sparkles

sparkles...
11:46 p.m. :: 2003-10-07

My best friend Kat died on Saturday night. For those of you who didn't know, now you do. For those of you who didn't know her - you missed out. You would've one day heard of her, about her or met her somewhere in the world. Because she sparkled so. Because everywhere she went she carried with her a warmth and a fire that burned so brightly if so desperately short. She will never come back to us, because she has not left. She lives and burns in each of us here today and the thousand people who wondered 'Who was that girl in red?' Whether it was in a tutorial, a performance, a speech, a party, a shoe shop or a quiet cafe made louder by her presence - you felt her everywhere she was. Everywhere she had been. She was our Kat. A thousand tiny facets kept her shimmering everyway you looked at her - like one of her oh so precious diamonte's. And sometimes though we feel like wailing, though there are questions that will never be answered, we know that she's the best dressed angel there is, with pink feather wings and a trail of glitter just her own. We will miss you honey, we will keep going for you, for each other. Because it's what you would want and it's what we will do - she's ours now, to carry round, to fall back on, to laugh with, to cry with. She was our Kat and she sparkled so.