"Congratulations Leah," the email read. "You have been selected at random to be one of the lucky 200 people who get to meet Dansby Swanson at Chop Fest 2019! Please RSVP to this email as soon as possible!"
Leah groaned. She had gotten tickets to Chop Fest, the Braves fan fest, for her birthday from her parents. She had been a life long Braves fan. She entered contests to meet all of the players, even Dansby who has always rubbed her the wrong way. He's incredibly handsome and he knows it.
She was hoping her one entry to Dansby wouldn't get her a winning ticket, but it did. Nevertheless, she RSVP'd yes. She figured he couldn't possibly be a self centered dick, it was just in her head, right?
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Boy was she wrong. The second she went up to meet Dansby, he was immediately flirting with her. He flirted with her for the whole time, and even signed his number at the bottom of the picture he signed for her.
She was never going to call him. But she did make the mistake of tagging him in the Instagram picture.
Almost immediately after she posted the photo, he had DM'd her. He asked her if she had seen his number, to which she didn't respond. The next morning, he messaged her good morning, she didn't respond to that either.
The good morning messages didn't stop. They were sweet, she'd be the first to admit that. But she could never get herself to respond. There wasn't something about him that she didn't like.
It lasted until one night, when Leah was out with her friends. They had all had way too much to drink. Everything was great until a certain curly haired someone came into the room. Leah's heart started pounding. She hadn't seen him since they met a few weeks ago.
Her friend noticed her discomfort on her face. "What's up?" She asked the young girl. "That's him," Leah pointed subtly. "That's the guy who keeps flirting me." She told her and her friends mouth dropped.
"You're telling me that someone THAT good looking is flirting with you and literally begging you to go out with him and you won't say yes to one drink?" She asked and Leah shrugged.
"You know what, you're right. I'm gonna go talk to him." She proclaimed and her friends began cheering. Leah's new (and very drunken) wave of self confidence caused her to walk right up to Dansby and some of his friends and teammates and poke him on the shoulder.
"No pictures please- Leah," he breathed out. She smiled at him and looked at her feet, blushing the second his eyes met hers. "Hi, Dans." She said softly, not wanting to meet eyes with him. "Can we go talk?" He asked and she nodded, letting him grab her hand and pull her to a secluded place.
"Leah, what made you change your mind?" He asked. "You. I just realized how I let my preconceived idea of you get in the way of the amazing person you truly are. You're smart and funny and caring and incredibly handsome. No guy would ever stick with me this long, especially when I treated you like that. I hope you know every morning I smile at your good morning texts. So I just wanted to tell you I'm ready. I want to be with you." She told him and an incredible smile emerged onto his face. He couldn't contain his happiness and picked up Leah, spinning her around. She threw her head back laughing and Dansby finally set her down.
She look into his deep brown eyes and immediately looked down when they made eye contact with hers. He took two fingers and lifted her chin up softly. "Hey, look at me, beautiful." he whispered.
"Can I kiss you?" He asked her. She couldn't contain herself, she felt her legs turn to jello. He just asked if he could kiss her. That was the sweetest thing anyone's ever done. She leaned in quickly and kissed him slowly but with a lot of passion. Weeks of passion had led up to this moment.
"Thank you for waiting for me, Dans." She told him and he smiled. "I'd wait for you forever."
~~~a/n: i love this so much!! i'm so sorry i've been so inactive on this book. i've been more focused on homesick bc ive had more inspiration for that. check that out if you like yelich!
