Annoying. Irritating. Idiot. Way, way too gushy.
The above were just a few observations gathered by Skye Magee Penderwick, considering her blind date, Pearson. She couldn't remember his first name, but the last name seemed to just fit perfectly;so, he wasn't going to be called anything else by her.
As the moron monologued about a random play he had seen, (Something about Aztec civilization and two friends. Sounded like something her sister, Jane, would probably find fascinating), Skye scratched her elbow and resisted the urge to yawn. She should never have given into Rosalind's pleas to try to be more social or her stupid roommate's begging to play matchmaker. On the plus side... There was no plus side, and Skye was beating herself up for not trying to make her roommate, Kate, do her dishes in exchange for making her go on this date.
Skye wished there was a polite way to say, "Hey, I find you exceedingly boring, I think I'll just ditch this sad attempt at a date, and you can tell my roommate, Kate, that it was you and not me. Have a good night.". Instead she just had to sit there in an uncomfortable black dress and nod along. Her expression probably showed her annoyance, but she didn't care and he didn't seem to notice.
Skye wished she could use the old,"Oh no! I just got a text from my mom. She says Grandma had a stroke." excuse, but she couldn't. It wasn't because she didn't have a grandmother, but because Pearson had driven them here, so he would feel obligated, and judging from the repeated times he touched her foot with his, more than happy to drive her to the hospital her nonexistent grandmother wasn't in.
There wasn't a way out of this, Skye would just have to suffer and bear it.
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Yo, I'm a greenhorn fanfiction writer, and probably clinically insane for attempting this.
I've been reading fanfiction from this fandom for about two years now, and finally summoned up the courage to take part in contributing to it.
This story is going to be an alternate universe where the Penderwicks never met Jeffrey Tifton when they were younger. This chapter is basically an introductory and the chapters following will be longer.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this.
Yours truly,
LadyKickYourButt.