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Sunday, October 3rd, 2004
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9:30 pm
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Oh man, life is so really weird and I don't know what to do! I mean, for starters, there's a new girl who trains with us all in the morning now, at Nhairis's dojo. Her name is Kymerith, and Ronnie hates her. Absolutely, totally, utterly hates her and I don't know why! She thinks that Kym will break Morgan and Sashra up somehow. I didn't even know they were dating now, but Ronnie does, I guess, and she actually *beat Kym up*. Like, really really hurt her.
Wow. What do I say to that? I don't know. I can't believe Ronnie would ever hurt someone, especially someone who can't fight back, but she did. I don't know what she was thinking! I just... I'm really upset about this. I don't want Ronnie to become someone cruel and unkind, because that's not her at all. She's stubborn and principled, but not mean. Oh, Ronnie, please look at yourself and what you're doing!
I can't say everything is bad though. Oh, every time I go to the Rose, American football comes up, but the people there are not bad people. I know in my heart that no one will ever really care about things like the debate team and the writing club as much as they care about sports, and I don't know how to deal with that very well, but at least Ronnie supports me when she thinks about it. And... Homecoming is coming up soon. Wow. Ronnie and my big night. It'll be really really good.
I'm mostly happy! And that's a good thing. What more could a kid like me want?
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| Saturday, September 11th, 2004
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6:29 pm
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I can't believe Ronnie got suspended because she was trying to prevent someone from getting hurt. What's the lesson here -- let big guys pick on little guys because just letting it happen solves the problem? I mean, sure, you're supposed to get a teacher or someone in charge, but what if the person who's getting beat on gets really hurt in the meantime? I don't understand that logic at all.
But I guess it makes sense. Anyway, that just means I have to spend more time helping her with English, and that's not something I mind! Ronnie's just... oh, I always babble on about her. It's hard not to. It's hard to imagine a more incredible girl. It really is.
Hee hee, I actually hit Ronnie. I thought we were going to spar, but she thought we were just going to do forms. So I slugged her because her guard was down. It's not really something most people would brag about, but I can because I'm so new to martial arts and she's so good. She said I should try it on Morgan, though. No way. He's way too good. If I whacked him without him being ready for it -- I'm sure I could, he's really so oblivious -- he'd probably kick me into orbit just on reflex. And I like it here on the ground, with oxygen and my friends.
I wonder why he was told never to come back to the Rose, though. He puts up a good face, and I think he's doing better now, but it's easy to tell he's hurting a lot inside. I feel bad for him. I wish I understood.
I don't understand a lot of things, but I stick with what I told Ronnie. You just get through it together, and don't let it get you down.
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| Tuesday, August 31st, 2004
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6:15 pm
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A lot of things have changed since I came back to Northedge and I can't say I'm complaining! I made a lot of really cool friends:
Ronnie: Wow, what can I say about Ronnie? Ronnie is awesome. Ronnie is my girlfriend, and she's a martial artist, and she can do really cool magic tricks. She's really hot and really fun to be with. We met at the Rambling Rose Tavern, which is a new place in town that's friendly to everyone, even sixteen-year-olds like me and Ronnie. She goes to Northedge too, she just started to complete her senior year. (She's wicked smart.) And, well, she has problems, she gets depressed easily and she keeps thinking she's gonna hurt me, or I'll get hurt by dating her, but I try and tell her that I want to date her no matter what. I trust her.
Morgan is a friend of Ronnie's, although I get that their friendship came about through weird and complicated ways. But they're really close now, and they call each other siblings in Japanese for reasons I don't entirely understand! Morgan is so different from me, though, all brooding and angsty, and until not too long ago I wasn't sure he actually liked me. But he's really cool too, and I've seen him spar, and he's even better than Ronnie. I mean, really, really good. Only Nhairis (I'll get to her!) can beat him.
Morgan has a friend named Sashra, who is also Ronnie's friend, and is now my friend too. Sashra reminds me sort of like myself, actually. She sorta is for Morgan what I am for Ronnie, the guy who keeps the other person from getting TOO miserable and upset and angsty. Morgan almost needs it more than Ronnie. Sashra is a good person, and she seems to like me.
Sashra and Morgan and Ronnie all together form the "Temple Brats", because they all grew up in temples. Ronnie was supposed to be safer there, Morgan's parents died, I don't know about Sashra, but they act like the Three Musketeers except with less drinking and womanizing (and saving the King of France). The other night when we all were on the roof, I asked if I could be a member of the Temple Brats Boarding School Auxiliary, and they said yes! So I'm a brat too. But we knew that all ready!
We all, well not Sashra, but the rest of us train in martial arts under a sensei named Nhairis. She's Morgan's adopted mother, and she knows Ronnie's folks. Ronnie wants me to learn martial arts so she'll feel better about dating me, so she took me to classes. Nhairis is one of the coolest people I have ever met! She doesn't talk, because she can't, so she uses sign language and magick sometimes to speak. She's the most amazing martial artist anywhere. She seems to really like me, though. She's married to a really scary guy that Ronnie hugs a lot, because he needs it.
Meanwhile, at school, the Writing Club is going really well. Butch is still trying to make our lives miserable, but Gibson and Oak and I are all still getting along okay. Gibson is really really amused that everyone has started calling me "Kimba-kun", since he started calling me Kimba in the first place. Oak keeps talking about how he's gonna claim a really big tree as a sacred oak, when he's not going on about persecution. Nothing really new there.
Oh yeah. Ronnie met my parents! They really liked her, a lot. You know, life is pretty good these days... I'm a really, really lucky guy.
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| Monday, August 30th, 2004
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3:44 pm
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So, hello, new journal! I thought I'd never finish up the last one, but finally, there it was, the last page - and now I get to start in this brand new one! I'll make my usual introduction here -- I'm Leon Southfield. I'm a student at Northedge Academy, I study writing, I'm president of the Writing Club, and I'm a sophomore. But the big new news is that I have a really wonderful girlfriend, and some great friends -- and that's a really really good way to begin a new journal.
It's funny how different I write in here, as opposed to when I'm writing "professionally." I guess I feel more like being me here, and my professional work is all about acting like I'm twice my age and IQ both. They call my book a "mature" work, so I guess I succeed. But it's hard... Oh well, it's worth it. I love writing! And now that I've introduced myself, time to go do some!
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