Buckley x Leesa [New! Chapter 1] by DAelliemarina, literature
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Buckley x Leesa [New! Chapter 1]
[Leesa] O p e n s p a c e. I stared blindly at the blurs of sage and blue as an alien world whizzed by. Lazy, rolling hills, distant lavender mountain ranges, and a whole lot of nothing all illuminated by the low, late August sun. Leaning against the sun-warmed passenger window, I let the steady thrum of the car flying down a vacant highway in God-knows-where soothe me before I lost myself in another bout of anxiety. Open. Space. The two words screamed at me from the brochure in my lap. Wordlessly, I flipped it over, uncharmed by the picturesque mountains on its cover. Chewing the inside of my cheek, I glanced without turning towards my mother at the wheel and couldn’t help but fill with a flutter of irritation. We had not spoken since our last pit stop about three hours ago. My mom had offered me any treat or snack I wanted at the gas station, hosted by a quiet man who dwarfed both my mother and myself. I gathered enough patience to refuse my
Buckley x Leesa [New! Chapter 5] by DAelliemarina, literature
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Buckley x Leesa [New! Chapter 5]
[Leesa] The weekend had been too short in order to properly recover from a particularly unpleasant start to my senior year. I spent most of Saturday on an almost 48 hour FaceTime call with Nicole and a couple of our other friends she had at her house for a sleepover. It had almost felt like a normal day back home as we squawked over each other with unsolicited opinions and planning for exactly how we’d dive headfirst into summer and our first semester of college. It was so wonderful to be outside of reality for a moment, to be back in a world where things made sense- back home to normal I could navigate. I hadn’t been exactly in the spirit to sort through my clothes or make any wise decisions when I had packed up my whole world just over a week ago, so sorting through my closet had been a days-long chore. The chorus of my friends screaming at me through my laptop filled my hotel-feeling room as I tried on clothes that clearly had been an impulse buy or a
Buckley x Leesa [New! Chapter 9] by DAelliemarina, literature
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Buckley x Leesa [New! Chapter 9]
[Leesa] Out of a particularly stupid second week of school, Friday had possibly been the stupidest. From my mom characteristically forgetting to drive me to school in another downpour, to getting promptly punished by Ms. Mallowsky in biology for being literally one second late; which, of all my classes it had to be biology to start the day. Buckley was, of course, characteristically brusque. I had been subsequently manhandled after slipping on the way to my seat. After being somehow startled even in the midst of his laser-focus on me, he had launched our lab stools across the room. I hated to think what it would be like to surprise him in arms-reach. He’d probably rip my head off. Despite all that, we had spent several minutes alone during an after-class punishment together, and I think we might have been trying to be… nice to each other. Perhaps we had reached an unspoken agreement that for the best, we should at least be pleasant. Namely considering
Buckley x Leesa [New! Chapter 3] by DAelliemarina, literature
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Buckley x Leesa [New! Chapter 3]
[Leesa] I reported the events of my first day dutifully to my mom when I arrived home yesterday afternoon. Some version of “not so bad,” was uttered before I dashed upstairs and busied myself with unpacking and organizing. Not for one second did I allow myself to fret over the unabashed staring or the borderline rude but seemingly innocent questions. The chaos that ensued from being a tiny, defenseless human released into a sea of unaware Goliathian teenagers was no laughing matter, but in all fairness, it hadn’t been that bad. My mom was sure to remind me as such last night as we treated ourselves to take-out pizza and a chick-flick. Between Bridesmaids and My Big Fat Goliathian Wedding, I chose the former mostly for my own sake. With my anxiety still at an all-time high, I focused mostly this morning on what it looked like to keep my composure today after it had been so easily shattered by two terribly unpleasant experiences with Goliathian boys; both