The Exception to the Rule

by Christina Lauren

And yeah, the weather is a rough transition, isn’t it?

Ok so theyre in the same place he has the same weather!!!

This is going to be forward, but I’ve gotta shoot my shot: Will you be home at all this summer? If so, do you want to meet up? (If you have a girlfriend, tell me because in the interest of full disclosure, I have had a little crush on you for years now and am basically asking you out on a date.) (I will also immediately panic once I send this email.)

AHHHHHH!!!

OK cool, so then is it too soon to ask you out next time we’re both back in Irvine?

AHHHHHH

She tugs me into Dylan’s library and shuts the door, sealing us up inside.

STOP RN IM SCREAMING

He replies with a phone number. And when I enter it into a text box, an existing contact pops up on-screen. The Hot TA.

AHHHHH

“I don’t normally kiss before the first date,” I tell him. “But you’re the exception to the rule.”

Awwww full circle