Emmah's POV
After I showered, I went downstairs to say good night to Jace and trudged up stairs to my room. I brushed and braided my hair and then read a book for a while and finally gave up because I was too tired. I slept like a baby and dreamed of Alex and me getting together, and what it would be like.
I had to wake up early because it was my day to run in the morning because I run every other day. I put on some sweats and a sweatshirt, put my hair in a ponytail and told Jace I was heading out. My normal route is to run through the neighborhoods, get a coffee at McDonalds, and then run back home to shower. By the time I got to McDonalds, the temperature had risen so my face was beat red, great. I walk in and mentally face a palm myself, Alex Is here. I try to hide my face but the butterflies come back to my stomach and I had to just get a small peak at him. He catches my eye, waves to me and walks towards me while smiling. His perfect smile with his straight and white teeth. "Hey, what are you doing here so early?" He asks me. "I go here every other day after my morning run. Then, what are you doing here if you don't mind me asking." I tell him. " you come here every other day? Well, I had to turn in papers so I thought I'd stop by to get a drink." He explains. The bell dings signalling my coffee is up so I grab it and take a sip from it. "Well I gotta get home now so I guess I'll see you at school later." I say beginning to walk away. "Wait!" He calls to me while grabbing my arm. I give him a questioning look as if to ask, 'what?'. "you look pretty hot in sweats" he tells me as he lets go of my arm. My cheeks instantly turn red as I shyly smile at him and walk out the door. Oh. My. God. I don't know if he was serious or just messing with me when he said that but no boy had ever said I'm hot before. I have this ridiculously huge smile I can't seem to wipe of my face as I run back towards my house. I walk inside the house and run upstairs to go shower and still have a smile on my face. Once I get out and get dressed I wake up Jace and head down stairs. When he finally ventures down, he gives me a weird look as he sees my smile. "what are you so happy about?" He finally asks. "Oh, nothing. I'm just in a really good mood today for some reason." I exclaim very excitedly. "okay?"is all he says.
Jace drives us to school and walks me to my locker like usual and Alex walks up to us as we are standing there. "what up man," Jace says while raising his fist for a fist-bump from Alex. "Hey Jace. Hey Emmah." as he says my name he gives me his amazing smile and waves at me. "hi." is all I say back. The bell rings before anybody could say anything more so we wave each other good bye and start walking. "Hey Emmah, I'm going down the same hall as you, I'll walk you to class." Alex tells me. "Ok" Alex walks up next to me and we walk to class together discussing what class we are going to. "Well I go here so, thanks for walking me to class though." I tell him as I turn into my first period class.
I totally forgot there was Andy in this class so I walk to my seat and smile at him while saying 'hi'. "So when are we going to practice our scene for the project?" Andy asks me. "uh, I guess any day this week wood is for me. I don't usually have very much stuff planned." I tell him. "We can work at my house tomorrow if you would like" He asks me. "Yeah I guess that works with me.". Andy looks at my face for a little bit, longer than I would prefer to so I clear my throat in hopes of making him look away from me. This catches his attention and he turns away from me blushing. We sit in class listening to Mr. Long drone on about something I wasn't paying attention to until he gives us partner work time. We have a 'who am I assignment'. it pretty much just asks you to fill out basic info about yourself. Andy hardly makes eye contact with me let alone loom at me the entire time so I give up trying to make him. The bell rings and he says a polite goodbye and rushes out of the room. "what the heck is up with him?" I ask nobody in particular.
I walk out of the classroom to meet Alex waiting for me. "where to next?" He asks me. " history with Mr. Ashley." I tell him. "Well I'm going down the same hall as you again so let's walk shall we?" He says to me gesturing for me to start walking. He walks me to class and then has to leave for his own. Once class starts, I can barely wait for passing period just to walk and talk with Alex. He ends up walking me to all of my classes even if he doesn't go down that hall, so I see him a bunch today. Even at lunch he asks if he can sit with me and my friends. He jokes around with us sharing some funny stories too. We all are sad when lunch ends because we can't talk with Alex anymore. Once he walks me to gym, my last class he says, " I'll see you at baseball practice right?". " of course." I tell him. He smiles at me and then walks off to his next class.
I practically skip the whole time in gym because we got a 'do whatever you want day'. Andy doesn't even talk to me and Taylor the whole class and I wonder if I said something wrong to him. Whatever, if he doesn't want to talk then I won't force him too. Once class ends I'm really excited because I get to see Alex again. I meet him by the door to the locker rooms and say hi. He smiles back and says hey, back as he walks into the locker rooms. I start walking to the field when I hear somebody calling out my name. I turn around and I see Alex is jogging towards me. " I still have to walk you out to the field too, you know?" I smile and laugh with him as he tells me jokes as we walk to the field. Jace meets up with us and joins our conversation. The boys have to leave to start practice as I assume my position on the bleachers. The guys are being put on teams today and Jace and Alex make the same team. I secretly cheer in my head thinking that it's more time to see Alex.
After practice is over, we walk to the locker rooms together and the boys leave to change. Alex comes out first and smiles as he sees me standing there. I wave him over as he spots me. "Hey, I have a question for you." He says. "Yeah, what is it?" I respond.
"Will you go out with me?" Is all he said.
