What was the first sign you knew you had a crush on someone?

Okay so, the sign: When my body got in autopilot after i slapped a girl accidentally trying to move away a mosquito (imma tell you a hole story here, just so you know she was so close to me, we even were leg touching leg i didn't mind cuz some female friends have done that to me, so yeah she forgot her glasses and asked me if she could copy my notes), that the instant i slapped her i side hugged her puting my right arm around her shoulder and my left arm at her hair making comforting her head in my chest and said "i'm sorry, i'm sorry i'm sorr-" then when my brain finally woke up was like "dude wtf u doing it's the first day you know her" and then i put her back in her place and when i saw her by the corner of the eye she got blushed like crazy, move some hair behind her ear and did a cute smile and i thought "damn, she looks damn cute", so i catched myself i was staring and then turned back to my chinese bud (we were sit in an horizontal line) who was at my left to let the things cool down, all to see him wink and eye to me and a tumb up like "NICEEEEE" and i buried my face in my hands and blushed. Then the girl proceded to do a ponytail.

If you want the whole story here you have i warn you it's VERY LONG cuz i remember it with so much detail since i've been thinking of that almost everyday and i have somewhat of photographic memory: So in Junior High i was a shy guy bullied by girls (used me in truth or dare just to make the dare hard) and boys (because i was scrawny and wasn't good at sports) 8 months ago at 12th grade i'm still a shy guy but i try to overcome it and hide it behind jokes and sarcasm, standing now at 5'8 1/2 at 150 lbs, shredded, with 28" waist and between the best 2 goalkeepers in the school; so my confidence with girls was still crushed cuz in 11th grade i messed up with a gorgeous girl who i refused to believe she liked me, i considered her out of my league, turned out my chinese friend asked her without my opinion and she said yes that she was really into me but she thought i didn't like her (i actually did), he sended me the ss but i got too nervous and ended up messing things and we don't talk anymore; and i still didn't trust people so much.

8 months ago i met this girl of 10th grade when we were in special courses of admission into the same College who has both High School and University, we made instant click, after some small talk we were both laughing and then she asked me: "wow, you're such a nice guy, why didn't you talk to me before?" And i was like "you're nice too, but why didn't YOU talked me before?" and then for a very little moment i catched that her expression was somewhat shock/sad, and i was thinking "sht sht what did i did wrong?" Realized months later, she was a cute girl who wore a catrina make up that in a kermes (Mexican festivity in schools) actually waved to me and said "hey" when we were asking to the teachers in what could we help between the stands (cuz students work as staff that day) and inmediately as i said hi i turned back and asked the teacher what i could do, and didn't actually turned back if to see if she wanted to talk to talk. Back in the course after some introduce ourselves (cuz it was the first day of course, but she already knew my chinese friend, i also argued with her about that lel) we had to take notes, she asked me if she could copy mine cuz she forgot her glasses i said yes and she got closer to me (like i said we were leg to leg) after she gets close to me, she asked me.

Her: "can i see how you look without your glasses and can i try them on?" Me: "Yes but... i'm blind lol, and i look veeery different without glasses, in a weird way, a lot of people have told me that so please don't make fun of me okay?" Her: "i won't" Then she got like VERY CLOSE to me that i couldn't mantain the eye contact with her so i looked wherever i could, she noticed i got somewhat nervous so she put me my glasses on. Her: "You don't look weird, don't pay attention to them" Me: "i appreciate that so much" The class was somewhat dynamic and both she and me were playing to be the smart-ass aswering questions and were actually arguing friendly discussing the answers. At last one of those arguments standed out: Her: well yeah u smart but i answered more questions and you are 2 years older than me Me: yeah i watched these topics in 10th grade but i'm not 2 years older than you Her: how not? These topics you had them 2 years ago Me: yes Her: you lying haha Me: tell me your age Her: why And i approached her Me: tell me your age Her approaches too: 15! Me: 16 ha! And i crossed my arms in victory Her: but how? Me: the teachers in kinder made me skip 2th grade and i jumped to 3rd grade cuz i already knew everything i needed for that age lol, ask my chinese friend And my chinese friend just nooded his head lol.

Moments and pages of notes later a mosquito was flying around and that's when i slapped and hugged her. Then in our break we stayed in the class cuz pretty much everybody ate before the courses which were in the afternoon but still someones got out of the class, she showed me how her admission process was going and even lended me her phone, while i was looking it she out of nowhere squeezed my arm and her body started shaking and did a cute not scream but a sound or idk how to say it not even in spanish lol i started playing/cuddling her hair so i turned back to her and didn't now what to say but i did my best: "Calm down (and i turned her gaze towards me and was smiling) you're going to make it genious girl, you're smart, everything is going to be alright, okey?" And I geniuly smiled to her. "Thank you"

Finally when we were leaving she asked me for a favor but she actually needed my number so first she asked me for my whats but i got to nervous i forgot my own f*cking number and my whats needed to update so i couldn't enter, then she asked me my msg so i gave her my msg lol. After that meeting i noticed her more and we actually say hi to each other or even stare and smile, she even sometimes touched my shoulder but we didn't talked that much, i noticed she was getting along with other guy nothing out of normal, they were just friends but i got jealous lol, she showed me she passed the exam and i congrated her still we didn't talk that much cuz we had our friends, also she liked teasing me touching my abs that were dissapearing since i got injured (i tear my oblique but she clearly avoided to touch me the injured area) i was like "stop~ i'm not that ripped anymore" and she just laughed.

Girl, if you are reading this, i hope you're doing well, never quit that smile on your face; maybe i'll be living around there in sometime but not in the same school/college. Also sorry for that PB shake sample i didn't give you, it was my fault.

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