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rainbowfic2014-08-24 08:47 pm
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Azul 19: BFF
Author: Kat
Title: BFF
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Azul 19 (Trust the strength of another) with shipwreck_light's paint-by-numbers (Joanna's best female friend.)
Supplies and Materials: Miniature collection, modeling clay (Describe your best friend to me), glitter ( "Fearless is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again....even though every time you've tried before you've lost." – Taylor Swift), novelty beads (this gif)
Word Count: 500
Rating: PG
Summary: Best friends.
Warnings: none.
Notes: none.
Samira was elementary school, when Joanna's parents were still mostly choosing her friends. Still, they were a good fit--Samira loud and outgoing, Joanna quiet and more observant. Samira directed the games they played, while Joanna sorted out the details. On the playground, Samira led the charge, and Joanna picked up after.
Of course it fell apart eventually. As they grew older, Joanna grew more introverted and Samira more raucous until it hurt just to be around her. The friendship ended, and not well.
Still, Joanna missed Samira sometimes. It had been nice to have someone stand up with her.
--
In high school, she met Haley, a bright girl one year ahead. She was an oasis of calm after Samira, and Joanna could recall long afternoons in the library reading side by side, or lying in the grass together talking idly about serious things. Haley was warm and compassionate, friendly and kind. For about two years they were inseparable.
Then Haley graduated, and went to college, far away from Virgina's sleepy backwaters. They tried to keep in contact but it was hard, and they both made new friends, and eventually they lost touch from the sheer distance.
It still hurt.
--
It was the same problem with Karolyn. Not at first, of course, they went to college together. When Joanna's roommate Bonnie became too much she would go over to Karolyn's dorm room, and together they would watch movies or do homework in friendly silence. They were each other's introverted refuge from an extroverted world.
But they both knew it wouldn't last. Karo was going back to Florida after college, and Joanna was moving to southern California, where she'd been born. They enjoyed it while they had it, and wrote after graduation.
At least Joanna still saw her now and again.
--
Marie worked in the same library. She was a comfortable, motherly woman, who hugged a lot and laughed even more. She was so kind to Joanna, helping with work and personal problems alike, and Joanna adored her. In some ways she was more mother than best friend, and in all ways wonderful.
Then Joanna got the offer from the Bay Area.
It was a better position with much better pay in an area that Joanna thought she would love, but it meant leaving Marie behind. Marie told her to go.
She cried when Marie saw her off at the airport.
--
And now there was Chastity, who Joanna met in a bookstore when they tried to grab the same book. They had lunch at a different restaurant every week, and pedicures every Saturday, and though Chastity hadn't been at her wedding, it had not been from lack of regard.
Chastity was bright and outgoing, friendly and warm. She had Marie's tendency to hug and Karolyn's capacity for calm, Haley's compassion and Samira's assertiveness. It was like having all of them back again and still more, Chastity's own wryness and intelligence and sense of fun.
Best friends forever, Joanna thought, and hoped.
Title: BFF
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Azul 19 (Trust the strength of another) with shipwreck_light's paint-by-numbers (Joanna's best female friend.)
Supplies and Materials: Miniature collection, modeling clay (Describe your best friend to me), glitter ( "Fearless is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again....even though every time you've tried before you've lost." – Taylor Swift), novelty beads (this gif)
Word Count: 500
Rating: PG
Summary: Best friends.
Warnings: none.
Notes: none.
Samira was elementary school, when Joanna's parents were still mostly choosing her friends. Still, they were a good fit--Samira loud and outgoing, Joanna quiet and more observant. Samira directed the games they played, while Joanna sorted out the details. On the playground, Samira led the charge, and Joanna picked up after.
Of course it fell apart eventually. As they grew older, Joanna grew more introverted and Samira more raucous until it hurt just to be around her. The friendship ended, and not well.
Still, Joanna missed Samira sometimes. It had been nice to have someone stand up with her.
--
In high school, she met Haley, a bright girl one year ahead. She was an oasis of calm after Samira, and Joanna could recall long afternoons in the library reading side by side, or lying in the grass together talking idly about serious things. Haley was warm and compassionate, friendly and kind. For about two years they were inseparable.
Then Haley graduated, and went to college, far away from Virgina's sleepy backwaters. They tried to keep in contact but it was hard, and they both made new friends, and eventually they lost touch from the sheer distance.
It still hurt.
--
It was the same problem with Karolyn. Not at first, of course, they went to college together. When Joanna's roommate Bonnie became too much she would go over to Karolyn's dorm room, and together they would watch movies or do homework in friendly silence. They were each other's introverted refuge from an extroverted world.
But they both knew it wouldn't last. Karo was going back to Florida after college, and Joanna was moving to southern California, where she'd been born. They enjoyed it while they had it, and wrote after graduation.
At least Joanna still saw her now and again.
--
Marie worked in the same library. She was a comfortable, motherly woman, who hugged a lot and laughed even more. She was so kind to Joanna, helping with work and personal problems alike, and Joanna adored her. In some ways she was more mother than best friend, and in all ways wonderful.
Then Joanna got the offer from the Bay Area.
It was a better position with much better pay in an area that Joanna thought she would love, but it meant leaving Marie behind. Marie told her to go.
She cried when Marie saw her off at the airport.
--
And now there was Chastity, who Joanna met in a bookstore when they tried to grab the same book. They had lunch at a different restaurant every week, and pedicures every Saturday, and though Chastity hadn't been at her wedding, it had not been from lack of regard.
Chastity was bright and outgoing, friendly and warm. She had Marie's tendency to hug and Karolyn's capacity for calm, Haley's compassion and Samira's assertiveness. It was like having all of them back again and still more, Chastity's own wryness and intelligence and sense of fun.
Best friends forever, Joanna thought, and hoped.
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