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'Hey, listen, I think you're pretty cool.' Alice said this only after I had landed a detention for flinging my fists at her. 'We should hang out more.'794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfjB9IdDyuy
I rubbed the bruise on my cheek. 'Yeah, really? You didn't think so yesterday.'794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNu4at7RAcr
'Oy.' She says. 'You were asking for it. I see fights through when I get picked on.'794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡobf8laYKc3
'I wasn't picking on you!'794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkWfkgNxvEn
'You said my father was trailer trash, so close enough. Just don't do that again, okay?'794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvorkb6lB6D
What a crazy bitch. 'Fine.'
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'You will not believe this, John. I caught Samantha and Adam snogging in the locker room.'794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ08yBkLeqsU
'You know it's not cool to gossip, right? A, I don't really care, and B, I thought I told you to leave me alone.'794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyV6gjnGsuQ
'Yeah, well, no one else was gonna talk to you. It's not like I scared any of your friends away.'794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm6qlPtmMxX
'Alice, can you learn to shut up?' I began walking away from her to make a point.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrAWBIkMsn3
'Whatever.' She laughed, godammit, she laughed as she strutted across the oval. Where the hell does she get the bloody confidence?
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'Hey.' I sat down next to Alice in history.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQsO9ElvSiX
'Hey, look who it is. Lemme move my stuff.' She made some extra room on the desk for me.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡktbwMHrc8a
I didn't want to surrender so early. 'Thanks.' I made an effort not to talk to her during the class, and she made an effort to show that she really didn't care what I thought of her.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEB9TtG5WRe
The bell rung, and as she gathered up her papers I caught glimpses of strange little sketches - a nude woman lying inside the core of a rose, spheres and pyramids in a dappled desert - and as much as I hated to admit it, she had a way with her pen, no doubt.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8XZ53A9fCw
'Oh by the way - ' she put her hand on my shoulder just before she left, and used the other to point at a figure on my page, 'it's 1954, not 1953.'794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY0LIDWlB8J
The bloody cheeky smile of hers.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ54ItVdvU1y
I didn't correct it until she was out of my sight.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiqifSMnzty
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'What're you drawing?' Shit. Did I really just initiate conversation with her?794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ15mUabDLId
She looked up with less than half the surprise I expected. Couldn't even grant me the small victories.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqsaMOtqF07
'Just people.'794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqZgDBVvjbJ
I crouched down beside her and glanced into her notepad. It was faces. Luke, Chris, Jenny, Samantha and Adam (kissing), Paul, and -794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiFPrgGRNf6
'Woah, is that me?' It was a rhetorical question, of course - the sketch was so finely crafted there could have been no doubt as to who it was. I could see my tired eyes looking back up from the page, messy hair and one hand supporting the side of my chin, angular fingers curling up a faint trail of stubble.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvjMPYpkhAn
'Nah, it's my brother. Of course it's you, doofus. You can take a closer look if you want.' She handed me the book, and I flipped through the pages. All pen sketches, some surrealist and some gritty and all too real. And on the last used page, me.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡucDOJmFqkh
'Why're they all in pen? Do you do any painting?'794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpOK3QBJI5p
She shrugged. 'I just sketch. Can I have it back now?'794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Irz5RHHc6
'Sure, sorry.' I handed it back into her lap. 'You, um. You're a really good drawer.'794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrrBxHp7ixv
'I know, right. It's such a pity the things I choose to draw are so damn ugly, then, isn't it?'794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGjai1GxEJh
'Bastard.'794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWVvLGxg82w
But I laughed.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEx7mbhLJ2x
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'Merry Christmas, you bugger.' I held out my two wrapped parcels for her.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBhT15lVoVb
'Oy, I didn't ask for anything. So I don't feel obliged to give you something in return.' A wink. She always had a way of avoiding saying thanks.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuCKqL0iYJr
'Open em. Smaller one first.'794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4AuOnW37Gz
Oil paints and brushes. She never talked about money, but I knew why she only sketched.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzBYcVRq5Yo
The other gift was canvas paper.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL9SKHHGshD
'Wow.' She said. That was all. 'I really don't - '794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUdRdTbZtmC
'Come on, take it.'794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHxoF530V6y
She smiled, but there was something else underneath. 'So long as you take these.' She handed the torn wrapping back into my hands before turning around and running away across the grass, footsteps light on the weeds below and laughter spiraling behind her.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU9aWHIqXGD
Part of me knew, though, that the joke wasn't the whole reason for her quick exit.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2EjCwy2BaN
She didn't want me to see her crying.
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'It's a few weeks late, but you finally got your Christmas present.' She was holding something wrapped in plain brown paper and string.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡImJT8Q1NFg
'I'll take that.' It was light, but firm. I tore the corner - canvas paper, and the smell of oil paints. 'Now that's cheating. Returning gifts much?' But she didn't laugh as I expected.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ79wYqczb6Q
It was a painting of us. Smiling, side by side, arms over each other's shoulders as we walked through a park.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNvHjZj97ge
'Do you like it?'794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAW1Cju0Yfl
'I, um, yeah, I do, but -'794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbUb4TSW5AJ
'But?'794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHir2Gj9PYi
'Nothing. It's nice.' I didn't know what to say.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA2jpFDySUW
'John?'794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZAy5AgtbwB
'Yeah?'794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡauMXAPYDaD
'I, um. I really like you and. Um.'794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxAIMuyE38U
'Okaaay, okay.' Shit, what? 'Right.'794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbPjogzowo3
She took a few steps towards me, and (fuck) I stepped back.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAOCEXxbBqL
It took only that moment - that one step back - to see the hurt staining her eyes.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzA7VagJlJl
'No, wait, that's not what I - '794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeXcSZmKbUi
'Yeah, sorry,' she said as she wiped her nose. 'Forget it. It's all cool.' She brushed down her sleeves. 'I should get going.'794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9fiKsP9wqx
'Wait!' I took a long, shaking breath. 'Listen, I... I really like you too. It's just that - I don't want anything more than this. This is all I need, this is all I want.' I put the painting down and held her wrists. 'Just this.'794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡishPwFJ7b0
'I... I don't understand.'794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtEyArWDyY0
'Just the way we can insult each other. The way we can mess around, the way we can talk about all kinds of stupid shit and just not care, you know? It's all I want.' To be friends.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQQqxCmYVm9
She managed a smile, a tear catching at the corner of her lip. 'It's all I need.'794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbFPbU96ESM
I hugged her then, not whispering time old lies about love, just hugging her because I cared, because I cared about that girl who punched me, because I cared about what my feelings meant for hers.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPXELWCah0h
'I just don't want anything to change.' I could feel, in every struggled grasp of her fingers behind my back, the futures she imagined folding in upon themselves.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWZN8Szj5vI
I don't know how long we stood there in that frozen eternity, holding each other as she gazed through tears at pastel smiles laying upon the ground in a sun-filled park only a single lost moment away.
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