little miss popular

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hi friends

sorry i didn't update yesterday

i've been too busy texting him

yes i know, the story is finally going somewhere

okay

so

yesterday was his birthday (he turned 18)

so i decided to give him my number as a present

how dumb am i

but it still worked, i'm currently texting him still right now

so i did this:

*casually crosses out phone number for the purpose of this story*

and i planned on giving it to him at the end of english

so i'm about to give it to him and this "popular girl" who is in my french class decides to come up and ask me about our test at the exact moment that i was getting out that tiny paper slip

so i'm quickly packing up to catch up to him and then we're walking next to each other in the hallway

keeping in mind that i'm such an awkward human being, i started the quick hall conversation with:

"hey"

"hey"

i pull out the slip, hold it in front of him and the first words that run through my mind and out my mouth are:

"burn it if you don't want it, i don't care"

he looks at the little paper, confused, and i just veer away to my locker to get my lunch

and in the first minute of lunch, i get a reply.

i will share a screenshot of our first texts:

(i cropped out his name because i've been keeping it a secret this whole time and it's staying that way)

oh my god, like, he actually texted me back

and he was sitting at the lunch table next to mine

and i could see him reading and responding to my texts

so i knew it was real

we texted all through lunch, all through last period, and (almost) all night

here's a conversation that i figured i should share:

cupcake

ohmygod

he called me cupcake

(and he's done it twice more since then)

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i texted him early this morning because i had a doctor's appointment in another state at nine am

and he was awake then

and i didn't text him until right before i got back to school

and i saw him in lunch but i didn't get a response

and i was a little upset

but i knew there was shitty service in the school, so i didn't want to worry too much

but i texted again during the period after lunch

"...is there still shit service or am i just being ignored?🤔"

but i left last period (still without a text back) and i saw him come out of a door a little ahead of me in the hallway

by that point, my anxiety was like, telling me i had done something wrong and he didn't want to talk to me anymore

i couldn't make eye contact so i looked a little down

and he cut in front of me to walk away down the other side of the hallway

i got to my locker and i almost started crying

i was leaving school in the middle of pouting about it to a friend

and he texts back

"shit service"

and i took in a big gasp of breath i didn't know i was holding

and we just started texting nonstop again

but i'm honestly so happy

i mean, it was really so i have contact with him when he drops out

but this is great too

and this way, he makes me blush and smile without even sitting next to me

and i'm honestly feeling amazing

i feel like i'm floating

he makes me so happy

i'm smiling

a lot