Love on Wheelz

I was pacing frantically in room. Well, my room isn’t big enoughto pace in, so I was really just going in circles. She was coming over for the first time in a week and this was the night. I remembered the hurt and disappointment, and I didn’t want to feel like that ever again. In [...]

“I’m gonna tell her.”
“You should.” Nick said as he visually molested his vanilla ice cream cone.
“I will. You think she’ll like me back?”
“I don’t know.” he said as he bit off the top of his ice cream, “She seems very flirty, but that maybe that’s just how she is.”
“Oh.” I said, a bit disillusioned.
“But you [...]

“You want to give her the doll?” asked Nick.
“It’s not a doll, it’s an action figure.”
“It’s Fry from futurama dancing in a disco costume.”
“Action figure.”
“Well, you bought it for her two weeks ago. Are you gonna give it to her tonight or wait ’til you make sure she won’t keep flaking on you?”
“No. I bought [...]

She was supposed to come Friday. I got all dressed up and got my dad to get me on my chair. I planned to tell her I liked her. I’d never told any girl I liked her, why would I ever do that? I could get rejected. Hell, I probably would get rejected. And why [...]