Who: Gideon York
OT: Lydia and Derek
When: Thursday afternoon
Where: Joe's Diner
NOTES: Kellie, this scene takes place
before the one in the park. Also, anyone can read the journal entry Gideon is writing here:
spasticgeek.
He had some free time after school that afternoon and had invited Lydia and Derek during lunch to hang out at Joe's Diner when school let out. Since they all had different last classes of the day, the geeky boy had suggested they meet up at the diner when they could. Gideon made his way to the diner after getting a few things from his locker and decided to work on some homework until his friends arrived.
But he was distracted. Gideon's thought kept straying to Lydia; She'd been wearing another cute outfit that day that consisted of some kind of hoodie and skirt. With a noise of frustration, he pushed aside the history homework Mr. Grimm had assigned and looked around the diner a moment before pulling out his journal. It was a small moleskin, supposedly the same kind that infamous people such as Delacroix, Le Corbusier, and Picasso used but Gideon didn't really care about that. As long as it had a hardcover and small enough to tote around, the boy used it.
Opening to a fresh page, Gideon wrote at the top in big letters:
I AM PATHETIC!!!With a sigh that accompanied the habitual gesture Gideon did with his hair, he continued writing. He wrote about the outfit Lydia had been wearing and how adorable she'd been in it, which lead to how much of an idiot Gideon was in having feelings for someone who was unobtainable to him.
Sometimes, he wrote,
it's scary how much I feel about her. Given his social awkwardness he often wondered if,
Am I obsessed or am I in love? He underlined this last sentence in his journal and with a sigh, re-read it several times.