Prompt: Finish the phrase 'Listen, I...'729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb63VnvxJw8
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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.'729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp4cEe3cu2C
I rubbed the bruise on my cheek. 'Yeah, really? You didn't think so yesterday.'729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzAsmJVnAxm
'Oy.' She says. 'You were asking for it. I see fights through when I get picked on.'729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡInUaEEPUcf
'I wasn't picking on you!'729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE0dm4p5eXL
'You said my father was trailer trash, so close enough. Just don't do that again, okay?'729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqPk3oVJmco
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.'729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXul0CYSNXP
'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.'729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDrh0bgcJUz
'Yeah, well, no one else was gonna talk to you. It's not like I scared any of your friends away.'729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0jMKPHuCmh
'Alice, can you learn to shut up?' I began walking away from her to make a point.729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ66naasMaSi
'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.729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzuBfTsaKLY
'Hey, look who it is. Lemme move my stuff.' She made some extra room on the desk for me.729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCh9JzEePF3
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.729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPc4GeWLt9G
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.729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpKTlpNNgYo
'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.'729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWIybMWXPzR
The bloody cheeky smile of hers.729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOenrUyuQDl
I didn't correct it until she was out of my sight.729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡas5g3Po7QF
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'What're you drawing?' Shit. Did I really just initiate conversation with her?729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfQQP4hYNWs
She looked up with less than half the surprise I expected. Couldn't even grant me the small victories.729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzdD1Q1Gndz
'Just people.'729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhO9ThEdrkL
I crouched down beside her and glanced into her notepad. It was faces. Luke, Chris, Jenny, Samantha and Adam (kissing), Paul, and -729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Bo162EM9j
'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.729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW5RLIRbxtg
'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.729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVfAASPfEij
'Why're they all in pen? Do you do any painting?'729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoOoYRrdI77
She shrugged. 'I just sketch. Can I have it back now?'729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6JQIphMTAE
'Sure, sorry.' I handed it back into her lap. 'You, um. You're a really good drawer.'729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr4XpvNaYOm
'I know, right. It's such a pity the things I choose to draw are so damn ugly, then, isn't it?'729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY3URUT4IFI
'Bastard.'729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDUpunEANIm
But I laughed.729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVU5JiiNYre
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MOMENT 5:729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBoPgrjDF1P
'Merry Christmas, you bugger.' I held out my two wrapped parcels for her.729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmAeAOfPW8a
'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.729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQvxQdvBgYg
'Open em. Smaller one first.'729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjDBM9zL7eo
Oil paints and brushes. She never talked about money, but I knew why she only sketched.729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYAjg4JQHIc
The other gift was canvas paper.729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRN4UjR471P
'Wow.' She said. That was all. 'I really don't - '729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyjyKZMx6R2
'Come on, take it.'729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQPTISsRHKL
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.729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsSGePbNb7R
Part of me knew, though, that the joke wasn't the whole reason for her quick exit.729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO5gYqeiCwm
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.729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbvTBR9C558
'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.729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3unukpDEF7
It was a painting of us. Smiling, side by side, arms over each other's shoulders as we walked through a park.729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1188jwVh84
'Do you like it?'729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEzmIHlmMi6
'I, um, yeah, I do, but -'729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbg0FpgPUIN
'But?'729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFhHDHn043n
'Nothing. It's nice.' I didn't know what to say.729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgTI8w8veNA
'John?'729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnnTdiowWkz
'Yeah?'729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsoD56El4wz
'I, um. I really like you and. Um.'729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzCZYgshbEw
'Okaaay, okay.' Shit, what? 'Right.'729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN2vHePc2jl
She took a few steps towards me, and (fuck) I stepped back.729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGw1yJOak12
It took only that moment - that one step back - to see the hurt staining her eyes.729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE3JX8UiyoQ
'No, wait, that's not what I - '729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcV5EVmnM1Z
'Yeah, sorry,' she said as she wiped her nose. 'Forget it. It's all cool.' She brushed down her sleeves. 'I should get going.'729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsbOQvdorM5
'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.'729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4TRfDpDsQb
'I... I don't understand.'729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFbMCiGMKLn
'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.729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeN6AbysGhi
She managed a smile, a tear catching at the corner of her lip. 'It's all I need.'729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2IJNipG4VL
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.729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJpudubkLHO
'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.729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq0laP4LLOR
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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