<div class="floatleft">(http://i.imgur.com/rTgCMPl.png)</div><strong>Name/True Identity:</strong>Demona/Free Daemianos<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Common Room<br/><strong>Doing:</strong>Writing in her journal<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>OPEN<br/><br/><br/>Free was surprised to find the Common Room empty, and took advantage of the late afternoon sunlight streaming in through the windows.  She curled up in a chair, happily basking in the sunlight, and flipped through the pages of her journal to find the last used page.  As she'd been doing for the last year since her mother died, Free started off with a letter to her mother to describe her day.<br/><br/><em>Dear Mama,<br/><br/>I still cannot believe that I'm in my first week of college.  It's strange to be here, knowing that I'm old enough to have mothered most of my fellow students.  More than a few have assumed I'm a professor.  Hell, some of the professors have assumed I'm new to the faculty.  But that's all right.  It has caused a bit of hilarity and embarrassment, the kind of thing you'd laugh at without hesitation.<br/><br/>You'd love it here, Mama.  It's every bit as beautiful as you thought it would be.  Oddly enough, the minute I stepped foot on the island, I felt like I was coming home.  Isn't that strange?<br/><br/>I'm going to do something crazy.  I've decided that I'm going to try out for the cheerleading squad.  Remember how I wanted to in high school, but couldn't because of my part time job after school and on the weekends?  Well, I've decided to be a spontaneous college freshman and try out.  What's the worst that will happen?  I won't make the squad.  But at least I can say that I tried, right?<br/><br/>I should get to my homework while the Common Room is quiet and the sun's still out.<br/><br/>I miss you and love you every single day with all my heart.<br/><br/>S'ahgahpos.<br/>Free</em><br/><br/>Finished with her letter, Free opened her dog-eared copy of<em>Animal Farm</em>and continued reading from her bookmark's place.  It didn't matter that she practically had the book memorized since junior high.  She always reread it once a year.  This year, she got to do it twice, since she'd done her annual read in March, but now did it for one of her classes.