We’re not those people any more. Those promises we made no longer hold; for how can we keep pacts made by other people in a different sort of life. The rumours and clothes no longer matter; overshadowed by the genuine life-altering threats we are now facing, and the struggle of keeping a float when the world is conspiring to drown us. The grades, ( Read more... )

It stood there, strong and silent, just like him. Never speaking, but radiating its strength, withstanding the rain, the storms, and the cheerful birds singing happily all around. It was plain, small, almost insignificant in appearance where it hid between the grander ones; modest, as he had always been, for he’d never been the one to boast, or ( Read more... )

You’re great. Kind, smart, funny, true; you find her so easily amongst all the smoke and mirrors, bring her out for who she is, not who they want her to be. Honestly, you’re amazing, not afraid to be yourself. She loves you for that. She’ll be herself with you, not hesitate to lay upon you and let you hug her close, for she trusts you. It’s a rare ( Read more... )

She hopes it’s not true; wishes it to be just yet another rumour about her love-life. In her eyes you’re cast as the little brother; it’s not a bad role, just not the one you’d wanted. You make her laugh, help her when she asks, don’t judge her, but most of all, you accept her, no matter which facet of her personality she exhibits. She can’t even ( Read more... )

You were his confidant, his advisor; his friend. When the world began to fall around you, he sheltered you in his arms. In turn, when the weight dragged his shoulders too low, you gave him yours to share the load. You were naïve, innocent even to think that that meant something, that in the end you’d created a bond that you’d share for at least a ( Read more... )

Keep struggling, keep fighting. Push through all the crap and dodge the blows that come your way. But stay on your feet, be the last one standing when it timer rings. You’ll come out bleeding, broken, and bruised. But at least you’ll still be breathing. And in their eyes, you’ll have won the fight.

Sooner or later, the internal injuries may kill you ( Read more... )

We wait to grow up.
Wait for the converse shoes, and lovehearts drawn in notebooks to become just a memory.
To fade into the sunset with yesterday, and the remnants of a childhood that went too fast, but  has still yet to end.
But it never happens; the sun sets, and rises on another day, and we're still the same.
Everyone's always saying we grow up so ( Read more... )

Some times it's easy, to disappear inside a different facet of myself. To pretend, for just a moment that I'm a girl with a delicate figure and cute personality. To imagine, the girl I could be inside a different body. The girl you could like, as a fragile angel. But I'm not that girl, never have been, never will be. I'm the tomboy, with rounded ( Read more... )

She pretended it didn’t hurt, that she was nothing but proud when you turned away for the one you were offering your heart. More than that, she understood, because she wished she’d feel that strongly about someone again. It was fine, honestly. Though your timing was less than ordinary. And it seemed as if in her time of need, on the days when she ( Read more... )

There was always that something, that bright energy emanating from within her eyes, which even on the most exhausting days shone out with such a gentle force that it lit up all it touched. Those eyes, so bright, so wise, were the calm amongst the hectic stories. They were the beacons of hope when it seemed that the world was far too much to bear, ( Read more... )