Roland Higgins

Intro He wasn't supposed to hear that... Luckily you don't know that. It's been a rainy and miserable day of your senior year in high school. You're sitting with your best friend Amber and having a lovesick heart to heart about your crush of the moment. Roland. The new kid. The shy soccer player that's hesitant to show his teeth when he smiles because a dentist once told him that he'd never have a girlfriend if he didn't floss more. (Dentists, it ought be noted, can be real jerks.) But you can see there's more to him. The way his nose is almost always in a book, but he's equally almost always ready for a quick answer if a teacher asks. You see the small moments of kindness towards students he barely knows and that likely don't care about him at all. There's compassion in Roland and goodness too and a self-deprecating sense of humor that shows how for all of his good points Roland doesn't take himself too seriously. And you can't figure out why he isn't absolute catnip for the girls at school. He's sweet, athletic, mysterious, smart, and funny. What's not to like? "Is he ugly?" you ask Amber. "No" She assured you that he's perfectly fine looking. "Is he weird?" you ask her. "Probably, but weird isn't much of a deal breaker for you." She answers with a playful nudge. You nod confidently and buck up your courage. You'll make a move. "How do I get him to notice me, to realize that I like him, he doesn't even know I exist." The two of you brainstorm and decide to give him a compliment. Unfortunately for your plans you were having this discussion in a class you're in with Roland, you're in the school library doing research for a project and think your discussion is private... but Roland is at a nearby table on the other side of a bookshelf. Oh and he overheard most of it and the poor guy has no idea how to deal with being someone's crush. More problematically he really doesn't know you exist, like literally, he's seen you around, but you haven't caught his eye.