“Why don’t you join me sometime?” She continues to smile at me, trying to catch my attention.

My face is blushing into a dark shade of red, and I pick up my head and look to her.

“Yeah sure, I’d like that.” I say quietly, my face has a full grin on.

She does her heart-dropping, nose crinkling smile, and turns her attention to her lunch.

“So, why aren’t you in there today?” I ask, looking to her curiously.

“Well, don’t tell this to kay?” She says quietly, as though there were others around to hear. All I do is giggle at her playfulness.

“No one’s actually supposed to use this room, but I have been granted special access.” She grins to me and wriggles her eyebrows up and down.

“Really? How?” I ask in amazement. I mean it too.

“Well, no one actually gave me the key.” She insinuates. “I took it.” She says quietly, not meeting my eyes, but instead looks from the corner of hers to look at my reaction. Her actions indicate a want for acceptance.

“Cool!” I say out. It really is!

A small smile slowly starts to crawl up her face.

“Yeah.” She says shyly.

‘Whoot’ I actually made Ashley Davies shy! My eyes continue to watch her as the blush creeps up her face.

“So, you never answered my original question.”

“Well, normally, I would be in there but I lost my key. Luckily, I hid another one, but just in case, I’m gonna get that one copied.” She just shrugs and continues to eat her lunch.

I nod blankly before doing the same.

We continue to eat our lunch in silence; it was comfortable, not at all on the edge. After a while, she looks to her watch and shifts to me.

Her eyes look downcast as she peeks up at me.

“Sorry, I gotta go, but I’ll see you around.” She says with a small smile.

I return her smile. “Yeah, sure.”

She gets up and picks up her tray with her. She’s a few steps away before she turns back.

“Hey, I never got your name.”

I shuffle uncomfortable in my position. I don’t know if I should tell her. I sorta don’t want her to know. I still can’t help but be ashamed of who I am out in the real world.