Hewwo Sinister, Golly, everyone's leaving all at once. Right. Ok, nobody else leave within the next 6 months or I'll make myself sick through my nose. And cry. Ooh, good thing, I got straight A's a good reports at parents night, so I can stop worrying myself sick, temporarily, about being a complete failure. Bad things have been happening. I'll tell you all about them, because someone might find them midly interesting. So there's a girl, and she wants to set me up with someone, because she thinks this will complete my life. She's not really my friend, but I let her pretend she is sometimes, because I feel sorry for her. She acts, dresses and speaks like a hard kid, but all the hard kids hate her. A sort of mutant hard kid. if you will. Anyway, we're standing in the town centre, and I'm watching the ice skaters, and playing We Rule the School in my head, and feeling generally at peace, when some boy she knows comes up to her, and starts boasting about all the violent things he's been doing. His name's Lee and he's 18, quite nice looking and really tall and a bit leery. Eventually he asks me out, and I'm scared and the girl's pushing me into it, so I say yes, thinking, "oh well he's drunk anyway, he probably will have forgotten about me". Next day, I hear the hard kids mention him, how he's in a really notorious gang, and stuff. So I approach them, timidly, fully expecting to be laughed at or kicked or something, and asked them what he's like. Details. They ask why, and I say that I'm going out with him. They ask me if they age thing bothers me, and I tell them I've been out with boys of that age before, but they don't believe me. They tell me he's been done twice for attempted rape and he always goes for underage girls because he likes easy sex. But then they get relly scared and start doing the "you haven't heard it from me thing". Bluddy grate (that was sarcasm by the way). So I'm stuck with a mega hard kid rapist as a boyfriend. But for the next two days he hangs about outside the school waiting for me, and I manage to avoid him. But today he caught up with me and I told him I didn't think we should go out and ran for it. Now I'm scared that his mates will get me. Or that the slightly thick girl who set us up won't clock on and will give him my address and phone number or something. But on a more cheerful note, I'm not in a band called the Brass Monkeys. Have to toddle off to bed now, Hugs, Jen +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+