He had known her for a couple of years now. They'd grown close and were great friends now. Sometimes, he would have sworn her female friends glared at him with jealousy when she would cancel plans with them to hang with him. Of course, he knew for certain that other guys were jealous of him. They all thought he was getting some. He wasn't. Not that he wasn't interested, though. God, was he interested. Probably why his mind kept focusing on her-- the color of her eyes, the way the corner of her mouth turned up when she smiled, how she stuck her tongue out when she was concentrating on killing zombies. She was perfect in his eyes.
Thunder rumbled louder than he had ever heard, shaking the pane of glass he'd been staring at and startling him out of his reverie. Seb blinked and looked down at his hands as they grasped the windowsill.
Maybe if he just asked her out. The thought was coming clear in his head now. It couldn't really be as simple as that, though. Could it? No. There was no way. She would probably laugh at him. Or maybe think he was making a joke. Either way, he expected it would ruin the friendship. Sighing, Seb returned his gaze to the window, wondering if she would ever think of him as more than just a friend.
* * * * *
If only he would just ask. Chloe stared at the rain as it hammered down against the earth with a ferocity she hadn't seen in years. With her elbow propped on the windowsill and her cheek in her hand, she sighed delicately.
She was a shy girl, never really reaching out for what she wanted, but letting it instead come to her. It was almost as if she didn't believe that she deserved anything she had to take for herself. Too humble, her mother would say. But that also meant she would never risk asking out the guy she was so desperate for-- Seb. They had been friends for so long now, and he had never even tried to make a move on her. It wasn't that she didn't appreciate it, but she was kind of itching for him to take the wheel and drive them forward on this one.
Thunder rumbled, shaking the glass she was staring at blankly. Chloe jumped, her hand falling away from her cheek in an instant. Maybe if she could just pluck up the courage and ask him, ask Seb if he would maybe want to go out on a date sometime-- a real date, not the friend dates they've always gone on, of course. Maybe he would even kiss her.
No, there was no way. She would never be able to drum up enough courage to ask him. If only he would just ask... Her mind went back to the same hope she'd been hoping since she met him and wondering if he would ever think of her as more than just a friend.
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