How to have a Crush

Chapter-1

"The only thing wrong with your lips is that they are too far away from mine." I practiced this line the umpteenth time to Allison, my best friend, before turning around and heading towards the love of my-I mean crush of my life, Noah Pierce.

He was seated on a table at the far left corner of the canteen with a book open in front of him, stuffing his mouth with a handful of fries as he studied. His best friend, Shayan Quinton, was seated beside him chatting about something to which Noah was paying zero attention.

God he is so cute! I just want to run to him and smash my lips against his and never pull back. Although I could never gather the courage to do anything like it. My hands are shaking at just the thought of kissing him, I think I will be on the floor if that actually happens.

As I was about to approach him, he suddenly stood up and grabbed Shayan's hand, running out of the canteen shouting something about leaving his phone in the library.

I sighed as my plan of talking to him fell apart yet again. I turned back with a frown on my face, walking back to the table where Allison was seated with a sympathetic smile on her face.

It's nothing new though, it has actually happened more times than I can count. Sometimes I get discouraged, other times he just ignores whatever I say, although, I won't blame him, why would anyone pay attention to a random stranger murmuring incoherent words beside them....oops?

The first time I saw Noah, he was arguing with a girl for the front seat who wouldn't budge from her chair because apparently she was the 'queen nerd' of the school. I mean, is that even a thing?

Noah somehow managed to convince the girl to leave the seat and just before he sat down he looked towards me, seated a few rows behind him. He locked his eyes with mine for a good fifteen seconds before looking away. I guess he understood that I saw the whole ordeal. Those fifteen seconds might have meant nothing to him, but to me, they were like a picture with my celebrity crush; precious! I remember myself getting lost in those dark pools of chocolate brown eyes with specs of gold scattered around them and I swear my heart fluttered when he smiled sheepishly at me before turning away.

In that moment I knew, that this guy is going to make my school years far much more interesting than I ever imagined them to be.

I don't even remember when a simple liking towards him became a complete crush and then maybe love. I am not sure about the love part because I don't think it's possible to love someone you have barely ever talked to.

Since then I have been trying to keep my grades always up to grab his attention towards me, although that never happened. My parents were very happy though.

I have tried to talk to him but he always ignored me, not in a jerky kind of way though. It was more of a shy kind, like you know, the my-parents-don't-want-me-to-date-until-I'am-thirty kind. I don't know if that makes sense......

I even taped a rose on his locker once in eighth grade but the janitor threw it away before Noah saw it. I guess the janitor didn't quite appreciated me spilling juice on his freshly cleaned floor a few days before.

I have his phone number and I messaged him once too but he never replied.

In this way all my attempts to befriend have been going in vain but that only made my attraction towards him bloom even more. Well, I regret nothing.

But I have promised this year to myself that I will finally get this pretty boy to talk to me. I do every year by the way but those are just minor details.

Apart from my unrequited crush I have a life too, as impossible as it sounds. I do have friends, although most of them are those 'let us be friends so we are not alone at cultural events at school' kind.