Polaroids and picket fences
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Last published Fri, Jul 15, 2016
He's just an exchange student interested in dance and culture. She's just an honour student with a camera in her bag. Nothing more than a big dreaming teen looking for the brighter side of life.
Two teenagers meet and are always some how drawn back to each other. Will these coincidences lead to something more? When she's hit by a car and he's handed a ticket home, what are they to do in that situation?
"It's a Polaroid camera," she said as she inspected it's fine details from her frozen, pink finger tips, "the pictures come out instantly." She held the camera too her eye and pressed the shutter faster than ever before, her hands jittery from the sudden interaction with a stranger. "Here," she passed over the slow setting photo and span on her heel whilst his voice echoed from behind her, calling her back and asking more questions. She sped up just as her heart rate had in that short encounter. 'Not again.' She whispered, 'please not again.'
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