awkward meetings; clarisse & patch
"You, too," she says, a small smile etched on her face. Assuming she would be in town for a long time, she figured she might as well attempt to make friends, and if that doesn’t work out, at least she could say she tried. She was taken aback when he asked if she attended the university. "Um, yeah. It’s no NYU, but it’s okay, I guess. What about you?"
He noticed that she smiled - finally. It was small, but it was something. He smiled back at her. "Yeah, I'm at UALR too. I'm majoring in Archaeology. So, you used to go to NYU, or you just really like that school?" He was excited to finally meet someone he could actually talk to - the only other woman he had spent any time with was that weird and creepy Zea.











