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For Zhara

Just something dedicated to my friend, Zhara.

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"Did you revise?" Her bright smile drops as she remembers the test date. I didn't want to tell her that I did it, because she would just steal my notes and cheat. Fuck it. Who cares.

"Yeah. I'll send my notes to you. You're welcome," She rolls her eyes at me and I'm about to say something when she shoots me a warning look. We run, free as the howling wind behind us. Our hands grip each other from under our lunchboxes.

Laughs ring until a teacher comes over to stop us. He looks quite serious, but we laugh anyway. I zone out during the French lesson and use her markers to create pretty titles. She tries to snatch the markers out of my hand, but it's too late. 

She is what happiness means. I always smile with her, laugh with her (or at her) and the amount of insults we throw at each other is just a testament to our long friendship. The day we met, I knew we would friends. We have never had a fallout, we are called lesbians, we are called racial slurs together, and I have been forced to know urdu swear words. 

Zhara is special. She is blunt and a bit of an asshole, but we are such good friends. I could go as far as to call us sisters, despite our differing nationalities and cultures. She has bad grades, I have good grades. She's a Mattheo girl, but I'm a Draco girl. We obsess over Harry Potter boys together. She is concerned about my love for writing and English. I'm worried about her 20% in Science. She is so energetic and bubbly, even though she doesn't think so, and is constantly tired. 

This is a message to Zhara. Thank you for sticking to my side all these years, thank you for always brightening my day and making me laugh, thank you for obsessing over Harry Potter with me, thank you for leaving likes on my old cringe TikTok's, thank you for just... being you. You have made me smile, laugh, say the word bro and swear more then I can fathom. You are the one who makes me happy. I love you.  

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All of this is PLATONIC. Sorry this isn't an actual story but I hope you enjoyed it.