Desperate Teenage Romantics – Part I
Nov 5th, 2009 | By Zoey Day | Category: Desperate Teenage Romantics, Series | 1465 viewsI took a bus, once. For love. Having always been quite a submissive child, I guess it shocked my parents. Well, parent.
So desperate was I to see my Romeo, I jumped on a bus, directly ignoring my mother’s pleas to not go. In my naïve young eyes, I thought that I was a pioneer, standing up for love, with my civil disobedience, my recklessness.
I felt like a rebel. A revolutionary for my ticking heart time bomb. In my head, the bus was the carriage, taking me to see my heart’s desire. In reality, it was shabby and dirty and uncomfortable. I had daydreamed for this night for so long, the cold darkness of the drab October evening, seeing him, smelling him, holding him. Like he was all I needed.
I remember that I was wearing my Distressed Biker Boots for their virgin outing, oblivious to the fact that I would wear those boots for the best part of that winter. Comforting and grey, they made me feel like the biker chick I never was, or ever would be.
In the strictest sense, I was running away – from the shattering oblivion of a loveless life is what the dreamer in me would say. I guess I was influenced by all those idealistic songs I had been listening to, the lyrics flowing through my head, endlessly telling me to “Live each moment like your last”. Carpe diem.
This was my first flight. Running away felt good, like soaring through the air, falling and not caring. Consequences, be damned! My love was too strong to care for such things.
The fairytale Princess going to find her Prince. Well, this was one fairytale that was not going to have a happy ending. Doomed from the start, my plans were scuppered when my mother found out. I was more distressed than those Biker Boots, and truly sympathised for Juliet. For me, I was Juliet, and by a simple twist of fate life had become endlessly cruel.
To read Part III, see Desperate Teenage Romantics – Part II
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loving it zoe. keep up the good work. great visual images.
. see you tomorrow at school. love you.xx