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Rey Gets A Girlfriend – Mar

I hadn’t planned it. It’s just – well he passed the note to me and it was folded, with no name on. So I opened it. This is what I read:
“Will you go out with me…”
Short and to the point, I didn’t read the last bit ‘til after my heart had leapt for joy – me! He was asking me out!
Then I unfolded the bottom of the paper and read the end of the question:
“…Sol?”
I looked round before I knew what I was doing and he was looking at me waving his arms to tell me to pass it on. I looked away again quickly. I held my back straight so he wouldn’t see the disappointment weighing me down. Shaking me.
What was I going to do?
Rey was hissing at me now. I turned back to shush him and Miss caught me at it.
“Can I help you Mar?”
I hid the note quickly, crossing my fingers behind my back as a signal to Rey.
Saved! I didn’t have to pass the note on yet.
So I didn’t.
Well, she was probably going to say no, so I thought I’d save him the humiliation of her even knowing he’d asked.
I managed to get out of the library lesson at the same time as him. Teachers are so dumb about letting a boy and a girl go to the toilet at the same time.
We snuck off out of sight and I held his arm sympathetically, I didn’t even need to say it. He just looked at my face and said: “She said no didn’t she?”
I dropped my eyes as if I couldn’t bear to tell him – which I couldn’t, he looked truly heartbroken.
I had to show him, he was pining after the wrong girl.
So I comforted him, I consoled him, I tried to be nice about Sol – said she probably just wasn’t ready for boys yet. Some of us are, some of us aren’t.
I could see he wasn’t ready to open his eyes yet so I did the only thing I could do, said the only thing left to say (whispering in his ear – I’m sure I felt a shiver of delight):
“Look, Sol’s a bit of a wimp about standing out from the crowd sometimes. Maybe she just needs someone else to go first.”
It took a while for my meaning to sink in. In fact I had to spell it out for him and even then he took some persuading. I finally convinced him that Sol is afraid to be the first to have a boyfriend; in fact most of the girls are, except me. And then I had to convince him that going out with me would start the ball rolling and Sol would suddenly regret saying no.
Thankfully, it didn’t seem to occur to him that she might just go out with someone else instead (hopefully – well she’ll definitely get asked…)

We were in major trouble when we got back to the library and Sol was green as hell, score 1 to Rey, but he’ll soon forget her. I’ll make sure of that.