I really wonder how you feel on these nights so alone

“if only you could see”

Extracting fact from fiction.

Oct 22, 2008 || 11:16 PM || comment?

There was a blanket beneath her, gloves covering her fingers, scarf around her neck, and a ski cap pulled over her head, but the cold still managed to penetrate her body. Beside her, a guy was laying down, arms supporting his head, and he only wore a ski cap. The cold never seemed to affect him. Not many things could. She sighed a bit loudly, which got his attention.

"Something wrong?" He still cared just as much, if not more than most.

"I'm pretty much wearing Eskimo clothing, and I'm still freezing, and you're just wearing a cap, so I'm pretty sure you're made of rock or something."

"Hahah, really now? Well, come here then." He stretched an arm out for her to lay on, and she settled in close to him.

"You know, with all of your whining, you were missing something pretty spectacular. Look up." She looked as if she wanted to protest with him, but he already averted his attention to the night sky. She decided to look up too, and every few minutes, a shooting star would trail through the sky.

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The goggles on her face were burying into her skin. She lifted them a bit to somewhat relieve the stinging feeling.

"Follow me," a voice called out gruffly, and the girl jumped. She let go of the goggles, which snapped back on her face, causing her eyes to water. Sighing, she half jogged to catch up with the voice that beckoned her. As she rounded the corner, she ran smack into the chest of a coworker, a lanky guy who always wore a goofy smile, and kept to himself most of the time.

"Hey, you all right?" he asked, and she nodded to the floor, hiding her flushed cheeks.

"Are you headed to the Exhbition Room, too?" he asked.

"Um, yeah," she replied with an apologetic smile.

"Well let's go. I think we're gonna be some of the first ones to get to see this!"

They walked together down the hall, and entered a door on the right. A silver plaque read 'Exhibition Room', and a group of no more than ten people were gathered. Most of them were older, more experienced scientists, and the pair were learning directly from two of them, granting them the chance to see this as well.

"I hope that everyone has a pair of goggles on, because I have no spares." As he made this announcement, a single clicking sound was made, the door automatically locking, allowing no one to enter or exit. Then they headed into a smaller glass room, and the lights were shut off. Then another switch activated, and the floor beneath them began to glow, but that wasn't the amazing thing. In the air surrounding them, glowing particles moved about, emitting a pure white light. It seemed to engulf them all, and the girl swatted her hand in the air. The particles swirled about her hand, and she smiled with amazement. She looked at the guy, who, instead of pushing the lights around with his hand, inhaled through his mouth, and the girl watched as hundreds of the particles were sucked to their death.

"And what exactly are we seeing before us, Doctor?"

The mastermind simply smiled, then turned off what made the floor glow below them.

"Follow me," he said.

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Another day of seminar. The forum wasn't your conventional classroom. As you walked in, you could only step down, and not up. At first, it seemed like a neat idea, until you packed at least 100 kids in there. The first couple of classes weren't that bad, voting on seminars we'd like to hear about, and then having a taurus colloquium. That was probably my favorite one, seeing as we listened to people debate over topics that were relevant to us. The seminars...only a couple of them have been interesting. One time I sat right next to the projector. The back lights were dimmed, the projector was turned on, and a girl began her seminar about gypsies. This one was pretty neat, since I learned "why" gypsies stole, or their reason behind it anyways. During some dull moments, I stared at the projector, but more interestingly, the beam of light it made, and from that part was also a fan sucking in air from the classroom. And the beam lit up dust particles flowing in the air, and they glowed brightly, hundreds of the dust particles swirling around in the beam of light, until they eventually made their way to the projector itself, and the particles were sucked in. Others trailed from the light, and disappeared as soon as that happened.

I've been writing for NaNoWriMo and motivation is slow coming. There are times when I get on my laptop with the sole intention of writing and then I get sidetracked...I wonder how far I'll actually make it? It's not like I'm busy after school, so XD

Why do I write? I'm not exactly sure, maybe because everyone needs a creative outlet and this is mine? I write for my own benefit, to put my thoughts into...what? I dunno...oh well. I'll keep writing, that's for sure.

Hahah, and it has also been a while since I've updated this thing. Next weekend is my sister's birthday. What should I get her? I have no idea..

Then next month is my birthday, it's on a Monday actually, so that's kind of balls. I have no idea what I should do for my birthday....does anyone have any ideas? XD

Oh, also when nano is over, and assuming I have either: finished my story, or written enough so that you'll at least be reading something NEW, I'll post it up here, not all at once mind you XD but in "chapters", or something like it.

hopefully i can finish my story...i should probably decide on a general path of: where do i want this to go? I'm still in need of two more character names...I figured out the other ones, which is awesome, well better than needing to think of four names haha. I'm also pretty sure I slept at least 11-12 hours, and it was greeeeat. (:

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