raspberry frost

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It's like flowers 

frosting over before the sun
rises on a freezing winter morning.

Orsai's smile freezes,
it frosts over and becomes

sharp and brittle,

"Oh, you're here?"

She says,
like she didn't invite me
herself.

She says,like she didn't invite meherself

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I shuffle from
foot to foot,

"Yeah..."

"Okay, whatever."

Then she turns back
and joins back effortlessly
to the conversation with the others.

"Anyways, what I was saying
was that this one time...."

I blink, a flush creeping rapidly
up my neck and tinging my cheeks
a raspberry pink.

"Oh...okay."

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