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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.'743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsQwQdYkUXH
I rubbed the bruise on my cheek. 'Yeah, really? You didn't think so yesterday.'743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtjU1eMNVh1
'Oy.' She says. 'You were asking for it. I see fights through when I get picked on.'743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ24dlTWX0cG
'I wasn't picking on you!'743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVaIXSOnIj8
'You said my father was trailer trash, so close enough. Just don't do that again, okay?'743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCJV9dTU40H
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.'743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAB6CRrW6El
'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.'743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhmatYBrkBP
'Yeah, well, no one else was gonna talk to you. It's not like I scared any of your friends away.'743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuKXZFy34Ty
'Alice, can you learn to shut up?' I began walking away from her to make a point.743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBh6Tt6jHUK
'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.743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5pAETBDyLD
'Hey, look who it is. Lemme move my stuff.' She made some extra room on the desk for me.743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBFzxYheQ0q
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.743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8m0DNYZrzg
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.743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwSTxhinXT3
'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.'743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUFXjjKJxKo
The bloody cheeky smile of hers.743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7osDh9q3TB
I didn't correct it until she was out of my sight.743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7mAL2T1zo7
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MOMENT 4:743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrHcGqycIhp
'What're you drawing?' Shit. Did I really just initiate conversation with her?743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc7frU8K8QK
She looked up with less than half the surprise I expected. Couldn't even grant me the small victories.743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIsHmj2t3md
'Just people.'743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxxrPCWEcQ0
I crouched down beside her and glanced into her notepad. It was faces. Luke, Chris, Jenny, Samantha and Adam (kissing), Paul, and -743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwW3MUJsvuj
'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.743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjblQGeifJd
'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.743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2QPbavr1zn
'Why're they all in pen? Do you do any painting?'743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnRxMTEy6fP
She shrugged. 'I just sketch. Can I have it back now?'743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFieYlqkkIT
'Sure, sorry.' I handed it back into her lap. 'You, um. You're a really good drawer.'743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwOd3pcYirG
'I know, right. It's such a pity the things I choose to draw are so damn ugly, then, isn't it?'743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd5Z4HLbYtn
'Bastard.'743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm9RwXYwX55
But I laughed.743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCF4Adb8cWJ
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MOMENT 5:743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGrC446KEZD
'Merry Christmas, you bugger.' I held out my two wrapped parcels for her.743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJM4ddrp2xH
'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.743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmuzIMLvRkj
'Open em. Smaller one first.'743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqjf84QyGxX
Oil paints and brushes. She never talked about money, but I knew why she only sketched.743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3t4Q7kUEKB
The other gift was canvas paper.743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9qh9lcpbX6
'Wow.' She said. That was all. 'I really don't - '743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSAG1WHjXq9
'Come on, take it.'743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZWKcVgUAnN
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.743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK5mfb3nbZo
Part of me knew, though, that the joke wasn't the whole reason for her quick exit.743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNweEpKa2mG
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.743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0rScalAdw3
'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.743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjeLZ8SULT5
It was a painting of us. Smiling, side by side, arms over each other's shoulders as we walked through a park.743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡghekNVjwWh
'Do you like it?'743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKpdoLZHDO4
'I, um, yeah, I do, but -'743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMYXtVujxZQ
'But?'743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdDyFPyAOpm
'Nothing. It's nice.' I didn't know what to say.743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF1b5KT3qQP
'John?'743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs2Miahc6FZ
'Yeah?'743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCtFMsbN9UC
'I, um. I really like you and. Um.'743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGfkDWyDVO4
'Okaaay, okay.' Shit, what? 'Right.'743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEHswMuvdj3
She took a few steps towards me, and (fuck) I stepped back.743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3csGw8id5m
It took only that moment - that one step back - to see the hurt staining her eyes.743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk7JuhWiuNm
'No, wait, that's not what I - '743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbtuf92kt9T
'Yeah, sorry,' she said as she wiped her nose. 'Forget it. It's all cool.' She brushed down her sleeves. 'I should get going.'743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpyQ8t55vvS
'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.'743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQnUgBPC8qb
'I... I don't understand.'743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs5tAXq0Sbn
'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.743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV5Rid1yJy2
She managed a smile, a tear catching at the corner of her lip. 'It's all I need.'743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNmIOFzr2Cm
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.743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT8h70Bpf3A
'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.743Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeDIJrtEBlY
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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