"He…heyy Michelle? Michelle!… what are you …uhhh… Isn't your locker …Don't you have .. ummm Bleep Blaap Bloop?" He rambled as he looked nervously between me and his friend. "Okay bye!" he managed to squeak out before running off in the opposite direction as I just stood there with a deer in the headlights expression on my face.
His friend, Carlos who has been my science lab partner since the start of the year turns to me with an amused look on his face and chuckles, "Hiya Michelle, don't mind Logan – he's just a bit shocked to see you. I'll go see if I can find him and calm him down." He turns on his heel and skips off in the same direction as Logan yelling out his name.
"Nervous? What the hell?" I mumble to myself as try to figure out what just happened.
"What? What just happened?" Shay screeches out at me as she speed walks to where I'm standing, mumbling to myself, "I thought it was me who should have been nervous! What did I do wrong? What's going on?... Shayyy!" I whine as I see her looking at me, "I just blurted out hello to him and he went on some rant about something but most importantly he knew my name! Shay how did he know my name?"
She looks down at me, smiling sweetly while saying, "Aww hun of course he knows your name. You introduced yourself to all of us in homeroom on your first day in this school last year! You know! The day you first saw Mr. McHottie … and decided you were gonna crush on him big time but not grow the balls to actually talk to him?"
"Of course I remember that day Shay, Sep 10th 2011 – a beautiful Monday morning and he was sitting in the corner of the room wearing a b…. – That's beside the point though Shay! That was a year ago – I thought he would have forgotten who I was by now… I thought he forgot who I was the next day!" I told her with a slight frown on my face while staring at my shoes.
Shay raises her hand to my face, moving it up so that I'm looking at her instead of my shoes and softly says, "Michelle you are my best friend in this whole entire world and even though I've only know you for a little over a year I find it is my utmost duty as your best friend to tell you that you are a b-e-a-utiful girl with a great personality and you are not someone who people forget easily! Clearly as you saw with Logan today, he hasn't forgotten you, so you have to get over this insecurity thing. You've already lost a year that you could have possibly been with him – do you want to lose any more time?"
As I process what she's just said with a blush on my face the school bell rings jolting me out of my thought process, but it helps me come to a quick decision as I say to her, "You're right Shay and thanks for the compliment by the way! I'm gonna talk to him today – no matter what, and if I'm lucky at least I'll come away from today with his friendship."
Shay shrieks and does the happy dance before quickly stopping and looking around the quickly emptying hallway, "That's great Chelle, now get your butt over to your math class! I don't want you getting detention for getting to class late so you have another excuse to back down from talking to him."
I giggle as we start running towards each of our classes and say to her, "Not gonna happen Shay but thanks, I love you."
As I open the door to my math class I hear her cheery voice calling out, "Love ya too hun!"
I shake my head and walk into my class – on time – thinking, Today is the day.