Well I wasn't awkward today. And neither was she. Actually I think all tension was broken yesterday on Thursday when she drove by me in her car. Actually she was riding in the passenger seat and was parked at a red light when she yelled my name and waved at me. In all honesty, despite being maybe 30 feet away, I didn't know it was her until she said, "See you tomorrow." Besides the obvious that my eyes are shit, there were several factors weighing in on my confusion.

1. The car was blue and I always saw her drive a white car.
2. Her hair was down and I've always seen her with a ponytail. Of course everytime I've seen her it's been either during softball or basketball and it makes sense for girls to want to keep the hair out of their eyes.

Because I didn't know who it was right off the bat after she said "Hey Kip," I responded with a generic "what's up?" Then she said "see you tomorrow," and I think I said "Yeah" and then the light turned green and off she went. It was probably a nanosecond later when it dawned on me who it was.and I immediately exted her asking if that was her. And that's how I got confirmation.

Today at basketball was nice and relaxed. She's not much of a talker. And I'm not much of talked. But I was trying.to come up with questions. And even when I did, I was trying to find the right time to spit them out. If we shared a ball and shot around, it would be easier to talk, I think, because when we both had our own, we we're both in our little worlds at different spots on the court just shooting around.

I eventually put my ball down and rebounded for her, mainly to try and get in a rhythm because her shot was off. And when your shot is off, and you have to keep chasing after your ball after another brick, it's hard to find your stroke. So I rebounded for her and eventually she started to get dialed in. And then it was game on.

We played 3 games of HORSE, I won 3 games of HORSE. Although she had me down HOR to H for a while in the third game but I eventually came back. She takes basic jump shots, I'm the creative one. One obvious advantage I have is my ability to shoot farther out. But just to toy with her, I was shooting from beyond 30 feet. Even when I made a shot from almost half court to give her E, I had to prove it, and I swished it again.

Her smile is pretty. And she always had one after I'd make a shot. A smile of, I can't believe how good you are. Apparently she and Zach we're studying together a couple days ago for a final they had and Zach reported to me that she said I was awesome at basketball and I'm super nice. I don't know exactly how the conversation. I really wanted to tell Zach to replay the conversation for me word for word so I could be all Kip about it and break it down on my own time but I didn't feel like he would want to do that so I just let him tell me what he wanted and it made me feel good.

And I found out she's a big time reader. And I suggested she read The Hunger Games which she's never heard of. Hey, I'd never heard of it either up until about a month ago but I'm not a reader like she is. She actually said to me today, "I'm glad I don't have any homework now cause now I can read." Hmmm, every diamond has it's flaw.