"We set this sail with no wind in sight and now we're going nowhere fast"
: The Endless Line - Going Nowhere Fast
"I heard about Courtney," Rose says quietly behind Griffin. He's in the shed, working on something his dad wants fixed while he's waiting for dinner to be ready. The Palmer's and Hoover's have been family friends for years, and his dad invited them over for dinner to catch up a little bit. Griffin didn't really mind the dinners, but he didn't enjoy them either so he tried to stay out of the house as much as possible until it was time to actually eat instead of just stand around and socialize. "I'm sorry about that; you seemed to really like her."
"I did," Griffin replies, and he looks up when Rose takes a step in front of him. She's one of the prettiest girls in school, and Griffin can see why all the guys want her on their arm, but Griffin still can't bring himself to want her. "But we just- it didn't work out. It's not like we were going to get married, so it was going to happen."
"Still, breakups hurt."
Griffin doesn't give her any kind of response. He really doesn't understand why Rose is suddenly talking to him since she never cared enough to before. Even though they're in the same friend group they never talk much, and they just keep up pleasantries during the dinners. They hardly have a good enough friendship to talk about his breakup with Courtney; he isn't even sure how she heard about it.
"So. What are you doing?"
"What do you want, Rose?" He sounds rude, but he doesn't care all that much. He doesn't owe anything to Rose, he's still upset about Courtney, and he really doesn't want someone he never talks to butting into his business.
"Oh, sorry," Rose says, sounding completely put out and just a little angry. She starts to turn and walk away.
"Wait, Rose," Griffin sighs, and he's thankful that she does actually stop walking away. He was pretty sure that she would have completely ignored him and kept walking. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it like that. I just don't really want to talk about this."
Rose turns back to face him smiling, "I'm really sorry, I didn't mean anything by it. If you do ever want to talk about it, I'm here. You know, if you need a girl's advice."
"Thanks," Griffin says, but his attention is back on what he was working on so she didn't have the chance to keep the conversation going. She seems to get the hint that he wants to be left alone, and he can hear her footsteps retreat from the barn and back towards the house.
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Free Me (bxb)
General FictionGriffin knew exactly who he could and could not be from the time he was in middle school. He could not be the boy that looked at other boys with engrossed attraction, no, that was meant for the pretty girls in his school only. He would not be that g...
