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on tuesday, i was sitting at my desk at about 8:30, just getting into my day and i felt a presence walk behind me. i looked up into the glass of the picture beside me and saw Crush. before i had time to rub my eyes and ensure i was not seeing things, he said, "hey."

i turned around to face him in total surprise and said, "what are you doing here? don't you have class this morning?" and he said, as he rounded my corner to stand in front of me, "yeah, but i had to get some research." i asked him how things were going and he said he hated it. he gave a brief account of how he had gotten into some "interesting" arguments with his groupmates and i said mockingly, "well, at least you're making friends." he replied with, "apparently i don't like to be wrong..." i then wished him a good day and he walked off.

he hadn't been by since a couple of weeks ago when he had to change into his suit for one of his oral exams. i made a concerted effort since then not to contact him on FB, and began to get used to not seeing him everyday. in fact, the last day i saw him a couple of weeks ago, i had met a couple of my single girlfriends for dinner that night and they convinced me that he was totally playing me. i knew they were wrong, as he really is too thick to be that clever, but i knew they were right when they said i had to move the candy dish to spot on my desk where, if he happened to come by and get candy, i wouldn't have to face him. so i did.

fast forward to yesterday. again, sitting at my desk in the afternoon, working away, and i look up at the glass in the picture again and i see Crush. says he's returning a book he borrowed the other day to finish his paper. i think that's a fair excuse, no?

when he was in yesterday, Sands invited him to the lawyers' appreciation lunch that happened today. he said he likely wouldn't be able to make it but he'd try. he didn't make it. but come 5:15 pm when the after-work drinks group is breaking up and some people are starting to leave, who do i hear in the kitchen? Crush. he didn't come in to say hi, but i poked my head in his door to see if he was there but he was nose-deep in a book. i decided to wait and see whether he'd come find me.

i was one of the last people to leave tonight. i made sure that i bid a loud adieu in the main hallway to a couple of people that left before me, so that Crush would likely hear me. i went to grab my stuff and log off my computer. five minutes later as i am about to walk through the library to get to the elevators, guess who's standing there, reading a book.

i feign surprise, and stop on the other side of the table from him. i ask him what he's doing there and he says he's doing research for a paper he has to finish by monday. i would have thought nothing of it until he said, "yeah, i decided to do my research here so i could avoid signing in at the law library." really? that's the only reason why? come on! we chat a bit more, make a couple of eyes at each other, and i even managed a flirty-flirty smack on the hand and a "shut up!" when he said that the only reason people were crying during my speech was because i was making them sit through a speech. (NB they weren't actually crying. i just told him they were because it was a damn good speech)

maybe this ignoring thing is working. or maybe he really is just doing research. time will tell.