abr71310
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Formal = Prom, for those that don't know.
Yes, it seems dumb, but I'm stuck, and all of my friends are girlfriend-less nerds (none of which cube).
The girl I want to ask though cubes (she's not too fast, I'd say a few minutes, but she looks so cute solving it XD -- she uses two methods, one that's basically LBL and 6LLL, the other that's MUCH faster, like Keyhole + PLL --> OLL, but she claims both are "beginner methods" her friend taught her), but I mean, it's hard to try and ask someone out when they're two grades younger than you and the only place you know them from is a sports team... Especially when you've only really talked for maybe a few hours OUTSIDE of badminton...
Story behind the last sentence:
Basically we have had practices really early in the morning on Tuesdays, which, for our school at least, is a delayed start, classes start at 10:05am; Badminton practice goes from 7:00am to 8:30am, so there's a time lapse between end of practice and classes.
The way I met her was that I was walking back towards my car and I noticed that she was sitting sort of awkwardly alone (to get to my car I basically have to pass RIGHT by her, and she looks REALLY lonely), so I approached her and asked if she wanted company (I don't have ANY of my school stuff on me, plus I have to drive home and get my brother, get my school bag and stuff, and come back before 10 -- I live about 10 minute drive away), and she of course said "sure".
That basically went on for three or four weeks, we'd just talk about a lot of things, and I almost always had a cube on me... xD -- We went to badminton games and I always lent her a cube to play with on the bus on the way there, since there's nothing really to do until we got there...
She and I used to rally a lot after games, since neither of us had much to do, and after a home game a few weeks back we just basically sat in the gym (she was doing history, and I was basically LOVING my time explaining to her the Battle of the Atlantic) and talked until 5pm (our games ended around 3:30pm?? -- one school didn't show up for the tri-meet
)
I think two or three weeks ago I gave her my white YUGA since the cubes she has are all crappy unlubed dollar store cubes, and I felt bad because I have like 15 cubes that are decent, so I stuffed one in her bag (conspicuously) and told her she could have it
(she told me on MSN a few nights later that the stickers were peeling, so I offered to resticker it, and she said she instead put animal stickers that she had from when she was a kid on them)
Usually I'm the first one to start talking on MSN since there's nothing really to start a topic about, so I always ask how she's doing and stuff like that...
What the heck do I do? Regionals for that sports team (BADMINTON!!!) was yesterday and Monday, but I'm a really bad conversation-starter, and I run out of things to say VERY quickly when I'm nervous.
I should have been playing, too, but I snapped my wrist beginning of last week and I'm basically out for a month (luckily the season's pretty much over now), but ARGH that's HORRIBLE.
Is there some magic formula that just makes one stop being nervous...?
Is there some magic conversation topic that can never deflate itself??
Have I been too much of an awkward person? HOW CAN ONE TELL??
I'm so confused... ><
Yes, it seems dumb, but I'm stuck, and all of my friends are girlfriend-less nerds (none of which cube).
The girl I want to ask though cubes (she's not too fast, I'd say a few minutes, but she looks so cute solving it XD -- she uses two methods, one that's basically LBL and 6LLL, the other that's MUCH faster, like Keyhole + PLL --> OLL, but she claims both are "beginner methods" her friend taught her), but I mean, it's hard to try and ask someone out when they're two grades younger than you and the only place you know them from is a sports team... Especially when you've only really talked for maybe a few hours OUTSIDE of badminton...
Story behind the last sentence:
Basically we have had practices really early in the morning on Tuesdays, which, for our school at least, is a delayed start, classes start at 10:05am; Badminton practice goes from 7:00am to 8:30am, so there's a time lapse between end of practice and classes.
The way I met her was that I was walking back towards my car and I noticed that she was sitting sort of awkwardly alone (to get to my car I basically have to pass RIGHT by her, and she looks REALLY lonely), so I approached her and asked if she wanted company (I don't have ANY of my school stuff on me, plus I have to drive home and get my brother, get my school bag and stuff, and come back before 10 -- I live about 10 minute drive away), and she of course said "sure".
That basically went on for three or four weeks, we'd just talk about a lot of things, and I almost always had a cube on me... xD -- We went to badminton games and I always lent her a cube to play with on the bus on the way there, since there's nothing really to do until we got there...
She and I used to rally a lot after games, since neither of us had much to do, and after a home game a few weeks back we just basically sat in the gym (she was doing history, and I was basically LOVING my time explaining to her the Battle of the Atlantic) and talked until 5pm (our games ended around 3:30pm?? -- one school didn't show up for the tri-meet
)I think two or three weeks ago I gave her my white YUGA since the cubes she has are all crappy unlubed dollar store cubes, and I felt bad because I have like 15 cubes that are decent, so I stuffed one in her bag (conspicuously) and told her she could have it
(she told me on MSN a few nights later that the stickers were peeling, so I offered to resticker it, and she said she instead put animal stickers that she had from when she was a kid on them)Usually I'm the first one to start talking on MSN since there's nothing really to start a topic about, so I always ask how she's doing and stuff like that...
What the heck do I do? Regionals for that sports team (BADMINTON!!!) was yesterday and Monday, but I'm a really bad conversation-starter, and I run out of things to say VERY quickly when I'm nervous.
I should have been playing, too, but I snapped my wrist beginning of last week and I'm basically out for a month (luckily the season's pretty much over now), but ARGH that's HORRIBLE.
Is there some magic formula that just makes one stop being nervous...?
Is there some magic conversation topic that can never deflate itself??
Have I been too much of an awkward person? HOW CAN ONE TELL??
I'm so confused... ><
