Leave them

John unpause them just before he slipped out and walk down the sidewalk. A bit later he spotted an ex-high school classmate of yours: Tori Cooper. Tori was the school tough chick. She was suspended at least once every year for fighting or smoking. She barely graduated and last John heard, she was working as a night clerk at a 24 hour gas station. He saw her smoking outside her parents' house, where she still lived.

"What up, Tori?" asked John.

She looked at you for a second and squinted her eyes a bit. "John?"

"Yes, we had a few classes together. What are you up to?"

"Nothing," said Tori. She turned and ignored John and took another puff.

John paused her.