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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.'833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWklu3CJq9S
I rubbed the bruise on my cheek. 'Yeah, really? You didn't think so yesterday.'833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTLG71GrpVO
'Oy.' She says. 'You were asking for it. I see fights through when I get picked on.'833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg9FLjgdrVo
'I wasn't picking on you!'833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ22Avx2siOV
'You said my father was trailer trash, so close enough. Just don't do that again, okay?'833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkOtoE3Wyx0
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.'833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJb9Tq3EKjA
'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.'833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNrzadj35oT
'Yeah, well, no one else was gonna talk to you. It's not like I scared any of your friends away.'833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeIUywC7H0A
'Alice, can you learn to shut up?' I began walking away from her to make a point.833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxeaoKbupop
'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.833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcPJdG1xoyt
'Hey, look who it is. Lemme move my stuff.' She made some extra room on the desk for me.833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡogbeMcDD8S
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.833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBXMMUinXTY
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.833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT29vgMD5ub
'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.'833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZN43FWjkCb
The bloody cheeky smile of hers.833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE7PS48I0Bl
I didn't correct it until she was out of my sight.833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ15NB6Y1jCf
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'What're you drawing?' Shit. Did I really just initiate conversation with her?833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK6q7IKEcza
She looked up with less than half the surprise I expected. Couldn't even grant me the small victories.833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDGbfsrl5zN
'Just people.'833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2lfLtsbyN6
I crouched down beside her and glanced into her notepad. It was faces. Luke, Chris, Jenny, Samantha and Adam (kissing), Paul, and -833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzTcv9VXOeo
'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.833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP5oTNJUpL7
'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.833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLwyjugF0i8
'Why're they all in pen? Do you do any painting?'833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhFwMplU3nI
She shrugged. 'I just sketch. Can I have it back now?'833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1rTCSQpvO6
'Sure, sorry.' I handed it back into her lap. 'You, um. You're a really good drawer.'833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ06PXusQCxR
'I know, right. It's such a pity the things I choose to draw are so damn ugly, then, isn't it?'833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHQjydsF7Pf
'Bastard.'833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRUZWggDgO9
But I laughed.833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMToYzdgTF4
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MOMENT 5:833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy0KFWuelB9
'Merry Christmas, you bugger.' I held out my two wrapped parcels for her.833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuw4oKAXcJy
'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.833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡabniMXODt0
'Open em. Smaller one first.'833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbmmj4zDwcm
Oil paints and brushes. She never talked about money, but I knew why she only sketched.833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8VFeMUjWbf
The other gift was canvas paper.833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVRMpQxJjjV
'Wow.' She said. That was all. 'I really don't - '833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNSZwZ3aTNG
'Come on, take it.'833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEYc16sq1jt
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.833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkFKq064Kye
Part of me knew, though, that the joke wasn't the whole reason for her quick exit.833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3HVPopEK5c
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.833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ62t2hRgw14
'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.833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlEtPv5qA5T
It was a painting of us. Smiling, side by side, arms over each other's shoulders as we walked through a park.833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2VZtFPHceI
'Do you like it?'833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdKQHtmIe5p
'I, um, yeah, I do, but -'833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGLJWfPXIsd
'But?'833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYKmtNszu7X
'Nothing. It's nice.' I didn't know what to say.833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkYNFH9N6yf
'John?'833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0kxsnwi62K
'Yeah?'833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWcj4W3DJTm
'I, um. I really like you and. Um.'833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOzyGTlynI4
'Okaaay, okay.' Shit, what? 'Right.'833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGiGdB7YQ9E
She took a few steps towards me, and (fuck) I stepped back.833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡua3zF0V1Jk
It took only that moment - that one step back - to see the hurt staining her eyes.833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr6JQWE1F62
'No, wait, that's not what I - '833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡODa1FKKSyH
'Yeah, sorry,' she said as she wiped her nose. 'Forget it. It's all cool.' She brushed down her sleeves. 'I should get going.'833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqAp3zQkId9
'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.'833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQMN28Ho3Fp
'I... I don't understand.'833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbivM59kP7z
'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.833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4NqF5MaWRs
She managed a smile, a tear catching at the corner of her lip. 'It's all I need.'833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsQLGr1sabA
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.833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgMGfvIXOlX
'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.833Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkdImUYm4l0
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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