Story: Ending Part 7
[[Continuity Note: Damien and Alf are confronting Jessica in a stairwell at their school.]]
Jessica turned slowly, like a small child who'd been caught dipping their finger in the icing of a cake.
"Why aren't you talking to us, Jessica?"
"I can't tell you," she said. "You'll think it's stupid."
Damien looked at her. "Then obviously it must be, so why are you letting it get to you?" he asked.
"I don't know," Jessica shrugged.
"Just tell us what it is," Alf stated. "I want to make up my own mind about whether or not it's stupid. And to do that I need some information."
"Fine," Jessica grudgingly sat down, and they sat in the relative privacy of the stairwell.
The boys had expectant looks on their faces. "You guys are losing your magic. But that's what brought us together in the first place. I'm getting worried it's all going to go back to the way it used to be. I'll be friendless again."
The blunt honesty of her statement really threw Alf. She was feeling exactly what he was feeling.
"Then why push us away?" Damien asked.
"Literally," Alf added, making a show of rubbing the back of his head where he'd landed.
The trio laughed before Jessica answered. "I figured sooner was better than later."
"You've been listening to the council too long, Jessica," Alf stated. "They're dead boring. Do you want to be dead boring too?"
She shook her head. "But I was right, you did think it was stupid."
"You thought it was stupid yourself," Damien reminded her. "How could we not agree with logic like that?"
"No matter what," Alf said. "We're all still going to be friends. Aren't we?" And looking into his friends' eyes, Alf knew that they agreed with him.
"Can we go and eat now?" Damien asked.
Alf laughed and the trio went down to eat their lunch as they usually would, though only half of their lunch break was left.
[[End scene.]]
posted by Cedric @ 1:33 pm
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