Ava

August 30th

12:00 A.M.

I'm sitting on my phone, scrolling through Instagram.

12:03 A.M.

I open up my crush's profile and start to go through their page.

12:04 A.M.

I accidentally like an old picture of my crush on Instagram and hurriedly go back and unlike it.

2:11 A.M.

I can't fall asleep because I'm too paranoid about liking my crush's picture earlier.

2:13 A.M.

I start watching a story-time video on YouTube about someone's past relationships.

5:45 A.M.

My alarm rings for my first day of junior year and I get ready and have breakfast.

7:02 A.M.

My bus arrives at school and I see my crush out the window walking with their friends.

7:20 A.M.

My first class starts, Physics, and I don't see anyone I know.

8:44 A.M.

While in my second class, my friend Iris texts me her schedule and asks if we have any classes together. We share English and History, my fifth and sixth hours, along with lunch.

9:20 A.M.

I walk into art class and sit down. My crush walks in shortly after, looks around, then walks up to me.

"Hey, Avery! How was your summer?"

"Oh, hey Riley, it was pretty uneventful. Did you end up going to that art festival?"

"Yeah, it was really nice getting to see other people's art and getting praised for my own, but I still haven't been scouted for any colleges".

"Well, you'll have plenty of opportunities to get scouted now with it being junior year and all".

"Yeah, you're right, I need to stay positive".

The teacher interrupted our conversation there to talk about the syllabus.

Riley and I only briefly chatted throughout class.

11:30 A.M.

I meet Iris for lunch in the cafeteria and she rants to me for a bit about all the annoying people she's had in her classes so far. We talk until it's time for us both to go to English.

1:10 P.M.

History, my first class with both Riley and Iris starts. Iris and I sit a couple desks away from Riley. I haven't told Iris that I like Riley yet.

Throughout our last class of the day, I sneak glances at Riley, but they don't seem to notice.

2:10 P.M.

School ends for the day and I head home one the bus.

As I walk the rest of the way home, I take the time to go over my thoughts on Riley.

I've known Riley since sophomore year when they moved schools. We didn't instantly become friends though, I met them through art class when we had to work in pairs for an art project. Riley seemed so serious about art back then, always asking the teacher for criticism on their work before it was even finished. Riley seemed so intense back then that I was a little afraid to work with them, but I eventually learned that they were so intense about art because they wanted to go into art as a career. Throughout the project we became and they chilled out a lot more. We've taken art together every year and I started crushing on Riley because of their 'Go Get'em' attitude. I just can't get over how amazing of a person Riley is.

I stop thinking about Riley as I arrive home and grab some snacks and a movie to watch.

10:34 P.M.

I don't have any homework so I decide to sleep early.