Prompt: Finish the phrase 'Listen, I...'687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUPE8tkTRJQ
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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.'687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXZ4Egjfn6o
I rubbed the bruise on my cheek. 'Yeah, really? You didn't think so yesterday.'687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCNY67TPKxJ
'Oy.' She says. 'You were asking for it. I see fights through when I get picked on.'687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFkmVocoKi8
'I wasn't picking on you!'687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ldvYy9eC7
'You said my father was trailer trash, so close enough. Just don't do that again, okay?'687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh85MNiL9N6
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.'687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTeWcfFdw4a
'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.'687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ZmxvK2jeI
'Yeah, well, no one else was gonna talk to you. It's not like I scared any of your friends away.'687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaq90WNptvN
'Alice, can you learn to shut up?' I began walking away from her to make a point.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWfauq6c85A
'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.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTtKJZr1RDG
'Hey, look who it is. Lemme move my stuff.' She made some extra room on the desk for me.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYN98VsOa5o
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.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYMJ2AbTZ8X
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.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1FFir1IcLp
'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.'687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV18mnBKaoA
The bloody cheeky smile of hers.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCTVuHgeq6E
I didn't correct it until she was out of my sight.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUqU0n5MoYu
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'What're you drawing?' Shit. Did I really just initiate conversation with her?687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbyIlrrhDH3
She looked up with less than half the surprise I expected. Couldn't even grant me the small victories.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAPsMejXnW4
'Just people.'687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVkHhcKsQ70
I crouched down beside her and glanced into her notepad. It was faces. Luke, Chris, Jenny, Samantha and Adam (kissing), Paul, and -687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgUBolRIave
'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.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsVODBx3Vx8
'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.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC0KQMMX1LX
'Why're they all in pen? Do you do any painting?'687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaoFLmaxGKk
She shrugged. 'I just sketch. Can I have it back now?'687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDUxyZKhSVl
'Sure, sorry.' I handed it back into her lap. 'You, um. You're a really good drawer.'687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUGAWuRmzFb
'I know, right. It's such a pity the things I choose to draw are so damn ugly, then, isn't it?'687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPnh8RRndD1
'Bastard.'687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS66DzG1QNA
But I laughed.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡExBI0h4p00
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MOMENT 5:687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ia8UU5by0
'Merry Christmas, you bugger.' I held out my two wrapped parcels for her.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡop8k8PReW2
'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.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡojYRsaYYTg
'Open em. Smaller one first.'687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsfHeZrFoEu
Oil paints and brushes. She never talked about money, but I knew why she only sketched.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTsAuK5SpVl
The other gift was canvas paper.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwB3bmWVQOD
'Wow.' She said. That was all. 'I really don't - '687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPufNXr1qFs
'Come on, take it.'687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGC2kv5z0rv
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.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKI2XMzEJ76
Part of me knew, though, that the joke wasn't the whole reason for her quick exit.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVEK6ziTXb9
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.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoPyZk7dROm
'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.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYtvlnfOQh3
It was a painting of us. Smiling, side by side, arms over each other's shoulders as we walked through a park.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ78B7jqiK1m
'Do you like it?'687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqkKRkhwC0h
'I, um, yeah, I do, but -'687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ716W48f9PH
'But?'687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBag8zszGp2
'Nothing. It's nice.' I didn't know what to say.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZpGGWdvduo
'John?'687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyFrVD5mhri
'Yeah?'687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsDysME8rxN
'I, um. I really like you and. Um.'687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHmqmgx8gnr
'Okaaay, okay.' Shit, what? 'Right.'687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvwdqrt2KK7
She took a few steps towards me, and (fuck) I stepped back.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7nX5LK8o0K
It took only that moment - that one step back - to see the hurt staining her eyes.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxz0i5kNZs4
'No, wait, that's not what I - '687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmvGl9KZ3Qp
'Yeah, sorry,' she said as she wiped her nose. 'Forget it. It's all cool.' She brushed down her sleeves. 'I should get going.'687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjZNGckjqf7
'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.'687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡATPVef6owS
'I... I don't understand.'687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ76ONI5JfJ5
'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.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ScH77EElS
She managed a smile, a tear catching at the corner of her lip. 'It's all I need.'687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcuC4jlycm4
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.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkj4Eas0ue6
'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.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbgJWIL7tnU
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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