songs
gold digger - kanye west
young, wild & free - snoop dogg & wiz khalifa
i don't love you - my chemical romance
preacher - one republic
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i lace up my boots and pull up my socks. i grab my coffee thermos and leave my dorm for my advanced chemistry class. philip left, still fuming, after our movie night. we usually walk to class together, but i guess not today. cleo actually had to force me out of bed instead of my usual alarm clock.
i have a small tendency to sleep through my alarm. it used to be my mom who woke me up and once i got to college i went through about twelve alarm clocks until i met philip. he was up for running anyway and told me he didn't mind. then i started dating alex and he began to wake me up by kissing me until i would get out of bed. philip eventually stopped coming once he figured out i was awake before he showed up.
but he would always sit next to me in class. always. until today. i walk into my smaller, but still large chemistry class. philip is sitting in a large group of friends from his photography class. tears swell up in my eyes and i start towards the door.
"hey percy over here!" i whip around to see kit standing up, waving his hands. the first time i've been happy to see him since we met. i throw my bag up on my shoulder and don't look at philip as i walk over to kit. when i think about it they're almost polar opposites. kit with his dark, perfectly styled, hair and snarky attitude and philip with his light , tangled mess, hair and niceness.
well, niceness up until now. "are you early for once? your street points are going to go away," i tell him sitting down with a hint of a smile on my face.
he stretches his hands behind him and intertwines them together behind his head, "i figured i should show up on time to class every now and then. and lucky you, i showed up on time today."
yeah lucky me. "i didn't know you were in this class," i say while getting out my notebook.
"that's because you never looked away from him."
"..."
"most people are too wrapped up in their own lives to notice people around them. you were with your boyfriend and your best friend. and i'm Just the loser who shows up late. and i notice things. i notice people. but you didn't Notice anyone but alex."
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no big note necessary. think about how you impact others and how people around you are there as well. it's an issue that i've been having recently that i didn't even know about until i wrote this chapter...
YOU ARE READING
since.
Short Story// since he's been gone, there's a cold side of the bed. since he left, I don't know how to handle myself. since he died, I died a little too. \\
