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“Uh … yeah.”
“This is crazy. Why don’t I know about this stuff?” Carter looks at me. “You’ve been my best friend for years.”
“Because I didn’t want anyone to know.” I stare at the ground.
“Why not?” Lucas asks.
“Wait a second,” Carter starts looking around again. “Dude, you and Isabel totally have this stuff in common. There’s no way she’s not into you.”
“What?” Lucas asks. “The girl from prom court?”
“Yeah.” Carter smirks at me. “I was right, huh?”
“It’s not that simple, Carter.”
“What are you talking about? You’re two geeks who got the hots for each other. Everyone can see that. Well, not you as the geek, but just your body language at the pep rally? I know you like her. And I know she likes you.”
“You’re right. She does like me.”
“So, what’s the problem?”
“This.” I wave around my room. “This is the problem.”
“I’m not following.”
“Dude, when I went to New York, I cosplayed as Iron Man at a comic book convention, and she was there. She knows about all this stuff.”
“First of all, what the hell is cosplay? And secondly, what do you mean she knows about all this? Has she been here?”
“Yeah.” I nod. “I dressed up as Iron Man. She was at the convention and saw me. Then we had to team up for that sociology class experiment, and she wanted to see my room. So, I brought her up here.”
“Yeah, you did.” Carter smiles.
“Dude, no.” I stop him. “Well, okay, we made out a little on my bed, but–”
“You made out with her?” Lucas asks.
“Was it hot?” Carter asks as he looks at Lucas. “I bet it was hot.”
“You’re missing the point.”
“Matt, you haven’t made a point yet.”
“My point,” I squeeze my eyes shut, “is that yes, I like her. And yes, she likes me. I think. And I even asked her to prom.”
“And?”
“And she said she’d only go with me if I dressed up as Spike from Cowboy Bebop.”
Carter and Lucas both look at each other, and if I weren’t so worked up about revealing all of this to them, I’d probably laugh at the dumbfounded expression on their faces.
“Who—”
“A character from an anime. That suit that’s right there.” I point to the third mannequin.
“Oh. And why—”
“Because she’s modifying a costume as a different character from the same show to make her prom dress out of. Spike dresses in a suit anyways, so it fits.”
