Deciding to listen to Maddie, the next day at school I held my head high, well tried to. Every time I thought I was getting the hang of this whole confident instead of crumbling thing, I would see him and the confidence would fade and I would began to crack and crumble. Like in American History today, I was sitting with Todd Fischer, the school mascot who was more Maddie's friend than mine but close enough, considering I don't really have many friends. We were working on our civil war presentation we were going to have to present to the class later in the week, which I was already pretty freaked out about, public speaking.. not my thing. But Trey just had to mosey on in with that big goofy grin, like he was untouchable. I thought about the way that big smile used to curl into a wicked grin right before our lips would touch and the way it would fold back out and he would just sit and smile at me for hours like I was the sun after a bad winter. And they way I felt untouchable rapped around his arms. Mhh, those arms.
"Hey, uh, May?" Todd Fischer questioned. Oh and by the way no one called him just Todd, it was always Todd Fischer, or Fischer, never Todd.
"Yes?"
"You alright? Its like you just shriveled up into a little sponge of sadness." He said with that little smirk he always did when he thought something he said was funny.
"Oh, yep, yup, May is A ok! You know May, always happay."" I said uncurling myself from my hoodie,I had apparently rapped around my knees, which were tightly against my chest in my chair as well.
"Haha okay May May." He said his voice filing with warmth. "Oh hey look, Treys in here. Whys Trey in here? TREY! Hey!" He said or more like screamed across the room. Oh god, really, Fischer. You had to draw attention. A few minutes later Todd Fischer peeked under the hood of my hoodie, which was pulled down over my face, very unsuccessfully covering it.
"May Pay come out of your hooday." He started to rap to me. Only Todd Fischer. But hey, it put a smile on my face and I lifted the hood.
"uh, hi." I mumbled
"whatcha doin under there?"
"oh you know the usual."
"right,right. you know you ain't that bad, May." he said with a wink and a shrug. Did I just get hit on? Or was he just being nice? The wink was flirty but the shrug was causal? After another second of pondering on that I decided it was causal, it was Todd Fischer here.
After school I got a weird text from Maddie, it was just a number. I responded with a what and got a reply of "it's Ian's (;" Uggh, the way she put her smiley faces drove me crazy! Wait, what? Ian? IAN! She has his number? why'd she give it to me? I don't really mind but you know, what do I even say to him? Should I even text him? I will after dinner. I texted Maddie back "okay" with no other reply. Oh how she hated okay.
After dinner I ran up to my room and ripped my phone off the covers of my bed. I paced around my room debating what to say. Is hey to casual? Or is hi to little kid? Why is this so hard!
"Id go with a hello." My dad said popping his head through the door. I'm assuming I was talking out loud or my dads just a mind reader and if that were true I would be in deep waters.
I sent a simple "hello" and 5 minutes later I received a simple "hi" Hi, he said hi. I should have said hi. Wait, he didn't ask who it was, does he already have my number or something?
"It's May, I spilt hot chocolate yesterday at Wanda's." sending sending, sent. Oh no, why'd I send that? I split hot chocolate, what a great introduction.I threw down my phone and laid my back down on the bed. Beep. I sat up and grabbed my phone. "yes, I remember.ha." He remembers me! That has to be good right!? As I was typing a reply another message interrupted me. "Hey I'll just skip to this. You wanna spill my coco at Wanda's Friday?" I sat on my bed and just stared at the text re-reading the message over and over. After a good 5 minutes of blank shock I jumped up and did a dance, sat back down and typed "I would enjoy spilling your coco."Oh my gosh, that sounds like some chessy line you would hear in a weird porno. I guess he didn't pick that up and said " coolieo (:" oh god, he does the face that way too! Wait, I GOT A SMILEY FACE! More dancing followed and eventually I went to bed with a large smile.
