palinoia-art book II

42 - I HAVE NEWS (and a doodle :3)

TODAY WAS A GOOD DAY. I WILL GIB THE PLAY-BY-PLAY
oh no a rhyme
HERE WE GO—

So this morning, my crush was trying to call me short again, but I was like, "no, no, wait till science, no," and sped up so he couldn't catch up with me. Right at that moment, our friend (I'll call him T) came up next to me and went, "what did he say?" And I explained it. So the two of us walked to our classes and then T, who was originally an inch shorter than me and my crush (G) liked to tease us both for our height, realized that he was taller than me. It took a sec for it to sink in before I was like, "YES" and pumped my fist in the air:3
So then G and I went to first pd (science for us) and he almost called me short but I beat him so >:)
Later, when the bell rang, G and I walked to our second periods together and he called me short so I called him tall bc that's how it works >:3
Third pd for me was PE and we have that together, but my school separated the boys and girls so there are two different gyms. After PE, I ran to catch up with him and said "You're tall" and he kind of grinned and said "I know; you're small"
So that's how THAT went
Durning 4th pd (math for me), T texted me asking if I liked G. I said yes and figured that either G was behind it or that T would tell G right away bc they have 4th pd together. One of those turned out to be right.
Durning 5th pd, G and I both have a "study hall" type of class, but it's also kind of a free pd cuz we can baaaasically do whatever we want, within our teachers' rules. Mine is super loose and she lets us use our phones if we aren't failing a class or don't have hw, so G and I always text bc we have to different teachers. I introduced him to Whiteboard.Fox so we spent the pd drawing goofy things on there :)
At one point he drew two hearts: one around the ALL of the drawings (we had been competing to see who could draw the biggest thing and I'll show y'all screenshots when I'm done talking) and another around the stick figures i'd drawn of T, G and I just to "accurately" show our heights. For a week or so, I've had a small theory that he liked me, and this pretty much proved it. Here was our conversation:

Me: Okie what's the heart for
G: Fun :)
G: Zoom out
G: All the way
G: It's bigger:)
Me: *reply to 'Fun'* Ok... 😏
G: 😁
Me: Are u SURE the Hearts are for 'fun'
G: Maybe...
Me: Yeah. Ur not convincing me
G: 2 mins
G: What's that mean
Me: Ik
Me: That the hearts are just for 'fun'
Me: I'm not convinced of that
Me: Hmmm 😏😏😏
G: Ok but it's bigger on the outside tho 👍
Me: Ik I saw that one
Me: I'm verrrry suspicious of u mister
G: Wwwwhhhhyyyy
Me: All the hearts and then the "Maybe..."
Me: Hmmmm 😏😏
G: :)

So yeah. That. I saw especially suspicious of him then. AND THEN AT LUNCH, I texted T to ask him if G liked me and I sent him screenshots of the Whiteboard drawings with the heart. T didn't get back to me for a little while cuz he was with his friends and then I had to get up to go get lunch. When I came back, I had a message from T:

T: Yes [my name]
T: G does like u

...
My heart literally stopped. I love it when I have a theory and then it ends up being correct :)))
I texted G and was like IKNEWITIKNEWITIKNEWIT
And the he looked up and over at me like he does whenever I text him and smiled like always. APPARENTLY OUR FRIEND M KNEW TOO THAT G LIKED ME :/ and also apparently nearly told me abt it :)
So G and I walked to our next classes together :3 and chatted bc I love how easy it is for us to just talk like that.
We texted a little durning seventh pd because it's one of the classes he can text in and I can usually get away with it myself—we weren't doing anything that required my full attention, just a tiny little thing that we did on our own.
Then G and I walked to the busses together and he was being soooo sweeet ahhhh
He kept holding the doors for me 😁 it was so nice
On Tuesdays the busses are ALWAYS late (I'm not gonna get into WHY) so we stood next to each other, waiting for his bus cuz it's always the first one there and mine is always last. But right before his bus came, he reached into his pocket and pulled something out: it was a tiny gold heart charm with the word "Love" engraved into it.
I was shocked; no one that had ever liked me had given me anything, especially just out of the blue like that. He handed it to me and explained how he'd found it near a water fountain, but then he had to go so we said goodbye and walked our separate ways. I didn't care that it had been on the ground or anything; I was too shocked and happy to care.
I've only told my dad (ironically) abt G, but in minimal detail (aka, he doesn't know abt the charm)
Anyways, T, G and I plan to try to meet up at the park in our neighborhood bc we all live in he same one :)
I'm so excited for that :3
OKAY PICTUREZ
Here's Whiteboard.Fox screenshots: