We hook up after a wild party with too much drinking

Of course not. She loved seeing her friend like this. Eporner You’re always fucking surprised when I do that,” Tyler said seriously, but laughed afterwards regardless. That must have been the tenth time he did it! Time moved at a slower pace. It wasn’t that he had a highly expressive face, or the fact that he was one of maybe six black kids in all of Hazelwood, or even that he was a little bit fatter than he would have liked, but it was mainly his wild wacky spirit and tendency to talk out in class, and say whatever he wanted, no matter whose ire it drove. She wanted to do that so bad. She remembered coming here before. The sounds came straight from the heavens, and Nami needed to hear them more clearly. “You look yummy,” Nami growled. She pedalled away in a hurry, praying that the universe would take it from there. It was odd – last year she could go for hours without having a mask on, it really was no bother to her, and yet… in this mall, every passing second she kept the mask on, it felt like she was getting less and less air. Zoe was happy to take over, albeit with perhaps some guidance along the way. God dammit. ***
Nami and Zoe rarely hung out together without Tyler, so Zoe’s request came across to Nami as a bit surprising. Her short red hair had, much to her annoyance, gotten her the label of a ‘dyke’ among the school boys, and hanging out with a confident young woman like Zoe didn’t