Giddy

My Funny Valentine

After practice one day, Carlos hung around afterwards to wait with my sister and I since we were getting picked up. Yeah, I'm pretty awful for still not having my license since I'm 17 1/2, but here's the good that came from it I guess:

First of all, let me tell you what this kid does. He asked me to come with him into the band room to put away the speaker we use and he was talking about how he was in no hurry to go home since his parents weren't home. Now that I think about it, he may have been trying to drop a hint but it's too late for that now. He adds though that his cousin might be home and he randomly decides that he wants to show me what his cousin looks like. He pulls a picture from Instagram and here on the screen I see this very attractive 24-year-old with a six pack posed at the beach.

Now, I don't know if he realizes this now, but that would be a VERY bad move to use if he wanted to attract the girl he likes. But maybe he was trying to show that this is what his genes could produce?? I dunno.

Moving on, he gets caught up in conversation with our instructors and I decide to leave him in the band room and wait outside because they already gave us a look when they saw just the two of us together. And this was pretty long after rehearsal, so the band room was empty of students already.

When he finally comes outside, I ask him to stay to keep us company since everyone was basically gone then. He agrees to, and what he decides to do to fill up the time is sing. Now, at that point I had no idea that he could actually sing, because I've heard him sing badly, as in scream singing that one dramatic song in the Little Mermaid where Ariel is in the cove (the title has slipped my mind alright).

"I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz plays and he starts singing and I sang along as well, but as the song continues I realize how well he's carrying the song and I slowly fade out to a stop. He tells me about how he jams out to that song in the morning in his car and I thought it was cute.

So then I bring up how I heard he would be singing "My Funny Valentine" for our jazz band and he pulled up the Chet Baker version and started singing it and my heart was fluttering I didn't know what to do. The entire time was filled with my looks of admiration to me staring somewhere else because I didn't want to be the weirdo who just looks in peoples eyes for too long. But at one point he reached out for my hand and I took it and the moment wasn't awkward at all but I knew for sure that I fell for him a little more then.

I'm starting to doubt the chronology of these events as I'm writing them, but i know they all happened in one day so I'm not going to worry too much. But anyways, there was a point where he took a seat beside me, but whenever I turned to look at him his face was super close to mine and after hearing a guy sing, how do you not just want to grab his face and kiss him!?

Anyhow, a couple of the instructors finally came out of the band room and Carlos stood up at that moment, making a space between us also. It was our color guard coach and another visual staff member. The visual staff member asked what he was still doing here, and our coach answered that it was of course to hang out with my sister and I.

and yes, my sister was there to witness this whole thing.

So they leave, and I think after a while Carlos says that he should probably go also. He opens his arms for a hug and I smile and go to hug him. I hesitated for a second only because I was a little surprised, but I went and hugged him. He comments on how short I am but how it's okay. It was a sweet and comfortable hug, and now I just want to embrace him again. Golly.

I had also asked if he had any plans for the next weekend because I was given the fake news that we had the day off Friday for Yom Kippur. Then it became that we would go out that day. We still will, just after school.

so yay progress #TeamCarlos? haha.