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He sticks a hand into his bag and withdraws a Sprite can. He places it in front of me, like a cat would place a half-chewed mouse in front of its owner.

"I was at the shop at break," he says, without looking me in the eye. "Is lemonade still your favourite?"

"Er..." I look down at the Sprite can, not quite sure what to make of it. I do not point out that Sprite is not real lemonade or diet. “Erm, yeah, it is. Thanks, that's, er, really nice of you."

-𝐋𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐬 𝐑𝐲𝐚𝐧 & 𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐢 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞 (𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝟕𝟎)

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I'm sitting at a table playing chess on my phone during a free period, iPod blasting some Radiohead song into my ears to block out the vomit-inducing music.

-𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐢 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞 (𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝟔𝟗)

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On Thursday, we turned up to find that two cats had been let loose within the school. Apparently, the caretakers managed to get one of them out, but the other cat — an underfed, ginger thing with massive eyes — evaded capture all day, strolling in and out of lessons and through corridors.

I quite like cats, and I saw it for the first time at lunch in the cafeteria. I almost felt like I'd made a new friend, the way it hopped on to a chair and sat with Our Lot as if it wanted to join in our gossip and offer its views about celebrity Twitter rows and the current political climate. I noted to myself that I should probably start collecting cats, seeing as they are very likely to be my sole companions in ten years' time.

"My future pet will definitely be a cat," said Becky.

-𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐢 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 & 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐲 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧, 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞 (𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝟔𝟖)

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On Wednesday, all the clocks magically vanished and were replaced by pieces of paper reading ‘Tempus Fugit’. It was funny at first, but after a few hours when you’re midway through a lesson and you can’t check your phone and you have no way of finding out what the time is - well, it pretty much makes you want to scratch out your eyeballs.

-𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐢 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞 (𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝟔𝟕)

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We didn’t expect anything more from Solitaire. We thought the one prank would be the end of it.

We were quite a way off.

-𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐢 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞 (𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝟔𝟕)

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When I get back into my bed, every single thing that you could possibly think about in one day decides to come to me all at once and suddenly there’s a small lightning storm inside my head. … So I open my eyes and wander around the Internet to take my mind off it all, and, once I feel relatively okay again, I fall asleep with the glare of my blog home page warming my face and the hum of my laptop soothing my mind like crickets at a campsite.

-𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐢 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞 (𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝟔𝟓-𝟔𝟔)

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At some point I fall asleep, but I can hear all these creaky noises coming from outside and something in my brain decides that there is definitely some kind of giant and/or demon stomping around in the road so I get up and close the window just to make sure that whatever it is cannot get inside.

-𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐢 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞 (𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝟔𝟓)

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After a while, I put my laptop by my side and lie down. I think about all the people who were at the restaurant who are probably now pissed and are getting off with each other on Lauren’s parents’ sofas.

-𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐢 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞 (𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝟔𝟓)

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I never seem to be able to finish a film the same day I start it because I can’t bear the thought of the film ending.

-𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐢 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞 (𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝟔𝟓)

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I watch a bit of QI, but I don’t really find it interesting or funny any more, so instead I watch Little Miss Sunshine, which I didn’t finish yesterday.

-𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐢 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞 (𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝟔𝟓)

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I stalk Michael’s Facebook, but he seems to use it even less than I do.

-𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐢 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞 (𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝟔𝟓)

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I put the radio on and blog until the early hours. The radio is playing all this dubstep crap, but I’ve got it on quietly so I don’t care too much. I can’t be bothered to leave my bed except to make at least five trips downstairs for more diet lemonade. I check the Solitaire blog, but there’s nothing new. So I spend ages scrolling down all my favourite blogs, reblogging screencaps of Donnie Darko and Submarine and The Simpsons taken out of context. I write a couple whiney posts about I don’t even know what and I almost change my display picture, but I can’t find anything where I look normal, so I fiddle around with my blog theme’s HTML for a bit to see if I can remove the gaps between each post.

-𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐢 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞 (𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝟔𝟒-𝟔𝟓)

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I don’t think my mum likes me very much. That doesn’t matter, because I don’t really like her either.

-𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐢 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞 (𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝟔𝟒)

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I don’t keep track of how long we’re playing for, but it must be quite a while because, when Mum comes in, she’s pretty irritated. And that’s extreme, for her. She’s a pretty emotionless person.

-𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐢 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞 (𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝟔𝟑)

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“No!” he whines. “Nothing’s impossible. I think the game’s cheating.”

-𝐎𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞 (𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝟔𝟑)

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If I could swap bodies with someone for a day, I would choose Oliver.

-𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐢 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞 (𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝟔𝟐)

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“Well, if you care so much, what are you?” he asks.

“What?”

“What’s your sexuality?”

“Er, straight?”

“And what does that mean for you, Tori Spring? Have you fancied many boys in your time?”

I actually haven’t. Ever. Presumably this is because I have a very low opinion of most people.

“I look down. “I guess I’ll just go with ‘straight’ until proven otherwise.”

-𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐧 & 𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐢 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞 (𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝟓𝟓)