We Didn't Ask for This by Adi Alsaid

Author:Adi Alsaid
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Inkyard Press
Published: 2020-01-28T16:09:13+00:00

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For the next few hours, at least, everything was fine. More than that; it was special. After all that time hoping, mourning, raging, pleading, waiting—the waiting may have been the worst of it, waiting for something good to happen, waiting for the night to be over—here it came, a morsel of good luck, a helping of joy. Not that everything was forgotten, nor that they suddenly believed themselves to be free. But some amount of fun amid all of this; what a gift to receive.

The music! How had they forgotten how good music was. It had only been a handful of hours, but it felt like months.

They danced. Obviously they couldn’t dance the usual way, pressed together, letting their bodies do whatever they pleased, at least not just anywhere. This sort of dancing still happened in unsupervised corners of the library, beneath the bleachers, in the shadows on the roof garden. But in their glee, the slightest movement felt like dancing. Two fingers tapping soundlessly on the ground beside them. Couples tapped one finger on their partner’s hand, rubbed a fingernail down the wrist like necking during a slow song. Others danced by walking to the bathroom, the dance coming through in each step. An imperceptible shoulder shimmy, a twitching calf muscle, the steady rhythm of lungs and hearts; it was all dancing. The students at CIS had been granted permission to dance, so dance they did.

Diego had even tracked down those who were outside the high school doors but still at CIS, handing out earphones under the cover of night and a fairly huge distraction. They danced, too, while parents yelled at the dark about Marisa’s plan, about their disrupted evening, their own concerns. Lindsay closed her eyes to the music and pictured she was at Kenji’s side, for once not just laughing but dancing with him.

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