The classroom was getting way too noisy and I needed a breather.
I looked around to see what my classmates were freaking out about.
"Hey Erick, let's do this group project together," my friend Raphael asked.
"Okay sure!"
"Yes!!"
He happily walked out of the classroom collecting his things.
He was my dorm mate and that was about it. He was the only guy I knew so it made sense to do this project together.
I was labeled as a "mysterious" guy at my high school but I just didn't know how to communicate well with others. People call this "shyness" but I feel like I am an introvert when it comes to large crowds.
I too followed Raphael but something made me stay back, maybe hanging around my classroom would help me talk to more people. Isn't that what university life is about?
I slumped down against a wall near my class and put in my headphones to block out the noise. I checked my phone for the fifth time that day scrolling through my university's online group.
Always a research guy, I quickly scrolled through our online group so that I could see what my classmates were into and maybe have a few conversation topics at hand.
"Really, maybe we should all have more practical classes than just sit around on our asses all day learning books and vomiting it back on term papers."
Damn! This comment made me chuckle and I appreciated whoever had the guts to write this on the teachers forum. I checked to see the commenter's profile.
I think I had seen this girl's profile before. She sat with Lisa today. Yes it's her.
Lisa was the chatterbox of the class and everyone was forced to know her. Although I felt like her commenter friend was more like me.
I felt chills as I scrolled through my feed, puzzled I looked up and saw two figures walking towards me, the sunlight was behind them so it took my eyes a few second to adjust.
What I saw made my heart stop.
The first thing my eyes went towards were her lips, she was giving her friend a little smile. Her brown long locks rested on her shoulders perfectly and a few strands were swaying in front of her face. I couldn't help but stare at her lips, they were truly a work of art.
With the sunlight behind her, she looked like she just came down from heaven.
As my eyes travelled up, I saw the most beautiful pair of eyes I have ever seen in my life. Her brown eyes were so innocent and deep that I wanted to live and die in them.
And I think I just did.
My time stopped, I struggled not to let my jaw fall and make a fool out of myself. Her beauty was divine in every form, her body, her curves and her neck made me breeze through several lifetimes
in just a second, wrapping me up. I felt this invisible cord tug at my heart.
She looked at me and I felt I would fall from the face of this earth and fly beyond the sky at the same time.
She looked sheepishly through her lashes but her gaze was as powerful as a thousand suns, blinding but lighting and burning me at the same time. Little did I know I would burn in this gaze forever.
I felt her running through my veins, I felt her in my past and future. I felt her energy wrapping around me, choking the life out of me but also giving me a warmth that I would die for.
This fire was spreading all over my body.
I quickly averted my eyes as I couldn't physically look at her any longer. My heart had gone to her long before and I couldn't give her any more access.
No I won't.
It took me all my strength to get up and go back to the safety of the classroom and not be seen as a creep.
Thousands of emotions rushed into me and made me look at her again, our eyes met briefly before she looked away again.
I took a deep breath to calm my heart and tried to run away from her gaze which although I was falling for, I could no longer bear.