❛ oh my GOD, becca, you’ve got to be kidding me !!i don’t care what kind of PETTY argument you guys were in, margo is our friend and she’s just MISSING. that’s gotta bug you at least a little. you’re not ENTIRELY frigid.❜
❝were you sayin’ something? i sorta… wasn’t paying ATTENTION.
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there’s something else on the tip of her tongue, but she’s forced to remind herself she’s got an IMAGE to keep up, if only for a week more.❝– it happens, i get it. i sorta drone on sometimes too. but, ANYWAYS, i was just checking to make sure i’ve got your vote.❞ she grins, offering a button reading ME FOR PROM QUEEN.
❛d’you have a LIGHT??❜ she asks, a face conveying innocence still as she holds the bummed cigarette. she doesn’t like to make a habit of something like smoking, knowing it could very easily defile her TEMPLE of a body, but desperate time call for desperate measures.
❛HEY. that’s an awful big assumption to make. he’s got HEART, which is more than most people can say. and i bet he makes some girl really happy.❜ she defends ben, that’s a no brainer- but perhaps claiming him as her boyfriend is a bit MUCH, for now at least.
❛you know, most the time when someone invites you over to STUDY they don’t actually wanna hit the books.❜ french tips tap against the cover a binder marked as pre-calc. ❛but whatever. fair warning, i’ve got LITERALLY no idea how to do any of this. i’ve been getting answers from that greg kid all year.❜
❛that’s not entirely FAIR, you know.❜ she speaks in defense of the heavily read book in front of her. ❛the notebook has just gotten a bad rep. it’s a GOOD book, subject to hate from boyfriends who criticize it because they’ve got some kind of EMOTIONAL BLOCKADE. ❜