a blog for Sue Upton.

Hey guys, in case you didn't know, I am a hardcore Harry Potter fan, and on the website I frequent most often, The Leaky Cauldron, there was a news poster by the name of Ms. Sue Upton, and i've found out recently that she is leaving Leaky after a long time there. First, i am not upset, i'm actually really proud of her with whatever she decides to do. She deserves the best in her life, she's gone through a lot, and i'll be proud of her with whatever she continues to do. We are members of the same Hogwarts house(Hufflepuff!) and that makes me feel a certain bond between all of us. I should start with how i found Leaky , I guess. I discovered Leaky in the summer of 2008, when an aquaintance introduced me to it when she found out I was a potter-nerd. I was hooked. I checked it every day, and I noticed that most times, the post were by a woman named Sue. Then the same aquaintance approached me one day and said, "Have you listened to Pottercast yet?" i stared at her blankly. She explained it was a podcast that the four main(i don't want to say main, but i can't think of another word.)senior staffers(three before '08) Melissa Anelli, John Noe, Frankie Franco(FRAK!) and Miss Sue. I listened to the first few far back episodes that my iTunes permitted me to get, and from #140 upwards, i listened religiously. Whenever i was having a crappy day, it seemed, there would be a new podcast up, and i'd always get a kick out of the squabbles between John and Sue about the House-elves. And when John googled Hufflepuff for the MyLeaky layout, and the dog came up(Pottercast #187), Sue called him out for it. She always managed to make me laugh on even my worst days. She became one of those people I loved dearly but had never met, and I idolize her. Her fantastic reporting skills, her (sometimes)uncontrollable squeeing, and ability to brighten the room when she walks in, is fantastic. She's the truest definition of Hufflepuff: Hardworking, intelligent, bright, patient(even when John would try to get a rise out of her), and loyal to her friends. I aspire to be like her, and whenever i'm feeling down, I will always say "What Would Sue Do?" and reference back to something she'd said, Whether it be something she'd said that i would quote, a piece of audio from Pottercast that made me laugh, or a lesson she'd taught all of us. If you guys have anything to say about Sue, whether it be well wishes, your favorite moments of Sue-ness, the number of times you Squee during the run of a day (Mine's twelve.), or just anything about Sue you love in general, comment.


WE LOVE YOU SO SO SO SO MUCH SUE! Best of luck with whatever you decide to pursue!
XoXoXo,
~Belindah(Hufflepuff Pride!)

a blog for Sue Upton.

Just an Update on me :)

Chapter Two soon, i swear :)
So i'm currently writing this as Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls is playing, and I've found out some pretty amazing things in the last few days. Do you ever get those days when it feels like you're on top of the world, like, one good thing after another happens, and it feels like nothing can stop you from reaching your highest? That's the way my life is right now. Something's bound to happen in the next few days to kill the mood, though. But oh well, we gotta enjoy it while it lasts, live in the moment, stop thinking about the past or the future, and just enjoy every second. I don't know. Just enjoy life, and stop thinking about what's GOING to happen, and focus on what IS happening. And do you ever get those days when your favorite songs just roll out on the radio one after another? "Animal I Have Become" is playing now and I can tell tonight's gonna be a good night(BLACK EYED PEAS REF FTW!) I love those kinds of days.

LoveMusic&&Mayhem,
Belindah
xoxox

Chapter 1(First edit, some of this will change!!)

(disclaimer:Any songs or bands i make reference to throughout this entire story[not just CH1] belong to their respectful owners. I do not own them. Nor do i claim to.)
*Edit #1: Changed the name Shayne to Devin. A friend pointed out that the name Shayne reminded her of Camp Rock.*shudders*)

Chapter One---Welcome Home ---
"come on come on, this is screaming photo op..." Panic! at the Disco~ "Time To Dance"

Camp Ice. I loved that place. It's the place where exactly one year ago today, I met my best friends in the world. Layla, Dani, Audrey, and Rosalie. We were all new to the camp, just fifteen years old, and had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. We've been friends ever since. I loved those girls to death, and as far as I knew, all of them were returning this year, Rosalie with her boyfriend Lucas, who she had started dating at the Last Dance the year before. I snapped back to reality when i saw a flash behind my closed eyes. "Kat!" I shrieked at my ten-year-old sister, who had just decided to take a picture of me while i was sleeping from the backseat,"Don't you EVER steal my camera! I thought i told you that before!!!"She had stolen my camera out of my worn duffel bag, which sat in the seat next to her. My 22-year old cousin Owen turned and said "Kat, sit down! You want me to crash on the highway?!" She sat. Kat always listened to Owen. He just had that kind of power. I shrank back into my seat, turning my iPod on shuffle. I loved putting my iPod on shuffle, i guess it was just the element of surprise i liked, you never knew what was coming next. "The Kill" by 30 Seconds to Mars came on, and I sighed as Jared Leto's voice came pounding into my ears. I loved him, all the things he wrote seemed to just fit with my life. If we ever met him, i swore to one of my my best friends Audrey on one random night in October, i would tell him that. I pulled my dark red hoodie around me tighter, popped up the hood, leaned the seat back, and settled in sleep for the rest of the 45 minute drive.


