"I worry about my friend now that I have one. I suppose that's a natural thing.... Katie and I ate dinner together, too. She told me about Kate and alcohol, and I listened. I did my best to be myself and make her a little happier, and the more I think about it, the more I talk about success.
Katie had joked several times throughout the evening that I was her ''rentable wife''. As we got into that charming red car of hers, I said the trouble was with rentable wives was that when you didn't need them, you stopped hiring. Katie told me that she'd always remember I helped her..."
Katie keeps her promises.
""You've been really unhappy lately," he said, his eyes glistening, "Especially after you go to play practice. Payton... no matter what you tell me or how you try and laugh it off, these people... they treat you awfully." I open my mouth, he cuts me off. "No, let me talk now, okay? Out of the cast members, people... they treat you badly. They really do. You go in smiling, laughing, blowing me kisses, hugging your script.. and you come out sad, and lonely, and feeling like a monster again. Even I can't make you happy... and there's not a lot I can't make you happy after, Payton. Not a lot."
This time, I do answer.
"I understand Beatrice," I said quietly, "people... people don't like her. They... tolerate her. She's... crazy. I know what it is like to be treated as... to feel... crazy. I was cast like her because I understand her." "
Finley doesn't understand Beatrice, never will; that makes me happy, if nervous. If he hasn't then he might someday. Please, God, let that not happen--especially not because of me.
"Mr. Noll put a ban on rhetorical question openers for our essays, so I will use one here.
Have you ever been simultaneously run over by a bear claw, showered with poisoned needles, drowned in a pool, and had everyone laugh at you while it happened? ... That fits, I remind myself. That's what we want, for my character. The old woman that nobody likes, who doesn't understand what real life is like, who confuses guests with the Avon lady, who doesn't get out much... who the adults politely tolerate. ... She's lying.
"You know, Payton, you're really intense." "
""Payton, just tell me what's wrong? You're not bubbly or happy or... you. Instead, you're... like... emo and quiet." I don't have people remain focus on me... but this is Katie, I remind myself, and the tears come as we reach the bridge edge; this is my friend..."
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Here's a diagram. Simple, isn't it? Plunger, cap, needle, barrel. Four parts. Save your life. In fact, when I was a little girl, they gave me a teddy bear. Charlie, (Or Charleena, depending on whether or not your particular bear had a skirt) had bright colored patches all over him. Elbow, buttock, legs, arms, stomach....
The bear was always, always happy when he had remembered to give himself an ''insulin injection''. The bear didn't cry. The bear didn't struggle. The bear didn't hide. His facial expression didn't even change.
I did all of those things.
What else would a little girl do? Mom answers people who ask with saying, "The next time you look at your little girl, imagine her saying, 'Mommy, please don't hurt me. Mommy, please don't hurt me anymore.' "
But hey... I could have cancer...."
""No, my love. You need us." Devlin had helped me from the shore, and as I stood, my dress turned into a material made of water; translucent and flowing. My curly hair touched his hand as he continued. "You see, you're turning into a human, Payton. Sorcha--" he indicated his sister with a swift movement of his head "--desires you to stop that transformation. She says that without magic, you will die, will be remade."
"And so she shall be," says Sorcha evenly, "you have been a being of power with the magic you see and embrace, day by day, the magic God has given you. You walk filled with love among humans, but since you have stopped to feel that love more carefully, have shared it with others, I fear it will wither in light of your envy and ambition."
"Envy and ambition lacking is a rare enough thing in itself, for faerie or mortal, my lady," replied Devlin. "Surely you can see that?"
"Can't I be both, Sorcha?" I whispered.
"I don't know," she replied, perfect eyes staring into my soul. "Can you?" "
I'll continue this later.
Maybe. I'm a flake, after all.
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