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EVE

WINSTON: the cool thing about green hornet is that everyone thinks hes a bad guy, so he gets to infiltrate the bad guys and then stop them. hes this rich guy who owns a newspaper who wants to do good. you know?

EVE: A good vigilante

WINSTON: yes! exactly! he also has a really cool car. like the batmobile. ha sorry I could talk about this stuff forever. tell me eve stuff

EVE: Hmmm. I’m really into poetry these days? Oh my gosh it’s so embarrassing

WINSTON: no its not! its cool. but im not so good at that kind of stuff.

i think science is kinda like poetry tho

EVE: How so?

WINSTON: i dunno it sounded smart lol

EVE: haha. I mean, they’re both about finding answers to things. I think. Or trying to.

WINSTON: yeah! and people think theyre hard to understand, but i think once you really get into them, theyre a lot easier than they seem

EVE: Sooo true!

WINSTON: ok so what’s your favorite poem

EVE: k I’ll send you a link but don’t laugh—“The Soul unto itself” by Emily Dickinson

WINSTON: ok im not gonna lie i dont get it but ill keep trying

EVE: It’s ok

WINSTON: there was this one famous writer a long time ago who thought of himself as a scientist. august strindberg, have you heard of him?

I dont think he wrote poems tho

EVE: What did he discover?

WINSTON: nothing. he thought plants had nervous systems so he walked around with a syringe full of morphine and hed inject apples and stuff to try to prove his theory haha his theory was not correct

fun science fact for you i got lots of em

see this kind of thing is why I got beat up all the time in 5 grade haha

EVE: So what happened to you back then???

WINSTON: I mean I only actually got punched once

EVE: What?!?!

WINSTON: im really just mad they broke my ornithopter

EVE: your huh?

WINSTON: sigh. here we go … it was this flying contraption made by da vinci?

so caleb and i worked on this for months, making our own

brought it to school one day

and i guess that was the day a bunch of the other kids decided i was punchable

EVE: omg!

WINSTON: a loser

they broke the ornithopter and punched me a few times

a piece of my glasses actually sliced under my eye. you can still see the scar

wasnt that bad tho

EVE: it sounds bad!

WINSTON: Caleb stopped them. We grew up on the same block and all that ya know

EVE: that’s like me and Nessa

WINSTON: I guess. Except Nessa is still cool

EVE: she’s a huge nerd haha like me

WINSTON: I mean she’s still nice. Super nice. Caleb is … ya know …

brodys friend

EVE: I’m sorry. I can’t imagine Nessa changing like that. I mean, we’re really different and sometimes that’s hard, but still

WINSTON: now he just texts rose and watches stupid videos online all day

EVE: ugh I’m sorry

WINSTON: sorry this is probably boring

EVE: it’s not! Sometimes I think Nessa thinks I’m. I don’t know

WINSTON: what

EVE: too sensitive. She’s probably right

WINSTON: i think its good to be sensitive

EVE: maybe. And she can be too NOT sensitive sometimes

WINSTON: hey can I see some of your poems?

EVE: how’d you know I write my own???

WINSTON: I just figured

EVE: omg no I don’t show anyone

WINSTON: please!

EVE: maybe …