Pawprint 2015

Sooze: What?

Silas: Why are you reading a book at a party?

Sooze: Because I want to read, but the party is on my floor.

Silas: Why don’t you read at the library?

Sooze: Because I want to read in my room.

Silas: But if you want quiet, the library makes sense.

Sooze: I didn’t ask your opinion.

Silas: What I think is happening, is that you want some attention, but you also want t o seem to cool for the party. And let me tell you it is working.

Sooze: I think I have a right to be in my room.

Silas: No need to get angry.

Sooze: I don’t like it when strangers come up to me, questioning me.

Silas: I’m not questioning, I just wanted to know why, and now I know.

Sooze: Then can you leave please Silas: No. Sooze: No? Silas: I mean I can sit here. I have that right. Just like you have the right to read at the party on your floor.

Sooze: Hm… Silas: So what are you majoring in? (Silence) You know you can answer?

Sooze: Annie told me about you.

Silas: Ooh… Annie. I know her. She’s friend with my friend, Ellis. And any friend of my friend, is also my friend. And since you are friends with Annie, who by default is now my friend, that makes you my friend. And since we are friends we should get to know each other, because relationships are based on communication.

Sooze: I have to admit that is clever, she still told me about you.

Silas: What did she say about me?

Sooze: She said you are the douchebag friend of the guy she thinks is cute.

Silas: She thinks Ellis is cute.

Sooze: I don’t know if she thinks Ellis is cute after that train wreck of a conversation.

Silas: Did she tell you that she invited me to the party.

Sooze: She told me the only reason she invited you, was so Ellis could come.

Silas: Wow. Is this what pain feels like?

Sooze: Tool .

Silas: I’m ignoring that. So she warned you about myself, I don’t get that because I a m a wonderful person.

Sooze: Are you?

Silas: Well, I think so. So since we friends, at least by my definition, what are you maj oring in?

Sooze: Education.

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