Listen Well, Butt-Honey. The Butt. Use the Butt – Part 03

All right. I drew a deep breath.

I was more nervous than facing a monster. Asking someone out, even when it wasn’t real, was terrifying.

To steel yourself, to summon courage, to agonize over every detail, only to get rejected. The thought of all that effort being wasted was the scariest part.

That’s why I didn’t want to ask someone out. Even if I genuinely fell for someone, I probably wouldn’t tell them. I would always consider the odds of success.

They say love is blind, but I interpret it the other way around. If you could act sensibly instead of blindly doing stupid things, could you even call that love?

Right now, I was about to do something stupid. Under the legendary tree where asking someone out always got you a yes, I would hand over a prettily wrapped chocolate while being buffeted by the north wind.

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