Usually I wouldn't go and talk about this stuff on the internet, but now it's affecting my writing and giving me writer's block (sorry to those waiting on oneshots and updates on my stories OTL), so I gotta talk about it.

We all go through the whole thing of liking a person for a long time, but never going anywhere with it. I've been going through that since at least last February; however, I think I might be getting somewhere this time. :)

The guy I like (we'll call him Mr. GIL so I don't have to write that out every time) has given me endless signs in the past. The signs have always given me hope, but I never acted on them because I always thought, "What if I'm reading too much into his actions?" Recently I've been gaining more confidence in the idea that he does like me, but still... I'm not so sure.

Or I wasn't until this past Thursday.

I've always been called "cute" and on occasion "pretty" (rather awkwardly "y" a few times by one guy friend... Haha, no.), and it's gotten to the point where it doesn't really mean that much anymore. Do you guys get what I mean? I appreciate the compliment, it's just that it, you know, doesn't touch me, I guess... I don't know. Anyways, "cute" is about all I hear come out of anyone's mouth.

My point? Well, my friends, I'm in my school's band and chorus and we had our Christmas concert this past Thursday. For our outfits we had to wear all black. I chose to wear the band dress which is just a long black dress; it isn't anything special, and I honestly don't look that great in it. It shows my tummy. >.> I walked into the band room for rehearsal and almost immediately spotted Mr. GIL since he wasn't standing very far from the entrance. You know what he said when he saw me?

"Well, don't you look beautiful?"

That really got my heart pumping, I must say. X) I may be freaking out over nothing, but it meant a lot to me. And not only did he say that, but a few moments later after I walked away and came back after getting my flute out, he motioned at me while he was talking to some of our friends and said, "Doesn't she just look beautiful tonight?" I was happy before, but when he said it again, it really made my heart soar~ I just wanted to be like,

X)

So now I'm almost positive he likes me as much as I like him. From what I know and have been told, a guy doesn't call you beautiful unless he likes you. Of course, maybe this is wrong and I could be overreacting (I wouldn't be surprised because I'm a hopeless romantic and just about anything even slightly romantic can get me awing and squealing), but I would like to think I'm right about this. Because I want to believe this, I think I'm going to take the initiative to ask him out... However, I really have no idea how to go about that. ^^' Some advice would be much appreciated~

Thanks for listening to my little rant. :)