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confused & sad

I yanked the earplugs out of my ears and closed my eyes. Collapsing backwards on the tiles, the moon reflecting on the ground all around me. Heaving a great sigh, I opened my eyes slowly, ready to head back inside.

As my eyelids flickered open, a deep viridian flooded my gaze.

"Whoa!" I leapt back, clutching at my chest.

He erupted in laughter, holding his stomach he rolled around on the roof, pointing at me.

"Your face was hilarious!"

I groaned, "This is the second time you've done this to me!"

He winked, "It's because your reaction is priceless."

I rolled my eyes, "Good to see my fright gives you a good laugh."

"It does," he replied smugly.

I lay down on the bricks again with a resigned sigh.

"What brings you here, stranger?" my voice sounded sharper than I liked it.

"Stranger?"

"Well, I haven't seen you in a while," I added quietly.

"Naomi's coming over soon. I'm killing time."

"Ahh, so I'm a distraction when Naomi-chan isn't here?"

Even to my ears, I sounded like a bitter, jealous bitch.

He merely ignored me, and sighed.

There used to be a time where we seemed to be connected at the hip. His house was mine and vice versa. We called each other's parents "Mom" and "Dad". There was a time when there wasn't any awkward silences; we were comfortable in the completeness of the silence.

How I wished time would turn back.

And yet, it just seemed to sluggishly move forward. Every caress blown 100 times it's normal magnification.

I wanted to hurl myself over a cliff.

"It's beautiful, ain't it?" he whispered, his voice muffled by a cloud of condensation.

"I love looking at the stars," I said amicably. "Doesn't it just make you want to wish?"

"Wish?"

"For anything," I breathed. "Anything in the world."

"What would you wish for?"

I looked at him at the corner of my eye.

"For a lot of things. Good grades. Better phone-"

"What do you really want?"

"Someone," I said vaguely.

"You wish for a person?" he sounded interested.

"Who?"

"A guy."

"In our grade?"

"Maybe?"

"What does he look like?"

"A guy."

"KEIRA!"

"What?" I snapped, "Suddenly you're interested in my life again?"

"I was never not," he protested.

"Whatever."

I turned away, wiping the traitorous tears away angrily.

"You don't even care..." I trailed off.

His fingers rubbed the tears as they streamed down my face. I shoved him away.

"Leave!" I didn't want him to see me like this.

"Kei-"

"I said, Leave!" I shouted.

Lights flickered on below me.

"I don't want to talk to you!" I flinched as a glint pierced my vision. But tried to run back towards the open window. I whipped around, but his fingers locked around my arm.

And then he was kissing me.

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