Beauty Queen from Mars

☆ Ryan Bell ☆ 16 years of age ☆ ☆Sophomore ☆ January 19, 1997 ☆

[simon-tucker]

Just a few more weeks.

[ryan-bell-the-original]

Point is, it'll be here soon! Sweet freedom!

[ryan-bell-the-original]

Just a few more months until summer. I am so amped for this.

[tristanlithorn]

Whaddup, SIlver City? Anyone miss me too badly?

As y’all nerds can see, I’m not lying dead in a ditch from too much weed intake I wish or locked up by the popo and all I’ll say is that I’m back and ready to partaaaaay

[ryan-bell-the-original]

Nerd? Excuse you, sir?

[danny-mathers]

Um hello, basketball season just ended, and spring sports sign ups end tomorrow. Today is pretty much my only day to nap. And fuck my friends, they should respect my sleep. I need at least 8 hours to look this good.

[ryan-bell-the-original]

And here I thought you were a natural beauty. Ah well. I started sleeping way too much and ended up on losing out on a lot. So right now, sleep's the last thing on my mind.

[danny-mathers]

You can sleep when I’m dead, I want to sleep now. What’s the point of sleeping when you’re dead, you don’t get to enjoy it.

[ryan-bell-the-original]

Sleep's not supposed to be a recreational activity, silly. You should go out, play sports, hang with friends. All that cool stuff.

[danny-mathers]

Can I just nap through the rest of high school?

[ryan-bell-the-original]

Wakey wakey, Danny. You can sleep when you're dead.

[alba-lisbon]

"Doesn’t hurt to start spring cleaning a little early."

[ryan-bell-the-original]

Sounds like fun on a bun.

[rhys-locker]

Good for you Ry

[ryan-bell-the-original]

Thanks. I've missed you, you know. I still feel pretty bad for acting like such a tool to you.

[simon-tucker]

It’s gonna be.

So you got plans May 29th? Promise there won’t be an age limit.

[ryan-bell-the-original]

May 29th? I should be able to go, though I probably won't drink. I've kind of quit.

[simon-tucker]

Fan-fucking-tastic. Planning my 21st. It’s gonna blow this damn town away.

[ryan-bell-the-original]

Wow! You go, Glenn Coco! It sounds like a blast.

[rhys-locker]

Doing pretty good then Dollface?

[ryan-bell-the-original]

Yeah, pretty good. Getting good grades, doing well at work. I mean, maybe things aren't perfect, but they're really good, so that's better than how it was.

[rhys-locker]

Always better when not everything’s going wrong

[ryan-bell-the-original]

Yeah, definitely. Everything's a lot easier to handle when it's not hitting you all at once.

[simon-tucker]

Uh…great?

[ryan-bell-the-original]

Totally. How have you been?

[rhys-locker]

Thanks Ry. Getting shit done yourself. Doing pretty good.

[ryan-bell-the-original]

Yeah, I'm really trying now. I feel a lot better when I know I'm doing something right.

[rhys-locker]

First two years weren’t so bad, starting to be a bitch now though

[ryan-bell-the-original]

Yikes. At least you're a tough cookie and you're getting shit done! I'm really proud of you, you know that?

[rhys-locker]

College, working on my helicopter’s license, doing stuff with AmeriCorps on my breaks. Same old really.

[ryan-bell-the-original]

That sounds really awesome, though. Especially the helicopter license. I could never manage to do something that cool. Is college a lot harder than high school? I'm kind of nervous for when I go off to USC.

[rhys-locker]

Looks like you’ve got your shit together Dollface

[ryan-bell-the-original]

Hey you! Yeah, things are... They're a lot better than they were. How have things been for you?