Ah — no, I like it. The high school prom was rather an extension of that, I think. I like the noise and the energy of a crowd, and the opportunity to simply lose myself for a little while.
[He pauses a moment.]
Admittedly there's a loneliness about it, too. Sometimes a crowd is nothing so much as it is...isolating. But sometimes it's a wellspring of energy, and you can make yourself a conduit for that.
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[Or at least, she hadn't been. Nowadays it seems as if she's a part of it, one way or another.]
You enjoy it, then? Or is it more that your friends drag you along?
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[He pauses a moment.]
Admittedly there's a loneliness about it, too. Sometimes a crowd is nothing so much as it is...isolating. But sometimes it's a wellspring of energy, and you can make yourself a conduit for that.
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[You should show me sometime, she doesn't say, though the words are on the tip of her tongue.]
I'll leave more of your Friday nights open, in that case.