6,205 Days of Living: A Birthday Short

Alpha Belt
Mortal Belt
Venura Residence
January 12, 2015

“Do you feel old?”

“I do, now that you reminded me,” Aria complained. Miles laughed and dodged a comb thrown at him. Aria huffed and turned back to the mirror, brushing her hair. “Seventeen…I’m a year closer to being legal. It’s so weird.”

“You’re closer to being arrested,” he offered. She made a face. “And a year closer to celebrating your debut and dancing with those eighteen roses or whatever.”

“Gross.” Aria shook her head and slid on her headband, “I don’t even know eighteen guys.”

“Your dad, two brothers and your uncle.”

“That’s four.”

“And me.”

The short-haired girl laughed and turned to Miles, a small grin on her face. “You’d really show up in front of everyone and be my eighteenth rose?”

“Why the hell not?” Miles jumped forward and took her hands, pretending to dance with her in the middle of the bedroom. “I can dance. I’m a fairly decent dancer.”

“My Watcher is my eighteenth rose. Seems nice,” Aria admitted. Miles let go of her hands and watched as she went back to spray on her cologne, smiling slightly to himself. “But really…I’m not sure if I even want a debut, you know. It’s like a lot of hassle.”

“You won’t plan it.”

“I’ll invite people.” Aria shuddered, “God. My extroverted-introverted side is rejoicing and cowering at the thought of a lot of people seeing me in a dress and make up and all. Even though it does seem nice.”

The Forest Original chuckled. “Take your time. You’re only seventeen.” He looked at her through the mirror, his eyes meeting hers, “Enjoy this day first.”

Russ' Updates #020: Surreal Seventeen

Hello, my darlings! Guess who turned seventeen today yesterday?

“Yep, this person did. Wish her a happy one.”

So yesterday, I finally turned seventeen – a year closer to legality – and I spent the day in school with my friends. ^_^ A lot of fun stuff happened, really. What’s happening this week?

Sadly, I don’t really have a celebration planned out for my birthday. *facepalms* However, since there won’t be any school starting Thursday until Monday next week, I’ll really be stepping up my game and posting as much as I can – preferably birthday shorts~

I honestly didn’t expect the previous week to be so tiring – I only posted one thing and I really want to make up for it during the long weekend we’ve been granted.

And hey – speaking of the title, ‘Surreal Seventeen’…

GUYS IT HAPPENED HUHUHUHU –

Long story short: mom called last January 10 – first thing in the morning – and then gave the good news. It’s overwhelming, really – it feels like one massive dream.R

“*small smile* I – we’re proud of you, Russ.”

Here are the posts to expect this week!

Posts to Expect:

[ ] Russie Writes: A Birthday Celebration Short [Skylar Viridia]
[x] Russie Writes: A Birthday Celebration Short [Aria Venura/Arzen Venura] 
[ ] Russie Writes: An OTP Short [Matt/A]

Recovery: A FC/UC Background Short

Lagom
Élan Region
Viridia Faction
xxxx, H.E.

“Is she doing alright?”

“She’s conscious. She can respond, at least. But that doesn’t mean that she’s willing to respond to external stimuli. Skylar can hear, can see – all her senses are intact,” the physician said slowly, wiping the lenses of his glasses. “But it’s like her other aspects went into a temporary shutdown. If her body recuperated enough to bring her back to consciousness…then let’s say that her mind and her emotional wellbeing still need time.”

Dr. Sulu, a close associate of the Viridias, had made his weekly visit to the faction. It had been his fourth visit, and he tended to have high hopes that the lone daughter would at least fare better each time he came to check on her.

The first visit was bad. Skylar had been brought to the hospital, massively injured and unconscious. The story was recounted to him a dozen or so times.

The Viridias didn’t know why or how, but she had somehow managed to get herself attacked by one of the few Void – the Vitium – which had existed within the proximity. A scream and a large blast of lightning had caught their attention, and by the time they were there, their daughter was knocked out and a few other Vitium had come to apparently feast on her Quintessence.

It took her two weeks to fully recover – at least, to wake up from the coma induced on her. By the third week, Skylar was struggling to wake. However, each time she did, data told them that her body wasn’t ready and shot her down with more medicines to keep her down under. At the same time, a copious amount of Quintessence was slowly flowing back into her system.

A few days before his fourth visit, she had been officially discharged but was ordered bed rest for an undetermined amount of time.

“How old is Skylar?”

Harlene Viridia glanced at her younger sister’s form. “Skye is fifteen.”

Dr. Sulu gave a small nod. “Fifteen. So in two, three years she’ll be eligible for the academy.”

Russ' Updates #019: Last Three Months

Good evening, Darlings! Hope you’re having a good 2015 so far. ^_^

School officially makes its comeback as of today, and I’m already feeling a tad bit swamped with all the things that we’re supposed to submit. Aside from academic woes, there’s also a bunch of fair preparations that’s going on for the school fair on Friday, and a couple of other things that I’m worrying about (like the ACET results HUHU).

I’ve good some good news and I’ve got some bad news.

"Let's hope that the good outweigh the bad."

Bad News:

• Back to school week isn’t the greatest thing ever – it’s only Monday so far, but I can practically feel the oncoming storm that is stress. That’s definitely going to decrease the chances of my posting from today until Wednesday.
•  Friday to Saturday are going to be very busy days for me! I’ll be having fun at the annual school fair until the early evening, and then I’ll be having an overnight with my friends until Saturday. The posting of chances are, again, going to be minimal. :(

But away from that, here are some pieces of good news!

• I’ll do my best to post on Sunday especially since it’s a day before my ~birthday~
• From January 15-19 (Thursday – Monday), Pope Francis will be making a visit to the PH. Because of that, it’s been declared as a national holiday (?) and school won’t be a thing. :D So from the 15th to the 19th, I’ll do my best to work on things I have yet to post~

Please do keep me in your thoughts/prayers once again! I’m really hoping that the results for the ACET would be the results I wanted. ;w;

Three months of academics and non-academics to go until I finally graduate!

Posts to Expect:

[ ] Russie Writes: Request #02
[x] Russie Writes: A FC/UC Background Short

(Princess): A Fanmix for Adri del Riano

"I deserved so much, and all of them took it away from me.
It's time to claim what's rightfully mine.
 ...and I'll destroy anyone who tries to stop me."

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Bad Girls: Skylar Viridia

"Hands up, hands tied

Don’t go screaming if I blow you with a bang"

Black Skies: Skylar Viridia

“You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can 

appear to be illuminated, so that people can say 

‘Wow, isn’t he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ 

You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? 

I’ll swallow you whole.” [x]