Chapter 3:

How would this play out? How should this play out?

She was obsessing, she knew it, but she had been pretty good at not even thinking about it for the entire weekend. And that was saying something.

She will just pretend as if nothing untoward had happened.

Nothing Untoward had Happened.

Whew…

Nothing untoward had happened

Boys were finicky. As soon as a girl so much as sniffed out an inkling of vulnerability in them, they inevitably chose one of three options: a) run away from you, b) try to reestablish their complete invincibility – usually through choice measures that proved beyond a doubt that they were not just vulnerable, but also dunderheads, or c) and this was the rare one and the mark of a man rather than a boy - those who faced the situation head-on, keeping the awkwardness factor to a minimum between both parties.

Given that she had gone through the boy's options, she figured that it was only fair to go through the girl's options. She can: a) obsess endlessly and break her own personal record of obsessing endlessly, b) ignore the situation completely, thereby making him confused and making her obsess even more, or c) same as the C above.

She took a deep breath. She would prefer option A, but what the hell, she was a vampire. Anything was possible.

She caught sight of him out of the corner of her eye just then and took another deep breath to put the much deliberated over option C into action.

He was walking in her direction. She paused by her locker for a few more seconds before closing it just as he reached her side.

"Hello Matt."