The plan

You’re helping her get with the library girl, what’s your logic in this”.

“I made her cry Jake, what else was I supposed to do”.

“Uh tell her how you feel; you’ve liked her for three years, don’t you think it’s about time you told her”.

“I can’t tell her, she doesn’t feel the same way about me”. I lay my head on my school desk with my arms around my face hiding my eyes from Jake. Jake and I became friends in the eighth grade after we dated each other. We dated for two weeks then decided it would be best if we were just friends. Now we give each other advice when we need it.

“You don’t know that” Jake says with a sweet voice.

“I do know” I mumble “She likes girlie, tall, beautiful, book smart girls”. “I’m definitely not girlie or tall or beautiful and the best grade I ever got was a C”. Jake takes a big sigh and puts his hand on my shoulder.

“Katie, you may not be tall or girlie and you may not be the smartest person but I know you’re beautiful and I’m sure Alex thinks the same”. I lift my head from my arms and look into Jake’s caring luscious green eyes.

“Thanks Jake”. I give him a big smile and lift myself to look more presentable. Jake gives me a pat on the back.

“Now go tell her” he says. I node my head in agreement and he walks away to join his group of friends.

I start to twiddle my thumbs going over the scenario in my head. In two minutes Alex will walk into the room and I will notice how cute she looks in her uniform like I always do. I will look at how her chestnut colored hair lays perfectly on her shoulders. I will lose myself in her ocean blue eyes for a moment and then look at her beautiful plump pink lips. My eyes will glide down seeing her white short sleeve button down shirt with a strip of blue on the collar and her red ribbon that gives off a bit of color to our plane uniform shirt. I will see how the shirt fits perfectly around her body showing her amazing curves. Her arms will be behind her back as she holds onto her book bag. She say’s holding her bag behind her makes her look cuter. Not going to lie, she does look pretty cute when she does it. I will continue down to see her blue plaid skirt and her perfect smooth white legs with her white socks and black shoes. I’m not a fan of wearing the skirt because of my tomboy nature, but I do like seeing Alex with a short skirt on. My focus starts to fade from my scenario as I notice my face is starting to feel hot. I realize how perverted I must be from the way I was looking at Alex in my scenario. I start to think of my homework I didn’t do, hoping that it will take my mind off of Alex.

“Hey Katie”.  I turn my head to see Alex standing beside me looking like she did in my scenario. All of my perverted thought came streaming back to me and in an instant I feel my face turn beat red. Alex tilts her head to the side “Your face is really red, are you feeling ok Katie”.

“Yea o-of course I am”. I laugh hysterically trying to hide my nervousness.

“Are you sure”, Alex bends over and puts her hand on my forehead to check my temp. Her face is only inches from mine and I start to feel my face get even hotter. “Wow Katie, you’re burning up you might have a cold”.

“I’m sure it’s nothing” I stammer trying to keep my perverted thoughts locked away.

“I’m sure she’s just excited about what she wants to talk to you about” Jack steps in.

“Oh, really, what do you want to talk to me about”? I look up at Jack and then over to Alex.

“Well, I um, I” I search my mind of what to say. I never got all the way through my scenario to where I actually tell her that I love her. “I have figured out a way to get you and Hannah together” I finally blurt out. I look to see Jack put his hand over his eyes in disappointment to what I had just said.

“Really, that’s great what did you come up with”. I open my mouth making it look like I’m about to tell her of this amazing plan to get her and Hannah together when the bell rings saving me from an embarrassing moment of silence.

“All right class; get to your seats so we can get started” Mrs. Lock commands. “Looks like you’re just going to have to tell me after class” Alex says sounding a little unhappy. Alex gives me a smile and sits two rows and one seat ahead of me. Jake gives me a stern look before he heads to his seat in the front.

There is five minutes left of class and I still have no idea what I am going tell Alex. I have no idea how I’m supposed find out if Hannah likes girls or if she will go out with Alex. I rack my brain for ideas but nothing seems to come up. Then it hits me “I’ve got it” I yell allowed.

“What do you have Mrs. Coles” asks Mrs. Lock.

“I, Uh” I look to see everyone’s eyes staring at me in confusion. I didn’t realize that I was talking aloud. “I have that paper from last week that I never turned in” I say from the top of my head.

“Oh well you can give that to me after class, but there was no need to interrupt class”. I slouch in my chair as my classmates giggle at my disruption. I notice that Alex has also started to giggle but gives me a little wave to apologize for her laughter.

“Ring, ring” the class bell finally goes off. The five minutes felt like an eternity because everyone in class continually gave me weird looks. Alex walks over and asks “so did you really finish last week’s homework”.

“No” I answer bashfully, “but I did figure out a way to get you and Hannah on a date”.

“A date, really what did you come up with.” “Well Hannah helps out at the library a lot right, so she must love books”?

“I could have told you that Katie” Alex says not very pleased.

“Just hear me out” I explain “this Saturday there is supposed to be an author named Steven Cross who will be signing some of his books at the local book store”. Alex’s eyes start to get big and you can tell she is really tuning in. “You could ask her if she wants to go to the book signing with you and maybe out to eat after words”. “That will give you the time to hang out with her and then you can ask her how she feels about you”.

“That’s an amazing idea Katie how did you know Steven Cross would be at the book store”. I actually heard about it while I was at the library trying to figure out who this Hannah girl was when some girls started squealing about some book signing.

“My mom told me about it when she got home from work” I lied.

“You’re fantastic Katie” Alex lifts me up and gives me a big hug. I start to melt from her body heat that radiates off of her and then the perverted thoughts came running back.

“I can’t wait to go the library after school, I’m so excited”. Alex picks up her bag and skips her way through the door. Jake comes over and stands in front of my desk.

“You amaze me with your stupidity sometimes you know that” he says.

“Hey it was a good idea” I reply.

“Yea and what if it goes perfectly and then Hannah and Alex start to date, what are you going to do then”. I stand up and put my bag over my shoulder.

“Then Alex will be happy and I will be right by her side if she needs anything”. Jake gives me a good hard look and then shrugs his shoulders.

“You’re to caring for your own good” he stammers. I give him a smile and we walk out of the class into the hallway.

“This is going to be a very interesting Saturday this week” I say to myself, and I stroll on to my next class.