0000 UTC]

great writing skills..... to start with it sounds like teenager's diary, then it becomes a little more mature. Your writing style is very lively as it makes u imagine immediately what it must be like to feel what you have expressed here

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izzyherman [2009-03-12 07:56:40 +0000 UTC]

this is amazing.

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vickstahs [2009-03-12 07:32:28 +0000 UTC]

it's so fast paced and incredibly raw and real. lovely

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eaglewarrio9 [2009-03-12 07:10:36 +0000 UTC]

this left this taste on my tongue; melancholy and bittersweet, like toffee-turned-salty from my tears and you make words real. thank you.

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wishIwasBeastGirl [2009-03-12 07:07:11 +0000 UTC]

even your journal entries are beautiful.

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Jammyy [2009-03-12 07:05:00 +0000 UTC]

This is beautiful and very pure.

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Phantom-Brave [2009-03-12 06:59:08 +0000 UTC]

I will cry.

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reneeLOUISE-x [2009-03-12 06:13:00 +0000 UTC]

absolutly wonderful!
i'm so drawn by it.
<3

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aavalokiteshvara [2009-03-12 05:58:14 +0000 UTC]

This is ravenously amazing. I've been there too, once... you're a good girl.

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MeganMissfit [2009-03-12 04:18:32 +0000 UTC]

That was amazing. especially the last sentence.

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frostandfrogs [2009-03-12 03:53:48 +0000 UTC]

So this is actually a true story? In a way that's kind of disturbing because you were quite young.
Otherwise, though, it's a beautiful piece of writing, however disturbing it is.

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mynameisjade [2009-03-12 03:47:18 +0000 UTC]

i'm so glad she ran away from him

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Stuckinthe70s [2009-03-12 03:29:51 +0000 UTC]

beautiful.

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ohsostarryeyed [2009-03-12 02:01:45 +0000 UTC]

your writing is truly phenomenal. i love how you can still tell it was written a few years back, probably from the stream-of-conscious feel, but it's so lovely and honest. i swear, i felt like i was there. if i were better at drawing, i'd love to draw the places and imagery.

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IndigoSkyes [2009-03-12 01:41:02 +0000 UTC]

A diary entry? Mine usully end up like "My life sucks, blah, blah, blah, teenage wangst, blah, blah blah." You really do have a gift!

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LostWithinDreams [2009-03-12 01:40:34 +0000 UTC]

even back then, your writing was marvelous.
a little grammar mistakes here and there but that was you then and you cannot change who you were.

great job.
interesting story. sort of freighting but good.

[:

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LotusJake In reply to ??? [2009-03-12 00:53:34 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful storry; you wrote it in a very interesting style that i enjoyed a lot. You are very brave to share such an experience with the world!

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MaryLikesArt [2009-03-12 00:20:59 +0000 UTC]

13? you're incredible.
this is beautiful. i adore your style.

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MykeyFranticRomantic [2009-03-12 00:15:46 +0000 UTC]

this is so very entranceing. i just read the first line and i didnt stop. you tell the story so vividly and in such a unique way that even i, who is not one for stories, adored it. simply beautiuful. i also like the window it is into a young girls mind, even if yours is far ahead of average, its still very nice.

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shadowedstar213 [2009-03-12 00:00:40 +0000 UTC]

beautiful

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Julitz [2009-03-11 23:26:07 +0000 UTC]

I like how you used the air as a sort of character. Nice work. :3

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BookThiefx [2009-03-11 23:00:33 +0000 UTC]

That's heavy stuff.

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DjAnDiZZy [2009-03-11 22:59:36 +0000 UTC]

wow. this is so real.

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Twisted--Fantasy [2009-03-11 21:58:32 +0000 UTC]

Captivating, and confusing that its good. Its like when you spin around in the middle of somewhere ugly, and it all becomes beautiful.

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Rebelcake [2009-03-11 21:50:50 +0000 UTC]

Wow, amazing! I love your style, I'd give anything to be a good writer. Very powerful story, I hope to see more soon!

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1thingsvs [2009-03-11 21:50:16 +0000 UTC]

i really love this piece...it was so open and honest; truly told from a 13-year old's perspective..although i think that when it comes to love, we look through things just like in your piece; we have NO idea what it is we're doing and we just think w/ out hearts. GREAT WORK!

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neatpit [2009-03-11 21:43:06 +0000 UTC]

Each word captivated me a little more...

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TigerORANGE [2009-03-11 21:42:27 +0000 UTC]

Wow, so powerful and beautiful, you are very brave to put this up!

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TheHollister In reply to ??? [2009-03-11 21:21:41 +0000 UTC]

I love the way you write. It makes me feel like I'm right there with you.

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Necocowai [2009-03-11 21:09:55 +0000 UTC]

wow. honestly i couldnt stop reading after the first few words, your style is something ive never came across before and its amazing.

im going to go check out the rest of your stuff now, and thank you, i really liked this and i can relate to it.

^.^ keep it up

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DaniDany In reply to ??? [2009-03-11 21:05:56 +0000 UTC]

Makes me sad..but you have an amazing talent to turn it into this beautiful peice of writinig i love it

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kvmc In reply to ??? [2009-03-11 21:04:16 +0000 UTC]

very powerful story. you have courage for uploading something so personal. it's written very nicely. good work.

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RaveTaylor [2009-03-11 21:01:18 +0000 UTC]

My goodness, this is so beautiful. (:

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lpowell [2009-03-11 20:54:34 +0000 UTC]

I'm not sure whether to call this avant-garde or bad writing. I'll ask David Foster Wallace for his opinion/read this again when I have time/am done with the paper I'm supposed to be writing right now.

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Pretty-As-A-Picture In reply to lpowell [2009-03-12 01:10:34 +0000 UTC]

it's from a diary entry. it's not written well. i don't care though.
and for this to even be considered avant garde is pretty great.

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lpowell In reply to Pretty-As-A-Picture [2009-03-12 02:20:16 +0000 UTC]

The style, from what I skimmed, seemed interesting. But yeah, I won't expect an unedited diary entry to be perfect.

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the-chemical-factory [2009-03-11 20:45:47 +0000 UTC]

this was amazing,
it's brave of you to post something personal (:

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mahal-moi [2009-03-11 20:37:30 +0000 UTC]

wonderful.

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trisairatops [2009-03-11 20:22:41 +0000 UTC]

before I read your comment, I thought this was just a beautiful piece of fiction, but now I think it's even better.
thank you for sharing that with all of us.

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schriftsteller [2009-03-11 20:16:04 +0000 UTC]

Jesus. I wish my life were this beautiful.

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drebeka [2009-03-11 19:56:39 +0000 UTC]

Darling, this is amazing! So emotional, when I read I thought it happened to me, but I had to realize I'm only reading.
It's pretty personal.

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february-night [2009-03-11 19:49:33 +0000 UTC]

Ah, a diary entry. That's why it seemed different. I like this. It's like a refreshing change.
Just one question though, how does the title tie with the story?

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Pretty-As-A-Picture In reply to february-night [2009-03-12 01:11:50 +0000 UTC]

because i think of myself as though i am many people or as though i have lived many lives
and this is from the person, or life, before my last. so before, before.

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february-night In reply to Pretty-As-A-Picture [2009-03-12 21:31:55 +0000 UTC]

Ohh alright that makes sense. Thanks.

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DancingXInXTheXSky [2009-03-11 19:48:52 +0000 UTC]

Very interesting story! But I have a question: Where did you grow up?

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