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This is the spot,” I say lamely, gesturing around me while Caz takes everything in. The rows of bamboos. The swings. I’m not sure if I’ll regret it later, bringing him up here, but right now I don’t actually mind his company.  \n“Why?” he asks as he sits down on the swings, kicking his legs out like a little kid. I move to join him, the cake balanced on my lap.  \n“Why what?”  \n“Why don’t you ever hang out in the cafeteria with the rest ofus?”  \nI look away from him. Grab onto the seat, the wood cool to the touch.“I don’t know. It’s nicer up here, I guess.”  \nThere’s a pause. He kicks out again, and we swing back, higher, the wind buoying up our feet. If I closed my eyes I could imagine myself flying.“Then who do you usually hang out with?”  \nThe question brings me crashing down to solid ground again.  \n“I ...” My tongue feels glued to my mouth. I don’t like where this conversation is going. Because it’ll be humiliating if I tell him the truth, which is that I still hang out with nobody, but it’ll be even more humiliating if I have to make a friend up. Before, I could’ve at least offered up a half-answer by talking about Zoe, but that’s not true anymore. We haven’t spoken since our last call. I’m scared we’ll never speak again.  \n“I don’t know,” I repeat.  \n“But you must—”  \n“Look, can we stop talking about this? Seriously.” The words sound casual enough in my head but they come out like knives. When I turn around, the wound is visible all over Caz’s expression.  \nThen his jaw hardens. The swinging stops.  \n“You never tell me anything about yourself,” he says quietly.  \nMy insides turn to dust. I’ve ruined it. This was meant to be such a nice, simple conversation and we were meant to share his birthday cake—it’s his birthday—and I ruined it all within minutes. God. What is wrong with me.  \nBefore I can try and fix things, I feel his weight shift, the swings creaking once, softly. He rises to his feet, eyes ahead.  \n“Where—where are you going?”  \n“The cafeteria,” he says, already walking further and further away from me, to the rooftop door. It opens. Shuts with a horrible click of finality.  \nAnd then it’s just me sitting alone on the swings.  \nI close my eyes and think to myself, it’s fine.  \nIt’s fine.  \nExcept it’s not.  \nThis is why I always leave first. Because I’d rather be the one to do it than to watch someone else leave.  \nThe minutes scrape by. I should probably eat but my stomach feels like sloshing acid and it’s not as if I could eat the cake anyways. Caz is mad at me. Or maybe he just wants nothing to do with me anymore, and that’s the natural pattern of things but even after all this time, that still doesn’t take away the sting—  \nThen: footsteps.  \nI almost leap off the swings, and the hope that courses through my body is ridiculous, dangerous, there’s so much of it. It would kill me ifit wasn’t Caz who came back, but this time I’m lucky.  \n“What’s wrong?” Caz makes his way over, hands stuffed in pockets, like everything’s totally normal. The abrupt change makes my head spin.  \nI stare.“You ... You left.”  \nHe stares back at me.“Yeah, uh. To get some forks from the cafeteria?”At first I think he’s lying, but then he really does pull out a napkin and two plastic forks from his pocket.  \n“Oh.” My cheeks warm. I’m an idiot. I am literally such an idiot.  \n“Eliza,” he says, sitting back down beside me, and there’s something in his voice that makes me feel understood in a way I don’t want to be.“Did you  \nthink I’d stormed off on you or something? What, just because of the slightest disagreement?”  \n“Of course not.” But I say it too fast.  \nHe shakes his head, looks like he doesn’t know whether or not to laugh, but the tone he settles on is serious.“I would","cbCaiuK0sbvn1zVy","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuK0sbvn1zVy","pdf",112364,"English","# Deleted Scene – Caz’s birthday\n## Rooftop conversation and misunderstanding\n## Caz returns and the cake is shared","[{\"question\":\"Where does the scene take place, and why?\",\"answer\":\"The scene unfolds on the rooftop, where the sun provides relief from the late autumn chill and Eliza brings Caz away from the cafeteria.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does Caz leave during the conversation?\",\"answer\":\"Caz is hurt that Eliza never tells him anything about herself; after Eliza urges them to stop talking, the conversation turns tense and the swinging stops as he walks away.\"},{\"question\":\"How is the conflict resolved and what do they do afterward?\",\"answer\":\"Caz returns, claiming he went to the cafeteria for forks, and they sit together again. 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