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// for my girly steph <3 its been aaages It was out of habit that, when seeing the knob twist on the door to the janitor's closet, Jesús pressed his foot hard against the base of it to block whoever the hell was trying to get in. Not that he was doing anything he shouldn't be--to a point--because no /way/ was he that stupid, to do anything that could get him into actual trouble at school--just that he wanted the peace and quiet, somewhere to remain without being drilled by practically everyone at this f/cking school. From the state of the closet, it hadn't been used by anyone except potheads since the eighties, so it wasn't the janitor. Had to be a student, then. God, he couldn't tolerate anyone at all right now. "F/ck off," he snapped, keeping the flat of his foot pushing hard against the wood, tapping the other boot's unkempt sole against the linoleum.
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@kandistars- She balanced her elbows on her knees, chin in in her hand, the way she sat on the bleachers in those boring f_cking basketball games. Her eyeliner looked a tinge pink. Her eyes followed his lips and the way his mouth moved. Her filter got harsh and hot and she used her last mouthful of smoke to try a third time, at least this onw lasted longer, before crushing it under her shoe. Tall overworn boots. "Sick," she said, though it was pretty much unusable intel, she didn't mind listening to him talk. She curled a strand of hair around her finger. If one looked close her nails matched her eyeliner. "How the f_ck would you know?" she said, mostly joking, but she laughed, because her response proved his point more than anything else would've. She looked past him, up at the ceiling. The patterned lightweight tile held in by rectangles of beams. "Y' think we could climb up there?" she asked, "like how they crawl around in the ceiling in movies?"
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[ @ofecstasy ] “Close enough,” he smiled back, by way of encouragement. “Least it looks like a circle.” Stephanie seemed far more on-the-same-level now to him, not least physically; he had the high ground on something (something sh/tty, but /something/), and she was holding herself up less firmly, her Popularity dissolving as the shaky puffs of smoke did against the low ceiling. If he looked hard enough, he could see the pigment of her eyeliner. Jesús demonstrated loosely again, stomping out his second cigarette. Mellowly he answered, “México. Near Cancún. Ri-i-ight down south.” Closely he checked her expression for maliciousness—but what wrong could such vague information cause, in her (decent enough) hands? It wasn’t as though he was giving her his home address; but even so, everything was give or take, so he asked, suitably lightly, “I’m guessing you’re, like, a born-and-bred Jersey girl, or whatever.”
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@kandistars- Then, Stephanie looked less like a strange girl getting out of trouble and more like any pretty teenager. Her smile got wide and relaxed and her expression sweetened as she tried to concentrate. "O.K...." she said slowly, looking into his mouth how one would look into a hole in a tree, unafraid of spiders. She drew purposefully on her cigarette and nearly laughed the smoke away, but tried to puff it from her lips as he had. It clustered in a cloud that reminded her of the shape of a blood cell, with no circle in the middle at all. "G/ddamn, that's hard," she complained neutrally. When she tried again she coughed a shakey and messy ring, worse than his, that faded fast into the dark. She kicked a box closer to her and sat on it, if only so that she could be level with him. "If you just got here, where were y' before?" she asked. She would be lying if she had said it was without any motive--she was bored and if this dude turned out to be anything interesting, she could say she noticed him first. Or, she was curious, or...whatever it was normal people asked questions for.
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