Quite off topic, if no one minds. XD I'm working on a story for the event writing challenge. Tell me what you think.

Life is a series of realizations. Realizations of attraction, passion, love—and of nothingness, of the end of emotion. One day Dan told me, as he did every day, that he loved me, that he would love me forever. The next day he didn’t even want to be friends. He said that it’s possible to be content standing in the rain for a long time, but eventually you have to realize it’s raining and go inside. He said that he had just realized our relationship was nothing but rain, and he needed to get out.

Dan was like that. Poetic without being a poet. He was the guy who wrote volumes of advice on how to write fiction, without ever having written a single story. He once told me that the first sentence of a story is like a girl’s thong. Eventually a guy will like a girl for her personality, intelligence, and substance, but the first thing that gets him to consider asking her out is that little bit of thong stretching above her jeans.

Perhaps that is what love is like, or at least Dan’s version of love. You can spend chapters of life distracted by pretty words and clever syntax before realizing that there’s no plot.

I think in Dan’s mind we starred in an epic love story of his creation, or at least a teen romantic comedy. He was the unpopular highschooler who decided he wanted to be someone different in college. I was the stuck-up loner who everyone suspected was a lesbian. From when first we met, he felt an undeniable attraction, but he didn’t want to risk his newfound popularity by connecting himself to me and my oddities.

At first he hid me away, his delicious secret. I didn’t mind when he snubbed me in public, then sought out my attention in empty halls and the privacy of our rooms. I saw him as damaged goods and was willing to wait while he found himself.

Then quite suddenly he switched to publically announcing his love and denouncing anyone who would dare insult me. He told me grand tales meant to paint him as the hero defending my honor, but only succeeded at making me feel hated and uncomfortable around our fellow students.

It wouldn’t be true to say that I loved Dan, but it wouldn’t be true to say that I didn’t either. Our relationship was a story of contradictions. I met Dan the popular, Dan the poet, Dan the teacher, Dan the romantic, Dan the lover, but I’m not entirely certain I ever met Dan—the Dan that wasn’t a role he created for himself in those stories he never wrote.

When I tell people about Dan, which I do often, they make fun of him—the master of meaningless poetic tropes—but on that last day, he was right. It was raining. It had been for the whole of our relationship. And I’m still standing outside.

Cami, I like your story~ :'D <3<3
Oddly enough, I know someone in exactly the same situation. xDDDD;; Creepy. Lulz. 8DD;;

Thanks, Ryl.

Which part?

I like it Cami, it's quite good ^^

Cami, the start and the middle~ xDD;; <3<3
She hasn't realized yet how unhealthy this relationship is. o_O;;

Thanks, Slow. ^-^

Ryl: I don't think there's necessarily anything wrong with having an unhealthy relationship or two, as long as that's not the person you decide to spend forever with. Doing things wrong helps you realize when you find someone right.

I know, but she has the mindset that they ARE meant to be together, and that one day he shall see that and he will stop all his play-acting around people. =\ Which is what's unhealthy about it. >.>;;

@Cami- Wow. That was so beautiful. :heart: I love the similes and the motifs and just... aah, everything. Also, I like the name you chose... Dan. It just really fits well, for some reason.

I like the name Dan for guys, personally~ XP <3<3

I really like it, Cami
I think it sounded very good, and I enjoyed your word use

Cami has raving reviews for her story then~! >;P <3<3

Indeed she does

Ugh. I'm totally behind on this event. :/
Was on the computer earlier, but my mom has been seriously cranky today and was just snapping at me for no reason earlier and getting really rude, so I just shut my laptop and left the room for a shower and didn't go on it for the rest of the day. ><;; And now that i'm on, i'm really tired and my laptop is about to die. lol I think I may just go to bed and catch up a little tomorrow if I can't find anything else to do.

I'm sure you can catch up after a good night's rest, Su! =O <3<3
I think you need to sleep~ =O <3<3

I agree
Its nearly midnight, so rest would be a good idea

Goodnight, guys

Good night then, Su~! :'D <3<3

'Night, Suo! :heart:

boom!
cheshire cat! xD

any good?

@slow- It might be cool if you added some pink, but I really like it! :D

thanks bri... I can't really see any pink on the picture I have though, just purple... although one of the shades could be called pink I guess...

Ah, really? Well, I guess it'd be pretty hard to stripe pink in there like you layered that purple, so no sense in changing it! xD

to be honest, I don't have that many pink items xD

Me either! xD;

snap! lol

I don't know why, I just don't tend to use pink all that much so I don't buy pink items to finish an avatar, which is how I tend to amass my items

Haha, same here. I rarely ever buy an item just to buy it, except during events. So, I got the majority of my pink items during the this and the last event. xD

I thought the Cheshire Cat always had pink. o_O;;
Could just be me though? Although I'm pretty certain. xDD;; <3<3