ā lady, running down to
the riptide, making her
way to the dark side ~ ā
āāā
in which the prim & proper
boarding school girl captures
the heart of kooks & pogues alike,
with the most lovesick one of all
happening...
we call her O, though, gives her that ruffian edge she's missing that the rest of us have. You may have heard of Kook Princess, Sarah Cameron...well, that's a technical misuse on our part. Sarah's like the duchess...the real princess of the kooks is none other than Miss Ophelia Jade. The Parks ── the one family even the Camerons bow down to. Scary, ain't it? How even the lions have predators they fear?
The Parks are like infallible, indestructible, all-powerful dragons ── they make the Camerons look like yapping Chihuahuas, rattling on and on, making loud noise to make up for the fact that they really aren't 'the shit'. O though...Ophelia's like a unicorn. Somehow in the craziness, the two most ferocious dragons to set foot in the Outer Banks crossbreed and they wind up with a unicorn.
When I first met Ophelia, I finally understood the whole 'don't judge a book by its cover' thing. Doesn't make sense...doesn't make any sense how she came out of that madhouse. Ophelia Jade, as in the Ophelia Jade who dances along the sidewalk and generously gives her overpour of allowance to beggars she sees on the street.
She's the classy one, the kind of kid your parents will compare you to when you bring home report cards covered in Fs ── yep, I've been on the receiving end of that speech, it's not fun. She's only around every summer but when she isn't around, you can feel she's gone ── even though she's been in and out of the most prestigious boarding schools since she was ten.
When she's around, us Pogues get into way less trouble. For some reason, her smile gets her out of anything, everything ── we're lucky enough to hitch a ride. She's got everyone wrapped around her finger, no one can resist Ophelia Jade.
