The Manifesto On How To Be Interesting (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
Bree knew that. But in just three days a number of notable things had happened. 1) She and Holdo no longer walked to school together Nothing was said. No guns were drawn. But, after Bree’s spiteful comment and decision not to eat lunch with him, Holdo hadn’t waited at the school gate to walk home with her. She’d walked back alone – her new shoes rubbing blisters into the backs of her ankles. Holdo never stayed mad at her for long though, and the next morning he stood at the corner, nervously shuffling his shoes in the leaves. Bree: “Hi.” Holdo: “Hi.” And that was the extent of their dialogue for the rest of the journey. All their usual topics of shared hatred failed to stimulate conversation. So they kicked leaves and looked down at the ground, as the silence strangled them and their friendship. Lump after lump swam up Bree’s throat and she struggled to swallow them down. The next morning – just to avoid the sheer awfulness of it all – Bree left for school earlier than normal.
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