Personal Narrative: A Day Before And After High School

“We haven’t really settled on anything yet,” one of the other girls said, her friends muttering their agreement softly. “I wouldn’t mind having some Chinese food,” another one replied softly, her voice just loud enough to be heard over the sound of the guys still playing. “Did somebody say Chinese?” Marcus called over suddenly, dribbling the ball through his own legs before lobbing a pass to one of his other friends, closing the distance between the court and the bleachers. I couldn’t help but giggle at the fact that Marcus was managing to look me in the eyes despite how high I was sitting on the bleachers, a small shiver traveling down my spine as our eyes met for the briefest of moments. His face split into a charming smile that I had …show more content…

“No, Chinese sounds good to me,” I blurted out quickly, not really minding where we went to eat so long as I would get the chance to go with Marcus and some of my other friends. Maybe I would even get a chance to sit across from him at the table. “Well, let me go jump into the shower and then we can start to head out. How does that sound?” “Sounds good to me,” I stuttered, letting out a deep relieved sigh once he headed off towards the stairs that lead down to the men’s locker room. “Way to act casual during that,” Mandy whispered playfully, a cheeky grin tugging the corner of her lip upward. I rolled my eyes and didn’t say anything since I knew that she was right. I felt embarrassed at how I had just made myself look in front of both my friends and Marcus even though there was really nothing I could do. I wished at that moment that I could disappear through the floor, yet I knew that wouldn’t fix my shyness for Marcus. Calm down, Stacy. All you need to do is act more casual around him. He totally doesn’t mind hanging out with you and talking to you, so you are over thinking things when you