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I didn't know whether to trust alaska, and i'd certainly had enough of her unpredictability - cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next. i preferred the colonel: at least when he was cranky, he had a reason.

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I Didn't Know Whether To Trust Alaska,

John Green

I didn't know whether to trust alaska, and i'd certainly had enough of her unpredictability - cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next. i preferred the colonel: at least when he was cranky, he had a reason.

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Cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next.

The colonel explained to me that 1. this was alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room because the girl who was supposed to be her roommate got kicked out at the end of last year, and that 3. alaska had cigarettes, although the colonel neglected to ask whether 4. i smoked, which 5. i didn't.

Her underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys and my boxers between us, i thought. five layers, and yet i felt it, the nervous warmth of touching – a pale reflection of the fireworks of one mouth on another, but a reflection nonetheless. and in the almostness of the moment, i cared at least enough. i wasn’t sure whether i liked her, and doubted whether i could trust her, but i cared at least enough to try to find out. her on my bed, wide green eyes staring down at me. the enduring mystery of her sly, almost smirking, smile. five layers between us.

She's just playing a trick on us. this is just an alaska young prank extraordinaire. it's alaska being alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes.

I was so tired of her getting upset for no reason. the way she would get sulky and make references to the freaking oppressive nature of tragedy or whatever but then never said what was wrong, never have any goddamned reason to be sad. and i just think you ought to have a reason. my girlfriend dumped me, so i'm sad. i got caught smoking, so i'm pissed off. my head hurts, so i'm cranky. she never had a reason, pudge. i was just so tired of putting up with her drama. and i just let her go. christ.

Poor mr. pickwick! ... if he played a wrong card, miss bolo looked a small armoury of daggers; if he stopped to consider which was the right one, lady snuphanuph would throw herself back in her chair, and smile with a mingled glance of impatience and pity to mrs. colonel wugsby, at which mrs. colonel wugsby would shrug up her shoulders, and cough, as much as to say she wondered whether he ever would begin.

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