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Just Friends
They say nothing’s going on. They’re “just friends”. She has a boyfriend and he’s too busy with his girlfriends to settle for just one. They say that day will never come. But I think they’re wrong.
Supposedly, Alex and Hailey have known each other since middle school. They’ve always been real close. Like siblings. But brothers don’t look at their sisters the way Alex looks at her. I can tell he really likes her more than he’s allowing anyone to know. But that’s just his thing. He wears a mask. Just like I wear mine.
They walk in the halls close together, using closet voices only meant for their ears. Sometimes I wonder if they’re secretly whispering their undying love for each other. Hailey saying how she wishes she could ditch her bf. Alex reciting words recycled from last night’s date. Me watching by my locker wishing I had one of those invisible spy ear pieces, crashing in on their covert conversations.
She hugs him. Not with her arms linking around his neck or his arms snaking around her waist. The share big bear hugs. Her arms squeezed his waist with her cheek pressed against his chest, eyes opened. His arms wrapped around her shoulders with his chin resting on the top of her head, eyes on the floor. It’s like they’re squeezing the love out of each other so that their hearts quietly absorb it. Their way of expressing their feelings without it being obvious to the inquiring eyes in the halls because it’s so innocent. Their way of saying “You belong to me.”
They say they’re “just friends”. That they would never be anything more because neither of them feel that strongly about one another. I think they’re lying. I can see through the “just friends” act. “Just friends” wouldn’t make me feel as though I’m losing the one guy I’ve ever really liked. But I’d never let those words spill from my lips. Because being “just enemies” is just another mask to hide “just love.”
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