(#1) My Survey Dude

*65 / it's only chemistry

Reese was annoyed.

He was annoyed knowing that he had to go and sit in Chemistry (the lesson he hated with a passion but took anyway) with Willow when they still weren't exactly official.

He wanted to ask her but he didn't know how. Even though Willow thinks he's incredibly confident, he is still human and still gets nervous, he just doesn't like showing it.

Reese watched as Willow walked into the class. She looked stunning, as usual. She was always happy. She wore her heart on her sleeve and she wasn't afraid of voicing her opinions. Maybe that's what attracted him to her in the first place.

She didn't give a shit about what others thought of her and he found that strangely admirable.

"Hey." She smiled and took her usual seat next to him.

"Hey you." He responded with a grin.

Reese sat there wishing she hadn't fallen asleep on him the previous night. He admitted his feelings for her and asked her to be his girlfriend and she fucking fell asleep.

He knew he couldn't blame her though. Who asks someone to be their girlfriend at 4a.m? Only someone like Reese.

The lesson dragged on insanely slowly. Reese found himself dozing off as he didn't exactly sleep the night before. He was up until 5a.m. and then fell asleep for an hour and woke up again at 6.

"Rise and shine." Willow said sarcastically from beside him.

"Huh?" Reese groaned, staring at the desk in annoyance.

"Do you want to fail this class or something? Wake up." Willow shook his shoulder gently.

"If you kiss me, I'll be wide awake." Reese said without thinking, still preoccupied with the idea of sleeping (and kissing.)

Willow felt slightly taken aback, not expecting him to say that. Then again, everything that comes out of Reese's mouth is unexpected.

"You wish." She said without looking him.

The lesson continued with Reese falling asleep every now and then and Willow trying to get him to stay awake. During the last thirty minutes of class, Reese (finally awake) found himself copying answers off of Willow.

"Dude, quit copying me."

"It's called teamwork, babe."

"Oh really? I don't remember the teacher saying we could work together. Let me ask her-"

"Nooo."

"What, why?" The sarcasm was so evident in Willow's voice that Reese wanted to laugh.

"Fine. But can you tutor me because I am going to fail and I really need to pass."

"Shouldn't have fallen asleep then."

"You can't blame me though, can you? I was on the phone with you last night and then you fell asleep on me when I was..." Reese trailed off, unsure of what to say.

He knew now wasn't the time to ask her to be his girlfriend. He wanted to do it properly.

In a way he was sort of glad Willow fell asleep because he wanted to ask her face to face but he was also annoyed because he was nervous as fuck last night for no reason whatsoever.

Willow stared at him and smiled. She really liked this boy.

"Yes."

Reese was confused.

"Yes what?"

"Oh I thought we were talking about what you asked me last night."

Reese sat there staring at her until realisation hit and then slowly a smile grew on his face and he has never felt so happy before, especially since his mother passed away.

"Oh, don't get happy, it's only Chemistry." Willow said with sarcasm dripping off of every word and a huge smile plastered onto her features.

Reese wasn't sure if the pun was deliberate or not, but he knew one thing for sure: he was completely in love with Willow. And somehow this made it okay for him to lean over and kiss her right there and then in Chemistry.

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