Chapter Five

Thomas graduated high school as an all-providence goal-keeper with excellent grades and so on.
He was able to earn enough money in scholarships to spend his two years in a local Canadian school and then to study abroad. In France. Where he dreamed of learning to cook.

Most of this time was pretty uneventful, except for when he learned he was going to Frace. It was very cute. Allbeit wierd.

On his nineteenth birthday, his parents visited him at his school. It was unexpected and he was duely suprised, although he was rather pissed because he had been planning to go gambling with his friends.

It is absolutely ridiculous that the gambling age in Canada is nineteen, and the drinking age is eighteen.

However, they had brought a cake. Thomas inherited his love for cooking from his dad, but his love for baking came from his mother. Mrs. Rogene's cakes were unparalled. Magnifíc.

As an aside, good cake tends to smooth almost anything over. Also,

Flowers : Girls Good Food :: Guys

and

Sandwich Making Ability > Sex Ability

Good sandwiches never get old.

C'est la vie.

Thomas's birthday's were never good ones. Unfortunately, his birthday fell on Black Friday.
You would think that if your birthday fell on Black Friday, you would get better gifts because the more expensive things would be less expensive and more affordable.

This is not true, people kind of get saving money stuck in their heads and don't have time to celebrate your birthday and they don't want to spend extra moneys on you.

Bad Luck Thomas.

His nineteenth birthday didn't seem to be turning out too well when his parents turned up.
When they cut the cake, there was a deck of cards inside.

Thomas thought it was fuckin weird, but acted the part. His dad had, after all, invented all Rogene products.

His dad said he would let Thomas officially gamble for the first time in his life, against him.

His dad bet the trip to France. Thomas bet the honor associated with a man's first legal gamble. - And the last slice of cake.

Thomas won. His dad had been a magician for years before he invented Rogene. And he had slipped Thomas the card.

Kind of a weird guy if i do say so myself. In this story my opinion matters because I make all the characters. Hypothetically I could burst a light bulb in the dorm and start a fire. But I won't do that because Thomas wants to go to France. and not to die.

This chapter has been purely dedicated to ridiculous advancement of plot, followed by my thoughts at the moment.

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My thoughts at the moment:

Happy Thanksgiving to All.

My friend said that it sucks how it takes a holiday to get everybody to realize how thankful they are for each other. She's right to an extent. I think rather, it takes a holiday to make people say it out loud.

Sometimes that's all it takes.

I am thankful for everybody who reads this blog. No, i don't care way too much about it, its just nice. Especially if you tell me you like it.

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Chapter 4

Since Katie had the ability to sing and play the guitar beautifully, and Fara was ever so talented, their band rose to fame quickly.

Well, relative fame.

Meaning they weren't famous at all.

And all the benefits of being famous were kind of limited.

They were extremely popular... at their school talent shows.

Fara got mad poon for his playing... But it was really slutty white girl poon, which wasn't his type. He had an std scare and it ruined his week. but that's another story.

Simon got free dro... but it was nearly always partially crab grass.

Steven had a secret admirer who remained secret and constantly creeped on him. He is a strong pacifist, but even he had to disable his facebook account.

Boys adored Katie... But they were all gay.

Not that gay people are bad fans... in fact, they tend to go way overboard, and its very nice for the performer. But Katie likes boys, and as a rule, the ones that like girls.

Not to stereotype or anything. I love gays.

Oops.

The longer I try to cover up my social discrepancies, the worse they get.

If this story was to be published, this whole chapter would be cut.

Sadly.

Simon was not smart. He disliked school quite a bit. He was also plagued by erectile dysfunction, a kind that could not be treated until he was fully grown.

Everyday he would submit these lines to FML, a popular website that displays completely fabricated snippets of life for the entertainment of millions of bored and insecure kids who like feeling better about their lives because they can read about someone who's life sucks more.

"My penis doesn't work. FML"

It never made it.

If you were Simon, you would toke up too.

As time went on, Simon grew far more dependent on Marijuana to make it through his abysmal days. Things got ugly when he discovered "that cali dank". He dropped off when cocaine entered his life.

Eventually he quit The Seismic Toss. Jarad quit too. Jarad followed Simon everywhere, and they often sang together in songs.

Katie thought about making a joke about Simon & Jarfunkle.

