Comments | gottobestrong: it's getting harder and harder to breathe

logan_echolls in gottobestrong

it's getting harder and harder to breathe

Mar 12, 2006 00:32

I was invited, but you never would have guessed it. Dick was off somewhere trying to score with a freshman and the Beav was probably already throwing up an hour into this whole thing (none of us ever expected him to hold his liquor well). Yeah, I was invited to this whole bash - the one Dick called the total blowout before things totally sucked ass ( Read more... )

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xmeg_manningx March 12 2006, 01:22:04 UTC

I was going to thank Logan for the unexpected rescue from the drunken lout drooling all over me like an over-excited puppy, but I didn't really get the chance to find my voice before all hell broke loose.

I really am starting to think that 09ner guys, when drunk, share a single braincell between the lot of them. There's no other explaination for why they think half the garbage they pull is acceptable in the moment. Other than maybe they think their social and financial status is some sort of free pass to do whatever they want. Well, most of them anyway. Not everyone was that much of a lost cause. Some of them were good guys for the most part.

And Logan certianly surprised me by proving that a moment ago. There was no reason for him to at all. It wasn't like we were even remotely friends. The only thing that tied us together were pasts with Duncan and Veronica.

He goes to leave the party after the fight's over, and in the blink of an eye the lout's all over me again. "Will you get off?!" I snap, pushing out of his hold ( ... )

logan_echolls March 12 2006, 01:54:51 UTC

I'm wiping out blood still from under my nose when Meg comes to my side, putting a soft hand on my arm unexpectedly. I don't even know why I'm here anymore and yet she's bothering to come over and see if I'm okay ( ... )

xmeg_manningx March 12 2006, 03:41:19 UTC

"Okay." I nod slightly when he insists he's fine. Who was I to argue if he was going to say he was? It wasn't like we were anything other than people who had a few classes together, really ( ... )

logan_echolls March 12 2006, 04:14:33 UTC

I could think of a few reasons why she came here to this junker of a party. It just seemed to coincide with the reasons I'd even bother. Number one reason? Image. Keeping up appearances, which isn't exactly something I've done well. Other reasons might include some sort of attempt either of are proving that we're really over our former significant others and - slash - or plain boredom. All seemed possible ( ... )

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xmeg_manningx March 13 2006, 02:26:25 UTC

"It does." I nodded when he said the reality of the situation sucked. I mean, it's not like I didn't want them to be happy. I cared about them both, but feeling as meaningless as Duncan had managed to make me feel was really something I would have gladly skipped.

"It sucks beyond words to feel used, like you're just some sort of filler, trust me, I know." I promised gently. He didn't really need the details to feel the sentiment was genuine, did he? "But this is one of those things I can't exactly change, so I just have to deal." I let out a breath, "Do I wish things had turned out differently? Completely. But I'm glad they're at least happy... it would be worse if after everything they weren't. Something good has to come out of this. Would've been a lot better if they could've, you know, figured out everything without dragging us into the middle of it, though ( ... )

logan_echolls March 14 2006, 03:30:07 UTC

I'm glad at least Meg can vocalize that she wanted them happy. Whether she truly wanted that or not was questionable, I'm sure - especially when I pick on just an edge of a hurt tone she's done so well to conceal from, I'm sure, everyone. I have to wonder if things really would have been worse completely if they weren't happy. I should feel guilty for even that thought, but things would probably be different entirely that way ( ... )

xmeg_manningx March 14 2006, 05:06:06 UTC

"Can't exactly argue that." I commented at the canceling out any involvement with them idea. "Little easier said than done though, I think." We'd both known Duncan most of our lives. Same with Veronica in my case. They were both more or less facts of my existence for my entire school career.

Can't say I'm exactly looking forward to school starting again for that simple fact though. Seeing them together every day? I'd really rather not. But I'm thinking my parents might wonder why I'm refusing to go to school after a few days, and it's got to be easier to go to school than to explain to my dad why I'd rather not be around Duncan.

