Natalie and the Nerd by Amy Sparling

Author:Amy Sparling [Sparling, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-05-29T18:30:00+00:00

Me: Sorry I can’t make tutorials today. Something came up

Jonah: no prob. See you Thursday

Well, I think, as I stare at the first new text I’ve had all day. At least he doesn’t seem to mind.

Chapter 16

If the human brain is supposed to be this glorious organ capable of sending a man to the moon and curing smallpox, why can’t my mind work properly? All it does is think about my date with Caleb. Before that, all it did was think about Jonah. And then the store.

The phrase “one track mind” applies here, I think. Maybe it’s the teenage hormones. Maybe I’m just broken. But as I sit in class trying to work on these extra credit assignments, my hand just hovers the pencil over the first problem. It doesn’t write anything. I read the words over and over but they don’t make any sense because I’m not focusing. My mind is a train stuck on one track and that track is Caleb Brown.

In the hallways between classes, I can barely function like a normal human because I’m constantly wondering if he’ll find me again, lean against the lockers and chat with me. Or better, if he’ll walk with me to my next class. I close my eyes and think of the smell of him, how it’s a little overpowering but still good.

Then it makes me think of Jonah and how he smells better. I grit my teeth and try to ignore that. Jonah may smell better, but Caleb is popular, handsome, and he likes me. We’re going on a date. That is all that matters.

I don’t see him all day, except for during lunch where he’s at his normal table. April encourages me to go say hello but that would be like telling a deer to go say hi to a group of starving lions. I’m not that stupid.

Disappointment stings, but I try not to think about it. Maybe this is protocol for going on dates. You don’t really hang out until after the date. Too bad that’s three days away.

On Wednesday, things aren’t any better. April can probably tell that I’m feeling weird because she talks the entire time we walk to school and then she talks all through lunch, and she texts me jokes and stupid photos while I’m in class to make me feel better. But another day of being totally ignored by Caleb really gets to me and I’m starting to question if he ever asked me out or not. Maybe I tripped and fell in the hallway that day, banging my head on the wall. Maybe I was hallucinating that Caleb walked up being all unbelievably sexy and leaned against the lockers and asked me out for Friday. Maybe it was all just a dream.

I know that’s mostly just the paranoid part of my brain talking, because there’s no way I could have hallucinated so realistically, but it’s enough to keep me from approaching Caleb myself. Because after all, he asked me on a date and then hasn’t sought me out again.

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