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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.'746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkx5491g8nM
I rubbed the bruise on my cheek. 'Yeah, really? You didn't think so yesterday.'746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ62kMxOEQai
'Oy.' She says. 'You were asking for it. I see fights through when I get picked on.'746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaVko61s6eN
'I wasn't picking on you!'746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIlmt7RSMDt
'You said my father was trailer trash, so close enough. Just don't do that again, okay?'746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8qW8XWFoBy
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.'746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXQoiMS4MOg
'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.'746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdPtCHQfmud
'Yeah, well, no one else was gonna talk to you. It's not like I scared any of your friends away.'746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN1afIqDiPQ
'Alice, can you learn to shut up?' I began walking away from her to make a point.746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAS9Z4QcVyf
'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.746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyA8MlGNKuI
'Hey, look who it is. Lemme move my stuff.' She made some extra room on the desk for me.746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3IfFR3Z5dk
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.746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOWuNvjC2z0
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.746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAiK8j9YZNV
'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.'746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmBxg9Xr7BN
The bloody cheeky smile of hers.746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCTPAUNCmxn
I didn't correct it until she was out of my sight.746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi3LncuBGyA
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'What're you drawing?' Shit. Did I really just initiate conversation with her?746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡefJ9EgpRAp
She looked up with less than half the surprise I expected. Couldn't even grant me the small victories.746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsXRkPyVnMb
'Just people.'746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEZJfQeeh5n
I crouched down beside her and glanced into her notepad. It was faces. Luke, Chris, Jenny, Samantha and Adam (kissing), Paul, and -746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQG2htxP4Ib
'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.746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVnplVBIixy
'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.746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGaqPVSqdeR
'Why're they all in pen? Do you do any painting?'746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZSw3xoPn3F
She shrugged. 'I just sketch. Can I have it back now?'746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfy0oTGelSc
'Sure, sorry.' I handed it back into her lap. 'You, um. You're a really good drawer.'746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPX2iwOjKQO
'I know, right. It's such a pity the things I choose to draw are so damn ugly, then, isn't it?'746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcLTaIyYyGd
'Bastard.'746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXK8H5WYNhQ
But I laughed.746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡobOHxg6NhR
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MOMENT 5:746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0SaLrJjSwp
'Merry Christmas, you bugger.' I held out my two wrapped parcels for her.746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSTF27tgDfT
'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.746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLh50TocStr
'Open em. Smaller one first.'746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡklVZA5Ym5l
Oil paints and brushes. She never talked about money, but I knew why she only sketched.746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvnjoSIjhUR
The other gift was canvas paper.746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD3RADo10HK
'Wow.' She said. That was all. 'I really don't - '746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC7Kw23Hwo3
'Come on, take it.'746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdRdzNdGsA1
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.746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaQk4IUuael
Part of me knew, though, that the joke wasn't the whole reason for her quick exit.746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡro59ndRuP0
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.746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnrLN77eK4q
'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.746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF6EN39sdzB
It was a painting of us. Smiling, side by side, arms over each other's shoulders as we walked through a park.746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjw9rznFUgl
'Do you like it?'746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLwB0r4KS3C
'I, um, yeah, I do, but -'746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO7YoVuCDNy
'But?'746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh6ak0AQSKz
'Nothing. It's nice.' I didn't know what to say.746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGUyKwUs0C6
'John?'746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM0SgTFfLYS
'Yeah?'746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNHDuD6s9SR
'I, um. I really like you and. Um.'746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL7jzLVadoy
'Okaaay, okay.' Shit, what? 'Right.'746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfl4b7Lc6zH
She took a few steps towards me, and (fuck) I stepped back.746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDPWBxgSJyw
It took only that moment - that one step back - to see the hurt staining her eyes.746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJENilvQIqf
'No, wait, that's not what I - '746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyGl8NuP87A
'Yeah, sorry,' she said as she wiped her nose. 'Forget it. It's all cool.' She brushed down her sleeves. 'I should get going.'746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡABEknFs5aa
'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.'746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZXw3BsLp2U
'I... I don't understand.'746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgtn3Z0Molp
'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.746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0BAu8CvqPl
She managed a smile, a tear catching at the corner of her lip. 'It's all I need.'746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaIAYjAJigC
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.746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2CWwh2TKZe
'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.746Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSwMkGW2vU0
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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