(RUSHED) D-Prime entry "Taking Chances" (538 hits)
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Submitted by Beano (View user info) at 2006-10-17 13:57:57 EDT
I'd been minding my own business and generally getting up to my usual. I certainly wasn't looking for love at this point in my life. Also, because it was summertime I had much more time during the days and in all honesty I was enjoying myself and my own company.
You know...... fishing and hunting mostly but I'd also done my fair share of hard labour in the fields. It was hot laborious work. As a result I wasn't looking my best when I saw her.
That fateful day was a hunting day, I was armed and ready. I wasn't really sure what my prey was in all honesty but hunting was my intent. I hadn't had very much luck but that was about to change with my very first sighting of Abbey.
She was a Princess, a girl of such refined and delicate beauty that I initially thought I was suffering from dehydration and was hallucinating. It's not so far fetched, It had happened before. There was this time when I was convinced Mr Stiles from across the street had kidnapped my cat Sampson and demanded that I went to the corner shop and purchased him half an ounce of Golden Virginia in return for Sampson's safe release.
It turned out that it was his cat after all and he was merely passing the time of day to me as I crossed the front of his house on my return leg of a marathon hunting session. I hadn't consumed enough water and my body reacted in a fashion that was unfamiliar to me at the time but which I know about now.
That is why I knew it wasn't a vision, well it WAS a vision but it was one that I knew was real.
Abbey wasn't minding much either, she seemed to be happy, I could tell that because she was smiling and laughing. Additionally she seemed to be one of those rare people who were happy with herself, not in the slightest self conscious about her looks, her body or her fashion sense. She emitted a 'this is me, like it or not' aurora.
I loved it.
Anyway, that was the first of many instances that I witnessed my silent beauty.
I'd asked around the neighbourhood, discretely of course, you don't want word getting back that you have gone all gooey over someone, and had discovered that her name was Abbey. I'd made a few preliminary guesses over the months that I'd seen her, Lisa was my favourite, always girls called Lisa are so pretty.... But Abbey it was. My friend George found that out for me, apparently his Mum knew her Mum.
I guess I hoped that she would notice me always toiling away doing one manly thing or another. It was really quite frequently that I saw her when I was returning from a long hard day in the fields, covered in mud or grime, sweating from the heat.
Perhaps she would notice me and think to herself what a grand husband I would make, always working so hard. Always so quiet.
After several months of fleeting glances and stolen looks I was beginning to think that I should talk to the lady. Nothing ventured nothing gained was a phrase I'd heard, and sort of thought it applied to this situation.
Then it happened, one extremely hot sunny day in late August I happened to be in Mrs Smith's general store buying stock for my long day ahead, lunch and the like, when in she walked.
Though sticky with sweat and dust and feeling decidedly warm, not helped by the rosy glow that my cheeks had obtained in an instant, I suddenly felt a brief chill pass over my skin. Looking down I saw that my arms were covered in Goosebumps and my hairs stood on end. Never before had a girl made me feel the indescribably feelings that I felt at that point in time.
Licking my lips to try and bring some moisture to my mouth I approached where she was standing.
Luckily for me (I think) she moved to another part of the store because at this point I hadn't figured out yet what it was I was going to say. Given a few seconds extra and with some space now between us I tested my dry mouth 'Hello' I said to myself....... It was dry and my voice trembled.
Swigging from the water bottle that I carried, glancing over in Mrs Smith's direction to make sure it was OK for me to be drinking water that I hadn't at this point paid for, I continued in my pursuit of Abbey.
She looked in my direction at least two or three times before I finally arrived at her side, this in itself was encouraging of course and gave me great confidence. Pretending to look at the birthday cards myself (as this is what she was doing) I spoke to her for the first time.
"Hi"
"Hello" She replied
"Buying a card?"
"Yes, for my Mum, it's her birthday"
"Oh"
I was out of idea's, I'd covered my main topic that I had prepared,, whatever she was looking at I was going to ask "Buying a paper?", "Buying a tin of beans?", "Buying and apple?" with that covered I was at a loss.
I wasn't perturbed though, I had spoken my first words to my angel. This meant that the next time I saw her I was entitled to say hello, ask her how she was or just wave. It was the first step and I had taken it.
And so from my first conversation with angel Abbey things blossomed, that summer was my summer of love. So many wonderful things were shared between us.
