There are two sides to every
story
First
Dates
Girl:
I nervously picked at the frayed end of my jean shorts and tried
to focus on the TV in front of me. Some romantic comedy, which
usually I enjoyed, but I was having issues focusing. I was more
concerned with the blue eyed guy sitting next to me. Goodness,
why did first dates have to be so awkward? Here I was finally
thinking that we could be something really special and the boy
hadn't even tried to hold my hand, no, he hadn't even
looked at me. Did I smell? I turned my head stealthily to the
side. Nope. I sighed and glanced over. He was looking right
back at me. I quickly shifted my gaze to the movie again, looking
at him out of the corner of my eye. This was not going as
planned. Maybe he didn't like me. Maybe he meant to ask a
different girl on a date and asked me by mistake. That would be
my luck. My head began to fill with irrational thoughts and all
hope of following the plot of the movie was lost.
"Hey," he said poking my in the side and startling me
so i jumped. "I don't want to sound like a jerk or too
forward or anything." he paused and I braced myself for the
worst. He continued,"But, uhm, I like you." And it was
in his smile that I knew this was the truth.
Boy:
I twisted the television remote in my hands as the events
of someone elses live unfolded on the screen in front of me.
Personally, this kind of movie was not a preferance of mine but
I'd chose it anyway. More for the blue eyed girl sitting next to
me then anything else. She was perfect but as soon as we were
alone together i froze up. Just hold her hand, dammit. My finger
twitched but that was as close to her slender hands as i got.
Quit being a loser and act like you know what the hell you're
doing, I told myself. I turned to face her, planning to say
something, anything but she was looking at me and the intensity
of the moment caught me off guard. I didn't understand why I
couldn't be like my buddies and just use a girl, no strings
attached. I snuck a look at her again and knew that was
impossible. I knew that whatever this was, it deffinately had
strings and as much as I didn't want to admit it I liked it. I
liked her. Without thinking I reached over and poked her in the
side. She jumped and I smiled because she was perfect. The words
were spilling out of my mouth before i could stop them. I heard
myself say,"I like you." Crap. That was stupid. No girl
in their right mind would respond to that line. Her smile though,
made me think differently.