I woke when Owen hit me on the arm. "Ouch!" i exclaimed, still dazed from sleep, "What did you do that for?"
"Get your stuff ready, we're like two minutes away." I suppressed a little shriek. Two minutes and counting until i saw my best friends. I pulled out my cell and sent a mass text to all four of them. Kayti: OMG. Two minutes chicas!!!
Rosalie:See you soooooon! XoXo!
Audrey: L8r sk8r!
Dani: Get Ready, this year's gonna be our year!!
Layla: You ready to rock? What's your outfit like today?
Now I really was excited. I texted Layla back with my outfit check: Dark navy skinny jeans(it WAS August, but it had been really cold the last few days.) My red hoodie, An old Jimmy Eat World tour tee i had found online for like five dollars, and my pride, the yellow high top Converse I had been looking for since I had seen The White Tie Affair's album cover, but only found a month ago at a garage sale. They hadn't seen them yet, they all knew I was obsessed with finding them, I had just waited until we were all together to show them off. I looked up and smiled to myself, we had pulled on to the dirt road leading up to the camp. We pulled into the lot and the first thing i saw when I jumped out of Owen's Escalade was the girls running towards me in a shrieking mass of hugs and "Ohmygod i haven't seen you in FOREVER"'s. I pushed my freshly dyed platinum blond/turquoise highlighted hair out of my eyes and said "Hey guys! Oh my god, this is gonna be epic! We're gonna own this summer!" Audrey was the first to notice. "Oh my god! Your shoes! Where did you find them?!" "Garage Sale. Forty-Seventh Street. I wanted to wait til I got here to tell you!" "Well they look fantastic," said Layla enviously, "nice touch on the matching hair and laces." I had forgotten i'd put them in that morning, my standard rainbow striped ones in my bag somewhere, probably to be lost until i got home next week. Dani looked ecstatic. "Dani, what? Seriously, tell me now so we don't have to perform CPR if you faint from holding in that air for too long." She exhaled "OHMYGODWE'REINTHESAMECABINTHEGIRLSLETMETELLYOU!!!!" My jaw dropped. That was impossible. More than two friends in a cabin NEVER happened around here. "Okay, who rigged it?" I asked, lowering my voice so that whatever counselors were around couldn't hear us. Dani and Rose raised their hands sheepishly. "Of course," I laughed, "Why did I even ask?"
Those girls were always getting themselves into things. "Which cabin?" "Seven," said Rose, "Right next to the---" "Boys cabin?" I finished, laughing. "It's not like there's gonna be any worthwhile guys to chase around here. It's only like Lucas and Caden. Lucas is taken," i said, smirking at Rose," And Caden's just, Caden. Too much of a friend." Then they all exchanged a look, a look i didn't understand. "What? What did you do?" I shot them a challenging look. "Come up to the cabin first," Audrey said, "then we'll show you."

Sweeping her dark brown with purple hair over one shoulder, Rose led us all up to Cabin Seven. I looked around, shocked at how clean the bunks were. "You guys are seriously this neat? What happened? Okay, so which bunk am I taking?" "Your pick," Audrey pointed,"It's either the bottom bunk next to mine or the one on top of Dani." "Sorry Dani, but you DO snore!" I laughed and tossed my duffel onto the bunk next to Audrey. That was that. I still didn't know what that look they had exchanged was all about. "Nowwww can we go down to the Firepit?" The Firepit was the name we had given the building we all hung out in during the day, because it was always humid and sticky down there until someone turned on the A/C. It was also the location of the Last Dance.

