"Mommy, I wanna be a princess when I grow up!"Her mom smiles, "You're already a princess, sweetie.""Really, Mommy? I'm a princess?""Of course, honey, you're my little princess."***** Ten years later..."You know, Mom, growing up sucks."Her mom raises her eyebrows, "Really? Why's that?""All of my dreams are flying away. Leaving me all alone, dreamless.""..."*****"The hardest part is letting goof your dreams."- My Chemical R...

Her body lays on his bed, listening to him play his game, and she shuts her eyes against it, slipping into a dream. In the dream, it's her and him. Only her and him. And then the bed bounces, and it's back to her, him, and his game...She hates being a light sleeper.

"Tell me something, why do you look so empty?""Who, me?""Yeah, you.""No reason.""Doesn't look that way.""Okay, let me rephrase that: No good reason.""So what's your reason?""It's no big deal, okay? Just drop it.""I'm not dropping it until you tell me the truth.""Fine. My teeny-tiny little reason is that I've been helping others for so long and...""And what?""And I've forgotten how to care for myself."

In the movie,She walks away and he chases after her.In real life,She walks away,and he goes on with life.In the movie,He breaks up with her,then realizes he was an idiot,and they're back together.(Happily Ever After)In real life,He breaks up with her,then gets together with someone else,and they try the friend thing.(It doesn't work out)In the movie,He gets cancer,And miraculously gets better.But in real life,He gets canc...

"Speak your mind. Like I care. I can see your lips moving, I've just learned not to hear..."Go ontell mewhat'swrong with itwrong with feelingor acting this waywrong with having a wallwrong with me.Here's a clue:I already know!You thinkI actually go through life...without a carehow I act,how I am,who I am?I knowsometimesmy poems aren't amazingsometimesthey're just wordssometimesthey're my pent upangerfrustrationpainlovehur...

"Stay with me, baby stay with me. Tonight don't leave me alone. Walk with me, come and walk with me to the edge of all we've ever known... You know I could not want you more than I did right then as our heads leaned in..." -Parachute, Kiss Me Slowly. Under the moon, Hold my hand, Skip with me Down this golden dirt road, Don't run, Allow me to lean close, into your warmth And feel your lips on mine. I don't know how this w...

"If I could fall into the sky, do you think time would pass me by?... 'Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles if I could just see you... tonight." -from Dear John, A Thousand Miles. Wrap your arms around me, Hold me close, That's all I want As we lay together And my heart slows To match yours As we sleep next to each other. Body to body, Heart to heart, Soul to soul, That's all I want.

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"Do you feel like a man when you push her around? Do you feel better now as she falls to the ground?... A new life she has found, face down in the dirt, She said this doesn't hurt, she said, I've finally had enough..." Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Face Down. A shove, A word, A phrase, A curse. She looks up at him from the ground, A steely look on her face, "We're over," she says, and struggles up just to be, pushed back down....

"Just didn't drink enough to say you love me..." Evanescence, Lithium. He gets home, Staggering to the bedroom, Expects her laid out, Ready to please him. She is asleep, Laying on the bed, Escaped to dreams and hopeful happiness, The land of love. He shakes her, Sending her to a new dream, A nightmare of swinging fists, And angry, drunken words. She knows this place, It is the in-between, Between his hatred for her, And h...

**This is a work of fiction from the point of view of one of my poor, poor characters. I didn't know where to put it, so it is in flash fiction.**  "Don't look back... You'll never know the way your words have haunted me..." Evanescence, Snow White Queen. I know you know what you did to me. You weren't drunk, there was no excuse for you to treat me, your only daughter, the way you did. You didn't hurt me, not unless I spo...

You wanna know why I stand as tall as I do? Why I look so proud? Why I have this stupid mask up? Why, even with all that, I look away when you look me in the eyes? Because I don't want you to see the real me. Because I don't want you to know how much I actually slouch. I don't want you to see how ashamed I am. I don't want you to see how broken I am underneath all this painted happiness. Because you don't need to know all...

"Sit and listen,Sit and listen..." That's all I'll do, I'll sit here, in this seat, Listen to you drone on and on. No, I don't mind, but when you ask me if I'm okay, and I say yes, Can you ask again? Maybe then I'll tell you the truth. "Look right through me,Look right through me..." I'll stand, present this to you, tell you the basics of myself, you won't ask for any more. But if you did, would I tell you more? Maybe. Bu...

too many the number of times she ignores it every day 800 the approx number of calories consumed per day 200 not quite the exact number of scars within the past few years 125 the number on the scale 65.5 my height in inches 50 the minimum number of mean jokes and insults I hear at school per day 35 minutes at lunch I spend in the bathroom stall 17 the number of times I think of ending it per day 10 minutes after school be...

Guess you could say, "Why do I care? It's just hair..." But when you lose it, and that's out of your control... You do care. You wish for it back. I used to have my long, dark red hair down to the end of my back... I lost it half a year ago, Now I have a fake wig I put on in the morning. No one knows, No one really cares, really. They don't know, because I won't tell. There's no reason to tell strangers that I lost my hai...