Page 108 of Through Quick and Quinn
Lunch at school has gotten quiet. Quinn has gone back to meditating on the lawn. She still meditates at home and has all her crystals and herbs and books and all that, but we’ve been spending our lunchtimes talking for so long now, I can’t remember the last time she meditated on the quad. She told me that she needs to focus on it a bit more right now because of all the upcoming changes. It’s cool that she can sense when she’s feeling anxious and then just address it without letting it spiral out of control.
I’m kinda liking the quiet lunch times, to be honest. First of all, she looks so damn beautiful. She closes her eyes and literally escapes to who knows where, and as creepy as it sounds, I could stare at her peaceful and perfect face the entire time. But I don’t. I’ve been looking up volunteer opportunities for the non-profits, reaching out via email, and reading about different majors and classes offered at the colleges around here. Don’t get me wrong, I look up from the computer pretty often to glance at her face, but for the most part, I’m researching.
It’s such an awesome feeling to be that comfortable with someone. To be able to just sit, be quiet, and enjoy the company. I know I’d be that way with you, too. I wish I could be. Sometimes I am in my mind, and that’s better than nothing.
Love you,
Deck
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TOPIC #12
Fluid Definitions
wannaDB8?: I heard that online dictionaries have changed definitions of words, especially these last couple years, but I’ve never looked into it. I thought this would be as good a time as any and that you guys could join in on the fun if you wanted to, ha!
meh: ummm can we skip ahead to a much more pressing issue… this whole seek & speak thing is about finding the truth, right? it literally says “whats the truth anyway” under the title. so let’s find the truth out. don’t you think we should, QUICK?
wannaDB8?: @meh I’m not sure what you’re referring to.
meh: i’m referring to the hypocrisy of this whole sham. doesn’t anyone want to know who quick is? what kind of name is quick anyway? it’s not a name. so who is he? care to explain, DECLAN? who the hell are you anyway?
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Hey Geoffrey,
Quinn’s been mentioning it off and on since we went to the nursery, that she’s got a bad feeling about something to come. Well, it’s here.
I guess we knew this was coming in one way or another, and now it seems so obvious what Mandy would do. Another black swan event. She loves to go public, and she is clearly one to hit below the belt, so yeah, we should have figured she’d use S&S to release the kraken.
She signed up as Meh (classic) and went on S&S to call out the hypocrisy (yet again). Our byline alludes to wanting to discover the truth, and yet here I am with a silly nickname and no one is asking me who I am. It’s funny. I’m not at all upset about being called out. I knew the second I read her post that I would come clean. Why wouldn’t I? My 18-year-old self can handle things that my 12-year-old self couldn’t. I am a little upset, though, that she made the forum feel uncomfortable and awkward. What a tool.
So I went back to the site later on to respond and I was shocked to see what I saw. A bunch of S&Sers had my back. Some asked her point blank what her problem was. Some said that my personal life wasn’t the purpose of the forum. Stuff like that. It kinda made me feel good to read it all, like somehow we’ve all become this band of buddies connected by this bizarre thread. Weird, though, because I really don’t know who most of them are. The level of reciprocated respect is there, though. It’s pretty awesome. Anyway, my favorite response to Mandy’s crap? Someone told her that it’s a good thing her username’s anonymous because she should be ashamed of herself. I’d never stoop that low to rat her out. I’m sure it’ll come out somehow, someday. I don’t really care.
