Riding down the road with the wind rushing through my hair and the houses whizzing past, I’ve always loved the feeling. Alone but for the music, pounding in my ears. Riding with no destination in mind, I ended up at a park I used to play in when I was a child. Despite a mere ten minute walk from my house, it had been a while since I had come. Dumping my bike, I eagerly climbed onto the equipment, ignoring the couples enjoying an evening walk. Across the monkey bars I went. Stepping across the rails, down the slide and swinging to and fro upon the swings. The cricket nets stood a bit away, reminding me of the time I had spent there with my brother when I had followed everything he did. While the olive tree, still strong and steady, reminded me of the battles we had fought, pelting each other sore. It had been great fun. But as the sun set, with the orange light fading into the distance, I picked up my bike again ready to head home. With the music still pounding in my ears, I sung along knowing that no one could hear my horrid singing, and not really caring either way.


A/N: I’ve realised how much easier it is to write based on experience rather than drawing from imagination. I really must get out there more, maybe then I’ll be able to write better stories.



Back from five days of a foreign town, endless ocean, and pure white sand. A blur of memories and fragmented vignettes define the indescribable experience.

Cooking meals from scratch for a troop of twelve, where we’re limited to goods from a single Bi-Lo store. An uncooked rice and burnt rice, take your pick but soothed over through talking and laughing. Jamming to music, and dancing the chorus to ring ding dong with my kpop twin. Walking a short five minute walk to the beach, and accidently stumbling upon others already there watching the gentle crash of the waves and endless horizon.

Over-competitiveness and ignorance of the importance of water, leading to a horrible morning after. But happy nonetheless at the discovery of high tolerance.

Kayaking in pairs, upon the ocean. Slow at first to get in time but eventually succeeding and beating the others home. Playing limbo under the boardwalks as we quietly sailed through the mangroves interrupted by screams and shouts of those who crashed into branches.

A girls night when the others left for boys formal, catching up on lost sleep, experimenting with honey soy chicken and falling asleep halfway through Enchanted. Stealing a friend’s car, exploring the town, and disappointed at the high price for a tattoo. Entertained by the fact that it was normal for girls to saunter around in just bikinis there.

Running from the house at four something in the morning to the beach in our pyjamas, anxious to not miss the first golden rays of the sun on our last day there. Graced with a school of dolphins instead as the sun was blocked by clouds. Playing with the pipis, enticing them to open their shells with sea water, and amused and disgusted at the same time as their long fleshy tongues licked our palms. Ignoring the stares of onlookers, and writing never to be seen words in the sand which would soon be washed away by the waves.

A sleepy car ride home, interrupted by the driver’s bursts of speed, swerves and breaks near the speed cameras. Pelting the boy’s car with squishy grapes, mid-driving, and regretfully missing the car window with the last one despite five years of basketball skills.

Not completely drama less either, but surviving through it and hopefully strengthening from it. It’s been a good five days, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.


As she walked through those same old iron gates, she took in the sights of her school with eyes different to those of her past six years. The buildings stood indifferent to time, strong and steady, mocking her. What did she think would happen? A collapse in the system? A decay in the buildings? No not even that, she would have been content with any visible change at all. She questioned her idiocy at her expectation of change at the loss of a grade, her grade.

It was the lifeblood of the school, its single purpose. Six years of growth in its classrooms, halls and playground, and those unbreakable bonds made in year seven to the close friends left in year twelve. From the clapping in by the entire school, the five years above us, to the clapping out by the five years below us. The school would remain for years to come; unaware of the loss each year, but to each student leaving, the memories made and bonds formed would be an imparting gift, its influence never fading.

Graduation was a periodic, everlasting and unalterable process.

A/N: Just getting back into the process of writing so excuse the poor attempt and cliché subject matter.



edit: 05/02/12

"The silence was a presence. Everything had changed. This world I loved so much, it would not mourn me. It would not even feel my absence. It would continue on, agelessly indifferent in its beauty, its walls absorbing the echoes of its departed."

A/N: A few lines from "The Last Queen" by C.W.Gortner which I found perfectly befitting what I was trying to portray. 



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