June 31st
A group of us accompany Trevor to my school in Laguna so that he can pick up this crimson colored 4-wheel truck who he bought from the guy who gives tours. It has a license plate that says Laguna College of Art and Design.
Jon-o and I are talking but whatever he is saying I cannot hear, I'm too focused on looking at the fingerprints on my fingers, which are lines but just dots that look too spaced out. I remember thinking that I didn't remember this being there.
With a group again and we're all at the Hole right on the sand next to the boulders. A seagull flies past over us and Trevor says "You know you can erase part of those? There's a program on the computer you can use." He proceeds to tell us about this new computer program thats similar to MS Paint that all you simply have to do is upload a picture of a seagull or cormorant that is in the San Clemente area and you can erase any part of their body or as much of it as you want. Once you send the file to the internet the actual bird itself is configured with these settings so when you go to the beach again it looks like a seagulls head is mysteriously floating there next to its wings. This is exemplified to me as I see one of these erased seagulls flying over us. I watch as a cormorant also flies over us and dive bombs for mice in the rocks. It disappears in these impossibly small cracks. I duck thinking the cormorant is going to explode. So far the program will only work with cormorants and seagulls but I hear their extending the next version they release with pelicans.
July 1st
I live in a group home that is also a department store, with all my friends and some people I don't know. There are about 50 of us here, the bottom 5 floors are for girls and the top floors are for boys. This was the time of the year where the administrators were throwing the annual "ball" and it was tonight. It really was quite the extravaganza, after we got dressed, the girls were allowed to use the whole cosmetics floor for whatever they wanted. It was the whole area of the mall free to us, and we could open any package we wanted to use. I was not that interested in this so I browsed through and went outside, careful not to be seen in the hallways cause I was afraid of seeing someone I wanted to ask me to dance.
As I made it outside I noticed these two older men with beards outside on the far side of the parking lot, one of them had a white sling over his arm. I got in my car and put the keys in and that moment they both were in my car, the one with the sling had hopped in the back seat and was now holding a gun to my head and the other was in the front saying, "Drive." I didn't say a word and scrambled to get going as fast as I could, not knowing at all where I was going to or what they wanted. I felt my heart beat so fast and blood pumping through my veins as I could feel the tiny cold point of the gun against my skin.
I remember the guy in the back saying cheerfully, "Hey you're right, this isn't that hard!" I only became more nervous but then it stops.
July 2nd
All I remember is having eyelashes as thick as hair drooping off my eyes and hitting my chin. I could barely see but the color was weird, like such a dull brown, the hairs looked grey.
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