Flicker, Fade ⧫ Kellic / Ryden / Jardougall / Jalex

2 :: a daydream away

[december 8th]

: hey hello i think i might be getting mayday parade tickets for christmas and honestly. this is too much. i am so excited expect a lot of screaming if i do. also i'm dying my hair pinky purple tomorrow and it's also very exciting life is so great don't you think. anyways i saw this picture of adam sandler on tumblr and it made me burst out laughing so i just put it in here. try to enjoy.

you're just a daydream away

i wouldn't know what to say if i had you

and i'll keep you a daydream away

just watch from a safe place

so i never have to lose

Taylor Jardine had never expected to be so intimidated by something as trivial as a city, but soon came to the realization that she didn't know how public transport worked, hadn't realized that hospitals were different here, and hadn't been aware that people there were colder and were less willing to make conversation. After all, she had grown up in the most unimportant town in all of New York that she had never really ever left, and moving to a big city to figure out by herself when her whole world had become a carpet to be dragged out from under her feet was never going to be easy and quick to adapt to.

She had lost everything.

Her house, her town, her friends, her family, all of it had disappeared in the past year and none of it was going to come back, her dad was never coming back and her mom was too far gone and her sister, god, her sister. Her sister was stuck in a hospital bed and would be for the rest of her life, just a little kid who deserved to go see the Golden Gate bridge and deserved to walk around a big city because she had always talked about how when she grew up she wanted to live in New York where there were skyscrapers and opportunities for everyone but no, Avery Jardine could only see the view from the small windows in her hospital room and that was all she'd ever see.

It didn't help that the people at this school were weird and odd and all had their own things going on, back at home she had had completely selfless friends who dedicated more of their time to her than she had ever even asked for, but she hadn't complained. Now her friends were sort of either caught up in their own lives or just bitter and strange. Her roommate, Jenna, was an Australian girl who was harboring an obviously massive crush on Tay, and she was ungodly hyper, which left Ryan as the best option for a friend. Ryan was serious but not, not always, she had a sense of humor and a good taste in music and seemed a good deal more sane than anyone else.

Jenna was always acting as though she had drowned five cups of coffee and eaten an entire bag of jolly ranchers, though no one was saying that she hadn't, Jack was for the most part okay but sort of odd in his own way, and Kellin, well, Kellin was the next best thing, Tay supposed. Although he was quiet and anxious, he made good conversation when he actually decided to talk, and was a cool and nice person. Him and Tay had English in the mornings together and Science at the end of the day, which was nice because neither of them had any other friends in their classes. 

Yet something was wrong with Kellin and this was obvious after knowing him for a week because he always looked like he hadn't slept in months, and Tay wasn't going to go assuming that he had, and there were four huge terrible scars down his right forearm which sat amongst a vast collection of scars that were still scary and worrying, just on a much smaller scale. She ate dinner with him and Ryan sometimes, they would sit in the commons and eat soup and gossip about the science teacher's fish, (yes, he had a huge aquarium in the back of his classroom) and Tay had noticed the way he drifted off when conversations went on without him and the way he got lost in his own sort of different world where things might have been better or worse, but no one would know because it was his own head.