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I wish he would draw a rope so I could pull it fro him with it I'm sure he deserves it
I pick up on the pattern eventually, noticing his finger following the sa I envision it as he does it, realizing after aout a lone word in cursive
Vitale
His full naed me to call him Naz And it was Naz who charmed me, on ot to know the true Ignazio, and by the time I met Vitale, it was far too late to just walk away
If I ever even could've…
"Ugh, that's it" A book slams closed across from me, so hard the entire table shakes "I can't take it anymore I quit"
I don't look up,the words I've skilued to my side the past few days, like h osmosis
"This is just way too co what little focus I' to keep "Half of it doesn't even make sense"
I flip the page in my book as I mumble, "Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple"
"Who said that? Pluto? I' you, Karissa, that shit's not even in my book!"
Those words draw lance across the little round table at my friend, Melody Cars in frustration "It's Plato, not Pluto"
She wavescares' face "What's the difference?"
"One's a philosopher, the other's a cartoon dog"
If she can't keep that straight, she's screwed come test time in, say, oh thirty minutes
"Yeah, well, I' makesthrough her thick stack of notes Philosophy, our last class of the day, our lastpoint Typical
"Ifrom her notes "Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are friends to their enemies, and enemies to their friends Like what does that even mean?"
I shrug "Means people are people, I guess"
My gaze goes back to ain
"And it wasn't Plato, by the way," I say, answering her earlier question "It was Dr Seuss"
"Seriously?" she asks "You're quoting Dr Seuss now?"
"He was sort of a philosopher hiic and reason, society and human nature You can learn a lot from his books"
"Yeah, well, I prefer a different philosophical doctor," she counters, dropping her chair back onto all fours, the loud thuh the small cafe "I think Dre put it best when he said bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks"
Her dead serious tone ht you worshipped at the altar of Tupac Shakur"
"Now thather this time, not sure if she really can't recall which is which or if she's just being a smartass at this point "A coward dies a thousand deaths a soldier dies but once That's deep"