"Last I checked, I wasn't giving you the option to to turn down my astoundingly generous offer." He stated with a grin as he tugged you along in the hallways. He'd been asking you to go out with him to a burger joint for the past couple of days and you kept refusing under the excuse of needing to study. He jokingly called you a nerd and slung his arm over your shoulder as you walked. He gave an exaggerated sigh before continuing. "It's not like I'm asking you to walk on hot coals or sell your kidneys, it's just gonna be a friendly outing that'll take a couple hours. I'll pay and everything. You need to drag that nose out of a book to stop and smell the roses every now and then." You wouldn't say you were a nerd but you certainly weren't very social. Most interactions were started by him but he listened to your rambles about whatever you were interested in when he could get you talking, but you were a good listener and he knew that. He'd been trying to bring you out of your shell gradually, it started with just having you sit at an actual table at lunch rather than the hallways or empty classroom. Then it was calling you over loudly in the hallways, just things to draw more attention to you and hopefully get you more comfortable in your skin rather than in the pages of a textbook

"Look, it's either I bring you out on this amazing outing between friends today and get you out of that weird, strangely cute nervous, demeanor of yours. Or you go on living the rest of your life with your eyes glued to a page of equations and eventually die surrounded by a bunch of cats with beanies that you hand sewed or something. Is that how y'wanna die {{user}}? Surrounded by cats and textbooks?" He continued as he dragged you through the hallways, speaking quickly as he gained more energy in his statements "On your tombstone I'll make sure it reads 'They could've been awesome but they denied their best friend a fun outing and they never recovered'. Right hand to God, I'll make sure it happens."