My No.1: ‘Preacher Man
(Contaminated)’ – Fields of the Nephilim
At
last, Simon and Nigel came into college. We
chatted, had a game of hide ‘n’ seek and a game of tigs in The Walks (which they both hated!) and came to the conclusion that
we would not be taking Pot Noodle
with us on Friday.
Top of The Pops was shit, but I watched the Sisters of Mercy Wake video that Simon lent me. It killed me.
I was just gone, yeah?
Later:
‘Loving
the Alien’ – David Bowie
I’ve
had another letter from Naomi, which
is great. She wrote it on Tuesday at
10.30am, saying
‘Whatcha gorgeous!
Thanks a lot for your letter – it made my day! I’m sitting in bed, feeling knackered after a
private party at Spencer’s last
night. I didn’t get to sleep until after
1.30am. So I’m not going into college
until later. In fact, I might just find
out about my exam tomorrow (General paper – sort of world affairs and Arts and
Sciences – A/O) and then come home again to do some work.
It seems ironic, but I too am aiming for
Journalism. So far, I haven’t done too
well, as I ballsed up (please excuse my uncouth language!) my O levels when I
was 15/16, through moving from Sheringham
to Norwich during the actual exam week,
and also through hating school, skiving off a lot and doing “not a lot of
work”!! Anyway, now I’ve caught up and
already have exams to my name, also some experience with television (I spent
two days working with Anglia Television
as an extra in a production of Tales
Of The Unexpected) and I took part in the North Norfolk Festival of Music and Drama when I was 14…’
She’s
re-shaved the sides of her head, which is cool.
She received my last letter via their ‘fat postman’ only 1 ¾ hours
before she starts writing (‘How’s that for speed!’). When she’s finished, she’s going to post it
on the way to her college bus.
‘Sorry to hear about you and Nicki – hope you’re not too broken-hearted?’
The
situation with Alex is better. He has no idea what happened between us, and Naomi
hopes he never will. She feels ‘very
guilty’ about it, and ‘scared’ that someone might tell him. Those friends of hers that knew have kept
quiet. She says she doesn’t want to
forget it it, but she doesn’t want Alex to be hurt by it – especially as she’s
inviting me to her 18th Birthday Party at ‘Henry’s’ on Friday July
24th.
She
says I’ve made history, because she thought she was the only person in Norfolk who loves the way she
does. Now she realises I experience love
in a very similar way to her. She’s had
a lot of heartbreak over the years, and although she says that should ‘warn’
her, she still keeps falling for people and still gets hurt. She says we are similar: she loves her
freedom, but also likes to be in a solid relationship.
Her
longest realationship was 13 months. In September 1985, she met Harry, who lived 2 doors away from her
when they lived in Lakenham,
Norwich). At first he was great, until
she realised he was drinking a lot. He
would come round to her place, at all hours, drunk out of his head, causing
trouble. He used to chuck stones up at
her window in the early hours and wouldn’t stop until she let him in.
‘I’m still scared of stones against my window.’
Her
mum’s boyfriend hated Harry, so they would get into rows about it. She didn’t get on with Harry’s parents at
all.
College
made her realise she needed a change.
She had given up just about everything for Harry and knew it couldn’t go
on. When she finished with Harry, he
cried, which made it hard for her.
‘I was all he had, you see.’
Harry
was jobless, his mother was ‘round the twist’ and his father ‘had no
time’. Naomi and drink were his life.
At
college, she met Gaz, who she really
liked and they started a relationship.
He was ‘God’ to her for a while.
Unfortunately he was still seeing a girl who was supposed to be his ex,
and the relationship only lasted 3 weeks.
They are now very good friends, though.
After
a few one-night stands (including Duane
‘who lived too far away’), she got off with Trev (‘a wonderful 21-year-old from Bury St Edmunds’). They had
two passionate days, but when it came to the crunch he said he didn’t want to
go out with Naomi, explaining that he had ‘a tendency’ to get off with
different girls in Bury St Edmunds. He
said she was ‘too nice’. And even though
she was appalled by his ‘chauvinistic ways’ she found herself crying her eyes
out over him and begging him for a relationship.
‘I suppose in a funny way, I had fallen in love with
him on first sight.’
Happily,
they still stay in touch and he writes to her a lot and phones her now and
then. Sometimes he turns up in The Bell. He sent her a rose on Valentine’s Day. She says
she still loves him, but she is not ‘in love’ with him. ‘Do you know what I mean?’
‘I suppose what I’m trying to say is, to me you
are someone I went to for love and attention, but ended up falling for you in a
big way. I feel the same way about you
as I do about Trev – and that’s a lot!’
She
imagines that from reading what she’s written, I might understand that she
finds it difficult to ‘trust some blokes’…
‘Unfortunately, I am a Leo (July 25th), and I fall in love VERY
quickly. All males I have so far met
have hurt me very deeply, but not you. I
suppose that’s because we hardly know each other. I feel as though I’ve known you for ages,
though!’
She
signs off with love and kisses.
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