Finding Home
“I’d been there almost every day since I’d first started at Cherrybrook.
Initially, after first meeting Lily, I’d started loitering near the school car park when classes had finished in the hope that she’d invite me to hang out. Today, I’d stopped near her car, pretending to reply to an important text on my phone, when I saw them. She was already inside with some guy, his lips on her lips. Then her ear. Then her neck.
All of a sudden, the takeaway shop seemed a good option again. I walked out of... the car park and onto the road, and completed the ten-minute ramble down the main street. I could have gone to Lou’s and holed myself up in my room for the rest of the afternoon, but she always wanted to talk and I most certainly did not.
Instead, I walked up to the counter and ordered some hot chips. I sat down at the plastic-coated table that was pushed up against the big, glass window with the chipped sign on it and waited. My nails scratched at the little raised piece of plastic on the table’s edge.MoreLess
Initially, after first meeting Lily, I’d started loitering near the school car park when classes had finished in the hope that she’d invite me to hang out. Today, I’d stopped near her car, pretending to reply to an important text on my phone, when I saw them. She was already inside with some guy, his lips on her lips. Then her ear. Then her neck.
All of a sudden, the takeaway shop seemed a good option again. I walked out of... the car park and onto the road, and completed the ten-minute ramble down the main street. I could have gone to Lou’s and holed myself up in my room for the rest of the afternoon, but she always wanted to talk and I most certainly did not.
Instead, I walked up to the counter and ordered some hot chips. I sat down at the plastic-coated table that was pushed up against the big, glass window with the chipped sign on it and waited. My nails scratched at the little raised piece of plastic on the table’s edge.MoreLess
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