CRUSHES

My good guy friend who I liked—and who liked me—asked me by text to meet him at his locker after school. When I got there, a couple of other people were standing around, so I followed him to a quieter place. We were finally alone when he reached into his backpack and pulled out a giant purple pixie stick—my fave sweet—and said, “If you take this pixie stick, it will mean that you are mine, through thick and thin, sickness and health.” He said it all with a totally straight, serious face, and I couldn’t stop smiling.

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