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Anyone else having this problem?

I have a girl character, Rowan, who is very involved in school spirit and very driven, very stubborn. But she also has a huge crush on one of the male main characters, Andy. I know I can handle her feelings after something big happens, but I'm having a few problems writing the crush when it's still real girly and cute.

She's 18, so it can't be juvenile, but at the same time she's very devoted to being a youth leader at her church -- very moral and peppy -- so it's still a crush and not lust. I never really had any crushes in school, so it's put a bump in my writing.

Any ideas? Things she'd do -- i.e. doodling on notes -- or how she'd daydream, how she'd act around him, talk about him to her friends, how she'd react if she thought he had a girlfriend, especially a girl she didn't like, etc. I have her character pretty much already formed in my head, so if you have any questions about her I can probably answer them.

I find I'm ultra sensetive to a person. I immediately locate them when I enter a room (classroom) In college no assigned seats, so in highschool it would be checking their desk to see if they were in class that day, if my pantleg brushes theirs walking between desks I notice... If they hand me a pencil and our hands touch it's electric.

Just a hypersensetivity to not only physical touch, but also relative space, where they are, where they are looking, paying attention to them.

Being able to spot their hairstyle or jacket across a quad, because you "know" what it looks like. like "(guys name here) radar."

Also an obsession of talking about them constantly to girlfriends. who I saw them with, they ... said something to me... 0.0... how they answered the question and seemed so smart... constantly on the brain.

Thats all I can think of. I'm in a new relationship so perhaps it refreshed my memory.

Hope I helped more than harmed!! ^^

good luck!

I think a crush can turn any normal level headed girl a little more juvenile. I'm not talking about her writing "check yes or no" notes or anything, but I know that I've found myself feeling "giddy like a school girl" when I had a crush on someone.

In high school when I would have a crush on a guy I would try to steal glances in school, flirt with them if possible but never be too obvious about it, write poetry about them or daydream about them in class, that sort of thing. I never did the whole bit where you doodle their name or write your first name with their last name, but I know girls who did. And right now one of my online friends is going through this (she's in high school) so she's doing a lot of doodles about him. She's a great artist so she actually draws him in cutesy comic book situations though. *L*

i say she could have a dream one night that she got to meet him at some certain location and she bumps into him when this happens she blushes and he says something like wow i never noticed how beautiful you are and she goes on and says where are you headed and he tells her and she says is it all right for me to walk with you and he says sure so later she wakes up and has the nerve to ask her out sweatdrop