RAM {Random Access Memory}

A Date - Avi & Eko

It was a beautiful autumn day, the ones that are just between summer and fall, so the sun still shines but it's covered by clouds. The wind blew, and chilled Eko as she walked down the mall street. She was thinking, quite diligently, about someone she'd known for a while, but only acknowledged a few months ago.

His name was Avi. It's not like he was hard to notice, he just hadn't really talked to her before. But now he did. Almost every day. And Eko started noticing how hazel his eyes were. And how tall he was. And how he teased her in a way that could be flirting, but wasn't since he did it to every other girl to. Or was it? She didn't know.

Eko breathed in the crisp air, trying not to over think things too much. If she did, she would start to doubt herself. In what ways, she didn't know, but she didn't want that to happen.

The idea of Eko going to the mall didn't really have a purpose. She knew Avi sometimes hung out there, but it was a Friday night, she doubted he didn't have anything to do. There was probably a football game for him and his friends to go to, or something like that. He was popular, but not in the way that he used to be. He used to be huge fuckboy, but over the summer, he changed. He became compassionate, and when his two closest friends were being stupid or something, he wouldn't participate with them, and he would tell them to stop.

And he noticed Eko. For the first time. Avi and Eko never really used to talk, it was really just Eko's friend Tansy talking to him a bunch. Especially with the new guy that became friends with them. Tansy really started talking to them after that. Eko's other friend, Mizu, was also close to one of Avi's friends. But whenever they would go and talk to Avi's group, Eko just stayed towards the back and tried not to be noticed.

But she was definitely being noticed now. Avi would be a step or two behind Eko, and if he was on the right, he would tap her left shoulder, so that she would look that way. But she would always look the opposite way of the shoulder he tapped, and he'd get caught. He would smile in the goofy way he does, and keep on walking, while Eko would blush and tell him to stop, even though she didn't want him to. She kind of liked getting the attention she was receiving from him, even though she knew that was what someone who's super naïve would want. No guy had ever been like that to her, and she liked it more than she thought she would.

And there were the times he played with her hair, too. One time, when she was headed inside from recess, he stood behind her, and ruffled her hair, like it was delicate. Then he just rested his hand there, on the back of her neck, until she turned and freaked out, which was less than two seconds. She had never been treated like that before, and she didn't know how to react.

Of course, there were little moments in between, too. During first semester, they both had signed up to watch movies during eighth period every Tuesday. Unknowingly, of course, it was just a movie series they both happened to like. On one day, Eko sat in her customary right back corner seat. Avi came to the seat next to her and sat down, smiling like he usually did. A few moments later, he asked her, "Wanna move closer together?" Eko again, didn't really know how to react, but she wanted to be flirty. She tried looking at him with an amused look, but she guessed it didn't work, because a few seconds later, he got up and walked to the opposite corner, where his friends were.

Eko tried not to think of these times, one, because she felt like a complete and utter idiot after most of them happened, and two, because if she over thought things, she would start to think he liked her. Which was completely impossible. There were so many other girls he would like before he would like her. Like Tansy, for one. She was so outgoing and beautiful. She could get any guy if she wanted to. So could Mizu, she was just short and adorable. Minus the fact that she wanted to murder most everyone. But we ignore that sometimes. And Kat and Zora. Everybody had great personalities, and they were all fit, too. All things Eko was not in her eyes.