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“Pretty much.” Noah nods.
“It took me three hours to get that shit off!” Max exclaims.
“But you can’t kill us because it was your girlfriend’s idea.” I quickly say, making him roll his eyes.
“What about that conversation we had a couple weeks ago?” Noah starts. “The one that would’ve made people think we were high?”
“How are unicorns fake but giraffes are real?” Nevaeh suddenly says as the five of them sit around Nevaeh and Megan’s dorm room. “Like, what’s more believable? A horse with a horn or a leopard–moose–camel with a forty–foot neck?”
“I wonder what it would be like to be Spongebob.” Dylan starts. “Think about it, a freaking sponge!”
“Who
put
the alphabet in alphabetical order?” Noah wonders out loud.
“Are Medusa’s leg hairs tiny snakes?” Megan bites her lip.
“If you say ‘whale oil beef hooked‘ really fast, it sounds like you’re saying ‘well I’ll be fucked‘ in an
Irish accent.” Max tells them.
They all share a look.
“If anyone ever heard what we were talking about, they’d think we’re high.” Nevaeh voices what everybody is thinking.
“Remember when Nevaeh and Noah had their first kiss?” Max laughs. “Then Nevaeh punched him
in the face?”
He slowly stops laughing when he sees us all glaring at him.
“What about that time we went on a road trip and Max wanted to be the navigator?” Dylan changes
the subject.
“How come I’m not driving my own jeep?” Max complains but is ignored. “Or even sitting in the
front?”
“So who wants to navigate?” Noah asks as he sits in the driver’s seat of Max’s jeep with Nevaeh in the
passenger’s seat, Max, Dylan and Megan squashed in the back.
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“Me!” Max instantly shouts, raising his hand.
“No, we do not want Max navigating” Nevaeh immediately says. “He’ll accidentally navigate us off a
“No, I won’t.” Max argues but sees everyone looking at him with raised eyebrows.
“Remember the camping trip?” Dylan reminds him, making him deflate.
“Okay, maybe it isn’t the best idea to let me navigate.” Max pouts.
“Yeah, then you sulked so much we felt bad and let you navigate.” Megan starts.
“And instead of taking us LA, we ended up in Texas.” I finish.
“Hey, you guys said it wasn’t a good idea to let me navigate.” Max defends himself. “Why didn’t you listen to yourselves?”
“Remember how we first met Nevaeh?” Dylan suddenly asks.
Nevaeh walks into detention and sees Noah, Max and Dylan already in there, surprisingly.
“Hoods off in class.” Ms Fields says to her, making Max and Dylan look up, but Noah just stares blankly down at his desk
“Shut up.” Nevaeh replies instantly, taking her normal seat in the back left corner, Noah, Max and Dylan being in the back right corner.
“Young lady, I will not hesitate to send you to the principal.” Ms Field threatens, her face turning a bright shade of red.
Nevaeh snorts. “Go ahead. He won’t care. He knows I won’t take my hood off.”
Ms Field shuts up and they sit in silence for another half an hour.
“I have to go do something.” Ms Field announces, standing up. “I trust that you four will not leave this classroom, but just in case, I am locking the door.” She walks out, and just as promised, she locks the door, throwing them a smirk before walking away.
Almost immediately, Nevach’s hear a scraping of chairs as Noah, Max and Dylan change seats and sit in front of her. Or more like, Max changes seats to sit in front of her and drags Noah and Dylan
with him.
“Hey, new girl.” Max greets while Noah, Dylan and Nevaeh just sit there.
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“Ah, memories.” Max chuckles.
“Max was being so nosy.” Dylan adds, shaking his head.
I laugh. “I wanted to punch him in the face.”
“You should’ve.” Noah jokes.
“Excuse me,” Max throws him an offended look. “You hit me enough.”
Megan giggles softly. “We’ve had some good times.”
Too bad we’re not going to have any more.
-Noah-
{Well you only need the light when it’s burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you’ve been high when you’re feeling low
Only hate the road when you’re missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go
And you let her go… }
I stare down at Nevaeh in the dim lighting as she sleeps, my hand grasping hers.
She’s gotten worse in the last couple of days.
She sleeps a lot, she doesn’t eat, she barely drinks water.
“Stop staring.” She croaks out without opening her eyes.
“If I were cliche I’d say ‘I’m admiring‘.” I start, a small smile on my lips as I repeat what she said to me when she came back. “But I’m not. I can’t help it, you’re ugly.”
“Okay, first of all, that’s my line.” She opens her eyes and stares up at me, a small smile on her face. “Second of all, you and I both know I’d be the prettiest damn clown in the circus, remember?”
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