Someone was climbing up to join me on the roof. I sighed and turned around.
“What are you doing up here? Why’d you leave the party?”
“Because I was lonely.”
“All the people are inside, dork. You’d only be lonely out here!”
A breeze wrapped around my shoulders, whispering amusedly in my ear. I smiled.
“The air inside is hot and dead. Out here it’s alive and breathing. Out here, I can breathe.”
I suggested to the breeze that it whisper to the invader, and felt it leave my skin.
He backed away. “Okay, you’re a nut. I’m outta here.”
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Drabbling in a notebook is tough because you have to count the words and rearranging is a pain. And I even misremembered the prompt, which was actually "Just Because I Was Lonely". But whatever.
I sorta like this one, although the conversation is terrible and the end is too abrupt.
“What are you doing up here? Why’d you leave the party?”
“Because I was lonely.”
“All the people are inside, dork. You’d only be lonely out here!”
A breeze wrapped around my shoulders, whispering amusedly in my ear. I smiled.
“The air inside is hot and dead. Out here it’s alive and breathing. Out here, I can breathe.”
I suggested to the breeze that it whisper to the invader, and felt it leave my skin.
He backed away. “Okay, you’re a nut. I’m outta here.”
--
Drabbling in a notebook is tough because you have to count the words and rearranging is a pain. And I even misremembered the prompt, which was actually "Just Because I Was Lonely". But whatever.
I sorta like this one, although the conversation is terrible and the end is too abrupt.
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