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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.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuxyg5s84XI
I rubbed the bruise on my cheek. 'Yeah, really? You didn't think so yesterday.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8PS10gI0bZ
'Oy.' She says. 'You were asking for it. I see fights through when I get picked on.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzOTbZsqPvb
'I wasn't picking on you!'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqAr11khfQr
'You said my father was trailer trash, so close enough. Just don't do that again, okay?'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSRGxGFvcWH
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.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbrNTB9CqYS
'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.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC641w7Qo2x
'Yeah, well, no one else was gonna talk to you. It's not like I scared any of your friends away.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXD78OjQZ5B
'Alice, can you learn to shut up?' I began walking away from her to make a point.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhdGUkVdtuh
'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.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8KmrmT40cx
'Hey, look who it is. Lemme move my stuff.' She made some extra room on the desk for me.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqPXyB1S77A
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.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡotsB0ENV9p
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.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzeAEdyZiaV
'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.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfrGx0UEI7t
The bloody cheeky smile of hers.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhink2Fvrf0
I didn't correct it until she was out of my sight.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3FAa0MtwR7
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MOMENT 4:723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjBNylUHbLo
'What're you drawing?' Shit. Did I really just initiate conversation with her?723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4u53Tf7357
She looked up with less than half the surprise I expected. Couldn't even grant me the small victories.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAHVCXvFKhg
'Just people.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR2PubqmGKP
I crouched down beside her and glanced into her notepad. It was faces. Luke, Chris, Jenny, Samantha and Adam (kissing), Paul, and -723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj5GJrmdgpV
'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.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1pMtK544o0
'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.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmASJc3MosA
'Why're they all in pen? Do you do any painting?'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ76dWZMYl9D
She shrugged. 'I just sketch. Can I have it back now?'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡASQruAOzNQ
'Sure, sorry.' I handed it back into her lap. 'You, um. You're a really good drawer.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCIoEZN5AVQ
'I know, right. It's such a pity the things I choose to draw are so damn ugly, then, isn't it?'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuW2YsTLo8w
'Bastard.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy7cPk09gXV
But I laughed.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡez1TAedRTV
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MOMENT 5:723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡop5T3iYi7O
'Merry Christmas, you bugger.' I held out my two wrapped parcels for her.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡggVL5IhYER
'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.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEWaJ8Mh1Fm
'Open em. Smaller one first.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ95R4eo3mOV
Oil paints and brushes. She never talked about money, but I knew why she only sketched.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMT5coC5qPn
The other gift was canvas paper.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdhpzL80kFt
'Wow.' She said. That was all. 'I really don't - '723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtWqkbPNPis
'Come on, take it.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9RK6YAjRLG
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.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgLtASKJtGH
Part of me knew, though, that the joke wasn't the whole reason for her quick exit.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCXDJEDRmvb
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.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjVC3RKu6Rv
'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.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY6Qz660U3G
It was a painting of us. Smiling, side by side, arms over each other's shoulders as we walked through a park.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnsTdptOwpM
'Do you like it?'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHF85wCOppi
'I, um, yeah, I do, but -'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx9H66lSe1c
'But?'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwSnwhLLqRd
'Nothing. It's nice.' I didn't know what to say.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUS0tTGC8Cs
'John?'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2NUPTZLy9t
'Yeah?'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ89uOqjo4U
'I, um. I really like you and. Um.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3s0IYr5fIN
'Okaaay, okay.' Shit, what? 'Right.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKkE6w7TWv3
She took a few steps towards me, and (fuck) I stepped back.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAT7l2gGyIL
It took only that moment - that one step back - to see the hurt staining her eyes.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhDkbO6u8A8
'No, wait, that's not what I - '723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡza2UthOQp5
'Yeah, sorry,' she said as she wiped her nose. 'Forget it. It's all cool.' She brushed down her sleeves. 'I should get going.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG8yAzFa3Gy
'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.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRUIsLTCUZ3
'I... I don't understand.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRJUxRL6FrA
'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.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ6M6nW8QBr
She managed a smile, a tear catching at the corner of her lip. 'It's all I need.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdStNSGUcCf
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.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRpytVquh50
'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.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf9AwpbVGx7
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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