Teens

vii

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"Don't you think that it's boring how people talk?" She asked. 

"What do you mean by that?" 

"People don't care when they ask you if you're okay. They do it out of common courtesy and they don't care for the answer, even though ninety five point three percent of the time, the answer is okay. And it's strange that we've been taught to say it's okay when it clearly isn't."

"That's deep." He replied.

"Ok." 

...

"I care." He said.

"It's been a week." She deadpanned. "You can't care too much."