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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.'736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlTfJZ6WpER
I rubbed the bruise on my cheek. 'Yeah, really? You didn't think so yesterday.'736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxERtM9GUx4
'Oy.' She says. 'You were asking for it. I see fights through when I get picked on.'736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZliCxU1G1q
'I wasn't picking on you!'736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ91jnYgYX4u
'You said my father was trailer trash, so close enough. Just don't do that again, okay?'736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmOpytE0TuO
What a crazy bitch. 'Fine.'
MOMENT 2:736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRx3F18T76o
'You will not believe this, John. I caught Samantha and Adam snogging in the locker room.'736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8IgcwRTuSB
'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.'736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7yYNvnMP0w
'Yeah, well, no one else was gonna talk to you. It's not like I scared any of your friends away.'736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrCxoeY5ySD
'Alice, can you learn to shut up?' I began walking away from her to make a point.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvaa8XN5zKm
'Whatever.' She laughed, godammit, she laughed as she strutted across the oval. Where the hell does she get the bloody confidence?
MOMENT 3:736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp5snshC9kJ
'Hey.' I sat down next to Alice in history.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQYlcfmyBCU
'Hey, look who it is. Lemme move my stuff.' She made some extra room on the desk for me.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwtEtI8Pktn
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.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8REXPFr9p2
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.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡllr2Vz3JHr
'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.'736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk92PvDFciW
The bloody cheeky smile of hers.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMHtX1zJ5qO
I didn't correct it until she was out of my sight.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtgpELklr7C
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MOMENT 4:736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDtJRY90kYk
'What're you drawing?' Shit. Did I really just initiate conversation with her?736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuMidTyOXPQ
She looked up with less than half the surprise I expected. Couldn't even grant me the small victories.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq1NkgBzhot
'Just people.'736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjoXY0xh77Q
I crouched down beside her and glanced into her notepad. It was faces. Luke, Chris, Jenny, Samantha and Adam (kissing), Paul, and -736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ3srxO3J46
'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.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGeAnWNb34O
'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.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxaBhfg15BI
'Why're they all in pen? Do you do any painting?'736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJrTCOt7BXj
She shrugged. 'I just sketch. Can I have it back now?'736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgOx7CLKGzt
'Sure, sorry.' I handed it back into her lap. 'You, um. You're a really good drawer.'736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEe88Ulfz0A
'I know, right. It's such a pity the things I choose to draw are so damn ugly, then, isn't it?'736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt7mrpQgc2b
'Bastard.'736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyGWgbHo9cb
But I laughed.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy537TCxM6a
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MOMENT 5:736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡha4ly0kO0I
'Merry Christmas, you bugger.' I held out my two wrapped parcels for her.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKK8GmqiVvY
'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.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvk1cJiqC9H
'Open em. Smaller one first.'736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjSf9uboiCa
Oil paints and brushes. She never talked about money, but I knew why she only sketched.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDjM0u2jpdR
The other gift was canvas paper.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYFffhMXZjo
'Wow.' She said. That was all. 'I really don't - '736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXd4lJiSBMz
'Come on, take it.'736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO36qn7Eb5L
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.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6edCNdPRbe
Part of me knew, though, that the joke wasn't the whole reason for her quick exit.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgW9GkStFj2
She didn't want me to see her crying.
MOMENT 6:736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMPBajNanNq
'It's a few weeks late, but you finally got your Christmas present.' She was holding something wrapped in plain brown paper and string.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWPj78nZ4Hd
'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.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡudnmIVvWal
It was a painting of us. Smiling, side by side, arms over each other's shoulders as we walked through a park.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlaabWkxoXS
'Do you like it?'736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7hNRMfGLOw
'I, um, yeah, I do, but -'736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyCwGgZqlec
'But?'736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk3uIDoKy02
'Nothing. It's nice.' I didn't know what to say.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ07rKnE2tg2
'John?'736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOcTM8KzDwQ
'Yeah?'736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgyWU7TlKhI
'I, um. I really like you and. Um.'736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc2fh8NLs19
'Okaaay, okay.' Shit, what? 'Right.'736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyKf7aSuytL
She took a few steps towards me, and (fuck) I stepped back.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡglAj8YzEmp
It took only that moment - that one step back - to see the hurt staining her eyes.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ02gwGRJHz
'No, wait, that's not what I - '736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsiJMCcvciW
'Yeah, sorry,' she said as she wiped her nose. 'Forget it. It's all cool.' She brushed down her sleeves. 'I should get going.'736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkv0IKnAlL9
'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.'736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHpijLoXwj0
'I... I don't understand.'736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiCGfdZbEBm
'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.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv0IDP0n197
She managed a smile, a tear catching at the corner of her lip. 'It's all I need.'736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcNp1hcWTqB
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.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcuq5IBHLLw
'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.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvT3gCpwO7c
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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