33 Days To Live (Under Revision)

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Nothing is harder then going into battle blind.

Even though I knew a lot of Lucy's private thoughts and interests, I was having trouble finding out what worked on her. I thought the pick up line would've been my golden ticket but it backfired.

So for the first time since middle school I began googling girl advice while Andrew hung over my shoulder. Since I had told him the secret about the journal, the two of us had become inseparable.

I was beside myself that I hadn't met this kid sooner, he was the perfect friend. Our humor was the same, we liked the same music, and it was like we had a telepathic bond--if I thought something he'd figure it out with one glance.

When Luke woke up he was going to love this guy.

Andrew's friends weren't to bad either, all of them were pretty cool actually and they all were foaming with questions about my radio show.

Questions that made me feel a little guilty because while saving my radio show should be the most important thing to me right now, it was slowly becoming something that slipped my mind.

Just another thing on my list of problems I wish weren't weren't happening.

I also hadn't talked to Rachel since she accidentally told me she was leaving for New York. My parents and her both tried to talk to me about it but I brushed them off. I would eventually talk about it but I didn't want to right now.

Instead I distracted myself with the mission at hand.

Every day for the next four days I tried everything I could to get Lucy to talk to me. Each morning I'd wait for her at her locker and come up to her before showing her a magic trick, telling a her a joke, using another pick up line, a compliment whatever I had lined up.

Always she'd look at me blankly then walk to homeroom and each morning I'd follow her to her homeroom and sit on the floor next to her desk until the teacher caught me.

Each morning I'd repeat the routine.

Then every day at lunch I'd try to catch her on the way to the girls bathroom. I had always knew girls were good at giving boys the cold shoulder but I swear this girl was the Jedi master of it. Not even Andrew, who had three sisters and a married brother could figure out why she was ignoring me.

The only conclusion that came to mind was she was still holding the bathroom incident against me and truthfully I didn't blame her. I just wasn't brave enough to apologize yet.

I knew I needed to do something brazen if I was to make progress with her. So far the only thing that had changed was Victoria seemed to be avoiding me since the trash incident, I could only hope that it'll be a permanent change.

Not the change I truly want though and by the morning of the twenty-ninth day I was feeling despair as I played my playlist of songs that morning for my radio show.

As I listened to the music I doodled on the back of a piece of paper I had found on the floor. This morning I had no ideas for segments so I just decided to play music and focus on my doodle. At first I wasn't sure what it was but as time went on I saw it was a flower, so I just rolled with it.

The only time I stopped was to change it over to the next song.

By the end of the radio show I had two flowers perfectly drawn and I knew what I was going to do to get Lucy's attention today.

"Alright guys and that wraps up our morning of eccentric songs. Thanks for some of the suggestions, who knew Zelda enthusiasts knew how to pump you up? Tune into Radio Boy tomorrow for to get some more fun singing action and I'll try out some famous jokes on you. Ben is out!"