YOU GOTTA BE STRONGER THAN THE STORY

Blah. Blah Blah Blah Blah.

What is all that nonsense about April showers and May flowers? It seems London is never that reliable.~

[She'd missed the party. She'd missed understanding why her lungs were now ash and the street outside is being rained on in red. Candy is a lover not a fighter, darling, but with her Aunt's words in her ears, an older name threatening to burst at the seams, and the state of the other girls she's seen Candy sure as hell has the cricket bat ready for less fun purposes. No talking in this state but writing she can manage.]

No thank you, darlings. Anyone who wants to bring this nonsense here will have to deal with the likes of us. Warded and annoyed.

Happy New Year.~

Really the only appeal I can find in virginal January comes with the knowledge that February is just around the corner. And with February comes Valentines Day with the hearts on its sleeves.

Hopefully no one is foolish enough to start mucking about with love potions.~

[There is humour to be had in the words still sitting on the pages of her journal. Only it takes Candy a moment or two to see it as funny. Absurd, yes. Nonsense, naturally. The sort of thing she assumed her kind would smile at in public but laugh at in the privacy of their minds.]

[The Gem + Talia (just in case) ]

I've been doing some very careful "thinking" and I've decided to make some major changes in my personality. To begin my new life style I can't keeping making little ~'s and such as I've been told they are the devils punctuation, but really, that's not the start of the shenanigans that will be occurring. There's lots I've been doing "wrong".

Ladies did you know that our occupation is considered immortal? Shocking I know, it had never occurred to me before and naturally I chose to stop immediately.~

Drat. Old habits. Maybe I'll get around to changing my ways at New Years.

[Public]

Do you think it will snow much this year?

Almost Halloween.~

I don't suppose you lot need costumes.