Day 1 of The Plan.
I am dressed totally cute. I am wearing my new just above-knee length cornflower blue pleated skirt with the French designer label and a coral v-neck shirt, cute little 1.5 inch heels. My hair is back in barrettes with a few curls framing my face, just for good measure.
Right when I see Phil I know I've dressed right. He seems to hesitate for a long moment, watching me, before greeting me. "Morning, Keel," he says, smiling at me.
I automatically smile back at him. He just does this to me; I can't get over every little thing about him. His smile spins me around every time.
"Good morning, yourself, Philly," I say cheerily. "Happy to see me?"
"As always," he answers, still smiling at me. He offers me his arm as the warning bell rings. "Shall we?"
"We shall," I answer. He makes this so easy. We walk to class chatting up a storm, as usual, and if he find sit strange that we're walking arm-in-arm, he doesn't mention it.
While we sit in homeroom, in a pair of desks in the front row, Phil makes a study schedule for the end-of-the-quarter exams he has coming up in two days. I only have an English essay to write in class on Wednesday, and then a math exam. When Phil asks me why I'm not studying for that already, I answer him that he should know the answer already. He asks if that means that we're studying for it together, and I tell him that I meant that I would fail whether I studied or not. "Those days are over," he tells me. "Now that you've got Phil Diffy you're never failing another math test."
I smile at him and say, "Well thank you, Mr. Genius, when are we studying?"
"Tonight?" I ask, gathering my things, because I see that it's almost time for first hour.
"That works for me," he replies, following suit.
"Great," I say, just as the bell rings. "It's a date." And I spin around and leave the room before he can figure out what I've just said.
I'm grinning to myself like a Cheshire cat, because as I turn the corner I can practically see his brain working on decoding my last statement. Ha. Ha. And haaaahaha.