Girl In Metropolis

By Girl In Metropolis

Sex. Love. School. Shopping on the meanest budget to get the max. One girl gets a new start at life in Los Angeles Westside. But will it be squandered as she gets caught up in a love affair (or a few)? In the end will she be better for it?

• Language: English
• Publisher: My Morning Story
• Release date: Jul 18, 2018
• ISBN: 9780983944010

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Girl In Metropolis

Girl In Metropolis

Prelude

I knew I couldn’t keep living in Ohio. No one seemed to understand me there. I saved all my money lifeguarding at Cedar Point and went out to act. I stayed with my Godmother in the Inland Empire and took the train all the time to look at cars and places but I ended up in Ohio again.

Then I applied to FIDM. I only stayed there a semester but I moved in with a boyfriend and two roomates. One day we were four roommates and he threw a heel at my head and I went back to Ohio.

I really wanted this LA life so I tried again with Santa Monica College. My place on Pico got Burglarized and I didn’t trust my friends anymore. I moved over by Main Street in Santa Monica and worked on the Promenade at a clothing store, a gym , a interior design showroom, and finally got a job in Century City for a hedge fund and a private equity firm. A year passed. They let me go. By that time I had moved to Century City and back to Montana Ave. in Santa Monica. I tried temping but it made me nervous. My parents had gotten a divorce and my dad invited me to Florida. That sounded safe and warm. But it wasn’t Cali. I needed to go back.

The Art Institute offered interior design. I saw all the drop out warnings online before I signed up but thought I need this so bad! Based on that need I’ll get through. I was California dreaming. I enrolled. I picked up a diary on a date at a movie theater gift shop and so it goes. Just a girl in the metropolis.

Summer

July 24, 2009

Sex with Marc. Not up and out to eat at Culver City’s fathers office until 4:30.

July 25, 2009

Whoops! Slept in. Blew off coffee with Jacob. Bought schoolbook, but bought an awesome jacket too so I’m strapped.

July 26, 2009

Went to Malibu shops and got a glitter tattoo on my face for fun. Chatted up some nice older men who booked me for a Kiwanis gig. Had lunch with Heather at The Counter in Santa Monica. Roger didn’t show up for a date. I went to Marc’s house instead and had Asian food. He fell asleep in my lap and I didn’t know whether to feel offended or to find it endearing. Yesterday was an award dinner. Training today? I feel like a girly girl of the whirly world.

July 27, 2009

Was thinking of a moment that time stood still for me, and that was in kissing Kevyn a couple of years ago. It made me feel so alive. I spent a whole day waiting my turn at Planned Parenthood in Santa Monica and it was exhausting. Down for the count.

July 28, 2009

Today I went tanning which to me is a ritual of beautification and pampering. It validates me. I’ve avoided my homework. Caught up with Jacob in front of Alex my neighbor down the hall, hence a night spent with Marc consisting of dinner and sex. A naïve thought. He might be the one. I know it is but I behave the same.

July 29, 2009

I left Marc’s having missed classes. Leaving isn’t something I want to do but he works from home and…anyhow. I went on a blind double date as a favor to my friend Sara.

July 30, 2009

7:30am class. At 10:00, I dropped Marc to off at the airport. I drove Peter home having seen him miss the bus. I went to Pete’s and to Country Mart and met the dad of Aaron. Paradise to mysery reading in his backyard as his girlfriend broke up with him. I miss English and cry driving home, skipping the father/son dinner to make eggs and tomato juice. Painted-ish. I think to myself it’s strange that Lauren is now pregnant with Pete’s baby, and suddenly, I genuinely care for her. Maybe it’s the vulnerability paired with the miracle of a child born from love. When they got married I certainly wasn’t genuinely happy for them. But now yes. Over and over again yes. I love the baby and I am so terribly fond of Lauren and I can’t even remember if I ever loved Pete. And it doesn’t matter anyhow.

July 31, 2009

$215 hair and a $19 sandwich at Cush on Robertson. I think it looks the same. Felt Crummy. When Darnell had done it last time it looked gorgeous and full, but he doesn’t work there anymore. In an effort to melt that feeling away I went to R + D on Montana solo, then partied with Veronica.

August 8, 2009

Nik’s ex accused me of being a call girl. Stormed out on Veronica’s lame-o friends in the morning. Drinks with my roommate Sara.

August 9, 2009

Mimosas and pool with Sara and friends. Some creep snuck pics of us. I picked up