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crushthecamera) wrote2010-08-25 12:07 pm
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Electorate 091
SCENE: The roof, night.
Lauren: "Why'd you leave?"
Joshua: "I got fed up, I guess. My parents are interesting people. We fought a lot."
Lauren: "Why didn't you just move out with friends or something?"
Joshua: "You don't want me here?"
Lauren: "I didn't say that."
Joshua shrugs.
Joshua: "I just wanted to get away, really. I just got in the car and drove until I felt like stopping."
Lauren nods.
Joshua: "What about you? Where are your parents?"
Lauren: "I don't know where my dad is. Mum died when I was six."
Joshua: "I'm sorry."
Lauren: "It's not like you killed her."
They stand in silence for a moment, taking in the view.
Lauren: "In one year I'm going to be older than her."
Joshua: "That's scary."
Lauren: "It is, yeah."
Joshua watches her carefully.
Joshua: "You okay?"
Lauren: "I just never really thought about it like that before. It feels weird."
Joshua: "Do you miss them?"
Lauren: "I miss mum. My dad was never really around even when I lived with him. I don't think I miss him much."
They fall into silence once again.
Joshua: "You don't have to answer, but how'd she die?"
Lauren: "It's okay. She got cancer. Not very exciting, really."
Joshua: "Maybe. I am sorry, though."
Lauren: "It's all right, though. I mean, obviously I'm not the most perfect person who ever lived, but I'm okay, you know?"
Joshua: "I know."
Lauren: "She was a good person. And dad's probably a good person to people who aren't his daughter."
Joshua: "That bit is kind of important, though."
Lauren: "Still. I mean, they didn't go out of their way to mess me up. I hardly have any bad memories of them."
Joshua: "You don't have to defend them to me."
Lauren: "Okay, but do you understand what I'm trying to say?"
Joshua: "Yeah. It's okay."
Lauren: "Okay."
Lauren nods, and looks out over Electorate once again. After a long silence, she takes a deep breath.
Lauren: "I love you, sometimes."
Joshua: "What?"
Lauren: "I'm not going to say it again."
Joshua: "Ever?"
Joshua stares at her, quite shocked.
Joshua: "When?"
Lauren: "Just sometimes. Randomly."
Joshua laughs nervously.
Joshua: "I did not expect you to say that."
Lauren: "Neither did I."
Joshua: "Do you want to do anything about it?"
Lauren: "Do you?"
Joshua: "I asked you first."
Lauren: "And I asked you second."
Joshua shrugs.
Joshua: "Yes. But I like this, too."
Lauren: "Yes."
They hug, then, and Joshua kisses her forehead.
Joshua: "I love you, too."
Lauren: "You don't have to say it just because I said it."
Joshua: "I'm not."
Lauren: "You are."
Joshua: "I like you a lot, then."
Lauren: "I'm glad we got that sorted out."
Joshua: "Yes."
Lauren: "Let's never speak of it again."
Joshua: "Probably best."
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As much as I'm enjoying all these updates, do you have plans to take pictures for the text-only ones at a later date? It'd be great to relive them, in a sense, and see how the pictures match up to what I imagined.
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