"I'm going to do it, I swear I am Barry Allen." My voice is low as I half whisper to my friends. They've been badgering me for weeks to talk to this cute guy I noticed weeks ago.
"Then do it already!" He laughs in my face. I scrunch up my nose and make a
face at him, pretending to be insulted. "I'm going to!" I've been saying that I would for
weeks now, and still haven't worked up the courage to do it.
"Well, here comes the lucky freshman now. Better get ready Caitlin." Felicity pipes up from Barry's side with a half smirk, pointing towards the end of the hall.
"Oh no, I can't do this." I quickly turn to flee but am stopped by Thea and Laurel.
"Girl, no. You are going to march over there and talk to him already. We've all been waiting on this." They forcefully turn me back around to face the other direction after Thea's finished speaking.
"You can do this Caitlin." Laurel whispers by my ear encouragingly and gives my shoulders a quick squeeze.
I close my eyes and take a deep breath and repeat it to myself in a whisper. "You can do this Caitlin. You can do this. You can do this." Opening my eyes back up I see he's stopped about halfway down the hall to talk to someone. I give them a nod before I start walking. Quickly all the things I could say start running through my head, and something that seems almost kind of smooth but mostly just lame pops into my head and I just accept my fate as I know I won't be able to do anything but that now that I've thought of it. My track record is just the same, full of bad attempts and stupid ideas. I just can't help myself out, can't do anything better once the stupid idea worms its way into my head no matter how much planning I go through beforehand.
He glances my way and I spring my lame idea into action, "High five!" The words pass my lips and I raise my arm in the air. Surprisingly enough it works and he goes to give me a high five with a smile.
Acting quickly, I lance my fingers through his so that I am holding his hand and declare, "We're dating now," As I let go of his hand I finish speaking." Love you bae." I wink at him before I continue turn and waltz back to where my friends are waiting.
As soon as I'm turned I allow myself to grimace at the horrible way I handled that and I clench my jaw as I arrive back to them.
"Well, that went better than it could have." Felicity offers up with a small smile.
"That was a disaster." I groan as they we make our way to our shared class. "Why can't I just do things normally? Thea, Laurel, please teach me your ways." I beg as I slump into my seat, expecting my day to feel long based on how it's gone so far.