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i saw a girl, yesterday, sitting on the pavement. her back was against the molding brick, and the leaves were falling around her body like tears, her arms were scrunched up in front of her face, shielding her beauty from the town. there was a fresh scar on her wrist, still bright and burning with pain. i've been in that position many times. so i sat beside her.

she moved her arms from her face, and looked at me with her muddy brown eyes, one eye covered with her black hair, and other with tears. her eyeliner had run down her face like a symphony, and no one even stopped long enough to notice-except for me; i understood.

we didn't speak. we just focused our eyes on each other. not even a blink came from her or me. it was like a photograph, two people frozen while everyone else around them moved freely. except we didn't smile, or show our tongues, we sat-blank and damaged.

she moved closer to me, putting her hand on mine, and her head on my broad, pale shoulder. she trusted me, even though we had never met before. she worked like clockwork. her blinks were seconds apart, and her heart would beat when it should. there was chaos and madness outside of our own personal-invisible room. while we stayed, in silence and shallow voices.

"i'm manda", she told me.
"nice to finally know your name, i'm keri."
"your name is beautiful"
wow, never heard that before. "i actually hate my name. try being named after carrie on little house and the prairie."
"i was named after my mother's first girlfriend, not any better", she chuckled out.