𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒍𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒔 𝑪𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅 | 𝐉.𝐇𝐒 ✓

Four

I hate lunchtime
you'd think I would love it

it's a break from the stressful classrooms
and criticising teachers

who say they are here to help
but only let your brain boil down
into remnants of a lost soul

how can this be a break-
a breather even

if I can't breathe properly in the first place?

I sit alone in a corner
with my bland home-packed food

munching blankly, filling myself up
but still managing to feel empty

yet this day was different

that boy who was here early the other day
walked by me

his attention went to me
and I wanted to roll up and hide

though he gave me a thumbs up sign
before walking away from me again

I wouldn't mind him walking closer to me
I would like to see that smile of his again.

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