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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.'555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡonVgWHfHzc
I rubbed the bruise on my cheek. 'Yeah, really? You didn't think so yesterday.'555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeWnOynvYJb
'Oy.' She says. 'You were asking for it. I see fights through when I get picked on.'555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhwQfaz23kF
'I wasn't picking on you!'555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoN8Ec1fCX8
'You said my father was trailer trash, so close enough. Just don't do that again, okay?'555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUlB9SPiZbU
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.'555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgQJUnElvZy
'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.'555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIq0QISGpp4
'Yeah, well, no one else was gonna talk to you. It's not like I scared any of your friends away.'555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2jIPKRRggE
'Alice, can you learn to shut up?' I began walking away from her to make a point.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJhI5P0V0Qg
'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.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡua3yG2sQQN
'Hey, look who it is. Lemme move my stuff.' She made some extra room on the desk for me.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPZGLoRTMev
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.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpgzF9uvFrz
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.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpi3mxy5iCI
'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.'555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfIe4wapw2F
The bloody cheeky smile of hers.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi3kVE2O6pt
I didn't correct it until she was out of my sight.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx3nwvLzwFd
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'What're you drawing?' Shit. Did I really just initiate conversation with her?555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbiOZ4Skkeq
She looked up with less than half the surprise I expected. Couldn't even grant me the small victories.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZEpq8RDO9g
'Just people.'555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡouXO5HvD3Z
I crouched down beside her and glanced into her notepad. It was faces. Luke, Chris, Jenny, Samantha and Adam (kissing), Paul, and -555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT2mkRERdhm
'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.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwDD29Kqj0b
'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.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbxhcpeKXNi
'Why're they all in pen? Do you do any painting?'555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsLTIRcwa6G
She shrugged. 'I just sketch. Can I have it back now?'555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbgxnOIrhK7
'Sure, sorry.' I handed it back into her lap. 'You, um. You're a really good drawer.'555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdNSajnpc8k
'I know, right. It's such a pity the things I choose to draw are so damn ugly, then, isn't it?'555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBiEvm1Ttz3
'Bastard.'555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGXlmCLxDG2
But I laughed.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4GQaOp9qDk
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'Merry Christmas, you bugger.' I held out my two wrapped parcels for her.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdnbgTNXejd
'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.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡapgEi4LTa1
'Open em. Smaller one first.'555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqDWGiFzqQT
Oil paints and brushes. She never talked about money, but I knew why she only sketched.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQxB3I7qYN7
The other gift was canvas paper.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhrNAvkrtbT
'Wow.' She said. That was all. 'I really don't - '555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCm4HzZflRC
'Come on, take it.'555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD0nHE9UAX6
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.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWdPsSrRkj2
Part of me knew, though, that the joke wasn't the whole reason for her quick exit.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqqXL358lUN
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.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMEjwVJ7Jfu
'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.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1SdlpEPkda
It was a painting of us. Smiling, side by side, arms over each other's shoulders as we walked through a park.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA9xaERQA3u
'Do you like it?'555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjEEMYfyRvf
'I, um, yeah, I do, but -'555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡueW6QEwrw5
'But?'555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1HBR0okETG
'Nothing. It's nice.' I didn't know what to say.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbOnpi9bCEe
'John?'555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHZ3kmPsstY
'Yeah?'555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVY530fHfr5
'I, um. I really like you and. Um.'555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSit6cDLGWV
'Okaaay, okay.' Shit, what? 'Right.'555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ95bGxtWrh4
She took a few steps towards me, and (fuck) I stepped back.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUEh226jFje
It took only that moment - that one step back - to see the hurt staining her eyes.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEyjudffgGu
'No, wait, that's not what I - '555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKEtXqxrc1J
'Yeah, sorry,' she said as she wiped her nose. 'Forget it. It's all cool.' She brushed down her sleeves. 'I should get going.'555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa3bG20GZg0
'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.'555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIODLgwzVYM
'I... I don't understand.'555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3roubQSW7L
'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.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3QswU4fRMF
She managed a smile, a tear catching at the corner of her lip. 'It's all I need.'555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK0UwDssrhG
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.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpjOmrZjnUA
'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.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh3bfPivWbT
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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