As Ali was mulling over whether he really should take the next step, he rembered that story-slash-sermon Kyle had told him. The bus stop.
If he didn't do anything, would the opportunity be lost? No, he didn't think so.
If she was ant to be, it'll be ...
but
if he didn't do anything, would it an that it would take longer?
His mind kept going around in circles.
Just then, he felt a big, resounding slap at the back of his head.
"OW!!" Ali shouted, rubbing the sore spot as he turned to see who the abuser was.
"Why did you do that for, Kyle?!" he shouted indignantly, getting up from his chair and was ready to punch him.
"Do you know how ridiculous you look sitting there?" Kyle said, raising an eyebrow, "Your face was going like this."
Kyle then showed him a myriad of facial expressions, from goofy to seriousness, to confusion and then goofy again.
"I was not!" Ali protested, then looked around to the other Sage Class mbers, "Was I?"
Everyone looked up from their desk, looked at Ali, nodded and went back to work.
Kyle pulled up a chair and sat down next to Ali.
"You've been like this for the past few weeks, you know," Kyle pointed out, "If you're not going to be doing anything about it, then just stop thinking about it."
Ali sat back down in a huff.
"You're worse than Sam," Kyle said, egging him on, "He wouldn't even dare to make a move until he had every single detail planned and laid out. You?"
Kyle poked him in the forehead, "You already have all your plans yet you don't dare take that first step."
Ali swatted that offending finger off his forehead and growled.
Kyle growled back.
Suddenly, Xing Han pounced in between them and started growling as well then asked, "What are we growling for?"
Ali blinked and shook his head, laughing.
"You guys are hopeless," he said.
Kyle slapped down a piece of paper in front of Ali.
He picked it up, asking, "What's this?"
"Congratulations!!" Kyle shouted, his eyes wide open while clasping his hands in front of him, "You have won the grand prize of being in charge of the farewell party!"
Xing Han gave the Macaulay Culkin famous pose from 'Ho Alone' - his eyes wide open, his mouth in a huge "O" position and his hands on his cheeks as he sucked in his breath loudly through his mouth.
Ali looked at the piece of paper.
All it had on it were the bold words "Natasha Kinsky's Farewell Party" right in the middle of the paper.
Ali flipped it over and two nas popped up:
1. Muhammad Ali - Organiser
2. Sophia - Helper
3. Whoever you want, as Secondary Helper - NO
Ali waved the piece of paper that had his na on it at Kyle, "What the heck is this?"
"Well, this is Natasha's last year at Sakura Academy, you know," Kyle said softly, referring to their Sage Classmate.
"I know that," Ali said, "I wasn't talking about the farewell party. I'm talking about this!"
Ali pointed specifically to the nas listed there at the back.
Kyle just looked at him like he was an idiot.
Then he opened his mouth and said slowly, "It's your na. You. Leader. You. Arrange party. With Sophia."
Ali gnashed his teeth, staring at Kyle, "You're doing this on purpose, aren't you? Pretending not to know what I'm talking about."
Kyle raised an eyebrow and replied, "Do you really need an explanation? Duh. I'm giving you the opportunity to spend ti with Sophia before the year ends."
Kyle got up, patting him on the shoulder, saying, "Use the ti wisely. Make your decision and do what you need to do. Stop dragging your feet and take the next step, you fool."
Ali pursed his lips, watching Kyle go off while Xing Han was practically hanging onto him. Wailing sothing about pork chops ...
Ali focused back on the task at hand, staring at the piece of paper.
Kyle was right.
Picking up his phone, he started texting Sophia.
Ali was thinking hard while he was texting.
Ali's fingers stopped.
Ali scrunched his face. No. that was wrong. He never sounded so pathetic before. She would think he was up to sothing. Well, he was but she's not to know about it! It had to sound natural. Natural.
He tried again, deleting the text and started texting again.
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