and all you see is where else you could be when you're at home
and out on the street are so many possibilities to not be alone  
 

Rusty Liang
nineteen
daytime manager of verona arms 

anna [boyflavour]
 
 

Rusty wanted to be buried under a redwood tree. 

He decided that a very long time before anyone ever told him that redwood trees had been extinct for at least two hundred years. He decided that when he was just a child, he decided that when he used to sleep in the athletic field. So many nights had been spent face down in the grass, inhaling dirty rainwater and pesticides. It's not that he was homeless as a child, or without a bed, but a home isn't that great of a home if you're all alone. Nights he slept in his own bed were always restless; the city was spread outside his window in blurry specks of oranges and whites, in thick clouds of exhaust and sweat and black coffee. It made him feel more alone then he already was, a child with a dead mother and an uncaring father.  

At least when the sun rose over the athletic field, he heard a few birds sing.

At least the birds made him feel less alone. 
 

It was the same loneliness that compelled him to pick up a violin. Rusty's violin is named Ellen, and she is the oldest friend he has. 
 

He doesn't talk to his father anymore and he rarely thinks of the athletic field and the sea-sickness sector 5 would give him. Rusty likes to think he left everything behind once he moved, and even if that was just a few years ago it gave him a chance to start over and  

breathe again. 
 

Rusty is interested in: 
 
space travel, old samurai movies, colorful sneakers, instant noodles, classical music, playing violin, girls that can dress well, drinking people under the table, verona arms on days where no one comes in, packages wrapped in brown paper, the color red, american football, lint rollers, cheesecake, hand rolled cigarettes, plaid, apple flavored vodka, limits of the human mind, and exploring new things.  

Rusty is not interested in: 
 
papercuts, people that are too loud, cat hair, bad smells, tea, badly composed music, airhead girls, pants that don't fit, meals he can't afford, sulfur tasting and smelling water, rainstorms, bright lights, fast food, noisy crowds, sector 5, menthol cigarettes and overpowering silence.