Within minutes

The girl you're talking to mentions she has a boyfriend.

Her boyfriend's an okay guy. You barely know him.

You barely know her.


Within minutes

Her friendship draws you in peacefully

Her thoughts of you are only those you imagined

She laughs, she plays. The slight details of her eyes

Scream innocent drops of saliva churning under your tongue.


I'm glad we left early tonight. I'm glad

I left early tonight. She'll find it time to fall asleep.

And it was always inevitable. It was already written

the way she'll hold her hand in his.