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Extra. Lucas Friar Writing Paper.

Lucas Friar
08/31/2015
Creative Writing First Period

Breaking Down My Partner

Riley Matthews. When I hear that name I think of two words 'mysterious beauty'. Obviously she is absolutely gorgeous, deep brown hair that has red undertones when she steps out into the sun. Her eyes are a chocolate brown that have flecks of gold in them, her dimples are deep even when she's got a simple closed smile toying at her lips.

However, we all know she's a beauty. Riley, without even noticing it, commands attention as soon as she steps into the room. A skill that most men that twice her age are incapable of doing, her presence alone sends everyone on high alert, but she doesn't necessarily enjoy it. At least from what I can tell. She practically glides across the floor, and you can hear her coming from a mile away. She holds her head up high but doesn't want anyone to look at her. Why? I don't know, but I intend to find out.

I've pretty much pressured her into being my friend because I want to break down the first word of my 2 part description. Mysterious. Riley is a loner, of that I'm sure. However, I don't know why-which seems to be a reoccurring statement in this assignment. She keeps people at arm's length by constantly being on the defensive. Which, I attribute to a difficult past. Is it to protect herself or to protect others? Lots of people would consider her attitude of being guarded as selfish. However, I believe the exact opposite. I believe that she is protecting others.

She's a great person. I don't understand how I know that yet because she's had a few choice words for me already, but she is. I can see it in her eyes, when she looks at me I can tell she wants to be friends or that she is at least curious about me. She wants to talk to someone and befriend others, though I'm going to venture and say half the school is intimidated by her and she may not be great at making friends.

She's strong and has learned to take care of herself. I didn't know that until I saw her take Charlie Gardner to the ground-and that was pretty great. At first glance you'd think the motorcycle and leather jacket were just a front but it's the reverse. The motorcycle is freedom to her, freedom from what I don't know. And the jacket, well I assume it's just because it blocks the wind. It's nice to know she can take care of herself, but she shouldn't have to. She isn't used to me standing up for her, which again I attribute to a difficult past. But I will continue to defend her. I can tell she's a fighter, she's fought a difficult journey and I can only hope to make it easier on her.

Riley likes simple. She just about wears the same thing every day, skinny jeans, ankle boots and her jacket. She doesn't wear makeup and my girlfriend has told me it's obvious she doesn't do her hair, though it still looks beautiful. The natural beauty thing attracts a lot of male attention, but again she fights it off. She doesn't want it, which only makes guys work harder to figure out why.

Like I said I'm unsure of a lot of things when the name 'Riley Matthews' appears in my head, and it has appeared in my head a lot, since the day she moved across the street. Riley works out all the time, for hours a day and I don't know why because she's in great shape. Simply something else to add to the 'mysterious' column. But, the 'beauty' column is abundantly full already so we'll give it a small break.

There are a lot of unknowns when it comes to Ms. Matthews and I have a hunch she prefers to keep it that way but I don't intend to leave her as a 'mystery'. I intend to take Miley Cyrus' advice and take a wrecking ball to her walls that she probably spent years building up. I expect to get taken to the ground- like her 'friend' Charlie Gardner-a time or two which is fine. I fully intend for her to verbally assault me and she's going to get extremely mad, which again is fine. I'm going to figure her out and I can't wait to see what I uncover.

Maybe you'll have us write another paper at the end of the year to see how accurate our predictions were. That way you can see what the 'true' Riley Matthews is like. It would ultimately be an easy paper for me to write because 'I don't know' is a common statement throughout this assignment. The only thing I truly know is this;

1. Riley Matthews is beautiful.

2. She's strong.

3. I will figure her out.

4. And she'll make number 3 very hard to accomplish.

All 4 of those bullets are 4 very true statements. I am well aware that this paper was supposed to be a thousand words. But how can you write a thousand word paper about someone who has spoken maybe 80 to you since the day you met. So, I'm going to end this paper the way I started it and say Riley Matthews is a 'mysterious beauty'.