story..

parte sept

I tried to sit up but Mike pushed me back. Trying to figure out what happened, I figured that I had fainted at the sight of all of them in real life. The floor felt bumpy under me—Phoenix’s jacket was under my head. I looked around and found Mike on my right, followed by Dom, Kher, Chaz, Chester, Brad, Phoenix, Bourdy, and Joe. My cheeks felt like they were on fire. I was so sure I wouldn’t do anything as ridiculous as that.

“Sorry….” I said to no one in general.

“Honey, don’t worry about it,” Joe said. He smiled his beautiful smile. I looked at Dom; he looked relieved that I was okay, among many other emotions. I saw ecstasy in his eyes. Our dream had come true.

“Do you get that a lot?” Chaz asked Mike.

“Not….necessarily. But there’s a first time for everything!” Mike said. I beamed, over joyous. “So….”

“You guys really met on LPU?” Brad blurted out. Bourdy looked at him as though to say Dude, shut up!.

I looked at Dom. I figured I’d let him answer this one.

“Yeah…about six months ago. We’ve been talking, emailing back and forth, and when you guys had your summer tour in China, we took the chance. That was last summer; the first time we met….” His voice drifted off after that, like he was embarrassed.

I saw Chester blush and look down. I decided now would be the time to stand up (It had never occurred to me before then). I grabbed Dom’s hand for help. I caught Kher’s eyes; they were full of tears. Happy tears, I assumed. I stood awkwardly around all of them, feeling like it was all a dream.

“Let’s eat!” Joe exclaimed. “I’m freaking starving!”

Mike sighed. “Alright, let’s get in the van.”

All of us lined out to the hotel entrance and climbed on their tour bus. After a few exhausting minutes of silence, we arrived at the restaurant—McDonald’s.

“I didn’t even know they had a Mickey D’s in Britain!!” Kher said excitedly. I grinned.

We all climbed down from the tour bus, and I felt Dom reach to hold my hand. I looked at him and told the rest of them we’d catch up.

Dom and I walked around to the non-public side of McDonald’s. He turned to face me. “I love you.”

I thought I was going to pass out again. “Uh…Um..” I was astonished. “I love you too!” We kissed, sealed the deal, and headed back inside.

“Wait..” I said. “Can you believe this?? They actually heard our story!!”

“I know. It’s amazing. And it’s even more amazing now that I’m with you finally.” He looked down at his hands. “I remember all those lonely nights I sat in my dorm room, wanting to be with you. Just to see you. I would have done anything. And then when you called me for the first time…I cried, to be honest.” We laughed. “But…I just want you to know that I love you. And…”

“I know…I love you too. It’s the same with me—everything. Do you remember the first time we met? Last summer at the concert?” I asked.

“Yeah…”

“I knew I was in love with you the first time I saw you. We’d been talking back and forth forever it seemed like, and I still wasn’t sure. But as soon as the music started, I knew you were the one for me.”

“HEY SIS!! DOM!! WE’RE ORDERING, LET’S GO!!” Kher screamed out the door. We laughed and walked back into the restaurant.

xx

new lyrks

they blow..(mike):::

So you think you've got the best of me//
Think that you have me on auto-pilot
A slave to your wishes, just to keep you here//
Carefree, you think you have me
When the truth of the matter is
You never came close//
My desire to be free will never end//
I just want you to know
What you've done to destroy my life
Will destroy yours too//
Disasterous//
Your desperate fear of me leaving
Has left you with nothing
Nothing but me//
And when I will have gone
You'll try to cut me out of your past//
But eternity will not wait
For your clusterfuck of a life//
You've doubted me for too long
Sharpening your knife for my back
But now it's time for the battle...

_________________________________________________

Candle wax dripping in the dead of your apartment
You shiver in the ninety degree weather
Thinking of the past//
Desperate for a changing future
You want to hold me close
I back away//
I don't need you here
I never will
Your misting lies have divided us//
You think you're so glorious
Desperate enough//
But hypocritical damage
Has done you in...

peace...a π

~~random~~

not attached to the story at all.

I hope when you look back on your life//
You are bombarded by all the mistakes
That could have changed where you are today//
I know that the way you look at me now is unreal//
I watch your eyes glaze over
Like I'm not anything anymore
Just a burden in your
Oh-so-blissful life//
The poison you've caused
Seeps into your skin like venom
As you run from the pain//
Run from everything you've ever known,
Everything you were ever meant to be//
Run to your future, so near
But you can't reach it
Your mistakes have changed you, your path
Now it's the past that will set you free...

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I know that when you walk into your empty house
You'll see that you're not the only one with feelings//
You'll sit on the piano bench, contemplating your blissless life//
Only to find that I'm the one you need//
You'll realize in your white-trash ways
That you've screwed me and everyone else you came in contact with//
Time is old//
It has outdone your tricks, your lies//
And you'll lie there on the cold, hard floor//
Desperately waiting, collecting dust//
Run down by suicidal thoughts
Devoted to no one but yourself//
And I know I'll be the one to pick you up once more...

xx

not the story...don't look

im only doing this for my history class...cant open email in school.

leasing of government-owned oil reserves

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761578596/Teapot_Dome.html

stuff about Albert Fall:

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761565470/Albert_Fall.html

sorry guys...school stuff...

long time...

parte six...

