running away just hours before the sun rises, just a few minutes before lisa gets a year older, and seconds away before jennie realizes that she's indeed in love with the person that's sitting right beside her.
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the clock strikes the first a.m., but the night remains young as the adrenaline in their blood rose while lisa pedaled faster on her bike with jennie who kept a tight embrace around her waist.
reaching a distance away from jennie's home,
the older girl got bolder and slowly let go of lisa, raising her hands up as the cold wind blew on their faces. looking up, she admired the stars and pretended to reach them.
"hey," jennie said, just above a whisper. placing her chin on top of lisa's shoulder.
"i caught a star for you, make a wish." raising her hand in front of her best friend's lips as she waited for her to do so.
"done!"
jennie opened her hand as if freeing the star from her palm and giving it back up to the universe. if only youth could last longer.
"happy birthday, pranpriya." jennie chuckled, she couldn't fathom why the other hated being called that, it's her name anyways.
lisa scrunched her face at this, showing her distaste for her own name, but nonetheless accepted the small box from jennie's hand.
"another watch?" lisa raised the object in her hand, it was a cheap plastic watch- even in jennie's favorite color.
"yeah, i wasted my remaining tokens getting that from the stupid claw machine so you should be grateful."
"i am. but you know i always break these things. and you keep giving me one each year." lisa said as she secured the watch on her wrist.
"that's the point, it makes it easier for me to think of a gift for me to give you."
a remark that made the both of them giggle, as they lay on the roof of a building, under the night sky, just a few more hours before they get in trouble.
"it sounds weird to be thirteen. it feels like a whole responsibility to be a teenager." lisa exasperatedly said.
"you know what's weirder?"
"hm?" lisa turned to face the other, resting her head on her hand.
"falling in love."
"what about it?"
"its weird. i heard it makes you go the extra mile, creating all these crazy efforts for a single person just based off of it. and this makes me not want to feel it." jennie stated in disgust.
"you're just heartless thats why."
"whatever manoban, at least i'm not hopeless like you." jennie rolled her eyes.
"at least i know how it is to be in love." lisa grinned.
"eh? you're in love? with who? for how long? why don't i know about this?" she continued to interrogate her best friend, but to her defeat, the other could only offer restless giggles as her answer.
lisa can never risk wearing her heart on her sleeve. but maybe it wasn't much of a risk for jennie.
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