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It isn’t easy breaking through the noise to get our message to the masses.”
    “That sounds like justification of violence no matter what the effect.” I wasn’t supposed to be letting my own opinions color my questions, but I was tired and scared out of my mind. There wasn’t any way to truly remain unemotional in this situation.
    “Sometimes violence is the only way.” I could hear the grin in the man’s voice, and his response transported me back to another time and place.
    I was seventeen, and the only thing I wanted for my birthday that year was a kiss from a certain boy in my life who still had no clue that I liked him as something more than a friend. So instead of being a grown-up and telling him how I felt about him, I asked him to take me to the drive-in over off Route 64 in the next county over.
    If it had been anyone else, they would have thought that it was a date, but Lukas and I hung out all the time. He seemed completely oblivious to the fact that we had reached an age where people might question what we were always doing when we were alone together. In fact, when I’d hear other kids give him a hard time about, I all too often would hear his response of “Chill, we’re just friends. She’s like my sister.”
    That was so not how I wanted him to view me. So there we sat, next to each other in a parked car in the twilight getting ready to watch a movie at the old drive-in, but there wasn’t the slightest bit of romantic tension between us. Lukas munched on a tub of popcorn watching the previews while I wanted to throw up my hands in frustration.
    I had paid extra attention to my attire that evening. Turning seventeen seemed to make my chest magically appear overnight. Where I had been flat as a pancake before, the rounded curves of an impressive bosom was finally making its appearance. I had bought a skin-tight halter top that accentuated every curve. Paired with the denim mini-skirt and white sling back sandals, I thought that it was more than obvious what I was hoping for as a result of the evening. I thought my dad’s eyes were going to bug out of his head when he saw me leave the house. Lukas barely gave me a second look though when I got into his car, and consequently I had been pouting the entire way to the drive-in. Lukas didn’t notice.
    “I still can’t believe this is the movie you picked to see for your birthday,” Lukas said in-between mouthfuls of popcorn. “It’s more like this is my birthday. I figured you’d drag me to another stupid chick flick. I’ve been waiting to see this movie all week.” I told him I wanted to see the latest action flick. It was a bit of an annual tradition to see a movie for our birthday celebrations with each other. There wasn’t much else to do for fun on a Friday night when you were a teenager in Greyelf.
    “I decided I wanted to try something new,” I said trying to angle my body toward him for maximum effect. Lukas’s attention was squarely on the screen in front of us. After a long pause where he still hadn’t looked in my direction, I couldn’t stand it anymore. “I’m going to go get a soda.”
    His nod was the only response I got. It took everything I had not to slam the car door in frustration. I trudged over to the concession stand and stood there with my arms crossed pretending to read the menu. There were only like ten things on it, and it wasn’t as if I didn’t have them all memorized, but I was stalling for time.
    Because I was wracking my brain trying to come with a plan to get Lukas to look at me that way, I didn’t immediately respond to the fact that someone had decided to stand next to me, also looking at the menu.
    “Hey there. You look like an angel fallen from heaven.”
    I rolled my eyes at the weak pick-up line as I tossed my hair over my shoulder and glared at the boy next to me. He wasn’t terrible looking, but compared to Lukas’s brawny physique he was decidedly skinny. His black hair was on the longish