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Listening To: Lifehouse - Storm
Currently Reading: Arabian Nights ~ Translated by Husain Hadawy [Everyman's Library Publishers]

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It was a whirl of black and purple. Of something else all together. Caps and gowns and smiling parents amid a sea of lights and nervous seniors.

I'd never felt more alive.

And sitting up there, it was like I'd shot up from the ground -- all grown up and the entire world to discover.

And then the robes came off to reveal the white dresses, saris -- black suits, pink ties, golden ribbons -- Off came the caps and there was the slicked back hair; hair curled into loops and hair straightened out.

Then there was the tree planting. Whiz whiz whiz, it went by so fast. Off to the reception with pearls at my throat and my friends at my side.

Well today is goinna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you.

And watching everyone around me I sang along.
And the words:
"I don't believe that anybody, feels the way I do about you now..."

Perfectly manicured hands clapped together in unison and oh it was a song we'd all remember.

Then the party.

Sticky slick with sweat. And bodies all over the wall...me being Ann-sensei. And the whip of my hips and the dip of our waists and whirling whirling of our hair.
Air thick with the smell of alcohol and smoke which I didn't touch and the slow unravelling of my classmates as bodies bumped and grinded to the steadily frantic beat of the music.
Ice to cool us down -- melting on our hot hot skin and between our lips -- the hazy sparkle of mascaraed eyes. A slight glance and an invitation to dance.

Then it was friendships forgotten and that was it: We weren't friends. I'm a girl. You're a boy.

And that was how it was.

And the thrum in our bellies as our fingertips grazed against each other's.

And it didn't matter that we didn't know each other's names.
And it didn't matter if we did.

All that mattered was the music and the heat.

That unbearable heat.

And slowly slowly slowly, and quickly quickly quickly, inhibitions were stripped away.

And everything swayed.

And at that moment my world was this:
Dark dark shadows and the press of my friends around me -- a cloud of perspiration and trust.

Yes. Everything swayed.

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TO DO LIST
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1. Chapter 9 of Finding the Sun (NejixHina ficcage)