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[nospaces] [attr="class","winkcont"] [attr="class","winkcont2"] [attr="class","winkheader"]1 / FIREFLIES [attr="class","winkbody"] The light a firefly emits is among the most efficient in the world. Nearly 100% of energy - [break][break] “Are you actually doing the assignment?” Jenna said incredulously. She looked at Vivian, and then back at the assignment, beginning to laugh. “Holy shit. You’re actually doing it?” [break][break] Vivian’s cheeks turned pink. She set her pencil down on the table, and stopped underlining the article that she was annotating. [break][break] Jenna somehow made her feel very small, and unsettled, but at the same time she had this desperate urge inside of her that made her want to impress the other girl half of the time because she was pretty and popular even though that meant nothing in the world because it meant something to Vivian (and everyone else who went to their school, which meant that it meant something to Vivian’s world.) (Besides, Vivian was sheltered-and-studious and didn’t really know that much about the world besides that everyone talked about it like she wasn’t alive on the same planet that everyone else was.) [break][break] “I thought you invited me over to work on the reading,” Vivian responded, trying to make her voice cool and unbothered. She tried ridiculously hard to sound Adult in front of Jenna and knew it, and it was so obvious because despite how hard she struggled to seem untouchable. [break][break] “I mean, yeah,” Jenna said, laughing as she shook her head, “but - Jesus Christ, Vivian. It’s like you don’t even know how to be a real person, do you?” [break][break] “I - “ she fell silent, and her throat worked around a thousand different words. It kind-of stung but not-really, and Vivian tried to brush it off because being worked up in response to a joke like that seemed immature and overly emotional. (She hated people who were immature and overly emotional. Vivian, not Jenna.) She cleared her throat and lifted her chin, challenging. “I’m sorry, Jenna,” she said coolly, trying to grasp for the familiar defensive coil of red-hot anger that burned in her chest whenever she felt humiliated (and she didn’t but she did, somehow, which was ridiculous, because, again, immature and - ) “I wasn’t aware that I was supposed to somehow figure out that you wanted to do something else other study for bio rather than just assuming that we were going to do bio - you know, like you said we were.” [break][break] “Woah,” Jenna said, frowning, and the mirth on her face evaporated like steam-from-water. “Wait, what’s that supposed to mean?” [break][break] “Nothing,” Vivian said, and she was already shrinking back but she forced her eyes to narrow and (tried to) stop her voice from wavering. It just made her sound like she was struggling to keep quiet even though she wanted to yell which Vivian didn’t know was true or not yet. All she knew was that she was upset and upset about being upset. “What do you think it means?” [break][break] Jenna’s lips curled up into a grin, but she looked furious and hurt and wounded which just wasn’t fair. “I think it means you’re being a bitch,” she said mirthlessly. “And for no reason. Are you really mad because I don’t want to work on an assignment about ‘10 Fun Facts about Fireflies?’ Are you fucking kidding me?” [break][break] “Maybe I’m mad because you keep on treating me like a joke,” Vivian snapped, standing up, and she flinched at the way her chair’s legs screeched when she stood. She picked up her assignment, trying to hide the way her hands were shaking, and slid it into her folder. “I’m going to the bathroom.”
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