Study that stranger

She sits perpendicularly to the way you’re meant to sit in a chair, but in these plush blue mini ones it’s still comfortable. Everything on her body is jet black – hair that falls straight down the side of her skull like water, her nails. As black as you can get, save for three things: her skin (pale white visible on her face, neck, tops of hands, and waist), her socks (white with gray bottoms, no shoes), and the studs on her belt (glossy white in the shape of a pyramid). She is monochrome. But wait, she stands to use the bathroom and a hidden facet is uncovered! She wears, under her black velvet hoodie (?), a maroon tank top – a slight intimation of something deeper; quirks beneath the armor of monotony. 

She wears black and white and only black and white; no in-between. Perhaps her face shows an Asian ancestry several generations ago. She looks rigid and stuck.

She pays no attention to the obnoxious voices nearby as her head remains motionlessly pointed toward the page.  Her lips in a permanent state of purse, her eyes darting back and forth between two narrow lines of longitude.  Her hand reaches up to find the next page, smooth it out, and continue.

Does she have many friends? Is she social? Is she an extrovert or introvert?

~ by doug on March 10, 2008.