Alright. So I have a little story here that I want you to check out, and share your thoughts.

I work in a store and periodically throughout the school year we get students to come work for free (suckers). They are always a great bunch of people, and I have a lot of fun with them. I never expected that I'd actually be attracted to one but that happened this past year. Instant attraction.

The only downfall was that this lovely lady worked no where near me. Contact wouldn't happen very often, so when it did I had to make the most of the situation. I also have another downfall. Through observation I have noticed she doesn't really talk to anyone; she is very shy or just doesn't want to engage in conversation. Final downfall: I, too, am a shy person BEFORE I get to know someone. So far this concoction doesn't sound good, eh?

So some time passes by and I have no contact with her (nor does anyone else, seriously). One day I happened to be working in the back with one of my students and we're just chit-chatting and I notice she is working back there. Of course I couldn't say 'Hi' to here... I'm terrible like that so I come up with some topics that I think she might add her two cents into. Holy hell! It actually worked. I started talking about something related to theft and she spoke up!

So I took that as a victory. I finally got her talking... even for a minute or two. But that was all. More time passes and I have a similar experiance where I am working in the back with another actual employee and this girl just happens to be around. We engage in more conversation and I actually speak directly to her. If I remember correctly we just compared cellphones and I explained how mine was better (even if it really wasen't). Silly stuff.

I have one more encounter like the previous one but I have yet to get her to approach me and be like 'What's up?' For some reason it would mean a lot to me if I could get her to do that.

Then something happened that made me happy. You'll probably consider a very simple thing but to me it meant a lot. This girl added me as a friend of Facebook! (like OMG!). I guess I had made an impression and she looked me up online. The reason why this really meant a lot to me was because with the exception of one of the others she worked directly with, I was the only other employee on her friends list. She works with a team of about ten and only had one of them, and myself as a Facebook friend.

So I immediatly wrote on her wall just to attempt to give her the impression that I was excited that she had added me. We traded a few messages and then that brings us up to an encounter that happened a few weeks ago.

I finally had her approach me and chit-chat! I was working one night and we had run into each other a few times just throwing in little 'What ups?' and stuff. I even had her seeking me out to assist her with her job... even though she had someone who she was supposed to be working with to do that job.

Anyways, shortly before she left she did approach me and hang for a bit. Only a few minutes. I was happy. After she left I immediatly text messaged my buddy and let him know what happened. My friend was the first person (and only to this day) I spoke about my crush too. I told him that I think that she likes me, and how she never talks to anyone but and started to speak to me. He agrees, but now I want to know what others think.

Does this really sound like something I should attempt to pursue? I know a lot of it sound silly, but I'm just taking small steps at a time here.

It's at this time of the year that the placement students are finished. I sent her a Facebook message (because I assumed she was done before we could really get to know each other) basically saying that I wanted to get to know her better and that we should hang out. She messaged me back letting me know that she isn't done until the end of June, and that she would hang out with me. So now I have to come up with something basic where we could hang out and get to know each other before I really do anything.

Ok. So it sounds like I answered my own question in the last paragraph but I really just want others to share their opinions and also give me ideas on what I should do next! I am thinking of asking her to take her dinner break with me the next time we both work night (which could be wed or thurs). But I have no more ideas after that! I want to know what others would do...

Thanks for reading my novel. I didn't want it to be this long...