Boyd Ainslie | Red Riding Hood (ex_sanguine300) wrote in bellumletale, |
Caro diario, I turned fourteen today. I always told my momma I thought it was shame me being born on April Fool's Day, and momma always said it was just like me to want to steal the limelight from a holiday by being born on it. Since it was my birthday I decided to skip school (Grandmother looked at me all stern, like she always does when I do things I ought not do) but I been getting all As, and I neve, ever miss so I didn't feel so bad. And I even said one Hail Mary and two Our Fathers as penance, so if Jesus can forgive me, so can Grandmother. She's been dead two years now, and I went out to her grave and sat for a spell this morning. I told her I had a crush on Billy Reeves, and I brought her carnations. Billy's two years older, but he's never had anyone he knows die. I like that about him even if he likes to talk about comics alot. But I ain't at the point. I was at the cemetery sitting, and I saw these two old haunts. They had to be a hundred if they were a day and they were sitting hand in hand at a gravestone. She was real cute and all in a pretty dress, and he had a cane and he looked real refined and he leaned in and kissed her cheek while I watched. Haunts old as Moses and still kissing and holding hands. I want that one day. And I think with everything being how it is I deserve it. When they left I went over to the gravestone to see who'd died, and it was a real old grave for some little girl thatd only lived a few days. I don't know why it is that some haunts stay and some don't. I never see my daddy and I know my momma would love to see him. Why do Grandmother and momma stay, but he don't? I know he loved momma every bit as much as them old people. Maybe it's payment for doing bad things for work. I ain't gonna do anything bad in living caro diario so I can have someone love me when I'm a hundred and then even more than that. Ti prometto which means I promise in Italian. Even if Billy wants to kiss me I'll say no, cause Father Daugherty says our bodies are tempels. I think that means they're meant to have locks to keep boys like Billy out. PS: I saw a lupo today when I was coming home. I told my foster mother and she got mad at me for lying, but I wasn't. PSS: Maybe Billy can have one kiss. In segreto, Ainslie |