Hello everyone!! sorry i haven't written in a while! i've been busy!! i wanted to get this out last night but i wasnt quite finished with it, so i hope you all like it!!

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Previously in One Not-So-Normal Day:

Liz's phone rang and she said, "Oh sorry guys, our ride is hear, see ya Monday."

I received an "Aww," from both the brothers and a goodbye from Nick.

I was just about to turn around and walk into the open door of Liz's mom's minivan, but I felt a tap on my shoulder and turned to see the bright beautiful face of Austin looking at me. I almost fainted when I heard what he said next.

"Hey, see you in lunch."

Lunch:

I was standing in line for lunch when I saw Austin. As I was admiring the way his perfect dark brown more-curly-than-wavy-but-still-not-really-curly hair fell around his symmetrical face, and thinking the name "Alyssa Colley" over and over, that face glanced back and saw me. It smiled and I felt myself smiling back because he was just too cute!

And then he winked.

At me. …

I could have fainted.

Funny thing about the whole "heart-racing, ears pounding, palms sweating," and the "I could have fainted" thing. Sometimes, what you least expect to happen, really does.

Unfortunately.

Well, when my vision started to get cloudy and I could feel my grip around my two dollars and ten cents harden (I guess I must be really cheap if I'm still holding on to two bucks at a time like this), I knew what was going to happen.

And I was just. A. Little. Embarrassed.

Okay, so I had fainted before, in fact there were at least two times in my life of which I have a vivid memory of fainting. I shall bore you with them now, (anything to put off what is coming as long as possible)

Well, the first time I had this experience, I was ten. In Disneyworld. (The first and only time I went there…) It was summer time and it was very hot, I was just walking around and then bam! I kept seeing lights and then this blackness blocked my eyes and I was falling. It took me about ten minutes to realize that the strange creature looking down at me with the big ears and nose was goofy, and I should stop screaming at him. It was actually really random. Just like- Bam! Faint!

The next time was like that also. Expect more embarrassing. I was in church, and it was also a hot summer day when I was twelve. I bent my neck up to look at the ceiling and suddenly felt dizzy and found myself on the floor. The ushers were nice to me, but they still tease me about it. ("Hello, Alyssa! Be careful! We don't want to lose you this time! Better pray really hard!") I can safely say I have never taken a good look at the ceiling since.

Well, I suppose it has to come next: I felt myself losing my balance in the dizziness and the lights in the cafeteria were getting brighter and brighter and splotchy until they were gone.

And I was on the floor.

(Ugh, figures...)

The last thing I heard was a yell from the girl next to me, drawing the entire room's attention to me (I'll have to find out who that was and give her a piece of my mind… oh who am I kidding? I won't) and a guy's familiar voice saying "hold on."

The voice was a tad Too Familiar.

Just guess whose it was. Really. I know you can get this.

Well, when I re-gained consciousness, it must have been because I felt like I was floating, expect rather like I was being… uh-oh… carried. I opened my eyes and my vision was still cloudy but I could see enough. And I was nowhere near the ground.

In fact, someone was carrying me. The same person I was talking about when I said that whole "Guess who it was," thing back there, so I hope you got it right.

"Hey, are you okay?" Austin smiled down at me, he seemed happy and yet concerned at the same time. It was adorable. I probably seemed confused and awkward. Most definitely not adorable.

I tried to answer him, really I did, but I couldn't really take in what was going on and I was still confused as to why he was here. Carrying me. And I felt like fainting again when I tried to understand it. So I stopped.

"I'm fine," I mumbled, and added a little more clearly, "You didn't have to carry me."

Okay so I admit that I really didn't mean for him to take that literally, because, quite frankly, who wouldn't want Austin carrying them in his arms? (Minus the "because you fainted when he winked at you" part). And that was not the only reason: I was still rather woozy from fainting. I doubt I really could have been able to stand.

Austin chuckled (that's right chuckled! How cute!) and said, "Okay then."

And he proceeded to put me down. It didn't work out very well. And I realized that telling him that he didn't have to carry me was not the brightest of ideas--

I let out a little "Oof!" as he let go and tried to set me up straight. I really tried to land with my feet on the ground, but, no such luck, and I found myself, yet again, on the floor.

Not just laying on the floor either, I wound up like I was keeling at his feet. (Again: Ugh, figures...)

Austin laughed a nice little laugh of pity and said, "Liar, I knew it..," and picked me up and started off again, still grinning, down the empty-minus-the-very-confused-looking-janitor hallway.

"Well, I didn't really expect you to drop me!" I said in my best attempt at joking, looking at my hands which were on my stomach, not daring to pick up my face, knowing that the only discernible thing about it would be the redness.

He laughed more lightly this time, "Then why would say that I didn't need to carry you?!"

