Shy Secrets

What was it? It was a couple weeks in to ninth grade everything was finally going smoothly and classes were no longer jumbled in my head. I had my two best friends Sam and Angie by my side, Sam was always happy smiling whenever and non-stop talking. She had medium length, light red hair parted to the left side she was a bit pudgy but she still was super nice. Angie had black long curly hair, was skinny and had dark skin, she was Mexican. I on the other hand wore skinny jeans and baggy sweatshirts, my hair was dark brown, medium length and my bangs were trimmed just below my eyebrows. My eyes blue and intense and my face white as a ghost. We were changing out for gym, finally us all in shorts, a tee-shirt and tennis shoes headed out to wait. At this time I was just getting over this guy who I had lost contact over the past couple weeks. I suppose it wasn't long until I seen him, he was about 5'9 tan skin and black short hair. He was laughing with his guy friends and I just kind of stood there.
"Hey Jo" Angie whispered.
"Hm?" I said back still looking at him. She laughed, Sam was still pretty clueless about what was going on.
"You see him too?" She asked.
"Depends, tall tan kid?"
"Yup"
"Dibs" We both laughed knowing she already liked someone and this guy was the complete opposite of her type. It was a Friday and like every Friday in gym we ran. After doing stretches and running warm ups we proceeded to the outskirts of the gym to begin running. My heart was beating pretty fast because of warmups but it only began to beat faster as he came up behind me. Angie gave me that "OMFG" stare and we both started laughing. As the music came on Sam, Angie and I started to run at a decent pace, Sam had troubles keeping up with us so we went along without her.
"What's his name?" Angie asked while running, he had passed us a little bit and was about maybe 5 feet ahead of us.
"Not sure"
"Oh"
"So in English we're reading Romeo and Juliet, how do you like it so far?"
"Eh it's okay" Angie replied. I started laughing.
"His name is Romeo"
"What?" Angie said
"Well I don't know his name so it'll be Romeo"
"Oh Jo" We both laughed again and continued running until they stopped the music and told us to run the other way. We turned around and then I realized he'd be behind us.
"Angie, guess who" I said giving a slight nod backwards.
"Romes" I gave her my wide eyes and nodded.
"RUN!" She yelled and started to run away. I felt my face flush and shook my head. I ran a bit faster to catch up to her.
"Never do that again" She looked back at 'Romes'
"Well he didn't even notice" I looked back and he was staring straight at us.
"You"
"Well" she said laughing. Finally we stopped running after 12 minutes, got a drink and went back to the gym. Sam caught up with us and began talking as usual.
"Hey he's going to the gymnastics gym" Angie said pointing to him leaving.
"Let us be off!" I said soon following him. We arrived at the gymnastics room and were forced by the devil herself to do something, so we walked in circles doing occasional cartwheels.
"He's such a doll" Angie said.
"I knowww!" I replied.
"Who are you talking about?" Sam finally asked.
"You see the tan kid with short black hair, yeah him" I told her pointing.
"HEY stop pointing it's rude!" I heard someone yell I looked away and seen him looking my way smiling. My hand instantly dropped to my side and I turned away embarrassed, Angie and Sam were rolling with laughter hardly containing themselves. Now that gym was over we went on our separate schedules. I had no idea I had any other classes with him until sixth hour, but that's another story to tell.