Letters to Miss NorthWest

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Dear Pacifica,

There's something I need to tell you, it's kinda hard to explain. . . I-

I crumpled up the piece of paper and tossed it aside.

It wasn't good enough.

I was never gonna write a letter that would be good enough to explain what I had done. I shouldn't have listened to Dipper in the first place.

I put the pen to the paper to try again.

Dear Pacifica,

I scribbled over my writing. I just couldn't do it. I rested my notebook on my lap and stared at Bill.

"What would you tell her?" I asked sarcastically. Bill stared back at me with that seemingly vacant, empty expression.

"I mean, I don't like her. . . but I kinda do," I tore at my hair and gritted my teeth in frustration. "Ugh! Why do girls make everything so complicated?!"

I fell down on the grass, letting the notebook and pen slide off my knees and onto the ground.

"Her hair smelled like peaches! Freaking peaches!" I yelled at the sky. I slammed my fists on the dirt and tore clumps of grass from the earth.

Maybe I wasn't in love with her, what did love feel like?

What does love feel like?

There came that empty feeling again, scratching at the back of my brain like a dog  scratching and begging for a door to open.

Shut up, I told myself. Shut up, shut up, shut up. . .

The feeling didn't go away then. . .

or later. . .

Sometimes I think it never will.

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