My. Heart. Stopped.

On the way

With my Pocket jingling slightly I led Annie out of the shop and towards the schoolhouse. we walk through the front gate at about 8:10 which gives us plenty of time to mosy our way up the lane which is letting me think about all the stuff that went down in the shop, I was still trying to process it all. Mostly just trying to process everything that had to do with Annie, I steal a glance at her out of the corner of my eye. her hair is waving slightly in a super cool way, her whole personality was screaming "new" and "change" and holy smokes I was digging it. Every now and the scandalous cut in her dress flashed her thigh every so often, and I found myself wondering how soft someone's thigh was, maybe in particular her thigh... my thoughts continue to wander, mostly about her. 

"so what is there to do around here?" Annie interrupts my dangerously wandering daydreams 

"Oh, uh.." I stutter, flustered back to reality, "there's um," I continue to rack my brains, there has to be something in this tiny town that she'd think was cool, "There's the shop! and on Sunday there's a farmers market!" I try to say enthusiastically but as I hear myself saying it I realize how lame it is. " There's a party in the square usually after the market too, music and stuff." I add kinda quietly, still trying to think of something cool, "Oh! there's also a park! a really really beautiful park," I suddenly remember my favorite place in town and my hopes soar, maybe this will be cool enough, "There are nooks and stuff around all the edges of the big clearing where couples go and we could go and like picnic-" and I stop short, " Not to say we're a couple, friends do it too, uh, okay so yeah! the park is great." I finish poorly, with a shrug for extra awkward.

"cool," she interrupts my self deprecating thoughts, "not really my speed but I'm excited, anything to hang out with you!" she says with enthusiasm, kinda awkwardly as well. 

I look over at her and she's watching me, and smiling, my. heart. stopped. 

I grin back at her and turn back towards the school as we round the corner and come into sight.