frown of her lips

So innately serious, analytical and calculating these days she almost couldn't be tempted by the repetition of her favorite number, oh.. the blunder that could have been. When, how did it come to impact her now and back then?

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Ten years old in the 4th grade she made it a point to anoint herself the friend of a boy. Joy was shared when she showed that she cared what pattern of boxers he was wearing-- just a peak, every week, to indulge the uncouth humors of their youth. Truth had a hold when they where told, to stop squabbling at the back of the line, yet at the time there was no fight, wrong or right, just a battle of wills for thrills... and because she had a "crush."

The rush of competing to stay while the class walked away, all to see who would be the lines caboose. How obtuse for sure, yet it didn't occur to her as she won the right to stare at the back of his head. Read clear as day, in the hair shaved away, was the number 3 she loved to see.

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It could be, that she liked the number 3 simply for the fact she was attracted to the male, though it doesn't negate the apparent fate such a number has to sway her decisions.

Conditions change but the 3 remains and is the very reason she's writing for a challenge in Comedy. A tragedy though, how compelled she can be for a numerical digit of no tangible substance-- unless you make it in 3D. (Shit, there it is again!) She didn't foresee where her addiction would go, and while aspects of her life could be a morbid Stand-Up Comedy show, "do you want others to know?" is a question she doesn't ask lightly; it would be cool if someone made a $3 note though.

So she's aware it's more than the natural frown of her lips, that people ask, "Why so serious?"