Julio walked out the classroom to his next class, and boy, was Ellie excited about her newfound crush.

Walking down the cream coloured halls, Ellie smelt a whiff of rose scented perfume. She found it familiar and walked over to her locker.

Her eyes were quickly met with Rebecca, a rather tall and pretty girl with curly brown hair and brown eyes, her off the shoulder yellow crop top with her short denim booty shorts .

"Hey, Becca." Ellie called out, her large hands twisting the lock of her pale green locker.

Rebecca looked to her, her eyes looking downwards at her small frame. "Woah," She said as she leaned on her locker. "What makes you so happy today?"

Ellie reached into the depths of her locker and grabbed her maths textbooks and her pink coloured notebook. "I think I like another guy now."

"What." Rebecca gaped.

Ellie shrugged. "Don't 'what' me, I'm getting desperate okay? Don't flex on me with your college boyfriend."

Rebecca ran her long fingers through it soft, wavy hair. "Make sure you pursue him normally, the last time you had a crush you-"

"Did extravagant things, yes, I know." Ellie sighed.

"So, this time, be more subtle, and go with the flow. Don't keep pursuing him if he looks like he's not interested." Rebecca advised while she sassed her finger at Ellie, her painted newly painted nails catching her eye.

"Yeah, yeah, oh, by the way did you do your nails?" Ellie said, reaching her hand to look at her sky blue gradient fingernails.

Rebecca smirked. "Oh, yes! I got it painted at Johan's aunt's shop- wait, this isn't about me!"

Ellie cackled with laughter as Rebecca fumed. "Parker! You better stop!" The brunette called out to Ellie who was scurrying away to her maths class, already late.

The shorter shuffled away with a piece sign help in the air smugly.

"Ugh that girl." Rebecca frowned. "Make sure, you go slow you dimwit! No extravagant things you hear me!"

"Yes, mom!" Ellie snickered, already entering her maths class at the end of the corridor.

Rebecca huffed and fiddled with her keychain on her pencilbox which had the name "Harry" written on it with black bold letters.

"Hey, what's the matter with Ellie?" A boy, 6'1, said to Rebecca, easily towering over her model figure.

"She's going to pursue another guy again. I told her to go slow." Rebecca replied, flipping her long hair over her shoulder.

"Seriously?" The teen said, combing his dirty blond hair through his fingers.

"Yeah, not that you mind though, Andrew." Rebecca shot back. Andrew shrugged and adjusted the Adidas backpack strap on his shoulders and waved at Rebecca.

"Going to Chemistry now, Ms. Ruby is going to kill me when she tell her I was late."

Rebecca scoffed. "Why? Because you and your boyfriend were having a 'moment' after your theatre?"

Andrew scrunched his nose and stuck his tongue out childishly.

"Screw you."

"I would be delighted, but you're not into girls."

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Ellie was nervous.

The feeling in her stomach never washed away ever since she got home after school. It was now 4:56pm, and she was patiently waiting for Julio to call her on her laptop.

Because she felt that she might sound too desperate if she called him first.

She but her nails, a long time habit of hers and constantly checked the time and Julio's contact to wait for him to respond.

'He's still not on his phone yet, maybe I should wait a little longer.' She said as she hummed and scrolled through her Instagram on her phone boredly.

5 MINUTES PASSED

'Maybe..Maybe he's just busy I can just wait, right?' Ellie thought while rummaging through her bag of Lay's chips hungrily.

5 MINUTES PASSED

'Ugh, this is taking forever, should I just give up on the guy?' Ellie thought, contemplating to get rid of her crush on Julio Koch.

Her phone lit up, and across the screen was a notification that shows Julio requesting a video call.

Ellie screeched and quickly shut her mouth before she fixed her hair and sat on her study desk for their video call discussion.

She pressed on the accept button and let out an inhuman screech discreetly before it connected to the line.

"Hi." Ellie sounded like a lady giving birth, and she was definitely not proud of that. She winced and continued looking natural to show that she was not, in fact, freaking out when he called her.

"Oh, um, I'm sorry not not calling sooner. I got let out from my job later than I thought." Julio said while taking out his black notebook and clicking his pen.

Ellie smiled. "No, it's okay. I was pretty busy too! I was helping my mom out with..." She trailed out, trying to find an excuse to look cool.

"Cooking!" She said enthusiastically. Although she has never touched a frying pan in her life.

"Oh, then we're both in the same boat then." Julio said calmly. "Okay, so let's start out with the government trades, is that okay with you?"

Ellie nodded. "Yeah, totally fine!"

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The video call ended with them getting the work almost done if Ellie's phone didn't die on her. "So, I have to go now, my phone is gonna die."

Julio raised his eyebrows. "Oh, I thought you can charge and use it at the same time?"

"My mom is kinda scared that it might blow up in my face...so, yeah." Ellie said, her shoulder going up to her ears.

"I get it. So tomorrow we can discussed this with those to other guys then." Julio said before packing up his stationary back in his navy blue pencilbox.

Ellie nodded. "Okay! I'll see you tomorrow!"

"See you." Julio said before Ellie ended the call.

Ellie stared blankly at the screen motionless before letting out one of her most inhumane screeches that resonated through the house.

Yeah, she was really excited.

*PING*

It was a message from Julio.

The blonde immediately dove right in the bed and scooped her phone up.

GEOGRAPHY PROJECT

Julio💕
Thanks for helping out with this project!
😀😀

Ellie
Of course!
Hope we'll do well on the presentation!

Julio
Are you allowed to come to my house?
We can discuss more about the project.

At this moment, Ellie, the disastrous girl she is, is going to try out a pickup line that hopefully won't be flat out rejected.

Ellie
Hey Julio

Julio
Yeah?

Ellie
My name's Microsoft.

Julio
Wait
What

Ellie
Can I crash at your place tonight?

Julio
Tempting
But funny.
But don't crash at my place tomorrow
Because I have an anti-virus set up and my Microsoft Windows updated
Do it the day after tomorrow
Have a nice day 😊

Read by Ellie 8:13pm

Ellie was now very determined to win this sassy and sarcastic boy's heart.