Strange: The Senior Young Writers Group Zine 2023
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Friend Zone<br />
4:36am<br />
I tear my eyes away from the screen, a pain in my neck starting<br />
with sudden awareness. <strong>The</strong> clock on the wall drift into focus<br />
and guilt spreads through every cell of my body. Not again. I<br />
know tomorrow will be hell; a taped-on smile trying to cover it<br />
up. <strong>The</strong>y can’t know. <strong>The</strong>y won’t know.<br />
5:17am<br />
Somehow, I’m looking into a screen again, though I never<br />
remember picking it up. My eyes scan the messages I’ve read<br />
and revised for hours, but without an obvious answer they do<br />
not stop.<br />
5:52am<br />
Sleeping is now out of the question, but, with a brain that won’t<br />
stop stabbing your heart, it was never going to be. “Where did I<br />
go wrong? Where did I go wrong? Where did I go wrong?”<br />
6:20am<br />
Friend zone. I never understood it until now. But worst still is<br />
when they start giving up on the friend part too.<br />
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