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late day 6 coffeeshop au by @nedcan

Ned waiting for Maddie to show up despite the rainy weather.

Her new school.

Maddie was standing in front of the gate of her new school and she was absolutely frightened. She had her arms wrapped around herself in an attempt to keep herself a little bit warmer during this autumn weather.

She mainly shivering because of she was nervous. What people would think of her? If they would even think about her.

Most people only ever noticed her when she was with her younger twin sister. The sister who had promised they would walk into their new school together. No one ever forgot her or walked right by her without noticing.

A promise soon forgotten as some students called out to her, asking if she was new. When Amelia answered them, with a bright smile on her face, that she was indeed a new student and proudly told them that she was on her way to try out for cheerleader.

Some had offered to show her to walk with her to the auditions, Amelia had run and left her twin behind.

Someone bumped into her. She heard what sounded like swearing but didn’t understand the language and turned around. She saw a guy a bit older than her trying to gather some books of the ground while holding onto and balancing the.. bulbs?

Picking up the books he dropped for him she tries to apologize, but he stops her. “My fault, I should have noticed you” he says with a rather heavy accent, though his English is perfectly understandable.

“No one ever does.” She answered with a small smile as she stands up.

The brown haired boy stares at her and for a moment she’s uncomfortable, but then he says “They should. Are you related to the new girl trying out for cheerleading?”

“My twin.”

“Figures. You look alike.”

“People always say we look the same.” Which Maddie had always hated. They were twins, not clones.

“Nee.” The other replied, shaking his head. “You look alike. Not the same. It’s easy to tell you apart. What’s your name?”

“Madeline. Maddie.”

“Johan.” He introduced himself.

Maddie might have never blushed as much as she did at that moment.

“Are those bulbs?” she tried to change the subject.

“Are you not trying out for cheerleading?” He asked, instead of answering her question.

The Canadian shook her head.

Silence.

“Tulip bulbs.” The new girl looked up. “What?”

“The bulbs. They’re tulip bulbs. Its they right time to put them into the ground and I promised I would help out with the school garden.”

The blonde smiled at that. “I’ll help you carry your stuff to the garden.” She said before she could stop herself. Looking around, she had no idea which direction to go.

“This way.”

They stayed silent for a while before the boy mentioned having to go to the football training.

“Try outs as well?” Maddie asked.

He shook his head. “Yes, but I’ve been part of the team for a few years now. I’m helping with judging the people who are trying out.” Just as he said that, someone nearly walked into her so fast that the petite woman would have been knocked over. Only the tall football player had stepped in front of her and the other student had fallen to the ground.

He didn’t even seem to care about the other boy and let Maddie know with a motion of his head  to leave that student alone.

“Shouldn’t we ask if he’s alright.” She asked softly.

“He’s just fine, I know him. We had worse collisions on the field.”

While  they dropped of the bulbs at the school garden and Johan put books, he asked her to come with him to the try outs of his team. She agreed.

Things went a little wrong when they reached the soccer field and they stopped.

“Why are we stopping here?” she wondered out loud. Maybe his friends played soccer?

“You wanted come to my team’s try outs?” He asked. Brushing his hand against the scar above his eyebrow.

Maddie stared at him. Blinked and then blinked again.

“You said you’re on the football team.”

“This is football.” He argued.

Maybe she could have guessed from his name and accent that he was a foreign student.

Maddie just smiled up at Johan.

In response, the jock stood a little closer to her before he began to introduce her to some of his friends and teammates.

With someone like Johan walking besides her, no one was going to run into her and they might even remember her.

Maddie didn’t mind that idea at all.

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late submission for the NedCan week by @nedcan