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Can you make a friend— like a craft project?
I know, I hear this parental voice, “just be yourself.”

All of my classes this semester will be in one building, but I’m a control freak, I wanted to walk my schedule, go class to class, like I will on my first day. I have a locker too—this is so high school—but I wanted to find it, try the combination and plan what I’ll carry. I have questions too, like how’s the wi-fi, are there charging outlets, and where can I get coffee?

Orientation is Tuesday—but who can wait until Tuesday? Classes start Wednesday.  I’d never sleep this weekend with so many questions. I’m already having dreams where I’m lost, late and embarrassed.

So there I was, this morning, dressed for class with my green messenger bag—doing it—schedule in hand. I went into a small auditorium with cushioned, crimson, theater seating—where my first class will be—and there’s this other girl, dressed for class, schedule in hand.

We were like twins, except she’s tall and black and I’m not. Right off she commanded me, handing me her phone, no preamble, no “How do you do,” to “Take my picture.”
Of course, I obeyed, I’m not from outer space. I burst 50 quick frames, as she slightly varied her pose and she did likewise for me.

Her name is Chella and she graduated from Yale last week too, with a ‘Bachelor of Science in Global Affairs.’ I think I saw her on campus once or twice but our paths had never directly crossed.
“But IS "Global Affairs" a science degree?” I asked skeptically.
“Probably not,” she answered, “but some of us can live with ambiguity.”
Her first direct, commanding phrase limns her personality perfectly.
Yeah, we hit it right off.
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Songs for this:
Cruel To Be Kind by Letters to Cleo
Perfect Day by Povo
Are You Trying to Be Funny? by Everything But the Girl
BLT Merriam Webster word of the day challenge 05/24/25:
limn = to portray in clear sharp detail
Ruheen Aug 2019
It burns your bones
Burns your soul

Leaves you cold
But still somehow whole

Lights up your heart
To get rid of the dark

Flames lick your skin
You see the Devil's grin

Turns you inside out
To blacken the outside now

You can see it in your eyes
When the water dries

When your tears start to sting
Know you're tired of crying

It's destiny's date
There is no escape

When fire meets fate.
uhuh. ok then. byee.
Colm Jul 2019
There’s something majestic about where water meets rains

As body of water seemingly warmer than that of your own

As if the worlds fishbowl had been turned upside-down on a playing card

Where the warm is cold and cold is the air

And all I want to be is in and beneath

The broken, shining surface of this rippling world

Not quiet, not callous, not alone
Where Rain Meets Water
Haylin Sep 2018
The world is big. Some of us will never see most of it.
I’m only 15 and I’m not ready for the world.
If I could, I would stay here.
But I don’t think any of are ready. It’s a big place, it’s scary.
But this is our world, we choose what we do with it.
Levi Oct 2015
This soothing cool night I can't sleep
Because the bliss lingers so deep
As my soul lay in my soft bed
The night so eerie like the dead

There lay in the table untouched
The symbol of pure love and life
Driving me crazy and restless
I will keep the flower to death

Cold lose to warmth, dark lose to light
Morning smile to everyone's sight
My thrill drop dead, I hate Mondays
Goodbye Saturday and Sunday..


Morning air rust my very core
I dislike school more than my chore
School means cage in my young small mind
You're force to do things like a blind

Face the wall, you did something wrong
Always make homework all night long
Composition, projects I'm chained
Every school day is like pain

Cold water knocks me to my sense
Sullenly I move, dull essence
Mom so furious now, I must dash
In seconds, I’ am gone in a flash..
Balloons and Flowers resumes....
Peter Aguilar May 2015
I saw shadows dance
Synchronized madness
Bereft of definition
Colors and forces melding
For a moment, the polars met
A very brief eclipse
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