Post by shaun on Jul 11, 2008 23:59:55 GMT -5
"I'm afraid of scaring you. Afraid of what you might think of me. After all, you just met me, but I feel 'at home' with you. I've never been close to someone, and yet in these past few moments with you...I feel...alive. It's the first time I've ever felt like this... I know that must be hard for you to understand. I do not mean to sound like a crazy stalker or anything."
Shaun grinned. "A crazy stalker? Look who you're talking to," she chuckled. She liked sitting close to him-- there was an implied camaraderie in it that she hadn't felt in ages. Maybe she wasn't as good at traveling by herself as she thought-- she'd really missed this.
"You aren't going to scare me... I agree with what you're saying. Even though we just met, I feel so comfortable talking to you. And talking to me isn't weirding you out, which is... really unusual," she said, and then laughed. "And really nice; I could get used to it. I have to say that, in a way, I feel close to you already-- I don't feel like I just met you at all."
"I left my "home", if you could call it that, when I was eighteen. The seven years after my mother left grew to be unbearable with my father. He hated me being there just as much as I did. So...I made my decision. When I moved out I spent two years living with a bunch of highschool friends I had...we moved on to college together. They were just guys I knew, they kept me occupied doing things I shouldn't have been doing. You know, the crazy stupid things people do in college."
Heh. Did she ever. Although Shaun got the impression that Jaden wasn't talking about getting drunk and spray-painting obscene faculty portraits all over the science building. Now that she had spent two years as something of a vagabond, it was easier for Shaun to understand what drove people to uproot themselves. But to have to live that way in high school? She highly doubted that she would have turned out as well as Jaden seemed to have. It hurt her to think about it, but at the same time she couldn't help but admire his strength.
"I never ended up finishing college. When I turned twenty, my life was changed, I was different. I guess you could call it fate. What happened then, had to happen, or at least I tell myself that. From then on, I decided to move around a lot. I had nothing to hold on to. So...here I am today."
Shaun understood only too well what it was like to wander, without anything solid in life to brace yourself on. She started to ask him what had happened that had changed him so much, but then his eyes locked with hers and rational thought went out the window.
"But being here with you changes my perspective. Like maybe there is something more to life."
His smile made her heart skip a beat. Shaun wasn't usually one to be moved by words alone, but now she was practically melting. She wasn't even sure how to respond to something so kind, especially when he was looking at her like that-- making it difficult to breathe or think clearly.
"I'm really glad," she smiled at last, and reached out to intertwine her fingers with his.
Shaun grinned. "A crazy stalker? Look who you're talking to," she chuckled. She liked sitting close to him-- there was an implied camaraderie in it that she hadn't felt in ages. Maybe she wasn't as good at traveling by herself as she thought-- she'd really missed this.
"You aren't going to scare me... I agree with what you're saying. Even though we just met, I feel so comfortable talking to you. And talking to me isn't weirding you out, which is... really unusual," she said, and then laughed. "And really nice; I could get used to it. I have to say that, in a way, I feel close to you already-- I don't feel like I just met you at all."
"I left my "home", if you could call it that, when I was eighteen. The seven years after my mother left grew to be unbearable with my father. He hated me being there just as much as I did. So...I made my decision. When I moved out I spent two years living with a bunch of highschool friends I had...we moved on to college together. They were just guys I knew, they kept me occupied doing things I shouldn't have been doing. You know, the crazy stupid things people do in college."
Heh. Did she ever. Although Shaun got the impression that Jaden wasn't talking about getting drunk and spray-painting obscene faculty portraits all over the science building. Now that she had spent two years as something of a vagabond, it was easier for Shaun to understand what drove people to uproot themselves. But to have to live that way in high school? She highly doubted that she would have turned out as well as Jaden seemed to have. It hurt her to think about it, but at the same time she couldn't help but admire his strength.
"I never ended up finishing college. When I turned twenty, my life was changed, I was different. I guess you could call it fate. What happened then, had to happen, or at least I tell myself that. From then on, I decided to move around a lot. I had nothing to hold on to. So...here I am today."
Shaun understood only too well what it was like to wander, without anything solid in life to brace yourself on. She started to ask him what had happened that had changed him so much, but then his eyes locked with hers and rational thought went out the window.
"But being here with you changes my perspective. Like maybe there is something more to life."
His smile made her heart skip a beat. Shaun wasn't usually one to be moved by words alone, but now she was practically melting. She wasn't even sure how to respond to something so kind, especially when he was looking at her like that-- making it difficult to breathe or think clearly.
"I'm really glad," she smiled at last, and reached out to intertwine her fingers with his.