From the times that we stumbled across a field where a team were practicing polo so we watched them all afternoon, losing all comprehension of time, at one point she laid her head on my lap as we listened to the clipping and clopping of the horses hoofs on the hot dusty grass. It sounds so simple but it was heaven on earth.
On another occasion when we were lost walking in the woods and we happened upon a family of common Fallow Deer with deep chestnut coats, who despite our appearance stayed where they were while we skirted around the outside of them. The following day we tried to return but we couldn't find the clearing that we'd seen them in. It became known as our magical place and we wondered if it existed at all or if we'd imagine it.
Conversations moved along too, from our initial 'Hello's' in Mrs Smith's shop we chatted for hours and hours about everything and nothing. Never before had I found someone who I could communicate with so easily, family or friend, boy or girl. We spoke sometimes for the sheer hell of the fact that we enjoyed talking to one another.
Abbey even accompanied me when I had work things to do. Never had a woman been with me while I hunted or fished, this was unprecedented but she mattered that much to me.
It was all heading in one direction and one direction alone. I knew that was the case but still I worried what she would say, no one likes rejection and everyone worries about it. All of my friends had told me to ask her, pointed out how obvious it was that we were meant to be together. It was all down to me.
I thought back to the time that I didn't know Abbey and that though 'nothing ventured nothing gained' and how it had given me the strength to get to know Abbey, or at least to talk to her for the first time. Taking chances was the only way you found things out in this life.
My mind was made up. I would ask her the very next day. I was due to do some fishing (it was a close call between that and hunting but my Dad had my air rifle in the repair shop) and Abbey was going to come along.
The next day arrived and I was more excited than every, with my fishing equipment packed I headed out to meet Abbey. She looked as stunning as ever. I couldn't wait.
Halfway through what turned out to be the most beautiful day I'd ever know I finally brought the subject up.
"Abbey, I'm Seven now and I think it's time I had a girlfriend. Will you go out with me?"
Abbey stared at me for a split second (I have to say that it felt like a lifetime.
"Yes" She replied. She was a girl of very few words.
That suited me just fine.
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Submitted by Linus (user info) at 2008-11-29 15:43:30 EST (#)
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Congratulations.
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Just to counter what that idiot Director did to you.
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Submitted by Lisa (user info) at 2006-11-05 04:37:34 EST (#)
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Lisa was my favourite, always girls called Lisa are so pretty
This man knows what he's talking about.
Submitted by EchoBoxing (user info) at 2006-10-20 21:37:22 EDT (#)
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you're welcome
Submitted by HotWillie (user info) at 2006-10-20 17:01:32 EDT (#)
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1.5
Submitted by HotWillie (user info) at 2006-10-20 17:00:59 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Antioxident (user info) at 2006-10-20 16:24:03 EDT (#)
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you lose a point for uberboard whoring
Submitted by Coleslaw_Murphy (user info) at 2006-10-20 14:50:21 EDT (#)
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1.5
Submitted by Coleslaw_Murphy (user info) at 2006-10-20 14:50:12 EDT (#)
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I'm not quite sure why you negative bombed a couple of my posts...
This was pretty good.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-10-20 14:49:56 EDT (#)
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YOU GET A -2 FOR PUTTING THIS TRIPE ON THE UBERBOARD
Submitted by MyOwnLittleWorld (user info) at 2006-10-20 13:38:02 EDT (#)
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Submitted by JohnnyMac (user info) at 2006-10-20 12:06:01 EDT (#)
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I have never been one for the "sweet stories"
This did keep me reading until the end though.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-10-20 11:48:33 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2006-10-18 19:46:04 EDT (#)
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Submitted by ballsonurchin (user info) at 2006-10-18 15:01:19 (#)
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here ya go.
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D-Prime appointed me the arbiter of taste in this contest, and ball-less urchin has
no taste, so his review will be discounted.
BallChinAsswipe, STFU. You have nothing to say, and you are a fucking fool. Die.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-10-18 19:34:00 EDT (#)
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D-Prime Madness sux.
Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2006-10-18 19:14:15 EDT (#)
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Submitted by ballsonurchin (user info) at 2006-10-18 15:01:19 (#)
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here ya go.
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you fucking cock sucker... you just like licking my arse. get over yourself you fag.
Submitted by ballsonurchin (user info) at 2006-10-18 15:01:19 EDT (#)
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here ya go.
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2006-10-17 13:58:22 EDT (#)
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Cause I said so.