June 1st - June 19th
It's almost summer! The last few weeks of school have come, and students will need to study hard for their final exams! Don't let up yet, or your grades won't be what you want them to. Of course, the weather is almost perfect and pristine, in attempts to lure students away from their studies.
The Life of a Stranger--The Journal of Jereff Stranger
People are the same today as they used to be
The same expectations
So high no one can reach that high
Not I nor you get satisfied today
We'll never get enough
Re: The Life of a Stranger--The Journal of Jereff Stranger
August 29, 2008
Log 1:
I've gotten this new diary from my Aunt... I think she hopes that it's going to improve my handwriting. She can't stand it. Unfortunately, I don't think it will do much good... It's not my fault I can't write very well, for Merlin's sake, I get good grades in school, that should be enough for them right? Oh humbug. It doesn't really matter I guess. My handwriting is what it is and it just proved that if you're smark you don't always have good writig. Like Atticus. I've seen that boy's essays and Merlin's beard! He has amazing handwriting!
.. But trust me to obsess over handwriting anyway! Yeesh... Whatever. So I have this new journal. I'm not sure what to do with it yet. Maybe I'll write stuff in it, maybe I'll just end up taking notes in it. Whatever. It's not like I'll write every day or anything like some school girl. Anyway. I might as well start writing about something important. Like Kat. Poorgirl, I'm getting worried about her (again). She hasn't returned my last owl yet, and I'm starting to wonder... But then maybe the daft bird just got lost, you never know how reliable a bird can be until it's too late. I really hope those brothers of her are keeping their distance. Honestly, they're a bunch of gits that are in desperate need of a thrashing. I'd do it myself if I could get over there...
To explain, Kat is sort of like the sister I never had. Shes an adorable girl but she's got practically no self confidence because of those ruddy biological brothers of hers. Bloody pricks... Anyway, I'm hoping to arrange a meeting Kat soon, to make sure she's okay. Maybe in Muggle london somewhere. Maybe Diagon Alley. I dunno, muggle London sounds more fun if you ask... Oh well. Ugh, mum's calling. She's so overly protective of me, it's almost disgusting. But I guess with all things considered.... If that sort of thing ever happened to my kid I'd absolutely pummel the person who did it and make sure my kid never left my sight again!... But maybe I'm overreacting. Anyway. The mother of the house is calling.
Re: The Life of a Stranger--The Journal of Jereff StrangerOctober 3, 2008
Log 2:
It's 2:30 AM. I just woke up in a cold sweat again. Merlin. I can barely write my hands are shaking so much. I hate this I hate this I HATE THIS! Why does this always bloody happen to me? If I could remember just what I was dreaming about, if I could remember more than fragments of it... Merlin. I mean I know what happened, but it's like. A piece of my past is just missing, I can't remember all of it. Urgh. I was knocked unconscious a dozen times that summer, and I can hardly remember it was that happened in between blackouts. I don't even remember what game I was playing the last time that I was at their house. And My eye's never been the same since he did that.
Damn him.
I can't even get a full night's sleep without getting all of those flashbacks. It hasn't been this bad in a while ago, I almost went a week without one. But I nearly blacked out last sunday. I was lucky that I was in near a chair so I could kind of collapse into it and gain control before my eyes rolled back into my head. I'm never going to touch alcohol when I'm of legal drinking age. Not ever.
Merlin. There's no way I'm going to get back to sleep after this. What should I do? Just sit up and reflect on what happened? I won't be able to get my mind off of it...
Re: The Life of a Stranger--The Journal of Jereff StrangerOctober 13, 2008
Log 3:
Merlin!
I can't seem to get a full night's sleep anymore... I was fine for a few days after that last entry and then boom. And I've been getting those horrible headaches again... What could possibly be the cause? They're not normal, I can feel it. It's like my entire head is going to.. Combust! Or implode! Agh I hate it. Do you suppose he might have done something to my head? I mean, I was a growing boy. Not that old... So... Merlin.
Stop thinking about depressing things, pratt. Start thinking about stuff that will make you happy. Like... Asking Alex to the Masque... That was certainly a cause for celebration...
Yeah, I'm not quite sure why I asked her.. I just... Felt absolutely awful about the thought of her going with someone else, so before I knew it, the words were coming out of my mouth! Insane, don't you think? Yeah... Sigh... I hope she didn't say yes just because I asked, that would make the entire evening an absolute nightmare. But I don't think so, I think if she said yes it's because she really wants to go with me. She's not the type of girl to just say yes to not hurt someone's feelings. She runs with the mischief crowd. You can't survive in that crowd if you try to appease everyone or you'll end up getting so lose in lies and truth that you won't know up from down.
We decided to go as cowboys... Hehe... This'll be fun, but I'll have to ask Puck for help and give her a fantastic birthday. I forgot last year. She can be one angry little creature when she wants to be. Like some sort of bug. Merlin, that was frightening. It took two Prefects and a Professor to get her to stop pummeling. Not that it hurt very much, because she's got very small fists. I'm just lucky she forgot that she had her wand on her or I would have been hexed into next week!
But back to Alex. Hm. Usually I don't ask girls to these things because of. Well. Yeah. AND I set out NOT to ask anyone, but here I go. First dance of the school year and BOOM I ask a girl! I must have very little resolve to stay away from girls... Merlin.
