She thought it was cool when I dyed my hair pink. She wanted to hear all about those trips through the woods late at night.
School
I hardly saw Via at school this year, and when I did it was awkward.
It felt like she was judging me. I knew she didn’t like my new look.
I knew she didn’t like my group of friends. I didn’t much like hers.
We never actually argued: we just drifted away. Ella and I badmouthed her to each other: She’s such a prude, she’s so this, she’s so that.
We knew we were being mean, but it was easier to ice her out if we pretended she had done something to us.
The truth is she hadn’t changed at all: we had. We’d become these other people, and she was still the person she’d always been.
That annoyed me so much and I didn’t know why. Once in a while I’d look to see where she was sitting in the lunchroom,
or check the elective lists to see what she’d signed up for.
But except for a few nods in the hallway and an occasional “hello,” we never really spoke to each other.
I noticed Justin about halfway through the school year. I hadn’t noticed him at all before then,
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