Flowers in the Heart

At six foot two and one hundred and ninety pounds, Scott had no trouble jostling through the milling teenagers.

"Man, what happened?" Ronnie asked, knocking a couple of students aside.

Scott looked at him in mild irritation; one of the students Ronnie had shoved aside was his own brother, Brian. Brian too looked at his older brother with irritation.

"What the fuck you think happened?" Scott asked. "You hit her in the head with your football, dumb ass."

"No, no, I mean..." Ronnie said.

"Fuck man, I don't know," Scott said. "She knows it wasn't an accident, that's for sure."

"Yeah it was, right?" Ronnie said, tugging onto Scott's arm.

"Uh huh," Scott said.

He entered the Calculus classroom and smiled; Fauna was, as always, seated right up front, the first student into the classroom.

She looked at him and then looked away, heavy blush coloring her pale face.

"Hey Fauna, how's it going?" he asked as he took the seat to her left.

She whirled her head around and fixed her deep brown eyes on his brown eyes.

"Fine," she whispered, blushing hotly.

He smiled as she nervously clutched her pencil in her hands.

"Hey um, listen, I uh, you wouldn't want to go out with me this Friday huh?" Scott asked and smiled as her large eyes got even larger.

"Are you, this isn't some kind of joke, huh?" she asked, barely choking out the words.

"No, no, it's not some kind of joke," Scott said, slightly puzzled.

Surely he hadn't misread her signals. Surely this girl did like him. Jenna Jordan had made a point of seeking him out to tell him that Fauna liked him.

"Aiee!" she screamed out loud, causing Sister Andrea, the four other students and Scott to jump.

"Oh my God!" she screamed out loud. "Yes! I'd love to! Here! Here's my phone number! Okay? You can call me at..."

"Miss Davendorf! Really!" Sister Andrea scolded, trying to hide her amusement behind a scowl.