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After moments of pacing around campus, I finally decided to go home. I was going try to take the advice the girl in my lecture gave the whole class. On the way home, I kept taking my phone out of my pocket and reading Johnny’s text over and over again. I felt a little bad, because he was probably still at school waiting for my answer.
Sighing, I got off my stop, walked to the door of my house, and gasped. It was Johnny.
“Lina, why didn’t you reply to my text? Is everything ok?” Johnny walked up to me and hugged me. His sweetness made me want to cry. “Yeah, everything’s fine, I guess I never got your text. Sorry”, I tried to keep a straight face even though I was lying to him. “It’s no problem, I was going to ask you if you wanted to go eat something after school”, he pulled away slightly and looked at me with a hopeful face. I hesitated for a moment. How should I reply? I did want to go… but I also wanted to test out my new experiment. “Um, I’m sorry I can’t. I have a lot of homework to do!” I tried to look apologetic. “Aw…” Johnny looked disappointed and I instantly felt bad. “Anyway, I’ll um, talk to you later?” I said awkwardly as I walked up to my door. “Yeah! Good luck on your homework” Johnny smiled, but I could tell it wasn’t genuine. “Thanks, bye”, I moved up the steps. Johnny didn’t move and I lingered a bit. He was looking and me hopefully and I knew he wanted a goodbye hug. Fight it Lina, fight! “See you tomorrow”, I stammered and ran into my house.
I didn’t stop running until I got to my room. Dropping face first into my bed, I thought about what I just did. I didn’t do anything wrong right? This is how it has to be if he wants to prove his love for me. I’ll just have to swallow any regrets and play along. I can do it! Smiling at myself, I got to work and thought about other ways I could get Johnny to show his devotion.
Throughout the week, I continued to decline any invitations from Johnny, making up new excuses everytime. I was really getting good at this! Our one month was coming up and I knew I had to accept whatever date he’d set up for us. I was thinking about how to reply to him when he’d ask one day in Chem tutorial when he suddenly shot the question at me. “So Lina, you know what’s coming up right?” he smiled his sweet smile and I instantly melted. No, Lina. You have to stay strong! “Uh, our second Chem midterm?” I asked, dumbly. “No silly! Our one month! So where do you want to go? I’ve already kind of set up everything, but if you have a specific place you want to go, I can change it!” Johnny reached around me and hugged me. “Um, I don’t really… care. You can pick,” I said, trying to sound like I really didn’t. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Scott staring at us with what I thought was jealousy. I stifled a laughter. “Oh, um, are you sure?” Johnny replied with a disappointed tone. “Yeah, sure whatever!” I said. “Ok then,” he sounded hurt. “I’ll pick you up at seven on Friday then?” I was about to reply, but our TA came in and I was spared answering. I gave him a quick nod and pretended to be attentively listening. I have to do something big! Something that could really prove his love once and for all… but what? Well I don’t have to decide now, I still have a few days!
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