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“…you wanted to go out with me sometime?” he was asking and I turned to look at him quickly.
“Uh…”Come on brain, catch up. “Yes, sure.” I broke into the widest, most sincere smile I owned and hoped it would cover my terribly hesitant answer.
“Don’t feel you have to,” he chuckled self-consciously.
“No, no. I’d love to,” I answered quickly. “Sorry. I’m not with it today. I slept terribly last night. Just ask Roman.”
“Ask him how you slept?” he asked slowly.
I blanched;well, he would know. I laughed awkwardly. “Uh, no. How not with it I am. I basically ignored him the whole way to school.”
Mason smiled, but it didn’t quite reach his eyes. “Well, I was thinking we could go to a movie and get something to eat. You know,”oh, great, he was asking me on a group outing again, “just us.”
My heart stuttered and I wasn’t sure if it was in a good way or a bad way. “Yes,” I squeaked. “Yes. That would be great.”
Yet again, I sounded more insincere the more sincere I tried to sound. I mentally rolled my eyes and wanted to slap myself.
Mason’s smile finally started to reach his eyes and they dropped to the floor as he shuffled a little awkwardly. I was starkly reminded that Roman would never have shuffled awkwardly after he asked a girl out. Not that Roman would ever ask a girl out.
“Great. Okay. So, uh… It’s a date.”
I smiled and looked around the corridor. “It is.”
Mason and I looked at each other at the same time and smiled. This time, it fully reached those gorgeous blue eyes and he looked a crazy amount of happy. I couldn’t believe it was all because I’d agreed to go out with him. Maybe it wasn’t. That made more sense; why would anyone look that happy just because I’d agreed to go out with them?
Mason nodded, looking like I’d made his day. “Great,” he repeated. “Well, we’ll fix a time and that later, yeah?”
I nodded as well. “Yeah, sounds good.”
“Sweet.” He looked at me, nodded once more, and strutted off.
I wasn’t sure how to feel. I wasn’t sure how I was supposed to feel.
Were we dating now? Or, were we one of those couples who went out on a few dates before they decided they were officially dating? Why didn’t I know? Why was I not on the same wavelength as my guy? Everyone else just seemed to know these things. Why didn’t I know?
I got my books ready in a bit of a daze and wandered to first lesson to find Hadley. I dropped down into my chair beside her and only paid attention when she nudged me.
“What?” I jumped.
“What happened? Roman whip it out on the way to school?” Hadley chuckled, sliding a look over to said resident underachiever who apparently had decided to go to class that day.
I choked on an inconveniently placed glob of spit and Hadley smacked me on the back as I gathered my composure. “No,” I wheezed. “No, Mason just asked me out.”
Hadley squealed so high that it was almost something only dogs could hear. I winced and hit her as everyone who was already in the classroom turned and looked at her with interest. Roman looked at us a little longer before Rio distracted him again.
“Oh. My. God. Finally!” Hadley breathed. “Tell me everything!”
I blinked. “I just did…”
Hadley sighed like I was a little bit of an idiot. “No. What did he say? Where are you going? Details, bitch! Come on!”
I blinked some more. “Uh. Well, he asked if I wanted to go out with him sometime. A movie and food. That was… That was it. What does it mean?” I hissed, panic gripping me.
Hadley frowned like she thought I’d been replaced with an alien. “What do you mean, what does it mean?”
“Well, are we dating? What does it mean?”
Hadley chuckled. “It means you get to say no to Roman more easily.”
