Page 66 of Through Quick and Quinn
11:52 a.m.
Hallway in Building C
Kellen: Hey, wanna go check out that new movie tomorrow?
Connor: Oh, bro, I can’t. I’m watching the Notre Dame game. You can come hang though if you want.
Kellen: Right on. Hey, you think those games are rigged?
Connor: What?
Kellen: Do you think they rig the games? Like, script the winners and stuff?
Connor: No, bro. I don’t. Where did you even hear that?
Kellen: Through Seek & Speak.
Connor: What the hell is Seek & Speak?
Kellen: Bro, you haven’t seen all those flyers around?
Connor: Oh yeah, I guess I have. What is it? Is it cool?
Kellen: It’s alright. So yeah, what time should I come by tomorrow?
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Hey Geoffrey,
Quinn gave me another quote for the scrapbook today, and to be honest, it was kind of a smack in the face. But I needed it. I’ve had a crappy attitude about Seek & Speak and she was totally right to call me out on it.
“Slow progress is still progress.” And she attached a little silver snail charm thing.
She’s right. Our site’s been up for almost two weeks now, and there is a little bit of chatter on there. I’m not sure what I was expecting or if I’m disappointed or something, but Quinn and the snail are right. There are 13 people on campus who thought about something new and maybe even did a little digging that they wouldn’t have done otherwise, so yeah. Seek & Speak is off to a start. “Slow” is a relative term. 13 out of 2000? Yeah. That’s a slow start. But 13 more than zero? That’s pretty good.
Mr. E put up more flyers today and we’re getting ready to post our second topic in a couple of days. So as long as there’s more than 13, we’re headed in the right direction. I get nervous when I think about it, but I honestly don’t know why. Especially since it’s anonymous, and we could drop the whole thing anytime we wanted to anyway. Is it because I don’t know where it’s going? Is it because I don’t want to disappoint Quinn if it’s a flop?
I miss her. It’s weird. I see her more than ever and we talk nonstop, but it’s mostly about Seek. I think tomorrow I’ll make a point of steering the conversation elsewhere. Or even telling her straight up. Honestly, I don’t think we hold back anything anymore. Well, other than farts maybe.
You know what? I miss holding her hand. I’m gonna do that tomorrow, too.
Later, bro. Love you.
-Deck
Friday, September 6, 2024
Note to self:
Well, today was… interesting. We sat down for lunch on the quad, per usual, but Quick made a point of sitting next to me instead of across from me. I didn’t think much of it until about fifteen minutes later. We were both pretty much done eating, and out of nowhere, he reached over and grabbed my hand. He just held it. We kept talking like nothing happened, and I think I nonchalantly recovered from my heart stopping in my chest, but I could barely focus on what we were chatting about. He said he wanted to talk about things other than Seek & Speak, which is totally fine. I can’t ever imagine him and I running out of things to talk about. But I honestly can’t remember the second half of lunch.
I can’t stop thinking about it. What does this mean? Does he like me? Is our friendship changing? Do I want it to?
I think I’ll go do a body scan, but I already know it’s going to take much longer than usual for me to settle. I feel like a swirling ball of girly emotions right now. “Giddy” is the one that keeps coming to mind though, just saying.
…Q
Seek & Speak!