Re: The Life of a Stranger--The Journal of Jereff StrangerJanuary 1, 2009
Log 4:
Happy New Year!
I guess I'm not writing in this as much as my Aunt hoped I would... I'm sorry, I guess not that much has happened! Haha.. Isn't that a lie if I ever knew one. So much has happened this year and I don't know what to do. I'm on my path to being a Professional Dueler... I've got.. A wonderful girlfriend. And Yes, I said that correctly. I have a girlfriend. Alex and I have been dating for months now... I don't know what happened, but somewhere along the line I fell for her. And she and I are so completely different. I follow the rules now, and she breaks them. I must say it's a bit nice to break the rules again though, I haven't broken the rules since I was in my third year. At least, I haven't broken any major rules, but I got thrown out of the library for being too rowdy with Alex.. I snuck her into the Prefects bathroom on my birthday so that we could hang out just the two of us..
... All I really remember is her skimpy swim suit though.. I think we had fun!
Um.. where was I?
Well not everything has been good... The Death Eaters, they say, have been trying to sabatoge everything happening at Hogwarts. First they spread a disease called Dragon Pox throught he students and.. I stumbled upon Vaila Rosewood--dead. I just.. Now I have new nightmares (hah. except it's not that funny....) um.. Yeah.. I just.. I try not to think about it.
Yeah.. right.... And then there was the train wreck. They kidnapped three students, who are still missing.
... What a depressing year.. I need to go think some things over.
Re: The Life of a Stranger--The Journal of Jereff StrangerJanuary 2, 2009
Log 5:
I'm seriously thinking about turning this into a dream journal because now I don't think it's possible for me to have a normal and wonderful dream... If I'm not dreaming about that summer at my uncle's, I'm dreaming about stumbling upon Vaila. It's either one or the other, and sometimes it's both at the same time. Maybe I just need someone to interpret my dreams for me... I don't know. But there MUST be a reason I'm still having them. I mean, for my uncle, I'm seventeen now. I can defend myself, and it's not like I'm going to be going back there anytime soon. And that happened when I was like, five, so why can't I seem to forget it? Why is it ALWAYS there in the back of my mind waiting to jump out when my subconscious takes over?
With Vaila it's more understandable, because it was recent and.. I can't defend myself against death. Death Eaters, maybe, but not death itself. Either way I want these dreams to stop. Maybe I can ask Professor Archer or the potion master if he can concoct something that makes me not dream at all...
About Alex.. Yeah.. I have a girlfriend. A little more detail on her. She's absolutely beautiful in every way. And she's a Hufflepuff (I know, I said I'd swear off of Hufflepuff girls but I couldn't help it). She's adventurous, funny, outgoing. And our friendship was a big confusing mess before I told her that I liked her.
To begin things, we met in the compartments on the way to school. I recognized her, because I'm a Prefect and I'm supposed to know everyone. And I recognized her because she hangs out with Ashton a lot. And then we literally ran into each other one day in the rain... And she called me a kitty so I called her a fish (I don't know what was up with me that day), but then I asked her if she wanted to hang out and she said no. I wonder what that meant... Did she not like me?... Erm. Well by this time I was already attracted to her. She has this charisma that just pulls you in before you know it. And then we met again in the library, and we were talking and laughing and then we were thrown out. I don't know how it happened, but I started falling for her... We went to the masque together as cowboys and that was an absolute BLAST. We danced, we talked, we laughed. And then the power went out. Yes, everything was magically rigged in Hogsmeade, so that meant magic was temporarily knocked out. I still don't know what happened, it was like a field of anti-magic for a minute or so and then everything came back up. People were losing their magically enhanced constumed, and I felt lucky that Alex and I went in normal clothing for cowboys.
Anyway...
And then there was a mess with Devon... Apparently he kissed her for this dare, and it pissed her off. It made me angry too but.. Whatever.. He set up me confessing my feelings for her so without him I Don't think I could have done it. He led her out to a giant tree where I was waiting with a big bow on me (yes, a bow. I was supposed to be her present), and I told her how I felt, and she said she felt the same.......
Merlin.
Erm. But anyway after that things went into overdrive. I completely lost time for anything other than studies and prefect duties. I barely saw her for a month! I felt like a terrible boyfriend, but I can't help it. Classes were rigorous, underclassmen were unruly. And then in December Alex got the Dragon Pox. I'm so thankful that she didn't get afflicted with a more severe version. She was fine in a few weeks, but she still had sniffles on my 17th birthday. That's when I snuck her into the Prefect bathrooms in our swim suits. I thought that the steam and the hot water might sooth her cold symptoms and help with her aching joints.... I still can't really remember much other than the swim suit.. Ugh. I feel like a stereotypical guy. Only paying attention to the swim suit (and girls say that guys don't pay attention to what they wear! Hah!)... But really it was one heck of a swim suit.... Little triangles and...
Well anyway, regardless of the swim suit, we haven't been able to spend much time together. I feel like it's all my fault that we haven't been spending as much time together as a couple as we should... I really feel absolutely pathetic because we haven't even kissed yet. Our first kiss as a couple hasn't come yet so... How pathetic is that? We've been dating since November eleventh. And now it's January 2nd. ARGH I FEEL LIKE SUCH A SORRY EXCUSE FOR A BOYFRIEND.