So we went, but first I tossed my sweater on top of my bag, just to be sure I wouldn't have to tie it around my waist if it got too warm down there. When the girls got down to the doors in front of the building, they blocked the door. "Uh, dudes, don't we wanna go in the building?" Layla replied, " Prepare yourself to lay eyes on the best thing you've probably seen in months." So i inhaled, let it out, and they opened the doors ahead of me. I saw Caden and Lucas, so I waved and shot a "Hey" over to them, then I saw three of the most gorgeous guys I'd seen in a very long time sitting on the couch in the centre of the room. There was a blond guy, the least cute of the three, with a sort of Elvis haircut, a redhead who looked to be really tall, and this one other guy, a brown-haired guy, he looked to be about seventeen with glasses, but something about him just struck me like lightning. As if he could read my mind, he turned his head away from the conversation the other two were having, locked his gaze with mine, and smiled sweetly. Something in me sort of exploded then. I leaned over to Audrey, and in an adrenaline-laced tone, asked, "who are those guys and where on earth did they come from?" She answered," The blond? That's Devin, the tall redhead is Austin, and the brown haired guy, that's Aidan. They're counselors. I think Aidan's, like, checking you out." She laughed maniacly. I whipped my head around, and sure enough, I caught him soon enough to see him quickly turn around and his cheeks go up in flames. "Aww, he's cute. I'm gonna go say hi." I strode over to where they were sitting and smiled sweetly. "Hey, I'm Kayti." The blond, Devin, looked up and smirked, a mischievious sparkle to his eyes, said "Devin." the redhead waved."I'm Austin." Then Aidan, still blushing madly, turned towards me, offering his hand. "H--hey. Uh, I'm Aidan." I shook, smiling gently, hoping the look on my face said "it's okay, you can stop blushing now." Then as if by another round of magic, Aidan's cell rang, playing not just any song, but "The Middle" by Jimmy Eat World, the song that had got me through my first year of high school. He looked embarrassed as he hit ignore and turned off his phone, shoving it in his jeans. "Cool song," I said, wishing to the heavens that all this embarrassing stuff wouldn't happen to him, "It's my favorite." "Really?" He looked a lot less red than before, "Mine too. I've also got "Weapons Wired" by The Higher." "No way," I gaped at him, "I seriously thought I was the only one who listened to them!" He smiled. "Well, you aren't. Here, wanna sit down?" He shoved over enough to make a new space on the couch, knocking Devin to the floor. "Ouch dude, we just met and you're aleady knocking me over? Real nice." I sat down next to Aidan, my nose catching a gentle scent of vanilla. That was nice. I knew what it was, i'd helped Rose pick it out to buy it for Lucas's birthday. It was my favorite. He caught sight of my iPod, and asked me "What stuff do you have on there?" "Here, look through." I said, handing him the iPod and one headphone, I put the other in my own ear. Not even ten seconds later, I heard the opening notes of "The Kill". "This one's my favorite ever." I told him, nodding my head along with the music. "Me too." he replied, his head nodding in time with mine. I was really starting to think that he might like me as much as I like him. I could tell from that second he'd turned on "The Kill" that I'd be spending a lot of time with this Aidan guy.

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"What are you waiting for? I'm not running from you..." ~"The Kill"- 30 Seconds To Mars

THANKS FOR READING GUYS!!! XOXOXO! Chapter Two coming... Eventually! :)
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Short Story character list!!!

So far it's still called "Short Story" cause i wasted all my creativity coming up with these names~!!!! The story will be from Kayti's POV, by the way.

Hehe, here we go!

Main girl: Kayti(IT'S LIKE KATIE, OKAY? I LIKE DIFFERENT SPELLINGS xD)
main guy: Aidan
the girls(aka Kayti's friends): Layla, Dani, Audrey(SO Currently i'm into an a-z of celebrity kids names and i am LOVING the fact that Gary Oldman's son's name just popped up randomly xD), Rosalie.

the guys:(They're also Kayti's friends but they mainly hang with Aidan): Lucas(Rose's boyfriend), Shayne(the guy the girls were all head over heels for until he turned out to be kinda a jerk the previous summer, because of a prank he played, then they forgave him.), Austin(might change this one later, it's too close to Aidan for me. This guy is another one of the guys the girls secretly liked.) and Caden(love that name x100)

IF ANY NEW CHARACTERS COME UP, I MIGHT EDIT THEM INTO THIS POST! NOTHING IS FOR SURE YET!

Plot Summary(I am no good at these at all. I apologize for the cruddy-ness of it): "After meeting exactly one year ago at summer camp, five 16 year old girls, Kayti, Layla, Dani, Audrey and Rosalie, are the type of friends you would never see apart. They'd always be texting each other(Even when they were in the same room), IMing, or on the phone til all hours of the night if they weren't all together. They all had they're differences, but they became the best of friends. It was each girls first year at that camp(Camp name: Camp Ice. See? It's supposed to be ironic:P), and they all shared the same thoughts. This year though, Camp Ice is about to get shaken up. This year, returning with Lucas(Rosalie's boyfriend from the year before) and Lucas's friend Caden, the girls meet three new boys, Aidan(The sort-of nerdy one who Kayti instantly falls for, but they're becoming too good of friends for her to admit it. ), Shayne, who's all fun until he takes fun a little bit too far, and Austin.(the sweet one, who Rose can't help but crush on. He almost instantly becomes friends with the girls.) Through the seven days and seven nights, the friends of Kayti and Aidan try their hardest to make them admit their true feelings for each other before the Last Dance."


Okay, that's it! What do you guys think? Comment or whatever with your ideas/ opinions! Constructive criticism welcome!!!

Introduction's are just formalities.

Why hallo thar! Hehe, my friends know me as Belindah, and this is just gonna be a stupid little blog about everything. I'm currently in the process of writing a short(right now it's short anyway!) story about a group of older teen kids at a summer camp, kinda lame, but my friends wanted me to do it.(ShoutOut to the Rappers!!!!) I promise i'll post soon, super busy schedule, most likely i'll post on weekends or when my friends call me and are like "POST POST POST!!!!!!" in my ear :P So i guess that's it, so i'll post later! I might not go into the story just yet, i think i'll do a summary and character listing first!

XoXoLoveMusic&&Mayhem!(Totally stole that quote from Nat Tena.)
Belindah!