"It is! So, um... been thinking about who you're going with... you know, are you going with anybody?" She smiled. A normal person probably would have been turned off by the nervousness, but she almost found a strange sense of kinship with him. He really was a lot like her. Instead of bein...

"Sure", Hera said. "I'm starting to get tired too". It was a lie. She could have kept going, but she felt bad for Craig. The poor guy had been trying so hard to keep up with her and he was just about burned out. She turned and looked around. It was going to get dark soon. The sky...

"No", C.J said. "What you're doing here is fine. If there's anyone silly here, it's me - I mean, I write the advice column in the school newspaper". He smiled at her, trying his best to start a conversation. She seemed a little awkward to him, maybe even a little bit shy. C.J had...

Laverne opened her eyes underwater. The corners of her eyes burned in a needled pain from the chlorine. There was a pool filter at the bottom of the pool, and for just a second, her entire body shivered. She'd saw a news report when she was little about a girl getting her intestines sucked out throu...

((Debut of Cheung-Ji Wong)) "Hey, watch where you're going man...." "Sorry...." C.J Wong was lost at sea. Faces of people he only vaguely knew were sweeping around him in the crowd. He recongized a few of them from his classes, but all in all, he felt like he was watching it all ...

"I'm sorry... was I... talking too much?" "Not at all", Hera said. "I actually think telekinesis would be pretty sweet too". There really wasn't such a thing as talking too much in her book. On a good day, she was lucky to get to talk at all. There were some feelings t...

((Laverne Falciander continued from A Walk To Forget )) Laverne hated the smell of pool water. The nauseating aroma of chlorine nipped at her eyes and nostrils as she walked out of the changing room. Her face had been sensitive to that kind of stuff for awhile. Itching her nose, she walked to the po...

"It's not as cool, but yeah. I love to draw. I draw anything, but I'm really big on superheroes and comic book stuff lately." So he was into superheroes. It wasn't something that she'd been expecting, but definitley something that she liked. When you pictured a big kid like Craig Hoyle, y...

(Open thread) ((Chad Klitou continued from Tommorow Never Knows )) Chad had never really been into ice skating. He wasn't sure why. It could have been the fact that he was hellishly uncoordinated and knew there was a pretty decent chance he would break a few bones, but the whole idea of weaving in c...

"Do you want one? I've got three more and my dad gets them all the time at BJ's, so it's really no trouble at all." "Thanks!" Hera exclaimed. "I was so thirsty!" She accepted the bottle of Gatorade and quickly unscrewed the cap. The gulp was rewarding, but not exactly ...

"Sometimes you write... really pretty stuff!" It was that sentence that stood out to her. No one else really took the time to compliment her, and it felt good just as much as it felt strange. Her writing was average. There were times when she thought it was incredible, but that was usuall...

Everett left. Laverne watched as he turned the corner and vanished with that shopping bag of his swaying in the breeze. It was getting pretty hot in the alley. And the fact that she had just jogged around St.Paul only made it worse. But the routine had to be continued. The morning jog had been progr...

"Nice....day....we're....having?" Hera had been staring down at the track. Glancing up, she was startled to find that Craig had completely caught up with her. Along with that, her worst fears had been confirmed. He was really trying to talk to her. You're alone out here. It's all real, yo...

"Are you sure?" "Yeah", Chad said. "It's cool. I mean, all I'm going to do with this money is buy drugs. And I think we can both say that you'd find a better use for it than that. Take it. I could really use a weekend to sober up anyway". He found the words coming out ...

Laverne watched as Scott jogged down the alley and out of sight. And with the sight of him running, something was triggered in her mind and she remembered exactly why she'd come into the alley in the first place. She was running too. Not just running, but working out to better herself. By stopping, ...