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their eyes. Zoe can’t wait for that day, she just hopes she can let someone in long enough for that to happen for her.
    Justine doesn’t want a family. Zoe doesn’t think she does anyway. Justine is very evasive and seems like she is always looking for the exit. She hates confrontation and talking. When she has to serve these particularly happy couples she looks at them with hate in her eyes. Zoe thinks their happiness brings forth her nightmares, her drinking, and the bad nights.
    Justine is beautiful though. She is tall and has long black hair and beautiful grey eyes with black fleck. Her pupils look like they are a firework and all the black are the twinkling lights left over. She has curves that most women would kill for. Justine doesn’t see how beautiful she is though. She is almost as fast as Zoe is and has similar hearing to her. She can see things though that Zoe cannot, especially at night, she has the best senses at night. Zoe always makes her drive her to the diner if she has a really late shift there. Justine sees everything.
    They love to go on runs together although they usually end up in a race and Zoe always wins. Justine is fast but not faster than Zoe. Zoe feels very close to Justine, she is a lot like her in a lot of ways and she feels safe with her. Zoe doesn’t have to hide her oddities with Justine; she feels she can be herself with her.
    They both love to goof off and be silly when they can. They often go to the local park and have races across the monkey bars. Local kids look at them funny but then eventually join in their fun. They have a sisterly relationship and sometimes they like to pick on one another.
    They both know they are different from other people. The flecks that are in their eyes are unlike any they have ever seen. When Zoe was a kid the Camden’s rarely took her to the doctor because she never got sick. Zoe always held back in school with her running and never told anyone how far she could see or hear.
    Once she met Justine she didn’t have to hide. They were very similar from the begin ning. Zoe has white blond hair and as tall like Justine. They both have curvaceous bodies and are about the same size. Most the time they share clothes, but Justine likes the black Goth look and Zoe is more jeans and tees. From behind the only difference is the hair.
    Zoe enrolled at the music school about seven months ago. She goes in the mornings usually before Justine is even awake. She has a song she started about a month after she enrolled. The students had to do a project where they wrote all the music. That was hard for Zoe; she had never learned how to write music, she just played it. Zoe didn’t even know how to read music before she started there. But she has a very good and patient teacher, Mrs. Adams.
    She is a little old lady that is like a music god to Zoe. She has taught her so much. All the different styles that she can play around with, the different pitches, Zoe didn’t even know anyone could play like that. She always just put her fingers on the strings of the guitar and they had a mind of their own.
    Zoe wrote her song and had it all done in a month. To her it is very dramatic; it’s everything she can’t say out loud it’s her heart pouring out in the music. All the sadness and hate she feels for being abandoned, all the love she wants one day, all the emptiness she feels inside, it’s her walls broken down and shattered. Zoe has built so many walls in her twenty two years. Justine is her only friend, the only person who knows her.
    The students have a free hour to play what whatever they want in the mornings, Zoe plays her song every time, and she just pours everything she has into it. She gets lost sometimes in the song and it feels like she is floating, like she is reaching for something she can’t touch. Zoe hasn’t put words to it, she really doesn’t know if she wants to. There is a guy at school who asked if he could put some vocals to it, Zoe can’t remember