LXXII | Whispers

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'Where's Jasper and Angie?'
I ask,

head on the canteen table.

Prelims are officially over
but I'm not happy at all.

Shuhui offers me
a cigarette and a lollipop.

I take the lollipop.

'Loser,' she sneers.
'Mother Tongue Oral exam,' Kumar says.

All of us are still meeting
after school
to play soccer

even though

Ming and I
are having a cold war.

No one seems to
notice though.

They talk to both of us
normally.

We leave school
for the nearby park.

I wave to Rowan
as we pass
the rowan tree.

Pretti whispers something to Mike.

It might not mean
anything
but Pretti and Mike

aren't close at all

So i think about it.

Tom and Jerry are already there
when we reach the grass field.

'You were right,'
Tom says to Shuhui suddenly.

She nods.
Her face passive.

Kumar kicks the ball
into the air.

The game starts.

The girls crowd around Shuhui's phone,
discussing something serious.

'What's going on?'
I ask Kumar.

He's panting,
eyes fixed on the ball.

He doesn't seem
to hear me at all.

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