Two little
Three little freshman...
All snug in one bed!
And there is a girl, and she is confused and breathless-innocently blissful to find herself in this situation. A month ago she would have balked at this idea, and now here she is...
And there is another girl, and she is wondering if she's losing this tenuous connection, and she worries that she doesn't have anyone here, and she wants someone, something now please.
And there is a boy, and he is confused and doesn't know what will get him the best possible results. He is linear, very linear, and quiet and possibly very smart or maybe very vapid.
Squinch your eyes together, squinch them tight and believe... believe. In the movies it works, if you try hard enough. And we will fly back in time; just like when you play a video backwards, our innocence and wide-eyed curiosity will be sucked back into ourselves.
We will walk to the graveyard and call ghosts with seances, clutching each other with delicious fright. We will throw snow at each other and clip magazines and go to Floor Activities with enthusiasm and fervor.
And then the second girl will find her place in a house of smoke and Men, leaving the boy behind. And the first girl will wait a while, lingering before she too abandons the boy and the frivolity for real Mature Fun. And the boy will forget about them, because he will find a girl to lie in a bed with, just the two of them now.
Years from now one will pull out a candid shot, all three with limbs intertwined. A smile and a memory, and then back to Reality.
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"All three with limbs intertwined..."
oh Emmy Dee. That's beautiful. With sooo much love, AST.
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