Years later (years that go by but have no evidence of doing so) and already I want to die, to grow old and if that ever came I would praise every single wrinkle which my mom thinks is quite batty.

To be stuck at seventeen is curse all by itself, 'you look too young to be twenty-two' 'well, you look to old to be twenty-one, bitch.' yeah I should stop saying to every single person mainly women, cat fights are messy and I still have the big secret to keep under my belt.

It had been all hidden so well, I was the girl without a name (Claire Bennett went away the moment her not-in-her-heart-father turned on us all) and went from town to town, being the outsider who beside the face and size was in her third year of college.

(well, at lest I was older on the inside even if it will never show again, plus remembering birthdays are a bitch)

In one second I was walking the sidewalk (later to be scolded for doing so) trying to make my life into something normal when my old came crashing into me, and I mean he crashed into me.

(forehead banging and everything, it was the funniest thing for those who were not being thrown to the ground)

"Hey! Watch were your going!"

"Sorry-Claire?"

And as they say the past (the one that needed and wanted to forget) never truly leaves you, even if you run to Hong-Kong and back.

"Zach?"

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He (the man before who I once only knew as a boy) was both the same and different at the same time, is that even possible?

"Is that part of everything (miss-miracle-grow) not aging?"

Seeing his face (beardless, just the way I liked it, maybe if I had stayed it would have been the same?) the only thing I could do was wonder how I would have looked as an adult, a woman, the one thing I made myself stop doing ages ago came flooding back because of him.

(as always something always happens when it comes to him, and it always seems to come out right as rain with him)

"It was one of the many downside of being miss-miracle-grow, I'm forever trapped as a teenager. Most people would have ripped their eyeballs out by now."

"Well, most people wouldn't be able to grow them back faster then blinking."

"True, very true."

It went on the same way it did back then but (and now that surprised the both of us and the whole world) without the falling from water towers or anything with hight, and I'm thankful for that part.

"Zach, I missed you."

"I missed you, too, Claire Bennett."