ᴏɴᴄᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀɢᴀɪɴ

Alliance

    After speaking with my mother for several weeks, she stated that she was improving, and that her physical therapist, Henry something, was assisting her in exercising and moving her legs on a daily basis. She stated that it was mostly painful at first, and that it was her legs that was intensely struck.

After Mom and father's divorce, we had fantastic chats that we had never had before. It's possible that everything happens for a reason.

I'm in class, and Alice suggested that perhaps it was time for me to settle down for many trips to my mother; she doesn't seem to mind, but I had to keep my lips quiet since, truly, I have no idea what she's doing with her life.

Mr. Manning remarks in a raspy voice, "Let's analyze this idea of manifest destiny," as I fumble with my pencil, letting the tip leave lines on the wooden table, my finger hovering on the other end as the pink eraser.

"Can anyone see a correlation between what's going on right now and what's going on?"

"Roseanne?" he says after a brief pause in silence. I raise my head to make sure he called me and not someone else. "Any thoughts?" he asserts.

Uncomfortably, I shifted and stuttered. "Uh, I guess-" I noticed Jennie lingering at the door, her arm full of books. I raised an eyebrow at her as she waved. I pressed my lips together and returned to the question, "Uh...Actually I don't really have any thoughts." I tried to proudly say before he steps up a little.

"That's okay, you're going through a situation right now," Now does he have to mention? I mentally rolled my eyes and pursed my lips once more. "But people, homework is mandatory-" The ring bells and students automatically jerk from there sits and leaves the room.

Jennie walks in as she watches me fix my things back to my bag, "That was so uncalled for," She notices, "What's his problem?" She whispers in a hushed tone.

"No...I'm an idiot."

"You don't need this right now, come on," Jennie grabs my arm as she pulled me into the sea of students. "Let's bail,"

"What do you mean?" We both walked steadily in the middle of the hallway, "Let's take the rest as a day off..." Jennie casually says as she wanders her eyes off to different students, I watch her.

I clutch my books to my chest, "Are you serious?"

"What's the difference, really, and the long run," I averted my eyes to ponder on her question before I scoffed and say, "Yeah, let's just get out of here."

Jennie shrieks before pulling me to her arm and turning our direction back to the school exit.

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    "So, are you really into the solar system or something?" Jennie asked cryptically as I turned around to see her trailing her fingers across the dangling plastic planets. Before I said anything, I shrugged.

"That was built by my father," I say as she moves up to my bed. "It feels like I haven't lived here in a long time," I add as I drop my jacket from my frame before Jennie sits next me. She grabs a kisses on my bed, which was a spread mess.

"Do you prefer this room or the other house?" she said, I shrugged. "Well, this one's prettier, but...I think I prefer the other one because it's in the attic and away from everything." Jennie smiles weakly and slumps backwards on the bed, sinking into it. After twenty minutes of conversation, our positions had shifted. We were facing each other, our hands resting by our sides, and we were looking at each other intently. Jennie. Her name was all I could think of.

If I were a boy, those gorgeous looks may make me fall for her in a heartbeat, I reasoned. I was certainly hallucinating as she steadily leaned her head towards me. However, we were then interrupted.