"Hello?"
"Is your house on fire?"
"No...?"
"Man, I thought it was because you're so dang hot."
"I think you need to work on that."
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One prank call
One girl
One guy
One great story
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Ring, ring
"..."
"Do you want to talk about it?"
"..."
"..."
"Tell me about your night, it'll probably make me feel better."
"Well, all-in-all, it wasn't bad. It was just that me and Fay didn't connect, you know. She has a pretty face, yeah, but she's as dumb as a rock. I swear the only thing she could say was 'uh-huh' and the only place she looked was my crotch."
"Sounds like her."
"Didn't you say that she was a kind girl?"
"She's a kind girl, but she's not very bright."
"Yeah..."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"Harper, you can't hide it from me forever."
"FINE! Do you really want to know?"
"..."
"It was perfect. He was a perfect gentleman. We ate dinner, then when we got to the Rooster I had to go to the bathroom. When I was walking out a hand grabbed my waist and pushed me against them, then dragged me into the bathroom. Lets just say I need to take a million showers to get that grime off me. Eventually I got him off of me, then I called you. You see why I didn't want to tell anyone?"
"I'm sorry, Misfit. I'm sorry that you had to go through that."
"Yeah, well, we can't change history."
"..."
"..."
"Can I ask you a question."
"It depends."
"Why did you want to be called Misfit?"
"..."
"..."
"Because even if I always was the popular kid, inside I felt like an outsider. A loser. The misfit. It felt good to be called something I knew I was instead of pretending to be Harper Gold, the world's poster child for everything a girl would want to be."
"I can understand what you feel. Like you never felt right in your own skin. How the jokes that used to amuse suddenly become annoying. It's called the Great Change, where you become an adult and stop being a child."
"I don't think it's like that for me."
"And I don't think your way is like that for me."
"We should make a club. We would be called the Mifits-"
"- And just rant about the problems in our economy-"
"-And then write crappy poetry-made-songs about it."
