"It's her", James said and sighed.

Kara looked at the many students without kwoning what to look for. The first person with the deepest green eyes, according to her friend, that Kara could remember was Lucy Lane, her sister's roommate also bartender of the best cafeteria frequented by National City University students. Does James have a crush on Lucy? That woudn't be weird. Lucy was no doubt funny and very attractive - although Kara thinks she's a pain in the ass sometimes. A true friend however. James and Lucy would be a nice couple that is to say if James was talking about her. It was already the fourth sigh Kara heard from her friend and all she could do was lean slightly to get the line out of her vision and see who was in that shift. Strange. It wasn't Lucy. Wasn't the morning shift hers? Who else could James be talking about? Imra? No, James is her classmate. Unless he was talking about… No.

"Who?" Please don't say her, please don't say her.

"In the line, her", he sighed again and Kara honestly couldn't stand it anymore. Who is he? A fifteen-year-old teenager?

But then she sighed too. The person who kept James's eyes stuck since they got in the place, was not a bartender, os but was waiting to order her coffee just like them but a bit further ahead in the line. She had her attention swallowed by a book held by one hand while the other takes care to pull the long black hair strands away from her face. Oh no. You got to be kidding me. Lena Luthor. The same girl Kara had a huge crush ever since. Or at least since she joined NCU. Also her bedroom door neighbor.

"Do you have a crush on her?" The blonde tried to be more discreet, but this was not one of the best places for such a revelation also not the best moment to control her feelings.

"Speak lower!", James's eyes widened in an expression Kara would find funny in another moment. "Do you have a problem with that?"

YES!

"No, I don't", disregarding all the time he judged her by her last name, of course. What's different now? "Why would I?

"For no reason", he scratched the back of his neck and raised his eyebrows, Kara knew what was coming. "So... You're still going to do me that, aren't you?"

"Do what?"

Holding a guitar on her back it was something hard to forget, but Kara could not stop trying to escape the situation even more after she knew who she would be singing a love song for in exchange for some money. If anyone asked, the new university newspaper project really was in need of money and even at risk of not happening. And who else would be hero but Kara? And why not take the Valentine's Day to get some cash? Damn Valentine's Day.

"You know, that thing you and Winn are doing today for the new project?"

"I, huh… Of course I'll do it" she laughed almost like a maniac, James was a little scared.

"Are you sure?" he asked suspicious.

"Why not? Earlier today I played a valentine's song to Alex. I doubt anything is stranger than that."

"Alright then… One more thing", he reached into his backpack pocket to give a red heart-shaped card in Kara's hands. "What are you waiting for?" James looked at her impatiently.

"Nothing, I'm on it. I'm on it", she laugh again and turned to her new victim.

Golly! Why is she doing this again?

Kara held the card tight in her hands looking at James' calligraphy right in the center. There was just the question would you go on a date with me? a place and a number that represented the day of tomorrow by the night. James, at least, could have been less cheesy. Jesus, she would do it better than this. She took a deep breath more than once before looking at the girl who had already received her order and was in the back of the cafeteria. How embarrassing would that be? Couldn't she fake a faint? No. It was a promise. Kara never broke a promise. And James was paying her of course. Maybe she was so focused on the book that she would not even realize the music was for her. Come on, Kara. Lena would obviously notice. How unlucky Winn not be here this time. The blonde had been standing in the middle of the road so long that she could feel the look of her friend making a hole in her back. You should be doing this today, Kara. When Kara finally removed the guitar from the cover, James's relief seemed almost visible in the air. Did he think she would give up? Kara never gave up on anything. She really wanted this time though. But no. She moved on with the guitar already thinking to which university she could transfer. How could she look at Lena's face again after this?

Already in front of the table of her neighbor's door she started the firsts music chords of Thinking Out Loud releasing the attention of the other girl in the book which seemed her only object of interest besides her coffee. Lena watched her with a surprised look and her face was filled with an intense blush. Kara hoped she would at least not get mad the aspiring reporter certainly thought her chances with Lena were now possibly none. She finished the song and threw the card on Lena's table not even giving the engineering student time to react to the scene. Kara immediately ran away to outside the establishment without having the chance to hear some applause that came around and let alone witness the shy smile that was on the face of the girl for whom James unfortunately had a crush.

The blonde found the boy outside, holding two coffees and an expectation that Kara could not even look at.

"You did it so good, Kara, thank you very much. Do you think she will say yes?" He asked with a huge smile for Kara.

"You're welcome", Kara tried to answer by hiding the storm of emotions she felt with false enthusiasm and a laugh. Because of course she would be the help to get together her friend and the girl for whom she fell for. "I'm sure she will."

No wonder Alex sometimes said she was a too good person.

Much later, walking briskly down the hallway of the dorm, Kara hoped to succeed in her plan to avoid Lena. She saw the door in front of her closed. The engineering student should still be in the last few minutes of class. The engineering student still had to be in the last few minutes of class giving Kara enough time to hide in her bedroom before she would come. Kara knew she couldn't avoid her forever, but she would try for as long as possible. She grabbed the door handle of her bedroom, relieved that she could finally rest from the rush that had been her day torn between playing countless songs and running away from Lena, when a voice stopped all her thoughts.

"You never gave me a chance to let you know my answer."

The blonde turned instantly to face Lena propped on her own door, offering a smile amused by the mess that was Kara herself. Was Lena all this time in her bedroom?

"Oh, yes", the journalism student laughed, losing control of her words that seemed to stuck in her throat.

"You know, I'd really love to go on a date with you, Kara," Lena smiled and winked at the blonde before opening her room and entering.

Kara could only smile as her stomach flipped and her heart stuttered in her chest. Lena want to go on a date with me. Lena want to go on a dat-

Oh golly. Was the card not signed?

How would she tell this to James?