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 Of course this would happen right next to my building!
What I saw that night is something I won't forget for a really long time.

BUT WE'LL GET TO THAT LATER :D

Friday -

Secret's out. Devon is moving this month to pursue what makes her happy.
Devon, I am so happy for you! There's so much waiting for you there already and I hope it all goes amazing for you. You're PROBABLY the model gal pal for me. And it's just funny that you end up moving, lol. Such is life! Either way, grats on everything and good luck. You will be missed, mang.

We went to Little Tokyo to go at least one last time before she left.
I've gotten way more confident about the trek there on my own. When I reach the train station there it gets weird because it's so crowded and I can feel peoples' eyes on me. It was always fine though because she'd find me :)

As soon as we got there... ramèn! We sat somewhere differently because the hostess pointed at a table. It was bizarre as we normally just choose where we sit, which is by the window. So we awkwardly made our way over to the table by the back of the store, next to the register.

YOU MUST BE NEW HERE, HOSTESS.

We both ordered the chashu pork Ramèn. She always get an extra egg. And we talked foeva. I'm really excited for her. I hope it all goes well, it sounded so exciting the way she described it. 

Aww :)

Of course though right after we went to the bookstore where she and I both picked up a few things. And also the grocery store. 

I got Volume 6. to my XXX-Holic manga. It's so much better than the Anime omg. Once I've finished this I'm thinking of picking up Chobits. :3

THERE'S A WHOLE OTHER SECTION IN THE BOOKSTORE I WASN'T AWARE OF.

They had a bunch of writing stuff like notebooks, folders, pen/cils and stuff. Since she's moving, we bought some stationary to write each other and be pen-pals. Hehehe

Also we got our Ramunè drinks from the gocery downstairs. And we also got our little mystery boxes! 

And to end our evening we made a stop at Pinkberry. Dnd guy took us there the last time we all went together and and and and it was mandatory we return. SO DELICIOUS

She got the chocolate hazelnut with nuts and chocolate sauce and that wafer thing and I got the mango with strawberries and mochi ^^

so many topping options T_T 

mmpf!

Little Tokyo won't be the same without her. I'll miss you Devon!

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just kidding. This actually happened later that night.

Okay.

I was sitting in my room as I usually do either editing photos, playing Rift, or watching Netflix when suddenly I heard glass breaking outside my window in the alley. 

My initial thought was joy. are they drunk or something? ugh...

It kept going. It sounded like china plates kept being thrown on concrete, over and over, but slowly. 

I started to get a little worried because it had gone on for a few minutes. I grabbed my phone and walked outside to tell whoever it was trolling the quite night atmosphere to stfu. 

No one there. In our garage? Nope.

Out front? Nope. Nothing.

Where did that glass come from? Where is it? 

That's when I saw a shard of glass fall from the second floor in the building next to me, across my window. It reflected light from the moon and landed right in the alley with a loud glassy shatter sound. 

I looked up and saw a larger DOG trying to crawl out the window! 

It wasn't making any noise, just panting a lot in discomfort. I couldn't tell if it was standing on something inside the apartment because it refused to get away from the window. It looked as though it was trying to jump out. I hurried to the other side of the gate on my neighbors lot and started panicking. Shit my phone's gonna die. Do I call the cops?! Animal control!? It's not whimpering... is it hurt?? BUT IT'S BROKEN GLASS. I DON'T KNOW

I saw two guys walking by that I went after and called. I kept saying "excuse me!" over and over and they either heard me and ignored me, or legit were so stoned out of their minds that they weren't even on this planet. They weren't much help. One of them gave me a number to animal control. It wasn't helpful because my phone was about to die, but I took it and ran back to the alley to see if the dog was still there.

It was. Wiggling in the window, panting heavily. Was it stuck? Was something stabbing it so it couldn't move? OH GOD :( 

I called the local police station because that's what they do in the movies and I felt helpless. If my phone died, oh well. He told me to call animal control and gave me a different number. Go figure.

Immediately I dialed. It rang a few times until the guy finally picked up. I told him everything but in the middle of doing so, the light came on in the apartment and the dog went inside. Because apparently someone was home, animal control couldn't do anything unless the owner neglected to do anything. Also, that apartment building, just like all the others here in L.A. work with intercom to gain entry. I had no clue what apartment unit it was! 

There was nothing he could do. That was the end of that conversation.

No way man. That's fucked up. I watched X-Files and a dog breaking a window is not right.

My phone was still going, so I decided to step into the alley and check out how much glass was broken, get some evidence or something. For what? Who knows. I don't. But I want it.

omg no....

 FUCK. no no nono onnonofksdfslkajsdflkjslfdfaswd oh god

Immediately I called him back a crying mess and told him there was a lot of blood all over the alley. I hadn't seen anyone leave the building yet and it had been several minutes. The dog was severely hurt and and and and *breath* FUCKING HELP IT PLEASE

I was begging him to do something, to help me figure this out.

