It's a Date!

I finally asked. I couldn't hold in the yearning and the curiosity that was burning inside me. So today in detention, which I got because of my ten second tardy to English, I plopped down next to him and passed him a note that said "do you want to watch a movie with me sometime?" (very subtle... I know). I had to force myself to pass it to him because there were only fifteen minutes left of the time in which I would be in the same detention room as him (he used his phone in his Latin class). So I closed my eyes, held my breath, passed it to him and cursed at myself immediately. Anyways, he took a long time to reply and I was scared for him to find me staring at him, so I looked down and continued working on my homework so I didn't see his reaction as he read the note. After a minute I started to fret. If he didn't have an answer already, it was probably because he was finding a way to let me down gently. So when he returned it, I had to hold my breath again and braced myself for the let down, before I jumped in. 

He had replied "well that depends greatly on the movie, doesn't it?" and I realized he was trying to lighten the mood. I told him I'd let him choose. And he cracked a joke by saying something along the lines of "if you agree to use mm/dd/yy as the way to write the date while in America". That did it, I couldn't stop laughing and the fact that everyone was staring at me as I broke the silence with my awkward laugh. You see, because I'm Latin American I write the date dd/mm/yy and we've been debating all semester about the correct way to write the date. Basically at the end he said we would have a lot to mediate about. But, essentially he said yes!! I am extremely excited, I couldn't keep the smile off of my face and was practically skipping. Sure, another boy in my grade threatened to insult me if I didn't shut up when trying to correct his poor math (and he's in AP calc...). Man that kid can't accept his mistakes! He feels the need to cover his stupidity by slapping people with insults. However, I was unwilling to let his pessimism ruin my day. I was soaring, enough to zone out during Academic Team practice when I should have been trying to answer questions. 

What did make me incredibly angry was when J (my sophomore friend) wrote down on a piece of paper "Cynthia loves him" and everyone saw. So now all of his friends know that I like him. And though I was furious at first, I came to my senses. He already knew that I liked him... I had asked him out on a date! So I forgave J and wasn't mad at him anymore. So now I am acting like a stereotypical teenage girl and stressing out over how long it took him to reply and over analyzing all of the details. And because I had to leave before he did, I couldn't agree with him on the details of our date... so I texted him, but he's not really a texting kind of guy, despite being caught with his phone in class... and he hasn't replied. So I'm stressing out. 

But over all I'm ecstatic. I have a date! <3