"What are you talking about? Everyone misses you."
She tilted her head back so that the rays of March sun illuminated her flawless skin. I wanted to reach out and run my fingers through her silky platinum hair. I held back. Maybe she just considered me a friend.
"It doesn't seem that way." she spoke. I tried to think back to the days where Iris had still been in our school. I had known her pretty well. Was she this beautiful then?
"We do." I said, almost in a whisper. "We all do."
Of course, I had no idea that was true. No one ever talked about Iris. Her name would subtly come up every once and a while, when anyone discussed a funny situation or memory she was a part of. But as soon as the subject came up, a sudden sense of urgency would settle over the conversation. I always wondered why. I guess I never really cared enough to know.
When I turned to her, she was laying in the itchy grass of the field. The school; my school, towered over us, projecting a deep shadow over Iris' body that made her look lifeless. Her icey eyes stared knowingly into the blue sky. She always had that look. That look that she knew something no one else did, but didn't share because it was one of those things that would be better if no one knew about.
Iris parted her lips to speak.
Suddenly, she snapped them shut again, inhaling abruptly.
"What?" I asked.
Iris stared.
"What were you going to say?"
"Nothing." she coughed. But she seemed to know it wasn't enough.
"Do you miss me?" Iris asked. She was now laying on her side, her stunning eyes boring into mine.
I moved so that I was laying down next to her on the grass, not too close but not too far.
"Yes."
She turned away now, but just as her face disappeared, a caught a small smile painted on her lips.
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