{"id":46,"date":"2025-08-22T00:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.unpad.ac.id\/sabila24003\/?p=46"},"modified":"2025-09-09T23:16:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T16:16:34","slug":"poof-wip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.unpad.ac.id\/sabila24003\/2025\/08\/22\/poof-wip\/","title":{"rendered":"poof (WIP)"},"content":{"rendered":"

WORK IN PROGRESS!<\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

Please head over to this link<\/a> to read the finished chapter.<\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

 <\/p>\n

Being born with long legs certainly comes with its perks\u2026 <\/span>And quirks<\/span><\/i>. Although the comments from people asking if I play basketball or \u201chow\u2019s the weather up there?\u201d get dull pretty quickly, there is one specific issue I\u2019ve been dealing with. It\u2019s sometimes hard to overcome, too. Well, not <\/span>overcome<\/span><\/i>, in a sense. I can\u2019t control my height, <\/span>obviously<\/span><\/i>. But when you\u2019re in a family that has the tradition of giving hand-me-downs instead of going to a store once or twice to buy your son a new pair of pants, jeans, or whatever trousers\u2013they can get small on them pretty quickly. And there\u2019s nothing that I hate more than short pants.<\/span><\/p>\n

I jump, pulling up and adjusting the waistband of the jersey shorts Peter lent me as I catch sight of my own reflection in the mirror. The owner of said pants sits on my bed, slouching, and his tired eyes do not seem impressed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Peter signed. \u201cDon\u2019t pull it up, you\u2019re just making it even shorter on you-\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Why is this so short?<\/b>\u201d I blurt out.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Cause it\u2019s <\/span>shorts<\/span><\/i>, dumbass. It\u2019s supposed to be short.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

My eyes took one last careful look at the jersey shorts on my legs. The way the fabric hugged my thighs above the knee makes my leg <\/span>unbreathable<\/span><\/i>, in a way. If I take no more than one step, it will ride up until it reaches my crotch, and I\u2019ve had enough of that embarrassing moment.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut this is too short,\u201d I said, quickly removing it again. \u201cIf I knew your shorts were <\/span>this<\/span><\/i> short, I wouldn\u2019t even ask to borrow yours from the start.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWill you just-\u201d Peter groaned, standing up from my bed jerkily. \u201cCan you just put it on for now and like, what, wrap a jacket around or something? We\u2019re getting late.\u201d He starts to march around the room, perhaps looking for the jacket he mentioned.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOr can we just skip this one game? Just for once?\u201d I whined, throwing the shorts in his direction before I swiftly changed into my sweatpants.<\/span><\/p>\n

Peter caught his own shorts with one hand. \u201cMason, come on, we never skip one game.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

When do I tell him that I\u2019m not as interested in Basketball as he is? But I didn\u2019t have the heart to tell him just yet. Peter was getting antsy as the time passed without us heading into the town\u2019s field. So we run; him in his jersey attire, and me in my \u201cactivewear\u201d. We jumped out of my window (even though the front door was open), ran over to the backyard, and jumped over the fence. <\/span>Thump<\/span><\/i>. As a tall individual, <\/span>I <\/span><\/i>even have to use my hands and struggle to hop over the wooden fence, but it\u2019s all muscle memory now. I never get to think it over now that the time has come for the match, and Peter is beating me far, even though this isn\u2019t a race.<\/span><\/p>\n

The crowd soars. Every seat in the bleachers was littered with people shouting and jumping. It\u2019s weird to see such a small field filled with townspeople I would come across any other day. There\u2019s Todd in the far corner, but he\u2019s not driving his daughter to school. There\u2019s McKenzie in the bottom seat, but she\u2019s not doing random cartwheels in the street while her nanny watches (and worries). There\u2019s also Suzie in the middle, but she\u2019s surprisingly not knitting her half-finished sweater now. Then there\u2019s\u2026 An empty seat. <\/span>Two<\/span><\/i> empty seats.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s go, buddy-o.\u201d Peter clawed my arm, pulling my feet off my glued position as he took me to our now designated seats.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

MORE TO COME (AND REVISED)… Again, please check the link I have attached in the beginning to read the finished chapter! \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WORK IN PROGRESS! Please head over to this link to read the finished chapter.   Being born with long legs certainly comes with its perks\u2026 And quirks. Although the comments from people asking if I play basketball or \u201chow\u2019s the weather up there?\u201d get dull pretty quickly, there is one specific issue I\u2019ve been dealing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22420,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing-class","category-english","category-short-story","category-wip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unpad.ac.id\/sabila24003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unpad.ac.id\/sabila24003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unpad.ac.id\/sabila24003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unpad.ac.id\/sabila24003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22420"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unpad.ac.id\/sabila24003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unpad.ac.id\/sabila24003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unpad.ac.id\/sabila24003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unpad.ac.id\/sabila24003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unpad.ac.id\/sabila24003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unpad.ac.id\/sabila24003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}