Prompt: --
Vocab (underlined): compelling, criteria, coherent, concede, contradict
Grammar Focus: to/too/two, properly use a colon
Eliza Benjamin-
A few days later, I caught myself staring out the window again. This was a habit of mine, and I mean, no big deal, right? Just staring, no harm there. The problem was, I didn't always realize I was doing it, and often enough, it happened just when I had something else to do. Like, my mom would call me to dinner, and I'd be just about to go when I noticed something interesting out the window. Next thing I knew, two or fifteen or twenty minutes had passed, I had no idea where they'd gone to, and my meal was cold. And I couldn't even remember any coherent thoughts I'd had while zoned out. They were all little fragments of things that seemed to contradict each other, then later concede. It was confusing, like a dream that got fainter and fainter the longer you stayed awake.
So, when I caught myself this time, I wanted to know what was so compelling to my subconscious to make everything in my head just stop like that. I looked out my bedroom window to see what was there. Criteria for my bedroom view:
1. a long-ish, slightly windy driveway
2. a thin, too-gravelly street
3. a lot of old trees
4. a tall kid with white-blond hair, looking out the neighbor's window (optional)
I looked at the kid, wondering who he was. I'd seen him a couple other times, but never really. He wasn't in any of my classes at school. I didn't know why I cared really, I just...wanted to know his name. Just a name.
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