“Good morning Eric, how was your day yesterday?” Miguel said cheerily as he sat at his desk.

“Good, I watched 7 hours of Parks and Rec and yours?” Eric said, a proud smile shining at the larger male.

“Good, I watched 5 hours of the Good Place. I think we both spent that time well!”

“Agreed!” Eric said, signally the end to their conversation as the bell rang for class to begin.

**

“Eric, will you come with me to return a book I borrowed from my teacher?” Miguel asked, already knowing what the answer would be.

“Ya, let’s go.”

The biology room was across campus and it made for quite a walk. On their way, when the boys had just passed the library, they found themselves in the most secluded part of campus, where most confessions happened.

As they walked through the secluded area, hoping to not interrupt someone’s confession.

As they walked, they crossed paths with a girl in their year, her name was Jordan. They all nodded and said “Good morning.”

The girl began to fidget and blurted out, “Miguel, could I talk to you real quick? Alone?”

Miguel nodded, confused, “Yeah sure. Where?”

“Over there,” Jordan said sweetly, pointing to a weeping willow.

“Um. Okay?” Miguel said his statement sounding like a question, due to his extreme confusion.

“He’ll be back in a moment,” all kindness dropping from Jordan’s voice as she addressed Eric. Jordan and Miguel walked over to the tree in an awkward silence.

“So what did you want to talk about?” Miguel said, still blissfully ignorant of what she would want.

“Aww, you are so naïve, it’s really cute,” Jordan said, unaware of how that remark hurt Miguel’s feelings. “Anyway I just wanted to talk to you about our relationship,” as Miguel opened his mouth to stop her but she cut him off. “Please don’t say anything until I finish, I have a whole speech memorized, and it’s easier to not get flustered and finish it if you don’t interrupt.

“We have been in school together since freshman year. You are so amazing that of course, I began to like you last year, and I am not talking like friend to friend like, I mean like, like like. Goodness! I am getting off script, I am interested in you romantically, and would you please be my girlfriend-I mean would you have me as your girlfriend, or you know be my boyfriend.”

She put a finger on his lips to shush him, which actually began to piss him off, “Please think it through, even if you don’t have feelings for me right now, I truly believe that you could feel the same way as me after a bit of time. I think we are very compatible, and I think we should go on a date.”

Miguel replied, removing her finger, “Can I talk now?”

After a nod, he continued, “I am truly sorry, I can not recuperate these feelings.”

“No, trust me you can! You will learn to love me! Trust me, Miguel, please. Just one first date that is all I ask, be my boyfriend for a bit, and you will discover how compatible we are.”

**

Eric saw Miguel walking back into his limited view. Eric, unlike Miguel, assumed that Jordan had confessed romantic feelings to Miguel, which made Eric ich his upper arm. He wondered how Miguel had replied, were they to be one of those manga unlikely couples? Was there some secret love story Miguel had not shared with him?

As Miguel got closer, Eric observed Miguel had flushed cheeks, but his mouth was unreadable. How had Miguel replied?