It's been quite a long day. We had an exersion for Modern History today, so we were at Sydney University all day. We attended four lectures, took heaps of notes, nearly fell asleep in one of them, and...well...got wet, to say the very least.

My hand kills...seventeen whole pages of notes I took today. I don't think I've ever written so much in a day, and I'm a writer!! Shocking...and it started raining as we were leaving, so three of my classmates and I run straight through the rain to get to the main building. Most of the class were able to get under umberrellas, but we didn't. So we ran instead. It was fun, but we'll probably get sick soon...

Speaking of writing, though, I have a new work in progress. It started off as just a name, because I've had writer's block (serious writer's block, I couldn't even force myself to write anything) for just over two weeks. So the name was constantly bugging me. Then sitting at school one day with nothing to do, something came to me. A little scene. And now I have a story called Masquerade in the works. Here's what I wrote when I was bored at school - the little scene that managed to break my block. Let's hope I can actually continue with this one.

I felt the breeze blow against me and felt quite at peace. The water raged fiercely beneath me, the thunderous sound more comforting to me than anything else at that precise moment in time. My hands held loosely to the railings of the old rusting bridge behind me, slipping slowly.

"Haylie!"

I slowly turned my head and looked around for the source of the voice that had called my name. Consdering that there was now only one other person on the bridge besides myself, it was quite easy to locate.

"Lee," I acknowledged quietly. "What are you doing here?"

"I came to stop you," he said breathlessly. He'd obviously been running. "You're making a mistake..."

"Oh, am I?" I asked, letting my anger get the better of me. "Funny that. It seems that I can't get anything right in life and now you're telling me the same of my death! Is there anything that I can do right?!"

"Please, you've got to listen to me!"

"NO!"

I was breathing heavily now, though it was barely audible over the howling of the wind and its duet with the pounding water below.

"Not this time," I stated quietly.

With a few quick moves I had turned back to the raging river, let go of the bridge, and allowed myself to fall forward.

Yes...there's a little more after it, but it starts off a brand new chapter. So this...is all that I intend to show you at the current time. I'll update y'all if I ever get around to doing anything for it.

xoxo