019: SCHOOL

[intheblanks]

There's a girl vomiting into the book return box in the library. She says it's nerves but it doesn't smell much like them.

I thought somebody should probably know.

Oh, and if anybody else finished the chem test early enough: think there's extra credit for noticing the examiners were playing human Pacman between the desk grids? I need to ask because, apparently, in Public school, you never can tell.

See you in fall.


[No, he's not expecting to attend the dance (although plans are subject to change). In the meantime he can be caught collecting his violin from the Westerberg High music rooms before heading into town. At the local grocery store he'll pick up baby food and heavy flow tampons, and hide them under at least six bags of potato chips. And, late in the evening, groceries, violin and shopping bag unloaded, he'll be found on the shoreline at the beach, expertly skipping pebbles out across the waves.]

Comments

[but_not_best]

In other words, you're asking me to go to the dance?

[She just wants you to spit it out, Robert. Is that too much to ask for?]

[goodboysgood]

[Perhaps, when the natural teenage boy response is to shuffle his feet and mutter 'yeah, I guess.' Luckily Chase is better spoken (although once said, it can't be taken back when she says no).]

Do you want to go to the dance with me?

[Well, those are the words even if the inflection isn't quite right.]

[but_not_best]

It would be pretty awful of me to ask you to ask me and then say no, wouldn't it?

[Being teased by a girl. But since the answer to the question she's answered his question with is yes...]

[goodboysgood]

[Yes, Allison, yes it would. And he's still not completely certain there won't be a punchline here.]

For all I know, you could be an awful person.

[But he's smiling.]

Is seven good? To pick you up.

[but_not_best]

I guess I could be.

[But she's not.]

Seven is perfect.

[goodboysgood]

[He's really smiling.]

Cool.

[but_not_best]

Yeah.

[And she's smiling, too.]

I'll see you then.