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Post by Adrien Baillon on Aug 9, 2010 1:58:04 GMT -5
From the second week of December
I won't tell you where I got your address, it's a secret! <3
I'm sorry that all the spelling is so bad, I didn't do a lot of school. Do you like my handwriting? I practiced a lot, so no one would tell about the school, and that worked out except then I stopped hanging out with people like me, and started to hang out with Adrian and Micaela, and they can tell about the spelling. Even though French is not their first language! :[ That makes me unhappy, because my English spelling is probably worse than my French. I could never write an English letter.
I am also sending letters to Divine, but that is not a lot of fun actually, because I wrote her the day I got here to New York, and she replied with not a lot, so now I just send postcards. It is lonely in New York, and very different from Paris, and of course everywhere that I go people take pictures of me. (I am putting in here some things from some magazines. The articles are not very nice - so don't read those! - but this is from last week, when Adrian and I went to a concert. We left early, because I don't like his music a lot, and he could tell. I would have stayed anyway, only some of the songs upset me a lot, and I think I hurt his hand because I was holding it so tightly. Adrian likes terrible music.)
I hope I am allowed to write to you.
From, Adrien
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Post by Crowley on Aug 9, 2010 2:03:44 GMT -5
Adrien,
Your writing isn't too bad. I've definitely seen worse. I'm hope you don't miss Paris too much. I'm glad to hear from you, but I don't think that this is such a good idea.
-C
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Aug 9, 2010 2:12:26 GMT -5
Adrien, having received this about a week after he'd sent his out, felt rather distressed at the lack of letters he was receiving from two of the three people he'd attempted to engage in correspondence. Only First Communion replied with any regularity, but her responses were all short and wry things, whereas Divine had taken to sending postcards half-taken-up with illustrations of new nail designs she'd done, or ideas for a new sort of lace or lattice. It occurred to him for the first time that, Crowley aside, all his friends were just as insecure as he was about their own inability to write very well.
Crowley's handwriting was a lot like First Communion's, very hard to read, snake-like and nearly illegible.
He felt frustrated nearly to tears.
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Please stay in touch with me. Here, this is our phone number. If Adrian picks up, say that your name is Darling. He only knows what you look like, he won't recognize your voice.
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Post by Crowley on Aug 9, 2010 2:16:23 GMT -5
Crowley sighed as he looked at the letter. It just sounded so sad. He could picture Adrien's face as he read it. He decided he had no choice but to keep touch. Besides, he wasn't going under an alias like Darling.
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He will; we've met. I'll respond if you promise to keep it somewhere very safe, all right?
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Aug 9, 2010 2:41:11 GMT -5
They were still all so short. He hoped it was just insecurity; what if it was him? What if they just didn't want to talk to him?
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I will buy a box with a lock! Adrian will understand, and I can keep my pictures in there too, which will be nice. I have a lot of pictures. I will make copies and show you! There is a copy machine in Adrian's office and I think that he will let me use it, and I will say that the photos are for Divine.
Please understand, I don't talk to a lot of people, only Adrian, and I miss you. There are lots of places to have tea or coffee in New York and you would like them. There are also lots of stores. I have seen book stores, shoe stores, clothes stores, health food stores, car item stores, jewelry stores, I can't think of others but there are other stores as well.
Bubastis got her fur on my new coat!!!!
[with a pencil rather than a pen] These are the pictures. There is one of me recently and also one of me a few years ago, and I also sent you one of maman, but it is the only one I have and I am in it. It is from a long time ago.
I am very excited for Christmas this year, last year's was very bad, I got into a very big fight with Marchetti and did not feel well, and he threw my present down the drain because he did not like it, and he got very upset with me when the sink clogged up after and there was another fight. He was very drunk, though. Adrian and I are having a Christmas party and I am wearing a dress only I don't know what color yet, I don't want to wear a holiday color and be obvious, I wonder if anyone will. We are inviting Mag, Lavinia who is her partner, Dan (who is the Nite Owl), Dan's friend Megan, and Kenzou Tenma who is a friend of Adrian's. He is a doctor, but I don't know him. I will be cooking and baking all day! I am sorry you can't come. I only know Megan a bit, and Dan, because they came to Karnak, but no one there is really a friend of mine. I don't know what I will get Adrian for Christmas, because he already has anything he wants, and even though i know he would never be mad at me like Marchetti, and try to be excited, he is very bad at pretending to be happy about anything and I would be able to tell if I did not get him something he liked very much. I have got everybody's cards bought.
From, Adrien
[included: three photos, one of himself with Marchetti in the background, one of himself with Adrian, and one of himself as a baby with a painfully-thin but beaming Lucie.]
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Post by Crowley on Aug 9, 2010 3:14:37 GMT -5
Adrien,
I think the box is a brilliant idea. You could also make a false bottom for the letters, if you can hide the effort.
New York is a great city. I go there every couple of years or so on business. There is actually a restaurant there that I think you'd enjoy. It's called Chez Josephine. It's owned by a Frenchman named Jean-Claude Baker. Friendly chap. I think he'd like you. It's on West 42nd Street.
I'm sorry about your coat. I assume Bubastis is a dog or cat. She has a very interesting name. Is she Adrian's or yours?
You're looking very well. I've noticed you and Adrian in the tabloids lately. I was impressed by how well you handled the press. Your mother is a beautiful woman. Is that you in the picture?
I hope this year's Christmas is better. I think you should go with a dark blue for the dress. It would be a good colour on you. I don't know Adrian well enough to suggest a gift. From what I can tell, he really likes purple and Egypt.
I haven't got any Christmas plans myself, not being particularly fond of the holiday. I think Magda (you met her—the red-head dressed as the Silk Spectre) is going to make me go to her place for Christmas dinner. I know she means well, but she goes a bit overboard with the decorating and tries to get me into the holiday spirit. Plus her husband's an ugly git. We've had a sort of rivalry going since we met. I don't know how much we really hate each other, but it's sort of become habit, and, anyway, it's fun.
I hope you're well and that you have a good time at your party. Happy Christmas.
Crowley
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