Reality- Part 5

After Al sent me his bold text and I had rejected him, things stopped progressing for a long time. He stopped texting me, talking to me at school, and actually started avoiding me in the hallway. But, really... do you blame him? He didn't want to waste his time if I wasn't going to give him the time of day. 

For some reason though, I couldn't stop thinking about him. I missed texting him. I missed when he would awkwardly say hi to me in the hallway. Why?? I didn't understand! I don't like him, right? Then, why can I not stop thinking about him? He's really funny and way nice! I just.... I just... ugh! I really couldn't explain it. I have know idea what my problem was. Was I still hanging on to the idea of my Mr. Senior? Possibly. But, really, I hadn't talked to Mr. Senior for more than 4 months now. I had pretty much given up on that. Plus, he was graduating here shortly and would be out into the real world not thinking about his pathetic little Junior anymore. 

I wouldn't say I was all of a sudden falling for Alek because I wasn't. It's like I realized what I was missing when He just completely stopped paying attention to me. I missed his attention!

So, what did I do? I started texting him. Not a lot. Maybe just a few times a week. Most of the time he wouldn't respond. And on the rare occasions he would respond, he would be very short with me and end the conversation quickly. Of course, he was just as confused. Talking to Alek now about it, he was so frustrated! He liked me but I had turned him down. He was trying to move on but I kept trying to talk to him. He did not like that!

However, I would get so excited when he would finally text me back! I don't know why... I still was telling myself I wasn't interested. I just loved talking to him. 

One day at school I was walking to go out to seminary. I saw Alek and his friend, you know...being boys and wrestling in the hallway. I walked passed them and said "Behave!" in a very flirty manner and maybe fluttered my eyes a little. Alek froze in his tracks and gave me the most surprised face I had ever seen!  Like, his eyes could not have gotten any bigger! He just sat there and stared at me.

I walked away pretty quickly and confused. What did I say? Why was that so awkward? I sat and thought about that incident all through seminary. Did he take me seriously? I was just trying to be funny! I wasn't trying to be mean! Finally I got a text from Al

"What was that about?"

"What do you mean? All I said was 'Behave' I wasn't trying to be rude!"

"Oh...."

"Now I'm embarrassed..."

"What? Why?

"I thought you said, 'Hey babe!' My bad...."

Ahhh... this explained his speechless expression and all the awkwardness. I was kind of embarrassed that he had thought I had said that! "Hey babe?!" pshhhhh..... who did he think I was?  I decided to just laugh it off and pretend like nothing happened!

After the mis-communication, Al did start to text me more often and I liked that. I loved texting him! It was different. There were never any awkward times, like "what should we talk about now?" Conversations were easy and boy, did he make me laugh! It got to the point where we were texting at least once a day. 

One night, I was telling him about how I had my end of year math test the next day. I told him I was so nervous!! The next day on my way to my math class, I ran into Alek who was waiting for me in front of the math hall.

He said," I have to give you something very important."

"Okay..."

"I always keep this with me and it has brought me pretty good luck. I want you to take it"

 He pulled out a little green coin with a clover on it. He grabbed my hand and put the coin in it, closed my fingers and gave me hand a lil squeeze. 

"Good luck on your math test."

And he walked away. Awww I'm sure I was blushing! 

I actually did very well on my math test! I found him afterwards and tried to give him his lucky coin back. But, he refused and told me to keep it. Believe it or not, 5 years later, I still carry it with me in my wallet!  So far, I'd have to say it's brought me pretty good luck! ;)