Stepping Out: Part 2 of 3

strangerarray (63)in #writing • 8 years ago

His throat started to dry up. His lips were cracking.

He couldn’t find the words.

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Joel was worried about his ineptitude in conversing with girls.

Although he did well academically, Joel was not a ladies man.

And he didn’t know how to dance.

“I… I want to ask her,” Joel replied, returning to reality.

“I just haven’t gotten up the guts to call her yet.”

“Man she sure is pretty,” Trevor remarked. “I probably won’t go though, just stay at home or something.”

The boys paid for their meals and headed for their usual table next to the snack bar on the east side of the cafeteria.

As they sat down, Randy walked up with his sack lunch and plopped down across the table from them.

“Hey Randy!” they said in near unison.

“How’s it goin’?” Randy asked almost automatically.

“You know,” Joel started, “just the same as always.”

“Good,” Trevor chimed in. “We were just talking about the dance,” he said as he took a bite of his meal.

“Oh yeah,” Randy replied. “I think I might go by myself. You know to see what’s going on, maybe there will be food,” he remarked as he hungrily poured out the contents of his lunch sack on the table and began to arrange the items in the order he was going to eat them.

“Are you going?” he asked to no one in particular.

“Probably not,” Trevor said and took a drink of his red juice.

“I want to go,” Joel joined in, adding, “I was thinking about asking Victoria but I don’t know.”

“That’s ridiculous,” Randy blurted.

“Whata’ mean?” Joel fired back.

“Victoria is a cheerleader dude. Why she probably doesn’t even know who you are.”

That sent Joel into another daydream.

He had thought of the possibility that she might not even know him. They had had at least one class together over the last three years of school so there was a chance she know him, he speculated.

However, he hadn’t ever really talked to her and she was usually surrounded with her other friends all the time.

Joel concluded that the dance would be his best chance to get to know her.

“I guess she might now know me,” he admitted. “But we have had classes together,” he added to his defense.

“Plus, I am going to just call her this weekend,” he boldly claimed.

“We’ll see,” Randy skeptically responded.

This left Joel with a sense that he had inadvertently got himself into some sort of bet that he didn’t know how to back out of if he ended up chickening out.

The bell rang signalling the end of lunch.

The boys got up to clear their trash from the table.

“Do you think he really is going to call her?” Randy asked lowering his voice as he pulled Trevor aside.

Trevor shrugged his shoulder. “I don’t know… maybe,” he said as they exited the lunch room and parted ways to go back to their classes.

This story will be concluded in Part 3 coming soon.

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Written by Michael Paine

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