Purple paper

Purple paper ripped out of my notebook 

you're beautiful in all the ways 

it says in my purple fountain pen 

I taught my sister how to hold the pen 

and she wrote me the note 

I fold it down the middle then the middle of that 

drop it on the floor. 

She reads the note off the floor in English 

doesn't get caught for passing notes Ms. L isn't like that 

and slips it in her pencil case 

with a smile 

behind her hair. 

It's in her locker 

someone slipped it through the slits 

landed on the black marble French notebook 

she reads it and 

thinks about the ones she tries to impress 

they wouldn't tell her that.

Looking for his pen 

he finds the purple paper 

someone dropped it into his bag 

who? 

does it matter? 

when he finds his pencil he draws flowers 

on the edge of the ripped purple paper 

then curls it in his palm 

to give to someone else.