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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.'717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcOC8aSfgEs
I rubbed the bruise on my cheek. 'Yeah, really? You didn't think so yesterday.'717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaD3sWDU5aE
'Oy.' She says. 'You were asking for it. I see fights through when I get picked on.'717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN76r9mkwIy
'I wasn't picking on you!'717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjaQeFgUY2F
'You said my father was trailer trash, so close enough. Just don't do that again, okay?'717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvb0FOH7qIv
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.'717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgAF7wsoOdJ
'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.'717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNvf0Y1WgsB
'Yeah, well, no one else was gonna talk to you. It's not like I scared any of your friends away.'717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV7BxQsfaTI
'Alice, can you learn to shut up?' I began walking away from her to make a point.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj6s5BGDL4w
'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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA9dlt9Yj4N
'Hey, look who it is. Lemme move my stuff.' She made some extra room on the desk for me.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQp60wZs5aR
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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7O4sCvAiPi
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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs5X4mK783x
'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.'717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIUGjTTfhNl
The bloody cheeky smile of hers.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe3iqH6viVp
I didn't correct it until she was out of my sight.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzhM7N7twEe
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'What're you drawing?' Shit. Did I really just initiate conversation with her?717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSZc2W6rktN
She looked up with less than half the surprise I expected. Couldn't even grant me the small victories.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBgSHZytdqF
'Just people.'717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5BjfJRKCBj
I crouched down beside her and glanced into her notepad. It was faces. Luke, Chris, Jenny, Samantha and Adam (kissing), Paul, and -717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCKdBLx3RZ8
'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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDN1d8HeKiY
'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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoOEQPVKI4G
'Why're they all in pen? Do you do any painting?'717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoMhDUu8gXb
She shrugged. 'I just sketch. Can I have it back now?'717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC3cFxWTgH7
'Sure, sorry.' I handed it back into her lap. 'You, um. You're a really good drawer.'717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP9EGsQko7Y
'I know, right. It's such a pity the things I choose to draw are so damn ugly, then, isn't it?'717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmp7pGKMiBR
'Bastard.'717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzRQOQAuZTi
But I laughed.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyaxGgFLiRu
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MOMENT 5:717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBDDwXIKKsp
'Merry Christmas, you bugger.' I held out my two wrapped parcels for her.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCBcSu1fdKN
'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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlG82TnLYLt
'Open em. Smaller one first.'717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYxwBguAHs6
Oil paints and brushes. She never talked about money, but I knew why she only sketched.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDIWQ5lWPek
The other gift was canvas paper.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHpTvgTfSdG
'Wow.' She said. That was all. 'I really don't - '717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOfIABRp3Rm
'Come on, take it.'717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf0yWtRBoAD
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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV5hNOI39fJ
Part of me knew, though, that the joke wasn't the whole reason for her quick exit.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2UUnP5JjHl
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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPJe0MXWuBc
'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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsmEryXono5
It was a painting of us. Smiling, side by side, arms over each other's shoulders as we walked through a park.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrELNQZ7H76
'Do you like it?'717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBKVgV7ohLC
'I, um, yeah, I do, but -'717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB9UxuJhOVM
'But?'717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdnyTXQXk8b
'Nothing. It's nice.' I didn't know what to say.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmaGSZZjZF9
'John?'717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzdvhRcbZWK
'Yeah?'717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh5Sl7vvDS3
'I, um. I really like you and. Um.'717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWaNJoFJPVa
'Okaaay, okay.' Shit, what? 'Right.'717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPhs6hMbjjz
She took a few steps towards me, and (fuck) I stepped back.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ4NAlcoS5d
It took only that moment - that one step back - to see the hurt staining her eyes.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCZ7ZmnOyXB
'No, wait, that's not what I - '717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5e92LmhweR
'Yeah, sorry,' she said as she wiped her nose. 'Forget it. It's all cool.' She brushed down her sleeves. 'I should get going.'717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1SzWkXX7VX
'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.'717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbOHL4gktEN
'I... I don't understand.'717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDCWqznyfQM
'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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV4OC7FvQtq
She managed a smile, a tear catching at the corner of her lip. 'It's all I need.'717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPPZxX1shrx
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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhEUfxStCdx
'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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFy9l6hxwDJ
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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