#i really gotta learn to check my typos/dropped sentences before i post 😑

[ceruleanmusings]

.11

soon after mickey realizes and accepts she has feelings for james she has a hard time acting "normal" around him. and asking him out? forget it. she panics and keeps throwing away her phone to pace and lament and overthink every word choice of a simple text. mel points out she has it easy because she already knows james' feelings for her and she didn't have to do anything for him to like her. and while mickey knows this she also knows he could have changed his mind.

so she tries to flirt. emphasis on tries. because she is terrible, turning into a stammering mess who overexplains her thoughts and overclarifies her attempts to see if he wanted to hang out or if he was still going to their group skating outing. besides, how do you flirt with someone whose breathing could be considered flirting?

after they finally get together mickey comments that her flirting had to be really bad if on a not-yet-first-date he had to ask if she was flirting with him. james admits it wasn't that he didn't notice, it was that he brushed it off because he'd convinced himself he gave up on the chance she'd ever like him back and he didn't want to pressure her. in the end james asks her to be a bit more obvious with it, which takes a bit for mickey to get out of her comfort zone to do so. but once she falls into the groove it's easy because she loves the way he gets flustered and loves the feeling knowing she was the one to put him in that state.