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“I’m not angry with you,” I said. “I just want to be a part of your life, whatever that is.” I was standing in front of him with my hands in my jacket pockets. “You are my only friend.”
“You’re mine too.” he replied.
5
At the end of winter, Sunny told me about her. We had lunch in the school canteen. Neither of us had an appetite, but for different reasons.
“Check out that girl,” Sunny said to me as he nodded off to the side, but when I looked, I actually saw several girls. They were from senior class and were having fun discussing something.
“Which one?” I asked.
“That one with the long hair and the green dress.”
“I don’t see her.” I looked harder.
“C’mon, her hair is, uh, pure copper. Look! She’s smiling at us.”
He smiled back at someone, but I didn’t see anybody. The girl he described was not there. “Look, isn’t she a beauty?” Sunny was still smiling. “Such a kitty.”
“Kitty?” I looked around, trying to find the girl he was talking about.
“Yeah, she looks like a kitty. So pretty, and her eyes are so green.”