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[W e l c o m e] .t.o. the < Rage >
- In Memorium -
[Goodnight], Lost Boys, now it's [time] to DrEaM...

...to DrEaM how [wonderful] your life will be.


"I don't understand people and their drugs...you know?
Drugs and diaries....If I had been one of those kids that kept a diary, the entries from the years, like, 8 to say, well....now, would have to been:
Got high, ate candy!"

From the candy-coated, colourful mind of Lee Alexander Carnovale. (x Skull Candy x)


A heavy heart. It's all I can explain it as. Like a sunken ship, crashed upon the rocky shores. I'm stranded...at a loss. Loss...Lost. To be lost, to lose something. Someone. One. Whole. Hole. Pieces. Losing a piece. Missing. Empty. Numb.

All my life I've been the subject of ridicule. The child of a German ex-militia and a Japanese mail-order bride. "Kamikaze Nazi" they called me. For years I was hounded. And it was only going to get worse. By my mid-teens, my parents would abandon me, ashamed of their f*****t son. And after much discovery; shameless acts of rage, lust, sorrow and self-pity, I would arrive to be the man I am today, despite it all. I took each punch to the face as it came. Let it all roll off my shoulders.

But...what about those who are trampled? So overwhelmed with the hate in the world today that they can barely lift their weary, dizzy head? Who would want to wake up in this age today?

One less teen. One less life. One less day to face.

I've lost many a thing this passing week and a half. A best friend, a little brother, a confidant, a partner in crime, a pain in the a**, a spirit to uplift, a reason to cook breakfast, a reason to stay home, a worthy opponent for SSB, uncountable migraines induced by crappy music, random gigglefits at my expense, a smiling face, a cheerful voice, a platonic love I could depend on, a life worth living.

At eighteen years young, Lee Alexander Carnovale....known on Gaia as x Skull Candy x, took his own life. He was a part of me, and a part of everyone he blessed with his candy-induced giggles and smiles. However irritating he might have been at points, Lee could always manage to get one to smile. Even when said boy was bouncing on your bed at two in the morning and raining skittles down upon the room around him.

Famous for his obsession with all things pink and his never-ending love for white jellybeans, Lee was a fascinating spectacle to watch. Everything from his "cheap confetti" (which consisted of rocks and pebbles) to drawing little trails of jellybeans and assorted candies all over his leg cast.

Even with a shining new leg brace, nothing could keep him down.

But something dark swelled beneath the surface. Something he managed to keep hidden. Why, I haven't the faintest clue. Being a youth councellor to hundreds of troubled teens, I expected to have seen it. But one doesn't usually like to mix work with personal life. I suppose, subconsciously, I blocked it out. Misheard the gentle weeping in the next room for stifled giggles. Misinterpretted the tear in his eye as the sun glared through the wide windows of the apartment.

It eats at me...feasting on my heartstrings, not knowing why he did it. Who put a damper on his spark for life? There's a lot of blame going around...

But when things go unanswered, we all just need someone or something to blame. There are literally thousands of factors.

But which one tipped him off?

...I [p r o m i s e ] we will >>never<< ---grow--- up...



It's quiet in my home now. Much too quiet. There's no laughter here anymore...no stepping on jellybeans whilst wandering to the bathroom in the middle of the night...no candied fingerprints on the refridgerator door.

And then....I realize something.

This isn't home anymore.

My home was filled with rucous laughter, horsing around, breaking furniture, waking the neighbours, receiving cookies from the senile bat next door for being "special", there's no smell of burnt oreo's and marshmallows wafting from the microwave, no icecream melting in the bowl, forgotten as another round of SSB starts up. No late nights hearing Disney movies being watched, and the favoured scene rewound to watch again, in the middle of the night.

But I can't bring myself to pack up his things.

Even sitting here, I can see one of his shoes peeking out from behind the armchair. And his pink zippered hoodie draped over the bedpost.

There's skittles in the bed...my bed. Which he usurped and claimed as his own for the past four months.

The bedsheets smell like candy.


Here’s a thought for everyman,
Who tries to understand what is in his hand,
He walks along the open road of love and life,
Surviving if he can,

Bound with all the weight of all the words he tried to say,
Chained to all the places that he never wished to stay,
Bound with all the weight of the words he tried to say,
As he faced the sun he cast no shadow,

As they took his soul they stole his pride,

As he faced the sun he cast no shadow.

‘Cast No Shadow’ Oasis

....Just <b e l i e v e> in .f.A.i.R.i.E.s. &.& [.: X]PiXiE dUsT[X :.]....

...[[No]] matter where you go, >>no<< matter where you are, think [[HAPPY]]] thoughts.





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    Sixxxty-one
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    commentCommented on: Fri Apr 13, 2007 @ 05:58am
    That actually made me cry. ('Cept for the parts that made me laugh... Like the confetti xP) Gawd, I really miss Edward. Last night I was thinking about how it's not true. An' I was trying to think up some reason that he might have pretended he died, just to like get off Gaia or something. I don't even know. I couldn't think of anything good. Why he would get you to lie for him. How rude, no, mean, inhuman it was for him to break the hearts of the people who cared for him, for some stupid reason I couldn't even think of. An' then it hit me. He wasn't pretending, didn't have people lying for him. He was actually... He actually.. Did it. An' the worst part was, I couldn't figure out why. I came up with even less reasons for why he would have been lying. An'... Gawd, I'm starting to cry again >.< An'... It really hurt me, that he was gone, even more than it would have if he had been lying about it.


    commentCommented on: Sat Jul 28, 2007 @ 08:35am
    Even four months later.. I'll read this... and still completely break down reading this.. Again, this is amazing, Sho.

    It still will phase me, out of nowhere, he is actually gone, this isn't some game. That he isn't coming back. I think that hurts more than anything.



    heroxorxzero
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    Hotaru Watase
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    commentCommented on: Wed Aug 08, 2007 @ 09:41am
    You don't know me, and I don't know you, and you'll probably never read this, but-
    I read it, and felt that "touch".

    thanks, and
    make your life worth living, okay?
    though I'm sure you already are.


    commentCommented on: Sat Aug 18, 2007 @ 08:10am
    I miss Lee terribly as well, Sho, but even as I look at this, all I can think of is that you died with him.



    HeartlessSinner
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    commentCommented on: Wed Nov 07, 2007 @ 07:26am
    We don't know eachother...at all.

    But I found this...and it's making me cry.
    I lost a part of myself recently...and this brought every emotion to the surface that I've been supressing.
    I am truly sorry for your loss. <3

    Your words will forever be imprinted upon my heart.


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