Eglintion: A Narrative Fiction

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Jesscia went outside to take a walk , it’s a drizzling day with gray sky, she is a bit upset for indescribable reasons. Maybe she is worrying about her math test tomorrow, or the extra weight she got this week. Teenager girls, their thoughts chang like the roller-coster in some occasions.
She loves to walk to a little quiet park , it’s a charming place for pondering, she will bring a romantic fiction with her or take her pet dog Isis with her if she is in good mood.
Today , she just wants to go somewhere alone, when she is going through a crossroad in Eglintion ave. East. The traffic lights is not changing yet. She noticed there is a boy in her age stands not very far from her, he is a good-looking boy somehow, curled blond hair, lovely blue eyes, high and straight nose, his narrow face and skinny figure is charming to some extents, when jessicia’s sight is crossing with his, the boy is kind of nervous, he tries to bring up his lower-crotch jeans
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Jerry is just like the transparent sunshine, he is warm and positive to all the people around him, when someone stays with him, the contagious happy atmosphere from him will pass on his friends and family members, just like he is passing on a basketball to his teammates. He is everybody’s “ good buddy”, nobody will relate him to any bad impression at any occasions.
But now, the boy with baseball hat and lower crotch is totally another kind of dude, he may behave unconventionally and unrestrainedly in most of time, his dirty untidy sneakers are covered with muddy spots, they should be white , thus they look gray now. Nonetheless , the untidiness of this boy aroused a kind of admiring feeling to her. The conflict factors that are totally opposite to her could be the fatal attraction as well. She guesses that what people called the attraction from ” the bad

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