This is my final submission! The story is done, and the art is all there. Full transcript below.

TRANSCRIPT:

[music playing]
*small laugh* hello there.

Hi!

Did you just…
Yep!
How do you…
How you YOU talk?
I… guess I don’t really know.

Beat

You like this park?
I used to.
But… not anymore?
I guess I just grew up. Happens fast.
So why’d you come back?
Just thinking… about someone I used to know.

Beat

Who? Who was it?
Oh. *sigh* Lizzie.
Was she a lizard? I used to know a lizard.
*Small laugh* no, I don’t think she was a lizard. Just a friend.
Does she come to the park too?
*sigh* no.
Oh, she grew up, then. Like you.
*pause* no.

Long beat

What happened?
She got sick.
Oh. Will she be better soon?

Beat

Oh.

Beat

Hey, where are you going?
C’mon. I’ll show you.

Hey, what should i call you?
*pause* How about… Russell?
*heh* ok then. Russell it is.

How long has it been?
5 years.

What did you do?
I closed myself off. But eventually, I learned to move on. I made new friends.
That’s good, right?
Yeah.

Beat

Maybe… we could be friends?
Sure… I’d like that.