Pining for Madison
Date: 10/12/2023,
Categories:
First Time
Author: bySecretauthor2021
... ask her out."
"I can't, what if she says no?"
"Then at least you know."
"I can't."
"Yes you can. It's time dude, it's been like five years. You got this."
I mulled over Ethan's encouragement; he was right of course. It had been five years, and I had done absolutely nothing about it. Was this my chance?
After our lessons had finished, I left Ethan to go find Madison in the school library. As I pushed open the door, the smell of old books was over powering. I walked past the front desk and headed towards the study area. I couldn't see any sign of Madison, so I started to look up and down the book aisles, in case she was there.
I headed to the science section, the most probable place to find her given the assignment. I passed through Physics, then Chemistry before finally reaching Biology. BINGO! There she was. When she saw me, she gave a little wave, and I approached her.
"Hey."
"Hey, so what are you looking at, books?" I responded, cringing internally. Books! Of course, books, you TOOL! We're in a bloody library.
"Yep, lots of books here," she said, smiling to herself as she skimmed through a page in the book she was holding.
Slowly but surely, I was reaching peak nervousness, and it started to show. When nervousness shows, awkwardness isn't far behind.
"Sorry, it was a stupid thing to say. Of course, it's books," I replied.
"I'm Adam," I said.
"I know who you are, silly! We've been in the same class for like five ...
... years."
"Sorry, of course you do," I said, my face turning bright red.
I then tried to recover from my complete lack of cool by leaning against the bookshelf. With my arm outstretched, I placed my hand and subsequently my weight on a row of books. It soon became apparent that there was no backing to the shelf holding the books in place. As a result, they all tumbled off the shelf onto the floor on the other side of the next aisle down, causing me to stumble into the bookshelf itself, humiliating myself further.
I quickly pulled myself back and tried to compose myself.
"Are you okay?" Madison asked, touching the side of my arm.
"Yeah, I'm fine, just a little..."
"Just a little what?"
"Nothing, it's okay. So, what are we reading?" I said, keen to change the subject after making a complete tit of myself.
"Well, I've found these books."
Madison handed me a book to hold, but I didn't quite grab it properly, and it slipped out of my hand. Instinctively, we both reached down to catch it, causing us to bump heads.
"Oww!" Madison cried out.
"Oh my god, I am so sorry."
As if things weren't going well already, my meeting with Madison was practically slapstick at this point. Please, Lord, just strike me down now and put me out of this misery.
"It's okay. Guess we're both to blame for that one. Let's go sit down, in case we hurt each other again," she joked.
We went over to the study area and sat down next to each other at a desk, placing our books in front of ...