By the time lunch was over, Alison and I’s little interaction in the hallways this morning had already become the talk of the week. Word was spreading through the grapevine of our budding romance after she had totally face planted into my chest. Now that was a bit of a stretch, but it didn’t help that I had hinted to several of my usually friends at lunch that I had an ongoing thing for her and planned on pursuing her over the rest of the school year. I knew word would eventually get back to her, thanks to the speed at which the gossip train in the high school ran and I actually sort of loved that. It would simultaneously both get more under her skin, and peak her interest in me.
I walked into lab class surprising early, well for me at least. Still fashionably late as Henry had already b
