Jacob walked with one hand in front of him, trying to grasp an intangible idea as he spoke. "You see, love is... love is a lot like success." He paused, either for dramatic effect or because he was gathering his thoughts. Melanie watched him, Jacob was only two years older than her, yet he treated those two years as if they were decades of experience. He was at least a head taller than her and he tried dressing like Robert de Niro in Taxi Driver while Melanie wore her pink and white gingham dress. They walked along the neighborhood with aimless purpose. Jacob inally took a breath, "And I mean you gotta fail a lot, before you succeed. You need to drudge through break-ups before you find love." He finished his thought and looked at his hand, focusing on it. "You get what I'm saying?" He asked.
"I guess." Melanie looked at Jacob, "Kind of poetic for your taste, I bet you took it from a book or something." She teased and laughed lightly.
Jacob was silent and lost in thought. He snapped out of it and turned his head, "What was that?" He asked. Melanie blinked and laughed shaking her head. Walking, Jacob kicked a piece of sidewalk that stuck up and stumbled, causing Melanie to burst into a fit of snorting giggles.
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