The Inbetweeners One Shot

The very hopeful eyed Simon approached you from the other side of the canteen, seemingly egged on by the collective stupidity of his friends.

"y/n?" He stood directly in front of you with his arms planted firmly at his sides and his eyes locked at his feet.

"Are you okay Simon?" You tried your best to get him to look up.

"I was wondering if you uumm, I was wondering if you maybe wanted to go and get some food with me after school?" His face grew redder as he spoke, and his face scrunched into one of scared anticipation.

You pulled away from your usual group to give the two of you slightly more privacy, hoping that would lure him out of his armadillo pose.

"I don't have anything planned, sure. Where were you thinking?"

"I'm sorry, that's okay, if you could not tell anyo- wait... did you say yes?" He ever so slowly looked up, his face still said that he was waiting for something bad to happen.

"I think I said yes. Don't look so shocked?"

"You don't have to if you don't want to."

"No, I want to, I don't have a reason to not go with you." You had been waiting for him to make some kind of move for a good amount of time now, but you had gathered that he may have not been the most socially adept student in the school.

"You don't have to go out of like... pity or anything."

"Even if I was going out of pity, which I'm not, would you say no?"

"I mean probably, not right?" He looked back at his idiotic gang, all waiting with open mouths and wide eyes at his success.

"So..."

"Oh right. Yeah. The date. I was thinking we could go to McDonalds or something?"

"Wow. The fantastic Simon Cooper, I never knew you were so into fine dining."

"We can go somewhere a bit fancier if you wanted to." He shot a not so subtle thumbs up to his friends. "There's this kind of sandwich shop by my house... it's not the best place in the world but it's kind of nice."

"Well you just get better by the second, don't you? Meet me at the gates once you're finished and you can walk me there, maybe after you can even walk me home."

"You will turn up won't you?"

"Yes Simon, I will turn up, I promise. Just trust me, please."

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Written by Aaron.