Alan and Carmen sat down in bed. After today, this was great time for them to relax. They were a happily married couple too.

However, as they sat down, the two looked at each other. "Hey, Carmen?" Alan asked Carmen, who turned her head. "Remember when we first met?"

"Yeah, when I first went to Elmore Junior High." Carmen replied. They began to recall the day...


"Kids, this is Carmen. Now get back to class." Miss Simian said as Carmen walked to her seat. A few kids talked to each other, but Alan looked at her with wonder.

"Wow, she looks...cute." Alan thought to himself as she looked at her. When she saw him staring, he quickly acted like he did nothing.

As she went back to focusing on the lesson, Alan felt sweaty.


"Hey, Gumball? Darwin?" Alan asked as the two brothers turned to him.

"Hey Alan, what's up?" Darwin asked.

"Yeah, usually you're smiling, but you look nervous." Gumball asked in confusion.

"It's about the new girl." Alan answered.

"Let me guess, she's spiky, so you want protection?" Darwin guessed, in which Alan shook his head.

"No, I kinda feel warm and sweaty when I see her, in a...nice way." Alan told the two. Gumball began chuckling. "What?"

"You must have a crush on her!" Gumball said. "What?" Alan questioned. Darwin simply told him. "Gumball sometimes feels the same way when he looks at Penny."

"Really?" Alan asked. Darwin simply pointed at Gumball, who had the same reaction to the antlered peanut who was passing by.


A few days has passed. Alan was busy writing something on a piece of paper, looking determined. Looking closer, it was a love letter.

"Now, what rhymes with pop..." Alan thought before it clicked. "Drop!"

He wrote down the paper the final sentence, and took a good look at it.

I may be full of air,

but I wish for us to be in a affair.

Even if your spikes will cause me to pop,

it's worth not having my heart drop.

After looking over it, Alan smiled to himself. "Perfect." Alan said with confidence. "Now to give it to her."


The next day at class, Carmen took her seat. She however, noticed a paper on her desk. "What's this?"

She picked it up, and looked at the writing on the folded piece of paper. "Open please." Carmen muttered. She didn't know who put this here. Was it Tina and Jamie?

...No, this isn't their hand writing. "Well, here it goes..." She opens it up.

I may be full of air,

but I wish for us to be in a affair.

Even if your spikes cause me to pop,

it's worth not having my heart drop.

Carmen blinked, before looking around the classroom, before spotting Alan. He was full of air. Her spikes can pop him. But he seemed to genuinely like her.

She turned the paper around and started writing back.


Alan floated to his locker and opened it. As he dug through, he spotted the paper. "Hey, it's in here. Did she not like it?" Alan wondered, before he took it. He opened it...

Even though it'll be hard to actually date and so, I'll give you a chance.

- Carmen

Alan squealed in joy. "I did it!"


"At first I thought you were just a normal kid." Carmen told Alan, back to present time. "But love came from one of the unexpected places."

"Yeah..." Alan replied, before turning off the light. "Good night, Carmen."

"Good night, Alan."