He leaned in for a kiss. All the troubles cleared from my mind. I felt his soft hands on the small of my back as our lips met. I ruffled my hands in his hair, forgiving and forgetting everything that had happened.

Then someone knocked on the door.

We ignored it at first, starting to move over to the bed. Then the person started banging on the door, screaming "DOM!!" We parted. He got up to answer the door. I sat on the bed and checked out his ass.

As soon as he opened the door, my sister, Kherington, and her fiance, Chaz, burst through the door, out of breath.

"They're here!!!!" Kher screamed, breathing heavily.

Dom and I exchanged confused glances. We looked at Chaz for some kind of clue. He was doubled over, trying to catch his breath.

I chose to take part in another of my sister's games. "Who's here?"

She stared at me in disbelief. "Who have we been waiting for this whole time WE'VE BEEN IN GOD DAMN LONDON???!"

Then it clicked. I turned to Dom, giggling and squealing, feeling incredulous. I saw him realize it too. We started jumping up and down and laughing.

"WHERE ARE THEY???!" I yelled at my sister without realizing it. My voice was high-pitched and squeaky. Dom laughed at how crazy we were acting.

"They're downstairs," Chaz said calmly. "Waiting for you all to get down there." He was still breathing hard. I was guessing that they'd taken the stairs to get here faster.

Dom and I screamed and ran out into the hall. We flew down the stairs and into the hotel lobby. And there was my dream waiting for me: Mike, Chaz, Rob, Joe, Brad, and Phoenix. All standing with their backs turned, talking. The edges of my sight started to turn black and I started to fall backwards. The next thing I knew, I was staring into Dom's eyes with Mike and Bourdy looking over me, worried looks on their faces. I felt my cheeks get hot. I couldn't believe I had fainted.

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parte cinq

There was Dom. In a tux holding a rose. And he looked different--

It was then that I realized that he got his cheek pierced. And it was hot.

"Wh-....how-....wh-?" I stammered in shock.

"I thought you might like it....you always talk about that Victor guy with his lip pierced...I just thought you would like it.."

"I-...I do.." I said. I was trying really hard not to run over and jump on him. "Wow....is that where you were?" I was dazed.

"Yeah...and I'm really sorry about that. It was the only time I had before the concert tomorrow..." He looked like he felt bad about not telling me.

Then I remember that Nik is downstairs. And also what happened between us.

"And why is--?"

"Nik here?" It was now obvious he felt bad. "Yeah...he's moving here to be an artist. He called me when I was on my way to the piercing shop, and I told him he could stay in our room tonight. As long as you don't mind, of course." He knew I was still awkward with him.

There was a long pause. A little part of me wanted to be angry at him for leaving like that. For not warning me that Nik was here, at the hotel. But I couldn't be mad at him. Not with all that we've been through...meeting on LPU...meeting each other for the first time when Linkin Park was playing at the Summer Sonic Festival in Tokyo. I just couldn't do it.

"Yeah....that's fine...."

"Are you mad?" he asked, his eyes looking straight into mine passionately.

"I want to be..." I felt distant. I knew I had to tell him about Nik. "I saw Nik in the lobby....we talked..." I noticed he was hanging on my every word, expecting the worst. "He made a move on me." I saw his eyes glaze over, then he looked relieved.

He got up from the bed. I felt a cold drop of water drip down my neck from my mini-bath earlier. Instinctively I shiver. I couldn't read his face. "Really? I figured he would..." There was an awkward silence. He moved closer, taking both my hands in his. "Are you okay?"

I looked him up and down, taking in his amazing new piercing. I grinned. "Yeah..I'll be....fine."

xx

ummm here 4 (IV)

parte quatre.

The guy turns around. My mind is screaming MAYDAY MAYDAY. I feel my cheeks burn; I know they're almost to their brilliant shade of EMBARRASSED. I look at him....he looks oddly familiar...

"NIK??!" I half-scream, half whisper in surprise. It's Dom's brother. But more importantly, my ex. "What-What are you doing here?? I haven't seen you since...well...you know..."

He chuckles. Then he frowns. "Where's Dom?" he asks, like I would know.

"I'm not sure...I figured he'd be down here. He wasn't up in our hotel room..." I'm starting to get worried. Or if he's okay, irate.

Nik and I wait around, making small talk. One of the many things I haven't mastered in my twenty years.

"...So then I was like, why did he do that? The bear was right there!" Nik says, laughing so hard the cheap wine in a styrofoam cup spills on his shoes. I laugh, even though I missed the story line. I was thinking about Dom. And how he would think about all of this.

Then it happens. He leans in for a kiss. I, still thinking of Dom, freak out and back away. He looks hurt, but he knows that I'm in love with his brother. Upset, I run down the hall, up the stairs, and into our hotel room.

Ignoring my trouble to catch my breath, I run into the bathroom and on impulse start to fill the sink with cold water. When it's full, I take a deep breath and stick my head in. I let it all consume me, leaving me numb. Eventually I run out of breath and am forced to take my head out. Once I do I immediately feel better.

I blindedly grab a towel for my soaking-wet hair and dry it off--just enough that it'll stop dripping. I flip my head up--I feel so fresh, so new.

I walk out to lay on the bed and when I get there--there's Dom.

xx.