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Anna Banana 
Just as Sierra was starting to wonder if she'd actually been stood up, she heard the sound of someone approaching. Good, because had she been stood up, she'd have been one not-too-happy co-prefect when she got back to that common room.
Hearing his voice, Sierra found herself wide-eyed and actually running a hand through her hair and smoothing down her skirt. MERLIN. She still sometimes hated the way he did this to her. As she started spinning around, she put a smile on her face. "How'd you know my nickname?" she playfully asked. It was what she was called at home, although, when she'd been a really little kid, it'd been Si Bear. Now it was just Si.
Then she was suddenly nervous... UGH.
"So, what's up?" she asked. Yeah, she was going to cut right to the chase. Why? ...because she suddenly had this feeling he'd asked her here to tell her things just weren't working out.
Okaaaay.
Get a hold of yourself, Escalante!
Kennedy held his smile, not demonstrating how nervous he was. Sure, he was now a confident young man, but...old habits were hard to kill. He did ease up a bit when Sierra spoke.
"It's your nickname?" he asked.
"I guess it just sort of came to me, Si," he said, repeating it with a waggle of his eyebrow.
... And to the point.
Why do girls do that? It didn't give him time to rehearse everything he had planned.
It didn't matter though.
"Well, I wanted to talk about us," he said, taking several steps in her direction.
"You know I like you. I wouldn't go across the country for someone I didn't truly care for, you know," he said, referring to their summer.
Kennedy reached over for Sierra's hand as he took yet another step toward her.
"What I'm trying to say is, I want us to be official. Would you like to be my girlfriend, Sierra?" There. No beating around the bush. Straightforward. Confident. And...
If she said no, he'd mostly likely pass out because he legs felt as if they've been hit with the jelly leg jinx.