What if I told her and she totally rejects me? What if she laughs and walks away? But what if I have been keeping it a secret for so long that every day that I don’t tell her just makes it harder to want to do it even more the next day? Okay, I told myself, you need to calm down.

I need to do this. The bell rang. Math class was finally over! Megan and I had been locker buddies all semester and buddies ever since I could remember.

I knew that she would believe me. I think.

I leaned against my locker, waiting for her to come by and put her stuff away.

When she came over, she was not alone. She was talking to her best friend about theatre.

“Hey…”

“Oh, hey Korbin? What’s up with you? Did Mr. W bore you with more math?”

“Oh. Yeah. He did.” I gave her a look. “We need to talk.”