Dear Diary,

Today is my first entry in my diary, the book I'm writing this in fell from the sky and smashed me in the face so I'm taking it as an omen that this is the book for me. My eye still hurts.

Yesterday I was walking down the street and I saw a girl sitting on the bench alone. I know how much it hurts to be alone, it's like a big gaping chest wound where your ribs stick out at funny angles and you just know it's mortal. So anyway I stopped and asked if she was ok but she seemed lost in her own thoughts so after a while I kept going and went to the Grind to try and wake myself up. While I was waiting in line the girl from the bench came in and she said that she was sorry she hadn't said anything and that did I mind if she joined me. I told her that was fine and that I was pleased to have someone to talk to so we sat down and drank an entire pot of coffee while we watched the crime go by.

After a while she had to leave to go find a motel and I had to go down to the arcade and use a ruler to fish coins out from under the machines and check to see if anyone was around so I could sneak into the office and sleep under the desk. (I hope noone catches me doing that...)

So anyway today while I was avoiding rape I spotted Silver again and we went for more coffee and I learned that she'd like to go to College... I think I might try and save up for that. Silver thinks we could get a dorm room together - I would love that soo much I feel like Silver actually cares enough about me to pull me out of the way of a speeding vehicle or warn me that I was about to get shot. She's so unlike any of my other "friends".

Silver once had a pink platypus teddy that her mother gave her long ago, I'm going to find her one and give it to her.

When I was a little girl, my mother told me not to stare into the sun, so when I was six I did...