"You like him?" Ava asked Lydia as they sat in Ava's apartment. Lydia had went over there for the day to hang out. She had already gotten Niki's input on the situation, but she needed fresh eyes.
"Yeah. I mean he is really cute and sweet and just ughhh. Like he's mean, in a funny way and I can tell he doesn't really mean it when he's messing with me." Lydia ranted.
"You like that he's mean to you?"
"It's not like he is mean in an actual mean way he says things in a jokingly mean way, you know?" She said trying to explain it better.
"No, I get it, it's just odd. Like most girls want boys to be nice and sweet to them and win them over with chocolate and flowers and stuff, but it's a little odd that you find it cute that he's mean to you."
"He's not straight up mean to me he just like pokes fun at me but I do it back to him. It's like a back and forth joke thing." Ava slightly laughed at that. "What?"
"It's just- I don't think you'll win him over by being mean to him."
"Well, I mean that's his humor. We aren't constantly mean to each other, he compliments me from time to time and I do the same to him."
"I think- personally- you should reel back on the like mean stuff. Just compliment him more and make nicer jokes, you know. I feel like this would be a more opposites attract situation rather than two people poking fun constantly."
"Oh..." Lydia felt stupid. She thought she had been making progress with Blake, but instead it seemed like she was still in the friendzone and not the crush area of Blake's life.
"Okay, now, you said you had something else to tell me or rant about." Ava said as she looked to Lydia.
"Oh, right. So basically the other night my mom calls me and..."
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"Why are you buying this again?" Tanner asked as Blake looked at one of those glass containers for flowers which held a realistic (but obviously fake) version of the flower from tangled.
"None of your business." Blake said trying to get Tanner to leave him alone and leave his room.
"You don't even like Disney movies that much. You only watch them with Lydia...oh my god!" Tanner said coming to a realization.
"Would you keep it down." Blake shushed him.
"You like Lydia!"
"Shut up." Blake said as he smacked Tanner on the arm.
"Holy shit. I didn't realize you like her- wait you've watched movies on the living room couch before, EWWW!"
"Tanner! Shut the hell up. We haven't done anything! I haven't even told her I like her!" Blake tells him.
"Why not she clearly likes you back." Tanner shrugs.
"Last time you said that I told the girl I was talking to that I liked her and she told me she was a fucking Lesbian. So I'm not listening to you this time." Blake said turning back to his computer.
"I can't believe I didn't see it sooner. I mean you tease her so much, but you still compliment her. And the way she teases you back I mean...holy shit." Tanner laughed to himself.
"Will you just get out?" Blake said pushing him out of the room so he could finish finding what he needed.
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Lydia sighed as she walked into Schlatts house. "I bring gifts! Aka food." She said setting down the to go containers from Caine's.
"Yes! I am fucking starving." He said as he took his food and the drink. He immediately knew something was off though, he could tell by how she held herself when she stood in front of him and how she flopped down on the couch instead of sitting down gently. "What's up?"
"Huh? Oh, nothing." She said dismissing the issue that's been bothering her for hours.
"C'mon tell me. I've known you since seventh grade, I can tell when you're not okay or something is bothering you." Schlatt said as he began to tear into his food.
"I've already talked to two people about this so I have enough opinions." She said as she ate a few fries.
"Did they have the same view on it?" He asked making sure that she wasn't trying not to battle with herself to please everyone. Lydia didn't respond. "Lydia..."
"They both had a little bit of the same opinion but not entirely." She said sheepishly taking a sip of her sweet tea.
"Alright. Lay it on me."
"No, I can't."
"You can and you know it."
"Fine." Lydia sighed. "I like Blake."
"Blake? As in Yumi, Blake?"
"I knew I shouldn't have told you."
"I never said it was a bad thing. I was surprised, but I honestly think you'd be good for each other. You guys have similar humor, too. I mean, you guys do movie nights like almost every week."
"Wait really?"
"I mean yeah, I would be surprised if you said you didn't like him."
"No, I mean the humor thing."
"Yeah. He has that bully humor. He's good at it because you can tell when he's joking and being serious. You're kind of the same way, but you have a toned down version of it so you aren't as mean and you have that niceness to it so I'm able to see you're joking around."
"So men like it when you have the same humor as them?"
"Yeah. Most people do." Schlatt laughed. They chatted for a while longer about the situation before Schlatt brought something else up. "My mom called me earlier."
"Oh yeah? What about?" Lydia asked throwing her empty food container away.
"Said when her and your mom were out that they ran into Samantha."
"She tell you that my mom signed me up to do her hair for the wedding?"
"Yeah...did your mom tell you who she was marrying?"
"Nope."
"Would you like to know?"
"All I'm dealing with is bridesmaids and the bride. I couldn't care less about the groom."
"I really think you should know in case you run into him."
"Schlatt, it's fine. I really don't care."
"Alright. Don't say I didn't try to warn you." He said the last bit under his breath.
"Huh?"
"Nothing."
