Hi, I'm Bianca. Just an ordinary junior high school girl enjoying life with dreams and crushes. Like love crush kind of crush. You see not long ago I bumped into a boy in my school, Swellview Junior High, and it was like my mind went into an immediate buffer as I saw how cute the boy looked. I knew that he was a student at my school but we just never had any chances to meet with each other. His name was Henry, Henry Hart. Blond bowl cut, few centimeter shorter than me, skinny, but still unbelievably cute. Our first meeting was awkward, which was bumping into each other. I was sure my face went adenoid the moment I saw him and my only wish was for him to be in a hurry at that moment so he wouldn't notice my embarrassing face.
From that moment on, I became aware of his existence in my life. I learned quite a lot of basic facts about him with my own personal research like how he wasn't that popular and had only 2 best friends and occasionally hung out with few other students who weren't exactly welcome in school popular society. Henry seemed to be someone that didn't have a good relationship with good grades making his way of logic one of a kind. He joined our school basketball but apparently, that wasn't exactly something to be proud of since Swellview junior high's basketball team was outrageously beyond salvation, said my gym teacher and the majority of people.
For the first time in my life, I had become a stalker and didn't regret one thing.
One evening, when every student was either home or occupying his or herself with club activities, including me, I met Henry properly this time. I joined the after-school study club and get this, it was a club for studying after school activities had finished. Crazy right... Oh, who am I kidding, it was as boring as it sounded. Most of the member were students who weren't accepted as the school librarian, ghost members, and me. I dreamed of becoming a teacher one day. As my family wasn't well of enough to buy me books or proper place to study, my intention of joining this club was in order to widen my point of view with the world windows... Which basically just a bunch of books. Oh, by the way, I was the study club president because of my most consistent attendance.
Back to my meeting with Henry Hart. He entered the library where our study club took place with miss... Hmm, I forgot her name, but I know she was a history teacher at our school. My only reason to be able to identify her so easily despite my lack of memory was because of her hard to forget face characteristic, I meant her whole face and body and personality were hard to forget.
"Henry this is Bianca, the Study club president. Bianca this is Henry," the teacher introduced us. Even though that wasn't necessary for me.
"Hi, what can I help with?" I asked to indicate politeness. I felt that I knew what problem Henry was facing.
"Well, mister Hart here wanted to join your study club."
"Wait, I didn't agree with this. You said that my only job is to increase my grades. I can study at my own house." Henry protested. I knew it, his grades were plummeting. I had perceived a few changes within him for a while. First, in a term of fashion, he had equipped himself with a bracelet that beeped really loudly and Henry would try to run as fast as possible every time it made its noise. Second, he slept in class more often than usual. Third, well it wasn't about Henry but I thought I could make a connection between them. Not long ago Captain Man, yes I live in a world where saving can be done by superheroes, announced his sidekick, Kid Danger. My point was Kid Danger looked exactly like Henry. He (Kid Danger) wore a mask, hair sprayed back, and a hero suit with the combination of blue, red and striped with white. He's height, eye color, hair color, voices was the same as Henry. So my guess, even though I was quite sure about it, Henry was Kid Danger. That thought alone was enough to make me shiver with excitement the moment the logic reached me to the conclusion. It was like some kind of drama and I was hoping to be the main heroine. It was not likely but I was grateful for that feeling.
"Well suck it up Hart because this club will be yours until you reach an A at my test." miss Shapen annoyingly replied, oh that was it, the name, finally I remembered.
"But you can't cause... That's... Not... Fair." Oh look Henry was struggling to look for a reply that could burn miss Shapen. That's kinda cute.
"Goodbye Henry, I believe in you, Miss Bianca." And with that, the door that led to the outside hall had been closed. Almost like leaving the two of us alone since the library always so quiet. The next half an hour we were very still. Henry reluctantly skimming over his history book while I tried to hide my excitement and embarrassment at the same time. I wanted to make my second Impression better. It couldn't help.
"So, why aren't you teaching me anything?" Henry asked out of the blue, probably due to his inability to hold on to the silence much longer.
"I'm sorry, but I only have a finite quantity of knowledge regarding Puerto Rican history. So I thought if you'd like we can search together since in a library there will definitely an infinite knowledge in the topic of Puerto Rico." I replied and successfully too. Nailed it! But Henry seemed overwhelmed by my answer. He blinked a few times before opening his mouth, was he finally acknowledging me?
"Well sorry I asked," he looked apologetic, "you're just as stuck with me as I am. But I can't stay I uh... Have to feed my... cat!"
His intonation was peculiar. I know his hiding something and had a picture what it was. I had a responsibility to make his grades went up and I wished to spend my time with him in this irreplaceable opportunity, "I'm sure your family can handle feeding your cat just fine. Why don't you try to at least remember the main topic of each paragraph and then you can leave-"
"I can't! My cat will die! This test is the least of my problem." He was desperate. It seemed while I was trying my best to keep my composure he had been surreptitiously looking at his flashing bracelet. It was undeniable that Captain Man was truly in need of Henry's help if my hypothesis had been proven as correct. I wanted Henry to lose his panic face, so I did what I had to do.
"I'm going to take a few book in reference to Puerto Rico. You wait here okay? It's just behind the big shelf on the second floor." I left him alone without waiting for his response. The moment I reached behind the shelf, Henry lifted his body up and left the library. The bad news I neglected my responsibility because a guy I had a crush on needed to help a superhero while the good news was Henry is going to fail his test and spend more time with me at the study club. I did try to send him a summary of his test subject so at least he wasn't in a crushing defeat.