XIII: Meeting ‘Gregory’
/ dedicated to Jayde for being such a sweet person, let your sneakers be the start of your journeys, even if it might take you a million miles. /
THEY SAY MEETING Gregory is the best thing Farleigh could ever ask, right now her heart is pumping whenever she tries to imagine seeing the same tattered hair that reappears her mind. The way his eyes crinkle whenever she would try to imitate Madonna’s dance, but that’s eight years ago and now that she doesn’t know Gregory anymore, all she could ever ask is to see him again…by meeting his best friend. You could say it was Miriam, but dear old Miriam would love to rest for a bit, trying to register that Greg loved her still despite their living gaps.
It’s Chris Tiegreen, and Chris is…a bit dysfunctional. All Farrie knows that the boy she used to crush on when she was ten was now a boy she would no longer try to keep in touch. Now that he has about a couple of ten to fifteen piercings…only on his face, she isn’t sure of walking out of his red sneakers carrying a couple of letters to them.
It’s for Greg, be a good sister…Maybe the only thing she could ever register in her mind is that maybe those sneakers were a way for her to feel good—as if she would like to have a couple of people lean on her knowing that she’s changed…despite she only read the letter a couple of hours ago (which is almost evening and all she knows is that Greg’s sneakers is near the fireplace.
Life is harsh, and so was she.
“I’m fortunate, while he isn’t.”
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“I can’t do this, Lily.” She hyperventilates and the way her lungs take in the cold air doesn’t look a tad bit of attraction. Lily, her best friend who may be the same as her gave her the girl-eye-roll which frustrates her a lot of times.
She is silent but her eyes clearly say that today isn’t one of her best days. She is clearly saying: You ask me to drive you here and I risked getting grounded…this is what you tell me? Go inside and be a girl.
Being a girl is hard.
And so she steps inside the hospital, more specifically the Mental Hospital where she could hear the infinite screams of silence, the impossible whispers of patients wherein their mouths are shut. How could she ever stop herself from squinting?
Her nonchalant asks for Chris and there he is seated on his hospital bed looking up as if the white ceiling are the constellations of stars, his piercing gaze averts to Farleigh and all she could see is a broken thought of why she would imagine such things….
Chris looks like Gregory.
Except this Gregory is broken.
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his red sneakers
Fiksi Remaja❝So she opens that small shoe box and see countless one-fourth sheet of papers with diary entries inside Gregory's sneakers.❞ Farleigh Jones knows that Gregory loves his sneakers yet she does not expect he would leave it at home as to he is no...