"Well, I just figured it was the polite thing to do! And it was the first thing that I came up with!"

"Well, you can't blame me for believing you!"

"True…"

We were still both grinning when we, finally, came to the door of the nurse's office. I hadn't really noticed but it really was a long walk, which happens to be about the most ridiculous thing about this school – the nurse's office is about a quarter of a mile from the cafeteria… how does that make sense? And Austin had carried me like I weighed ten pounds! I guess the football players really do work out and stuff at practice, even though I've only ever seen them goofing off or just throwing a football around…

"Well, what on earth is going on here?!" asked the Nurse, I know I should know her name, but in all my years in high school, I never really found myself in the nurse's office. Expect for those dumb hearing and vision tests. And maybe some band aids… Anyway, the nurse looked very surprised (to say the least) as she took in tall, (wonderful, amazing, gorgeous, etc.) Austin with (ridiculously lucky) me in his arms from her small, grandmotherly stature. I was surprised to see that she looked like she had dyed her hair dark brown.

"She fainted in the cafeteria," Austin explained, rather bluntly, though he was still smiling.

The nurse questioned him no further and motioned to a bed in another room set apart from the waiting area, behind her desk. I began to notice that we were not alone in the room, there was a girl in gym clothes sitting in one of the sets waiting, probably for an ice-pack, who I realized all too quickly was Lauren and when I was turning the corner (well, Austin, technically was the one turning…), I managed to give her a small wave. All I got in return was a rather absurdly shocked, open-mouth expression on her face.

"Here, you go, sweetie, (to me, motioning to the bed). You can put her down right here (to Austin)."

Austin did as he was told and set me down very gently on the papery covering of the bed. I didn't dare look up at him, while I tried to make the redness that was my face dim a little, since I couldn't hide it now, I had to lean back on the pillow.

"Thank you, young man, you can go back and eat your lunch now," the nurse said in the way all teachers do when they think they're the only thing stopping you from getting away with something.

I glanced up at his expression and he was looking rather glum; I realized I was probably wrong in assuming it was because he had to leave me, but it made my empty stomach fill with butterflies anyway.

"Well, wait," I managed to choke out; I usually didn't argue with a tone of authority, in fact I can't remember the last time I did, (I know, pathetic), "We only have, like, five minutes of lunch left, and we both didn't actually eat anything."

Need I mention that lunch in my school is extremely short? We have about twenty minutes and we all know that means about ten of actually eating. And those ten had already been wasted on the fainting and the walking to the nurse situation.

"That's true," Austin said softly and smiled, "You never know, she might just faint again from lack of food, then you're still gonna need me to be there and carry her back."

"Well," the nurse said, talking mostly to Austin, looking up at the clock and feigning a look of thinking deeply, "I suppose you are correct about that… (To me, then back to Austin) And you shouldn't be punished for doing a nice thing."

Whoa, I was not expecting her to cave like that! Why can't I have a way with teachers like Austin obviously does? Probably because I'm not a hot guy. Life is not fair. Whoa, did I just say that?! I didn't mean it, really; I looked up to Austin, who obviously had not heard my mind. This fainting thing is making me paranoid. I really don't think that makes sense though… So I was contemplating how fainting could have the affect of making someone paranoid, while she continued.

"I suppose you both should stay until the bell rings for the next lunch," and she started toward the door.

"Okay," I said to the nurse.

She turned back to me and said, "I think you look okay now; you should just stay there for a few minutes and make sure you eat something after."

With that she left the room and Austin came to sit in an empty chair at the end of my bed that I guessed was for the nurse, not students, because it looked very comfortable.

There was a rather awkward-yet-not-awkward-pause of about three seconds before Lauren, with an ice-pack, peeked her head in to the room and came in when she saw me on the bed, "God, Alyssa, what happened to you?!"

"Oh, Lauren, I'm fine, I just… well, fainted."

"I know! I heard the nurse, but why?"

That was not the question I was eager to answer. Considering "Because Austin winked at me, duh," sounded a little ridiculous. Especially with him inches away…

"Just happened, I guess."

She was obviously not satisfied, but glanced at Austin and back to me and said, "Oh, well, um… Sorry, you should get some rest; I have lunch next, though, so I'll see you there, I just have to go back to gym and change,"

"Sure," I said, "What happened to you, anyway?"

She laughed, "Volleyball happened."

We laughed and Austin did too; joining in the conversation he said, "It really is crazy how violent people can get with that game."

"What an understatement," Lauren laughed in reply, and I was glad Austin had gotten to say something, "Well, see you at lunch."

With a wave she left the room, headed back to the gym.

So Austin and I were sitting in the nurse's office waiting for the bell to ring. A bell that would signal when I would finally be on my way (God willing) to actually eating lunch with Austin.

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