Don't you have to be the best to do that? To go there, I mean.
[...Hmmm.]
I think we all could've gone. My team, I mean. The first time we all worked together, we were all picked because we were the best. All except Nate; they picked him because he was honest. That's why we all trusted him, too.
[It prompts a rare variety of smile out of her, though — the kind that she's not expecting, where it's just kind of on her face before she quite realizes it — the suggestion that they would've liked her. That's...kind of weird. Kind of nice, too. Not really something people tend to tell her that much.]
Maybe you were the king. I didn't know they even had kings and queens in high school but I guess they have the kind people vote for. At dances...or something.
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[...Hmmm.]
I think we all could've gone. My team, I mean. The first time we all worked together, we were all picked because we were the best. All except Nate; they picked him because he was honest. That's why we all trusted him, too.
[It prompts a rare variety of smile out of her, though — the kind that she's not expecting, where it's just kind of on her face before she quite realizes it — the suggestion that they would've liked her. That's...kind of weird. Kind of nice, too. Not really something people tend to tell her that much.]
Maybe you were the king. I didn't know they even had kings and queens in high school but I guess they have the kind people vote for. At dances...or something.