Chloe to Clark

*** SLEEPING. ***** ON THE SIDE.

Hi, ****. [She squeezes his shoulder.] Well, this is gonna make quite a story. “**** ***** ends record-breaking perfect attendance streak.” [She grins at her own joke, then stops.] Sorry. I’m doing it again. I just- I’ve never seen you sick before and it just got me thinking, you know? What if something did happen to you? And I-I never got to…

So, in yet another classic maneuver to avoid emotional intimacy, I wrote my feelings down so that I could read them to you, thereby eliminating embarrassing eye contact. [She pulls out a piece of pink paper & begins to read.] “I want to let you in on a secret. I’m not who you think I am. In fact, my disguise is so thin, I’m surprised you haven’t seen right through me. I’m the girl of your dreams masquerading as your best friend.”

“Sometimes I want to rip off this facade like I did at the Spring Formal but I can’t because you’ll get scared and you’ll run away again. So I decided that it’s better to live with a lie than expose my true feelings.” [She becomes choked up & stops reading to run her fingers through ****'s hair.] This is so much easier when you’re unconscious. [She starts to read again.] “My dad told me there are two types of girls. The ones you grow out of and the ones you grow into. I really hope I’m the latter. I may not be the one you love today, but I’ll let you go for now, hoping one day you’ll fly back to me because I think you’re worth the wait.”