Logan was almost lucky in that way. Nobody to question him, or even really notice if he chose not to bother going. I actually do like school, though, so if I just focus on that, I'll be fine ( ... )

logan_echolls March 14 2006, 05:35:23 UTC

Easier said than done is exactly what that is. Duncan and Veronica were my life, right along with Lilly. The four of us is my life highlight. The four of us is most of what I remember. Even before we were the fab four, as Lilly had titled us, I met Duncan during summers from age six up until we moved to Neptune. We were best friends. We knew each other inside and out - and even if I didn't have Veronica, I had once had him. Not anymore ( ... )

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xmeg_manningx March 15 2006, 21:20:19 UTC

"Heard, yes." I admitted. It was hard not to the way gossip spread in our school. Our town in general. I think fire moves slower, I really do. "Doesn't mean I automatically accepted everything as fact. I'm kind of a big believer in giving people a chance. So far you seem like a pretty decent guy who got stuck with some unbelievably crappy circumstances. Not your fault." I reminded him gently despite his slightly harsh tone. What was getting upset going to solve here? He was hurt by his parents and what they'd done. And I had a feeling I didn't even come close to scratching the surface of what he'd gone through growing up ( ... )

logan_echolls March 15 2006, 22:58:11 UTC

It should be a relief that she doesn't automatically accept everything said around these parts as fact. Sure, in the beginning it might have been based in something that had been real, but people had a way of letting their imaginations run with them. Stories became bigger. If you were seen crying, soon you were seen having a mental breakdown and being restrained by medical staff at the hospital. Stories became bigger than how they'd been ( ... )

xmeg_manningx March 16 2006, 01:05:39 UTC

"I just meant, you know the whole of the school that isn't classified as one of the elite, one of the 'blessed', they want to be. Or the vast majority of them, anyway." I explained, laughing softly at his joke. He knew well enough that the public perception of his life was a giant mess for the most part after everything that had happened since Christmas. I wasn't sure anyone specifically envied him at the moment. Maybe having all the money to him self, not being responsible for any one or to anyone, in that giant mansion... that I could see. But the whole package based on all the rumors? Maybe not ( ... )

logan_echolls March 16 2006, 04:30:46 UTC

I nodded towards her, agreeing. We were the blessed - if blessed meant being continually knocked down by everyone around us who might just have it in for us having money and/or quote unquote fame of any sort. If blessed meant that I had to continue my life with the way that it headed, I did not want to be blessed in any way. I know there's something that's going on with Meg, beyond school and everything, but I don't know how to pin point it. She just hides away from it - her own defense is her smile ( ... )

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xmeg_manningx March 21 2006, 01:54:41 UTC

"Plus? The way the candy coating fizzes away is fun to watch." I smirked when he asked who could resist chocolate and soda in one. "You know, I bet the soda companies could make a ridiculous mountain of money if they came out with a chocolate soda, don't you? I asked, taking another sip of my drink. "They have pretty much every logical flavour except chocolate."

"I'd have to wonder who you were trying to fool if you denied appreciating that, you know?" I comment when he said he did appreciate how I filled out my dress. I'm not naive enough to believe my looks didn't factor in just as much as my talent in why I had the head cheerleader spot, or even the anchor job. "But it's really nice to know you're capable of turning that into part of the overall package." I teased ( ... )

logan_echolls March 21 2006, 02:20:15 UTC

"Chocolate, Caramel - there's those Jones Sodas with the random wild flavors like blue bubble gum," I commented. "It's probably just a marketing scam to make us buy more if we want chocolate along with soda," I teased towards her. Though, I'm sure Meg's right about the companies making ridiculous amounts of money if there was chocolate soda that exist. Heck, she could probably later make it herself and make ridiculous mountains of money if I wasn't so sure she was going to end up being an actress or something else instead ( ... )

xmeg_manningx March 21 2006, 03:34:22 UTC

"Last I checked they don't have any chocolate. The Vanilla cola's really good though." I smiled, "And yes, it probably is, you know, since Nestle's owned by Coca Cola and all." I laughed when he said it was probably a scam to make us buy more stuff and therefore the companies make more money ( ... )

logan_echolls March 21 2006, 03:55:35 UTC

"Ambitious?" I asked, repeating her words, with a soft laugh. "No, no. Ambitious would be something like second base," I replied. "I like to think it's hopeful and that I just get bonus points for being so upfront about it along with the whole respecting virtue, yet admiring a beautiful girl at the same time ( ... )

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