2.Did you know? “How did it go?” Cam asked. “Not an ideal first day of college” “Oh” I gave him a sad smile. He returned it too. In that moment, we said everything without words. Everything about how he was sorry my classmates found out, about how I knew I would never really be accepted in society, about how it felt to be illegitimate. Everything. It’s fascinating just how much a sad smile can hide. As we were crossing the footpath beside one of those beautiful ponds in the city, he asked me pointing at the water lilies “Lara? Did you know water lilies lasted for only three to five days?” Cam was sad. I knew it since he would throw random facts my way whenever he was. His way of coping up, I assumed. “No, I didn’t know that.” ~~~ “Hello?!” yelled the young man in the floral shop in the North-west valley. He seemed to have been calling my name for a while now but I didn’t realise. “Yeah, sorry. Can I have a bouquet of blue water lilies please?”...
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