He said okay, okay...

He asked me questions about the dog, the address... if anyone was around outside.

He gave me suggestions on generic layouts depending on how many units were in the building and suggested I go to the intercom and buzz someone to let them know there was an emergency. Maybe gain access and judge by where the window is located... find the door. It would be easy. It's towards the front, on the second floor. If only we could get that unit number!!

My phone died, but I hauled ass back inside a worried mess and plugged it in. Call him back shaking anxiously.

He said try to get in touch with someone that lives in that building and get more info. Once we do that he would send someone out to investigate.

I left my phone to charge in my room while Rot loaned me his and made my way back outside, over to my neighbor's building and scanned through the intercom directory. The directions said dial # first, then the unit number. Did that... no dial tone. Did it again. Nothing. The damn thing doesn't even work!! And there's no number for the manager's office. >.< grrrrrr! 

Luckily... a few moments later a gentleman came towards the stairs after walking his dog. He must live here!

I had to be strategic here... what can I do? I'LL LIE MY ASS OFF

Now... I avoid lying. It's a serious principal thing with me. You could call it petty. But... this was for the dog. I couldn't betray him. So... fuck my principals, I'm lying my ass off.

Excuse me, hello. Is there anyone inside I could get in touch with? There's an emergency that happened in your alley a little bit ago. There's broken glass and blood everywhere....

 The look on his face. rofl

I wanted to scare the shit out of him so he'd call the police. If I played this right, they'd come here and break in. The owners would be in so much deep shit, and the dog would get the help it needed.

Blood? Oh.. really?

Yes, I can show you. There's a lot, I'm really worried.

Of course I knew it was the dog's blood. 

However, I was afraid that if I told anyone that... the incident wouldn't be treated as seriously.

This is not an option. I will lie.. for the doggie.

I lit the alley for him with Rot's phone and heard him gasp. There was blood also all around the window and dripping down the building. It looked... very, very, very bad. Now to deal my cards.

I don't know what happened. About 15 minutes ago I heard glass breaking and thought some neighbors were just getting roudy or something. But it kept going for a while so I came out to see what it was and saw this. You wouldn't happen to know what apartment that is would you? - There it was.  The million dollar question.

Oh my... I don't .. know.. how does this happen? Maybe my girlfriend knows, I'll ask her...

-DAMNIT

Do you think someone should call the cops? This is scary.. the light's still on. It wasn't earlier so that means someone's still home.

Yeah.. I'm gonna go tell her, see what she says. 

Okay. Thank you! 

Fuck. Nothing. I actually thought he was gonna come back outside and tell me the apartment number. I am an idiot for having faith in people. Only an animal in danger can make me do that. After standing around for a few minutes with no one in sight, I started heading back to my apartment wondering if I should even call the guy back. I didn't wanna give up but what else can I do? It was heartbreaking, I wanted to help the dog so bad...

As I turned the key to my gate I saw one of my neighbors coming towards me to step out.

ANOTHER CHANCE. 

He may not live in that apartment, but he is another chance at a phone call to the police!

I dealt my cards again, led him to the alley and showed him. He looked very shaken up, and I acted my ass off to scare him. Said shit like I'm really scared... I don't wanna live next to this kind of thing, yanno? Look at the blood by the window... oh my god..

His mouth was open in horror the whole time as he took it all in, agreeing with me and reiterating. Dance, little monkey, dance.

I think someone should call the police. I don't know if they did yet, but I told someone over there. I'm still worried though, we should call too..

Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna tell my wife. This is so scary...

Bingo. 

I went back to my room and decided not to call the animal control guy. If I did, and it got around that something happened at this building he might flag it or something and tell the cops what really happened. No no. Let's just... let things happen... naturally.

About 20 minutes later I saw some flashes of light outside my window. Could it be... flashlights? >:)

INDEED.

There were several cops outside investigating, searching up and down the alley. One of them kept a light on the window. The light had been turned off... hmmmmmmm! 

Even though it was on earlier? 

After about 5 minutes of flashlights I finally heard someone pounding on the front glass gate. Yessssss....YESSSS

They started pounding harder and more impatiently. I think eventually someone came out because I didn't hear the glass gates shatter lol. It was a while though, they were at it for several minutes. And then... and then there was quiet for a few more moments.

Loud knocking. 

Open up, this is the police

Loud knocking... pounding... more pounding..

OPEN UP. POLICE

All of a sudden I heard 3 loud BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. LGKJSJFLSJFASDHGLSJFACKSH and things falling over. They fucking broke the door down!

YEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!! VICTORY!!! 

