Given First Lines - set 1 round 1

"Give me a chance." 
I had known my résumé was lacking, and that had been my closing argument at the interview.  I rather wish they hadn't. 

"Not you again..."  I had told him repeatedly that he was not her father.  We had done a paternity test that came back negative.  He kept coming by.  I was never going to let him near her, but I was starting to think this argument was just an excuse to see me.  I was exhausted. 

"I'm so in love with you."  He smiled at her words, but her mouth tasted sour.  It was their 20th wedding anniversary and she hadn't been in love with him for 19 years.  She wondered if his smile was just acceptance and resignation to the situation, but she didn't dare ask. 

"Dance with me!"  They were in the grocery store, in the freezer aisle by the vegetables to be exact, and one of the top 40 songs was playing over the store speakers.  She grabbed his hand and pulled him into her in the middle of the aisle.  He was shy, but there wasn't really anyone around and he succumbed. 

"Catch me if you can!"  The little girl was giggling as she ran with her bubble wand, streaming liquid rainbow orbs behind her.  An older man, presumably her father, pretended to run after her.  His tie hung loose around his neck and his top button was undone.  He must have just gotten off work.  It seemed to me a tremendous display of devotion to bring his daughter to the park without even taking the time to change clothes. 

"Are you drunk?"  The question was obviously sarcastic as it was 0900.  It was also rather unprofessional, but the Commander appeared to be at her wit's end as she glared at the Lieutenant sitting two chairs down from her.  It would seem that she did not care for his idea of warfare tactics. 

Opening lines, given first line

(I'm very behind, I know)

1
He sat across from me on the subway car drumming gently on the tops of his thighs and bobbing his head every so slightly causing his shoulder length dreadlocks to sway gently, hypnotically. 

2
She made the bed with hospital corners, used a ruler to space the jars on her kitchen counter, and was absolutely out of control in all the areas of her life that actually mattered. 

3
I suppose you could describe his personality as taupe. 

4
My father was a lawyer, and his father before him, and his father before him and I just want to be a drag queen. 

5
The twins had developed their own language as toddlers, but unlike many twins, they still used it now in their late 20s. 

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"Where were you last night?"  I practised asking the question in the mirror, trying to sound casual and maybe borderline flippant.  Like I really didn't care.  Like it didn't bother me that I had waited and waited for her to come home.  Like I hadn't stayed up pacing the kitchen until 1 in the morning.  Like I hadn't gone to bed and just stared at the digital clock as it slowly ticked away the minutes until the sun rose.  Like I wasn't simultaneously angry and worried. 

Opening Lines Day 11

1
What kind of monster sets the microwave to times that don't end in five or zero? 

2
He was the sort of person who likes to change seats from meeting to meeting to really confuse and annoy his coworkers. 

3
I could get lost in a round room. 

4
She liked to swim from one end of the pool the other without surfacing, even if that meant black edges creeping in on her vision. 

5
Who buys dishes without ensuring that they are microwave safe?