PA will be mine.
I kid.
(Yeah right, I never joke).
I started Jack out in the end of her sixth year, close to turning 17. This summer, she'll turn twenty. I came here after a one-liner site I had joined failed, I had been rejected at another site, and a 2 year old RP site was deleted. I came here expecting nothing.
My first thread was with AJ. My first plot was with Red. My first chatbox buddy was Molly. And my first Canadian friend was Matt. (I knew he'd be mad if he didn't get a shout out, so there it is). These four people mean a lot to me. And one day, they will live with me in a castle in Canada.
PA and I have been an odd couple. I remember the demon plot (I can practically hear the groans). I was a mod for about a week before mods were decided against, and then I was admin. School hit hard and I stepped down as admin. But I don't think I've ever gone longer than a week without posting. PA made me stay up past bedtimes, kept me company on days I didn't feel good, pissed me off when I cared too much, and was always where I knew I could find my friends.
This year has been rough. Red, Matt, Molly, and some new friends (lookin' at you Des, Aaron, Whight, Silvyr) have kept me going. Everyone was prepared to celebrate and mourn the day I would leave for college, and every mourned and celebrated the day I realized I would be staying another year, sad my plans had changed, but happy to keep me here. Try as I might, I could never properly explain PA to my real life friends. I've had four of them join and quit, simply because they never got the experience I did. My boyfriend will never have a conversation with me where I don't suddenly thrash and say one of my character's names, before blurting out the story. Just last night, I had a dream about one of my characters (and disturbing, hilarious dream at that).
All my life I've been a writer, but it wasn't until PA that I learned what it meant to write as a character. Through the good and the bad -grits teeth- I'll stick around. I can't leave PA. I just can't.