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I’m still sitting on this wall, the brick chill cutting through my jeans. I take a swig of beer, wipe the condensation from my hand onto the dark denim, watch the smoke from my cigarette curl into the dark woods before disappearing into the sky. I am aware of the club behind me in the same way that I am aware of the seven foot drop under my dangling feet; it’s there but I’m not going to fall.
Footsteps on the patio behind me. It’s probably just another couple come to take advantage of one of the picnic tables. I place my beer down on the wall next to me ignoring them with a forceful drag on the cigarette. I don’t smoke.
She’s suddenly there, on the wall with me, and for a moment I’m afraid she’s upset the beer can, precariously balanced on the old, crumbly bricks. But no, there it is, safe on my other side. We sit in silence for a moment as she contemplates her intertwined fingers and I continue to watch the dark woods in front of me. I finish my cigarette, stub it out, light another. I don’t smoke.
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I can feel her eyes on the side of my head.
“I’m sorry about… I’m sorry.” I do not respond. What response is there? I could tell her I’m sorry too, or that I’m not sorry and neither is he, so why should she be? Or that he was… is… a bastard, or that inside I’m crying but I don’t cry so… but she’s speaking again. The cigarette is shaking; highlighted by my apparent verbal incapacity, I can feel her attention focused on it. I don’t
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She looked at me. “There, Jay,,” she said but her hand as she tried to light a cigarette and the burning match on the carpet.
This small act she carries out has a profound impact on me, because I realized that she has become an adult now, leaving her childhood behind. This signals a turning point in her life, and it was important to me because I could relate this change. It made me reflect on my personal transition from a child to an adult, and think about all the small, often unrecognized moments that we go through in our lives. Her act of lighting the cigarette displays how such minuscule moments can covertly start depicting our development into adults.
Then she looked at me. I thought she was looking at me for the first time. But then, when she turned around behind the lamp and I kept feeling her slippery and oily look in the back of me, over my shoulder, I understood that it was I who was looking at her for the first time. I lit a cigarette. I took a drag on the harsh, strong smoke, before spinning in the chair, balancing on one of the rear legs.
A calm crisp breeze circled my body as I sat emerged in my thoughts, hopes, and memories. The rough bark on which I sat reminded me of the rough road many people have traveled, only to end with something no one in human form can contemplate.
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Today was Tory’s funeral. It was the first time walking in her room for about a month. I have tried to stay away from it as long as I could, yet today I felt like I needed to go in there. The pale purple walls made me gasp as my eyes started to tear up. My fingertips slid across the walls and a little dust gathers since know one has been in there. The wooden floors creaked as I walk over to her twin bed. I sat on her bed and stared at the pictures on the walls that were of Tory and I then lay flat back on her bed to see the dangling butterflies hanging from the ceiling fan. I reach over to the left at me and grab Tory’s build a
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I see the night making its approach from far away, like a swat team breaking into a house without previous notice. The stars’ shine like the bright lights at the disco making humans to move at their own rhythm. The breeze touches my window trying to find a safe place to pass the scary and dark
I turn the handle and step into the passage from which I know there will be no return. I urge my leaden legs up the narrow staircase . . . spiraling skyward on soft marble treads, pitted and worn. The voices echo from below.
I stopped fully in the air, standing a good forty feet from the hard ground. Continuing on to the next verse I marveled at the change in my voice, and the faint sounds of music erupting from my head like a speaker, "I sat alone, in bed till the morning, I'm crying they're coming for me. And I tried to hold these secrets inside me, my mind's like a deadly disease."
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