Come on, it wasn't that bad!" Connor moaned.
"Really?" Anna asked for the 12th time, but she knew Connor was growing tired of the same conversation.
"Yes, now lets go meet the others," He said dragging her by the hand while she scuffed her black pumps along the gravel. When they got to the restaurant a sympathetic, rehearsed cheer rose up from the back table. A mix of 'you'll be fine' and 'I'm sure you passed' swirled around her making her head spin. All the couples sat with each other. Bart and Bella, Nightwing and Lydia and Jaime and quanta. Connor awkwardly sat next to Anna, this made her even more agitated and uncomfortable. She wanted him to mirror the 3 couples' behaviour. Flirting, chatting, hugging and kissing. The thing that she didn't know was that he wanted to do that, but was scared. Scared of Anna. She was the only girl that hadn't fallen head over heels for him. His muscles, black hair with the slight quiff at the front and sparkling blue eyes. He wanted to do all those things, take Anna on dates, movies, holidays. Although he had never been rejected. And Connor didn't want to know what it felt like. He had to talk to Anna about how he feels otherwise he would be cursing under his breath at her and Green Arrows wedding.
"I need to talk to you" Connor announced to Nightwing eating his cereal the next morning.
"Oh yeah?" Eyes fixed on the newspaper.
"I have a friend who likes this girl and he's scared of being rejected"
"Well you tell your friend that he should stop being a wuss and go ask Anna out before Green Arrow finds out that she's single" Nightwing replied.
"I'll tell him that," Connor shot Nightwing a smile and ran off towards the library.
Anna was jumping up and down, trying to reach the highest book on the shelf. Of course, it was Alice in Wonderland.
"Need help?" He shouted across the room. She turned around to see who it was and lit up like a christmas tree when she saw who it was. She nodded. Connor picked her up with his super strength and couldn't help smelling her perfume that smelt like gingerbread.
"Gingerbread, huh?" He laughed.
"My favourite," she winked, it would be lying to say that a tiny fragment of his heart hadn't just melted. When he had placed her down to the ground. She said " I was going to go read this over there if you want-" she couldn't finish the sentence as his lips were on hers. When he pulled away she felt a bit dizzy and light headed.
"Look Anna, I like you and I have been trying to tell you all this time, but I didn't know how you felt and well, I still don't know how you feel about us and if there could be an us?" You could tell Connor wasn't the one normally giving this speech. "I guess what I'm trying to say is...will you go out with me?" Anna hugged him tightly.
"Duh!"