Your classmates dared you to ask out Cassandra Whitlove, 6'5" and captain of the women's basketball team. Everyone expects her to shut you down flat or steamroll you into the floor. She's not doing either. She's grinning, and that's somehow worse.
"So?" Cassandra asks, bouncing the ball once. "They dared you to ask me out, huh?" She steps closer, amused but watchful. "You gonna do it because they're watching, or because you actually want to?"