FRIENDSHIP WAS A TENDER DREAM TOO OFTEN UNFELT [ . . . ] you are not a lonely girl / loneliness is an abstract concept, suffocated beneath the iron - grip of high school ( who can be lonely in a place designed to leer at you? clothes are stripped away and your ancient skin is revealed --- how does it taste? like brutality / like affection ). her fingers catch on the other girl's sleeve, the anxious promise of a smile passing across her lips. TODAY I WILL BE BRAVE [ . . . ] SOMETIMES, IT'S ALL I CAN BE. ❝ do you do anything after school? i mean, you must do something, but what --- what do you do? because we could --- ❞ confidence lags upon her tongue, hand dropping from the other's sleeve. ❝ do something. TOGETHER. LIKE BOWLING? ❞
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