By disposition they were both generally sad and therefore funny people, loud introverts who hid behind diversionary jokes, conducting conversations at all times as if there was a fourth wall to be broken. When they met at a pub gathering they found they were able to carry on a long interaction without either of them feeling embarrassed or bored, which meant that after some alcohol and weed they became very interested in each other. The plan at the time was for her to leave the country that autumn and they spent a lot of time together that summer. Because he betrayed no sexual or romantic expectations she began to like and then want him.
She was a good-looking young woman who had turned good-looking when she was too young to predict or understand the way that adults would treat her for it. Men had transformed overnight, men she knew and men she didn’t. It was quickly obvious how easy it was for her to unwittingly attract the wrong sort of attention from a very unpleasant type of person, but it was not as easy to spot the unpleasant people because they were often performatively nice to her.
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Another pub.
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