I could hear them knocking things over and searching, and saw the flashlights shine from inside the apartment. It was empty :(

My guess is the people there split after I went inside. That's okay though! The police got all of their information and trashed their apartment. I was hoping they'd be there for it and taken in. Get charged for negligence and abuse. I was worried for the dog though. There was a lot of blood, as you saw, and I had hoped that it was taken to be treated properly and not just dropped off somewhere :(

That dog was in the window for a long time with glass falling, the shatters echoing off the walls in the alley for several minutes. How could the owners NOT hear that when I did? And I don't even live in the same building. My WINDOW wasn't even open. C'mon now... that's fucked up. 

Puppy... you're in my thoughts, and I hope you get a fast and loving recovery. Hopefully they find you a nice home with a loving family that can look out for you. 

So yeah, that happened.

S a t u r d a y - the next day:

Six Flags with Alan! This was extremely exciting for me because I've never been there. I thought it was just a regular amusement park with standard rides and roller coasters. Boy was I wrong.

Alan got here on time but I slept in like an idiot and had to haul ass to get ready. We split and made it there with no traffic annoyances, surprisingly. 

Okay here's the part where wtf.

I've never in my life ever been interrogated by a cop or a guard before. Ever. I swear to you.

I was at Six Flags. For the very first time in my life. Is that.. not the whackest shit ever?

So they have super crazy security, like metal detectors and whatnot. They search your bags, ask you about your pockets, etc. Why? I don't even know. It's a damn amusement park. Who knows what happened in the past. But it's fine, whatever. We get in, they check my bags, everything's fine. I was worried at first because I thought I had left my switchblade in my bag! But the metal detector didn't go off when I passed just my bag (yep) through so maybe I left it at home. 

Whatever. Alan and I start walking off when a cop stops me and asks me to come with him. lol? uh wut

I was SO CONFUSED. Maybe they heard me talking to Alan about being worried that my blade was in my bag? He escorts me to the front gate and asks if he may search my bag. I go sure. Then ask him wtf, what's going on. He tells me that I have a strong smell of marijuana coming off of me. 

WHAT

But I don't even smoke O_o

When he said that to me I almost laughed but couldn't contain my irritation because I live with people who do. Maybe the smoke was on my clothes or something. I dunno. But you can imagine how annoyed I was for vicarious interrogation. There was a chick cop there too. They asked me

Do you smoke pot?

Sigh, no.

You don't smoke any pot?

No.

They asked my for my ID and took down my information and asked about the pot smell. I said I lived with people who smoke, and that's the only way I could think of that would affect me. I had a smile on my face the whole time, yanno, to troll. And I looked over at Alan and shrugged my shoulders obnoxiously, and scoffed so they knew I thought they were retarded. 

Finally they had me do this test with my hands to detect a smell. I'm not gonna elaborate it here, sorry. But I passed it. He said "she's clean" and gave me my stuff back. "Sorry." 

I REALLY wanted to say YEP. I BET. but I didn't. I didn't say anything and laughed as I walked away. It was really bizarre though, I kept getting random whiffs of weed throughout the day and wondered if it was me. But later I saw a guy light something up (the signs CLEARLY SAY NO SMOKING UGH) so maybe people somehow smuggled it in and were lighting up in the park. Which would explain the tight security. At the time though I was agitated and wanted to blame my roommates since they smoke openly in our living room and the smoke leaves a yucky smell behind in the carpet and furniture. 

Aside from that our day was really, really fun. It was pretty dead! Alan said it was because it was winter and people don't come out as much. Which was AWESOME because the first several rides had like no wait time. 

We even got to go a second time in the row on two different rides. Alan asked the mechanics "can we just sit here?" and they said yeah, they didn't care. No one was in line for our row so we just chilled on the train til it started again. OMG that was so cool. lol 

So yeah... Six Flags is basically all roller coasters. I didn't know this. My DREAM park. We went on almost every coaster in the park except for Revolution. And the drop ride... SO FUN. omg omg omg I LOVED IT. The anticipation because you drop is like gjldkadlkghlakdjflad aaaaahhh XD

This ride. THIS ride. Ugh I LOVE THIS RIDE. It takes you soooooooooooooo high up lol. I started giggling maniacally from nerves and adrenaline.

Basically the entire park.

Mista photogenic Alan. There was an ugly wooden fence that we went over to for pictures, so this had to happen. I made it work.

It was an awesome day. 

Unfortunately a lot of the rides were too crazy shakey for phones so we ended up getting a locker to leave our things in, which meant... my phone was in there too. So not many pictures from that day. 

After a long day of OMG we stopped by a Denny's to fill our bellies

Coffee and smoothies. And a salad. Fuck salads but ceasar salad is good. They put bacon and avocados in it :O

Then we came here, watched a few episodes of Archer on Netflix and he split. Six Flags is officially my favorite thing ever. When it's dead.

Amusement parks in the winter is where it's at. 

I found my switchblade. It was in the pocket of the jacket I wore to Little Tokyo. Phew! haha