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"hey, little guy."

"is that the best you could come up with?"

"y'know, your height is hard to make fun of."

"you're right. i've got giraffe boy, longlegs, noodle man, bean pole, bean stalk... shall i go on?"

"ugh. again, no fair. my height is easy."

"mhm. or maybe you're just uncreative."

"am not."

"oh, please. i'm not getting caught up in your little... toddler game, big guy."

"toddler game?"

"y'know, like. am not, are too, am not, are too!"

"ahhhh. i knew what you meant, i just wanted to see you do that."

"ugh, jerk."

"bitch."

"tell me that isn't going to be our thing."

"thing?"

"yeah, like in the fault in our stars? how hazel grace and gus' thing was okay."

"ohh, okay. i see. is there a possibility that you and i might be able to have a... a thing?"

i meet his eyes, those pools of brown with speckles of green and splashes of blue.

"maybe."

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