She realized it wasn't funny at all and didn't make the joke.

Simon dropped out of school. When he stole money from Katie to buy drugs, she broke up with him.

It broke his heart.

As an aside, he ended up in rehab... The story of his recovery over the next ten years is the stuff of legends.

He now tours the country warning against drug use.

Even though kids laugh at him for what he does, he leaves a lasting impression. He is a good man.

With the loss of Jarad and Simon, Katie's band changed their name to Cederstrom.

Steven didn't say anything about it.

Katie was related to the famous Swedish artist Gustaf Cederstrom. She thought it was a cool name.

So did Fariesh

So do I.

Chapter 3

At the same time Thomas was wasting all his time struggling with society, two other important things were happening.

The first important thing was that Jake Rogene's grandmother passed away in her sizable home in Los Angeles, California. She had left all her assets and belongings and fortunes to her daughter, Jake's mother. They moved to California, where they joined the middle-upper class.

At Jake's new school, when people asked him whether or not his dad owned Rogene, he said yes. Things were much better for Jake after that. The turn of events turned him into a devout Catholic.

The other important thing was that Katie Ericcson started an indie rock band with her boyfriend Simon and three of his friends, Jarad, Steven, and Fariesh. Fariesh was a drummer. His family was from Bosnia, but he was born in America. Everybody called him Fara. He was extremely talented, and extremely hairy. People often called him Osama. This frustrated Fara because he was not even remotely similar to the people in that part of the world, and he liked his very long beard. They all lived in LA.

Fara was also frustrated because his parents didn't even name him properly for his heritage. They just thought it was a cool name.

Katie played guitar and sang beautifully.

Beautifully in the way that Thomas Rogene would define beautifully.

She didn't much like to sing for people because she felt it was showing off. But she sang a lot by herself. It was her favorite thing to do.

She didn't have a favorite band. But she really liked The Shins and Belle & Sebastian and Bon Iver. She also loved Simon & Garfunkel.

She liked to pretend that her boyfriend and Simon from Simon & Garfunkel were the same. But she never told anybody that because it was really embarrassing. She also wasn't sure if they were actually two people or just a clever band name.

She was sixteen, and in love. Simon was fifteen and felt lucky to have her.

Katie's boyfriend Simon fell in love with Marijuana. It would tear them apart in the coming year.

They named their band The Seismic Toss. It was the name for a pokemon move in which the pokemon would lift its foe so very high that it would appear to circle the earth and then throw it down magnificently. There was nothing Seismic about the attack, and there was nothing musical about the band name. Fara loved pokemon. He mentioned it. Jarad and Simon backed him.

Steven didn't say anything about it.

Katie thought it was rather dumb.

So do I.

Chapter 2

Everyday Thomas would wake up and go to school. His classes were very boring. The people in his classes tended to be like machines.

He often asked the machines if they had had good weekends, to be polite of course.

They always said that their weekends were good.

Thomas thought it was funny that they always said that for two reasons.

1) It proved that they were like machines.

2) He read a book once where God turned everybody in the world was a machine, and left one man who was able to make decisions. The man eventually turned into a machine because he had to fit in. The author didn't give any insight into Gods thoughts (Thomas thought he was scared to), but the moral of the story was obvious. Thomas felt like the man in the story. Except without the God bit. Thomas had issues believing in divine intervention. Kind of like myself. But that's for later.

Since Thomas hated the idea of being like a machine, even though he was, he spent more time on being creative than he should have. His grades always suffered. His parents always got angry. His teachers were always perplexed.

His classmates were very competitive machine people. They were always nice, because they sometimes got bad grades too. Thomas knew they were smug deep down that their hard work paid off. Thomas didn't mind though... they were entitled to whatever made them happy.

He supposed that it was equivalent to what he felt when he drew or cooked or wrote or played hockey.

He often described the feeling as beautiful.

Nobody seemed to understand what he meant.

Thomas wrote a poem about it. This is what he wrote.

"It was a dance, they decided
that split the evening sky
The colors of the spectrum flashed
Wavered. Faded.
Reborn. Danced.
Aurora."

He thought words were limited.

But it made sense to him.

Thomas didn't really think that his classmates were machines if they felt that. They were just better at being civil about it. Why though?

This is what confused Thomas about society. He still thought a lot about it.