Prompt: Finish the phrase 'Listen, I...'718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQx9mBZqDub
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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.'718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAaax6LGFP9
I rubbed the bruise on my cheek. 'Yeah, really? You didn't think so yesterday.'718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHz9jd6zRvO
'Oy.' She says. 'You were asking for it. I see fights through when I get picked on.'718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhLsl7wQG9y
'I wasn't picking on you!'718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVY0bCFTRuP
'You said my father was trailer trash, so close enough. Just don't do that again, okay?'718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5EPzCPq7V9
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.'718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtG3i5KGZKo
'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.'718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI59f7w7o3f
'Yeah, well, no one else was gonna talk to you. It's not like I scared any of your friends away.'718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxiNcHSk5Cf
'Alice, can you learn to shut up?' I began walking away from her to make a point.718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmIqhPTRzyu
'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.718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFoI8C7mbsR
'Hey, look who it is. Lemme move my stuff.' She made some extra room on the desk for me.718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM6buGMDFnz
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.718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlGbqduoVEM
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.718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrqeKJZ0DJs
'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.'718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnlXHEnMISl
The bloody cheeky smile of hers.718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5D3pC8DuLh
I didn't correct it until she was out of my sight.718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoKkLIRABoX
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'What're you drawing?' Shit. Did I really just initiate conversation with her?718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡimDmbJysxe
She looked up with less than half the surprise I expected. Couldn't even grant me the small victories.718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbClc7NHwN7
'Just people.'718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB20LYRBEZw
I crouched down beside her and glanced into her notepad. It was faces. Luke, Chris, Jenny, Samantha and Adam (kissing), Paul, and -718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvim8aQgjmM
'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.718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡusXRZXa72l
'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.718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgdR1YqVtnH
'Why're they all in pen? Do you do any painting?'718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj5SacJOZ02
She shrugged. 'I just sketch. Can I have it back now?'718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrYwVUDFsAV
'Sure, sorry.' I handed it back into her lap. 'You, um. You're a really good drawer.'718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLGfvXoLjlJ
'I know, right. It's such a pity the things I choose to draw are so damn ugly, then, isn't it?'718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOVHKlWYqw3
'Bastard.'718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6r3AanxrXw
But I laughed.718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlFL6nHcWdR
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MOMENT 5:718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDLZDRZ4lEI
'Merry Christmas, you bugger.' I held out my two wrapped parcels for her.718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1vIaIX0Ypi
'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.718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFdynW6GfaM
'Open em. Smaller one first.'718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ57LLmazRFQ
Oil paints and brushes. She never talked about money, but I knew why she only sketched.718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzJWm9F6lH1
The other gift was canvas paper.718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjKJR71BFTx
'Wow.' She said. That was all. 'I really don't - '718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH3BNwgzW5d
'Come on, take it.'718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAkPWunhxX8
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.718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSfb1Lf7Qxa
Part of me knew, though, that the joke wasn't the whole reason for her quick exit.718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyx9YAqWeau
She didn't want me to see her crying.
MOMENT 6:718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuJnemSOBvJ
'It's a few weeks late, but you finally got your Christmas present.' She was holding something wrapped in plain brown paper and string.718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxSmIyTjlH5
'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.718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZBWWA70hwg
It was a painting of us. Smiling, side by side, arms over each other's shoulders as we walked through a park.718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG0YlULxVtd
'Do you like it?'718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbrifiz3Xuu
'I, um, yeah, I do, but -'718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ZZMh6whHB
'But?'718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡauyYEF9pak
'Nothing. It's nice.' I didn't know what to say.718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD0iDSLgsUi
'John?'718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmXYMVgoFML
'Yeah?'718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4NgHCuYVU7
'I, um. I really like you and. Um.'718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaOEnl4jsXo
'Okaaay, okay.' Shit, what? 'Right.'718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsCQojTZ9dY
She took a few steps towards me, and (fuck) I stepped back.718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6AZjg3Yelz
It took only that moment - that one step back - to see the hurt staining her eyes.718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡouMCyi0YgW
'No, wait, that's not what I - '718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHCxwLRJyMB
'Yeah, sorry,' she said as she wiped her nose. 'Forget it. It's all cool.' She brushed down her sleeves. 'I should get going.'718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3sxNuWVOuu
'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.'718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡasZ874WsAR
'I... I don't understand.'718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYzmeyZrx8S
'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.718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0xDESD4sB1
She managed a smile, a tear catching at the corner of her lip. 'It's all I need.'718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq8orDaNvqA
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.718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwXKlqwu0XG
'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.718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWyKxr5POXY
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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