Take it slow, make conversation

"Yeah I'm lucky my parents never got divorced, not yet anyway," he said trying to relate to her. "Where did you live before this?"

"We used to live in Tucson. My mom asked me where I wanted to move in the entire country, but I love the desert too much to move anywhere else." She said as a fondness appeared in her eye. "What about you? What brought you to Bladmore?"

"My dad got transferred from Maine." he said

"Wow that's a long way to move," she asked, "Do you miss it?"

"Um not really," he said, "I didn't have a lot of friends, and I don't have too many fond memories of it."

"Well what's one? There's got to be something good about Maine." she said trying to get Jack to open up.

"Well when my sister Beth and I were kids my dad used to take us lobster trapping at the coast. It was a great, except when people at my school starting calling me lobster boy," he said trying to be funny and making a joke about the name.

"Aww, that's kinda cute though. There are worse things you could have been called," she said jokingly as a smile appeared on her face.

"Oh yeah? like what?" he said trying to carry on the joke.

"Well for a few years in high school I was called Gr-...." she stopped talking all of a sudden and looked down at her phone as her face flushed red again.

"Called what?" he asked excited about what wasn't said.

"No no no it's uh, waaay too embarrassing," she said trying to avoid this topic at all costs.

"How about i tell you something embarrassing about me?" Jack said trying to get Gabi to open up.

"You can try, but no promises," she said, feeling a lot more comfortable that when Jack first sat down at the table.

"Okay so I've never been the most confident person, and I've never been that good at giving speeches either. At my last school giving a speech every year was a requirement for all the English classes. So in 5th grade I got up in front of the class to give a speech. Filled with anxiety and fear, I started to pee my pants in front of the entire class. So I ran out of the class room and out of the school over to the empty football field locker rooms and didn't come out until my mom came to pick me up."

Gabi's eyes widened as if that was the worst thing that had ever happened to anybody. "Oh. My. God.... And they still called you Lobster Boy after that?" she said in joking disbelief.

"Well the speech was about lobsters...so it still fit," he said as his embarrassment grew. "So has that earned me the privilege of knowing your nickname?"

Just then the bell for 3rd period rang.

"Ohhh noo," she said with a relieved smile on her face. "Too baaad."

"Wait, can I get your number at least?" Jack asked before she ran out of the room.

"Sure," she said ,blushing again as she quickly wrote it down on a piece of paper and walked out of the library while running her finger through her hair and pushing it behind her right ear.