Autumn

            “You got asked by who!” Autumn snuck a glance at the back of the class where two girls were excitedly talking their heads close together.

            It was lunch time and the class was just emptying out everyone heading in separate directions. Some of the students stayed though. Mr. Clark, the classroom teacher, didn’t mind if you ate lunch there. Mr. Clark even pulled a brown paper bag out of his desk opened a book and began reading as he ate his lunch. Autumn didn’t pay much attention to anything else. She was mostly interested in what the girls at the back were talking about.

            “I know and it was sooooooo cute too!” The second girl said. Autumn thought her name was Sarah or something. “He left a bunch of chocolate kiss on my doorstep with a note that said ‘now that I’ve kissed the ground you walked on will you go to homecoming with me?’” Both girls fell into a fit of giggles.  Autumn sat on the edge of her chair trying to catch what they were saying.

            “awww I wish that something like that would happen to me.” The first girl said dreamily. Autumn was pretty sure her name was Becky.

            “Well what about Todd? Weren’t you going to try to get him to ask you?” Sarah inquired. “I thought you guys were getting pretty close.”

At this point Autumn almost fell out of her seat and had to readjust. The two girls stopped talking for a moment to look up, their eyes widened for a moment when they saw Autumn and the quickly looked down talking in quitter tones.

Autumn sat there frustrated. She was missing the best part! How did you get someone you liked to ask you out? She had no idea! Not that it had really ever happened before. Actually it had never happened to her at all. Boys didn’t really want to ask you out when you could look them in the eye not to mention look down on them most of the time even without shoes. That’s what it was like when you were a girl and 6’3”. And even if that wasn’t what it was about, it sure felt like that’s what it was about! And now Sarah and Becky were talking about how to get a guy to ask you out and Autumn couldn’t even hear!

Well she wasn’t going to hear what they were saying if she just sat where she was. She grabbed her lunch bag took a deep breath and stood up. The few students that were left in the class room looked up at her, including Sarah and Becky but they all quickly turned away when they saw who it was. Autumn felt a little prick somewhere deep inside. Her whole life people had acted scared around her and she never understood why.

She walked to the back of the room and stood in front of Becky and Sarah. They looked up at her there eyes going wider. Crap! Autumn thought I have no idea what to say! I can’t just ask them how to get boys to ask you out. That would be way too weird! Why don’t I ever think before I just do things!? Maybe if I just ask to do something else they’ll talk to me. Wait what else do I ask them to do?! Maybe sports, I know about sports. Wait they don’t look like sports girls they look like girly girls. They probably don’t know anything about sports. But I don’t know any girly girly stuff to talk about! Oh now I’m taking too long, and I still don’t know what to say! Oh right I brought my lunch bag I’ll ask them to eat lunch with me!

“Lunch!” she said triumphantly, setting her brown lunch bag down in front of the two girls accidently hitting the desk pretty hard as she did so.

Both girls looked at her with panic stricken eyes, along with everyone else in the classroom except for Mr. Clark who was still reading. “Here” they squeaked in unison putting their lunches next to hers and getting up and practically running out of the classroom leaving there bags and books in their rush. Autumn sighed as she gathered up there things. She had to have the worst people skills in the world.

“Mr. Clark” Autumn said placing the items in front of the teacher. Mr. Clark looked up from reading gave a little shocked surprise at seeing Autumn and knocked his desk a little bit sending an apple rolling.

“What can I do for you?” Mr. Clark said. He kept setting the apple down and then it would roll and he would pick it up and set it down only to have it roll again.

“Becky and Sarah left some of their stuff here can you give it back to them when they come back?”

“Certainly” Mr. Clark said still messing with the apple.

Autumn exited the classroom walking down the long hallway. She would like to say that today just didn’t seem to be one of her days but it actually was pretty normal for her so far. Autumn was just contemplating what she was going to do for lunch when she was assailed from behind and a mass of purple and pink hair obscured her vision as a voice whispered into her ear.      

“I have the perfect plan today Pinky.”