by crow » 06/30/2016 11:18 PM
"Alright, your call," he said, taking a seat beside her on the rock. Almost without thinking, she edged closer and rested her head against his shoulder. She could feel him tense, but she only closed her eyes again and waited for him to relax.
He was alive, she thought. His page in her tome had gone dull, and then blank. And he was going to be alive in three months, when she...
"Do you wanna take a selfie?" she said.
"What?"
"A picture. To commemorate, um... The first day of summer vacation. I want to remember this." She was already fumbling in her pocket for her phone, pulling up the camera application.
"You make it sound like you're going away," he said. "And you've only been in school for... what, two weeks?" But he edged closer and smiled impishly as soon as she held up her phone, and she pressed down on the button. Click.