The sky is blue, the Earth is a planet, H2o is water, and Jace Morgans broke Melanie Andersen's heart -- again.
Melanie runs by, her dark hair streaming behind her, imitating the tears that stain her cheeks. She pushes past crowds as she makes her way to the girl's bathroom, a couple others exclaiming in shock or sympathy. Next to me, Eliza makes no noise except for the sharp pop of her bubble gum as she chews, blows, pops, chews.
She looks up at me with a tired, hungover expression -- despite being sober and having slept for nine hours last night. "How many times is that now?" In response, I mutter to myself, scrunching my eyebrows together as I tick off finger by finger on my hands.
I finally turn to her and say, "I don't think there are enough fingers on this planet." She snorts next to me, her gum sticking to the top of her mouth. She pushes off my locker, and I follow her diligently as her much-smaller figure weaves its way through cracks and crevices in the busy hallway. I still manage to catch up to her in time for her to start ranting -- also, again.
"It's disgusting! All the men in this school are pigs -- no, that's insulting to pigs -- they are the mosquitoes of this school." I have to stifle a laugh as the parking lot approaches us, "They swarm, they squeal, they sting, they infect, and they kill."
I swing into the drivers' seat of my car as she swings into the passenger's, "Are you sure you aren't being a little dramatic, Nova?" I ask with a kind smirk, expecting a quick-witted joke in reply.
Instead, she looks at me with a winter calm in her eyes and says, "No, Tora. I'm not."
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