I. a group of friends in a school corridor, slouched over phones and humming christmas songs although it's no longer the season.
II. a wall in a hotel painted garnet, a headboard creaking.
III. a girl running through the dark playing cops and robbers, cheers of caught ringing into the air.
IV. a child staring at the ceiling of a cabin in france and crying because she'd left her friends behind.
V. a boy and a girl and crooked smiles and mouthfuls of mince pies scattered through conversations about marvel.
VI. a sinful smirk that begs to be wiped off.
VII. a girl and her stuttered stumbling words that thought are joking and spoken are cruel.
VIII. the floorboards that creaked in the attic at her old house.
IX. a girl nearly a woman watches and laughs as the same two boys it is every time mess around.
X. snow seven feet deep, crowding the windows.
—nostalgia, love and other oddities.
