Prompt: Finish the phrase 'Listen, I...'710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwNc0du2eGl
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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.'710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡARjxs5GIyy
I rubbed the bruise on my cheek. 'Yeah, really? You didn't think so yesterday.'710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4j4Vq3Rvgj
'Oy.' She says. 'You were asking for it. I see fights through when I get picked on.'710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3vxYtG68r8
'I wasn't picking on you!'710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡedqHQEUPnc
'You said my father was trailer trash, so close enough. Just don't do that again, okay?'710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6IHh8pMdoz
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.'710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT3SaP6QoU6
'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.'710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡisKltQ2RXO
'Yeah, well, no one else was gonna talk to you. It's not like I scared any of your friends away.'710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA2zRq0l5Wu
'Alice, can you learn to shut up?' I began walking away from her to make a point.710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeBw878UO6j
'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.710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡimOVzLkyAM
'Hey, look who it is. Lemme move my stuff.' She made some extra room on the desk for me.710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUhONVIwXgO
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.710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTxAgeiG9Af
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.710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbcAq1v70ZZ
'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.'710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd02yoiuw66
The bloody cheeky smile of hers.710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw6PZO4xbmM
I didn't correct it until she was out of my sight.710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgyWpyo77u4
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'What're you drawing?' Shit. Did I really just initiate conversation with her?710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4VZzEhZzoD
She looked up with less than half the surprise I expected. Couldn't even grant me the small victories.710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGZA3i9M9fU
'Just people.'710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYMSopsGMnR
I crouched down beside her and glanced into her notepad. It was faces. Luke, Chris, Jenny, Samantha and Adam (kissing), Paul, and -710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqGCqEGmoYP
'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.710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq9b02Ius0I
'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.710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCadurjcU0S
'Why're they all in pen? Do you do any painting?'710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ90gFN17hg2
She shrugged. 'I just sketch. Can I have it back now?'710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtMY92p51Zh
'Sure, sorry.' I handed it back into her lap. 'You, um. You're a really good drawer.'710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtUC6B65sz3
'I know, right. It's such a pity the things I choose to draw are so damn ugly, then, isn't it?'710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJm1p0tMZN4
'Bastard.'710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE3U8wr5EM8
But I laughed.710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbieJCAgWgi
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MOMENT 5:710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvJRlhf1543
'Merry Christmas, you bugger.' I held out my two wrapped parcels for her.710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL6pSGjqKE0
'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.710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTZWCucnAVr
'Open em. Smaller one first.'710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡohPnrWS7HN
Oil paints and brushes. She never talked about money, but I knew why she only sketched.710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeijKBjz2GG
The other gift was canvas paper.710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXFU8peQ3rJ
'Wow.' She said. That was all. 'I really don't - '710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuv7vRnUJaD
'Come on, take it.'710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDA8kTVC21u
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.710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQwk5YF5MBJ
Part of me knew, though, that the joke wasn't the whole reason for her quick exit.710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ4xHIWPbx1
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.710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6vl2e9xB5l
'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.710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH1Ig490xKx
It was a painting of us. Smiling, side by side, arms over each other's shoulders as we walked through a park.710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEV0UfKZQxb
'Do you like it?'710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKJLekAgi7t
'I, um, yeah, I do, but -'710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡti2uHwcX75
'But?'710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Oz1IsVimM
'Nothing. It's nice.' I didn't know what to say.710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcFuAh8SMyt
'John?'710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLXv4Y7FeJT
'Yeah?'710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1RbPCJ9K9r
'I, um. I really like you and. Um.'710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDqTOqESJNf
'Okaaay, okay.' Shit, what? 'Right.'710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRmbZwF6ZRw
She took a few steps towards me, and (fuck) I stepped back.710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUAv1HvGgAV
It took only that moment - that one step back - to see the hurt staining her eyes.710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcpgL0FtlcH
'No, wait, that's not what I - '710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjwjjMW66KC
'Yeah, sorry,' she said as she wiped her nose. 'Forget it. It's all cool.' She brushed down her sleeves. 'I should get going.'710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXS4GM782TD
'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.'710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg9HYJKpSIE
'I... I don't understand.'710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡITIKaX3k61
'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.710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqBaZc3W7lf
She managed a smile, a tear catching at the corner of her lip. 'It's all I need.'710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzi4wXuJc0X
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.710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIU3gqJGqXn
'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.710Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPZDvFCmbXZ
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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