Summary: "You Ginny?"

"Yeah... And you are?"

"My name's Mike. We just moved here, my mom and I."

"Nice to meet you, Mike. So, are you in my class?"

He nods.

...

Mike has blond hair with some brownish streaks and his eyes are a strange blend of green and brown with little specks of gold. Sometimes, when he teases her, his lips quirk to side in a cute way...

or, the Childhood friends AU featuring Bawson 3

I have no idea where this is going lol But it's gonna be an interesting ride.

Nice to Sweet You

Ginny's trotting down the hallway of Beckett Elementary, her neon blue backpack on her back, her lunchbox swaying in her right hand, when she hears someone calling after her.

"Hey! Hey, wait up!"

Stopping abruptly she turns around, her red tartan skirt whooshing around her knees.

A boy is running towards her, his own backpack jumping violently on his back. It takes him seconds to reach her; then, he's standing in front of her, puffed and rosy-cheeked. Ginny stands there, waiting for him to catch his breath and finally speak.

"You Ginny?"

Ginny frowns, eying him warily, searching her memory for his face and trying to recollect if she'd seen him before, but nothing familiar comes up. Cautiously, she answers,

"Yeah... And you are?"

"My name's Mike. We just moved here, my mom and I," he seems nervous, awkwardly shifting from one foot to another. Ginny notices that and decides she should act friendly and help him out, remembering how, not so long ago, she was new to this school too. So she grins offering him a hand to shake.

"Nice to meet you, Mike."

The boy is obviously caught off guard by her action but after a few seconds shakes her hand and smiles back.

"So, are you in my class?"

He nods. "Aham. Miss Sheridan said I should ask someone to help me since it's my first week here. She mentioned a girl named Ginny and described her to me, well, her backpack. I thought I was going to get lost here but then I saw it, the backpack I mean, and called after you but you must not've heard me so I had to run to catch up with you... You walk really fast."

Ginny chuckles. He is speaking too fast that she hardly understands what he says but manages to get the gist of it. "Oh, cool," she starts walking and the boy follows her, gripping tightly at the straps of his backpack.

"Well, you can come with me, I'll show you the classroom. You can sit with me if you want to too. My friend Louise's sick today anyway so she won't be coming."

Ginny turns to face him once they reach the door to their classroom and finds him smiling shyly at her.

"Thanks."

She smiles back.

...

The bell rings marking the end of school for the day and Ginny saunters jauntily down the stairs, her new friend by her side.

"So, where do you live?"

Mike is silent for a few moments, biting his lip. "... Mom rented a house at the end of the Emery Road."

Ginny grabs his arm and jumps excitedly, taking Mike by surprise. "Hey, that's my street! We can walk home together!" she shrieks happily before realising he might not like that, and she doesn't want to be pushy and scare him away, so she retreats slowly and adds, "If you want, that is."

Mike eagerly accepts. "Sure!"

...

Mike has blond hair with some brownish streaks and his eyes are a strange blend of green and brown with little specks of gold. Also, he wears glasses and keeps pushing them up the bridge of his nose when he's nervous. His teeth are white, like blindingly white; she knows because he is perpetually grinning at her. Sometimes, when he teases her, his lips quirk to side in a cute way.

Mike and she spend all their time together, be it at school or at her place, since his mom is always working. They sit next to each other at school, do their homework together, they listen to music lying on the floor of her bedroom, play catch with Will or go for walks down the neighbourhood.

Ginny thinks Mike is a really nice boy, unlike many others she knows. He never yells at her or makes fun of her for liking boys' sports or pulls her braids.

In Ginny's book, that makes him a great friend.