Laughter is a funny thing. I’m serious. What do you think the first laugh was like? Someone feeling such euphoria that they started making this weird noise that couldn’t be explained? The homecoming dance was yesterday and I will tell you that for the first time in a while, I heard all of my friends laugh at once. From that, I couldn’t help but laugh myself. We laughed at the idiot who took one of the band member’s guitar, when we fell or messed up our dances, when we simply looked at each other and saw the wild look that only good music can bring. All of us, taking in the cooler kids and teaching them to swing dance, standing under that tent of christmas lights, was a sight to see. I danced with boys and girls older and the same age as me. They were all the same though. They couldn’t sing along to the old Temptations songs like I could. They didn’t know the music at all. My friends did. When we danced together, everything was wonderful. We sang the songs, screaming at the top of our lungs, and then we would quiet, bowing to each other at the end of a dance. I wish it could’ve lasted longer.
There were only a few minutes when I wasn’t dancing with someone and at those times, I was sitting at a table, sipping my water and tapping away on my phone. It just felt right to talk to Jordyn then. He taught me to dance and he was the reason I even tried to be any fun at parties and functions. Its because I was comfortable being myself. Thats how I felt last night. I never thanked him for it though. So I guess now I’m thanking him in my own, strange way. Jordyn didn’t give up on trying to teach me that dance. I remember all of the times after school by the gym when he would tell me just to try that one spin again. I never wanted to learn. I’m grateful though because now its really all we do.
We are all recovering now. The news stopped and people keep old memories to themselves. I think we are practically starting over. We aren’t forgetting, it isn’t a reset. Its more of a sequel after the first ending.
Love Always,
Quinn
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Reaching Infinity
Teen FictionContinuation of Love Always. Still Quinn, still life, still a long, bumpy road leading to nowhere. Other books to read would be Radioactive by LovingLeopold (the fabulous) and Fades With Time by riverwolf Gracias :))
