Wednesday, January 28, 2004

He had gone over the script in his mind a dozen times. He knew just what to say if she asked any of the questions he knew she would. As Theo stepped out of the elevator on the third floor he was lost in thought and walked without even thinking about it right to Ms. Greanwyloe's office door.
Then his mind went blank.
She was coming out of the office. Mika Woolorly was taller than Theo, but not by much. She was on the schools volleyball team. Theo had known her in high school where she won an athletic scholarship. She was two years older than him. She had Short hair and a long face. Her lips were thin, but had a nice shape. She was athletic, of course, but not manly. She was good natured, liked water skiing. Her birthday was the 12th of June. Her favorite color was red. Theo had it bad for her. He had a crush on her from his freshmen year in high school. He had talked to her on a few occasions. He had been on two school trips with her, one in the tenth and one in his senior year, she went on the second trip even though she was already in college because she was working as a student teacher. The first trip was across the lake to Holburton, to the museum of natural history, and the district volleyball summer tournament, that is where he learned she liked to ski. The second trip was out to the Relafhua desert, a rock-climbing trip with the school camping club. He didn’t even like camping, but she was a student teacher working with the teacher who organized the club trips, and if she was going he was going. He hadn’t seen her on campus much now that he was in college. She was studying secondary education while he was majoring in art. The fact that she was in a freshman biology class was a little odd, but he had been happy to see her twice a week after all, even if he was sure she was out of his league. She would pass him buy now, in the hall, and it would be five days until he got to see her again. Right now he was struggling to remember what he was thinking before he saw her, and then she stopped and spoke to him. His throat got tight, his pulse raced and it took every bit of his effort to look at her without his mouth dropping open.
“You’re Theo aren’t you?” She asked.
“Yes I am”, he said and was surprised at how easily it came out.
“This is a great opportunity. What they want us to do. I hope you say yes”, she said and then stepped past him.
He turned and almost reached out to grab her arm. He wanted to ask her what she was talking about, but she surprised him again when she stopped and looked back at him to say, “ and we could get lunch after we’re done”.
She started walking away and right then he felt better than he had ever felt before, and he wasn’t sure why, but he was floating, then he turned and Ms. Greanwyloe was standing right behind him and he remembered why he was here.

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