Sunday, February 14, 2016

Heart Shaped Box of Chocolate

I glanced at my buddy's in amusement, elbowing him as all the girls in our class filed up to the front. "Stop gawking, you're embarrassing me." I muttered to him.
He elbowed me back. "If you didn't have a heart of stone, you'd realize there are some beautiful girls up there."
I shook my head. Tony, Tony, Tony. As girl crazy as ever.
The speaker of the pack of girls, stepped forward, a smile on her face. "From us girls, to you guys." She said in a high pitched voice that I wished I could mute. "We wish to make this Valentine's Day extra sweet."
I rolled my eyes. Cue the candy or something like that. Who else would use Sweet like that?
"And ask you. If you'll be our Valentine today." From behind every smiling girl's back, they pulled out heart shaped boxes of chocolate. I smirked. Called it. Who couldn't have?
The guys all around me, leaned forward in anticipation. Including Tony, who nearly climbed out of his seat. Yah, the girls had gone to the old standby trick. Get to the guy through his stomach.
The girl's spread throughout the room, giggling and smiling to the guys, handing them out their boxes of chocolates.
"Here."
I didn't look to the girl standing to my right. "I'm allergic, I'm afraid."
"Good thing I grabbed the only box of non chocolate treats huh." She remarked, sitting down next to me and taking my arm. "Take it before I shove it in your face." She said in a calm tone, though the grip on my arm belied that mask.
I looked to her, raising an eyebrow. "Who put a fly in your soup?"
She smiled sweetly, though there was nothing sweet about the daggers her eyes were driving into me. "The spider of course, everyone knows that." She put the box of 'non chocolates' in my hands and stood. "Happy Valentine's day." She said with a jerk of her head and slipped through the door in the blink of an eye.
"Wow" Tony said elbowing me. "Just your luck to get Sourpuss."
I frowned, jerking my eyes away from the door. "Apparently. What's up with her?"
"Who knows. She's not a fan of anybody from what I can tell." Tony said, gleefully digging into his box of chocolates, stuffing three of them into his mouth before he used his hand to wave to the girls as they filed out. "Thanks!" He called out to them. Winking, at the girl I could only presume was the one who gave him his box.
She blushed, and wave shyly back, before darting giggling out of the room.

-Inspiration from Church. All the girls giving the guys frosted sugar cookies for Valentine's Day.

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