027 – Spaces

She had read in a book like that life was like a game of chess and had thought it awfully cliché. That was, of course, before she saw a game of Wizard chess and realised that, in fact, life could be a little like chess – if you weren't quick enough, if you weren't smart enough, if you didn't plan far ahead enough you were going to get clobbered by another playing piece and dragged off the board.

Or in her case, if you weren't quick enough, if you weren't smart enough, if you didn't plan far ahead enough, the boy who you had finally decided to admit that you fancied was going to lose interest in you and it would simply feel like you had been clobbered to death and dragged off a board.

She lost her chance – she supposed it was only fair, in some twisted way, since she'd had the opportunity to throw herself at him for almost 3 years now. It was horribly ironic that the very day she had gathered enough courage to make a flirtatious pass at him (and she knew that, with him, that small gesture would be enough. He would know what she was really trying to say)he would announce that he had taken a sudden fancy to Laura Fitzpatrick.

The space between them had never been so large.

A/N: Ok, so it has been a rather large time since my last update...but I have a sudden urge to write again :) I can't promise anything, but updates shall be forthcoming!

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