INNOCENT

"So tell me again why you are always eyeball deep in those things. Don't you have an I don't know...life to attend to?"

"Oh, you mean that thing that I desperately want you to walk out of. I'm pretty sure it hasn't entirely sank into oblivion."

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Her name is Victoria but he calls her Tori. Though, sometimes he wished he didn't have to call her anything at all. Tori, with her stubborn attitude and will to be invisible. Tori, with her head in the books and her feet on the ground.

He sees her for the first time in...forever. Now, he couldn't wait to explore all the other four senses with the girl who thought guys like Pierce were only in movies and tv shows. Pierce, the boy with the world in his hand and cigarettes at his feet.

This is the tear filled story about two teenagers: One an unheard of outcast and the other couldn't possibly be more into the "in crowd" than he already was. They were completely different and yet exactly the same.