“Your eyes sparkle like green crystals, emeralds-,” I stopped short bursting out laughing. “Y- haha You- pfft… You know who I’m talking about, right?” She chuckled and sarcastically went, “Oh, I dunno… me? This wouldn’t be the first this week.”
Juniper Kryley. Little Miss Perfect. She’s got it all. Smarts, looks, you name it. As popular as it gets, you know the type. Most guys would say I’m lucky for having her as my bus partner. Honestly? I don’t see what the big deal is.
I’ve asked her once. “Ever wonder what being a nerd’s like?” She shrugged then pulled out a common Pokémon card from her backpack and wrote down her number, then handed it to me. She then left to get off and I was left in shock. What… just happened?
Later that night I decided to call her and ask about it. “Favorite Gen?” .. “Huh? Oh, six. It has a special place in my heart, Pokemon XY and all-“.. “Huh?? So you actually-“ .. “Pfft.. yeah, I’ve read some of the comics too.”
We got to talking and it turned out she had a lot more in common with me than I initially thought. It went from phone-calls to texting, talking on the bus to lunch, then eventually running into each other in the hallways and making light conversation between classes. Just the image of some weird looking guy next to a girl as gorgeous as Juniper. People laughed at first but stopped asking soon after.
So she’s a good friend of mine now, we hang out a lot. I take her on events with my friends and same me with her. I’ve gotten to know some of her friends and she’s gotten to know mine. They aren’t that bad or as scary as I thought.