"Wow veggie much", Justin asked me with his eyes focused on my tray of food. "I believe in good health and as far as I'm concerned veggies rep health", I replied harshly.
"Okay girl, damn. You should try letting up on the heated replies though, cos you might run outta heat soon". I don't even have any excuse for the way I replied him but sitting this close to Mr Grey (as I nicknamed him) was not helping my mind, body and most especially heart.
"I'm sorry, just not in my best mood today", I said looking at Justin apologetically and because I wanted him to understand how really sorry I was I added, "And thanks by the way for saving me a seat for lunch". He seemed pretty pleased with my apology cos next thing I knew, he was smiling wildly as if he won the lottery. Dude must really love being right.
"Since we're cool now, how about I introduce you to the gang". With that said he turned and raised his voice to draw the attention of everyone else on the table and that was when I realized we had been whispering since.
"Okay guys this is Asha", he said pointedly at me. "And Asha this is Jesse", he said while pointing to a guy with dirty blonde hair falling over green eyes who looked pretty well built from what I could see and wait was he sporting a smirk? "To his left you have Keith", wow!! Dude had dark skin with glowing brown eyes, dark night hair and boy was he was smoking hot, 'Asha control your mind'. "Canaan", he said pointing to the guy sitting opposite me who I gotta say looked the nicest among all of them, with straight brown hair falling a little over his eyes and dare I say similar brown eyes, he smiled really warmly at me and I just knew right then we'd be such good friends."
"And finally Xander", I followed the direction of his hand and yes, just as you guessed, it was Mr Grey in all his bad boy glory. Well not Mr Grey anymore since I now know his name and he's got a freaking hot name if you ask me. He was smirking at me as if he just heard my thoughts and on closer inspection I realized his hair wasn't completely wavy and the brown color of his hair was just that, brown and you could almost confuse it for red in the light. He was probably the most built among all of them and I gotta say they all looked freaking amazing. That coming from me should mean a lot cos I've seen my fair share of hot male models, credit that to my mom's work.
"Justin I'm proud of your skills", a small brunette sitting right next to Canaan said, all the while glaring at Justin. "Now what did I do", he asked. "Of course you didn't do shit, just introduced the guys and left the girls", she replied condescendingly.
"Okay okay, jeez them crazy ladies, I'm sorry alright", he said while raising his hands in a show of surrender and if you didn't see his face you'd totally believe him until the smug smirk on his face confirms that he actually did it deliberately. Wow they do get along quite fine I think to myself sarcastically.
At this point every other person seated at the table is just watching the both of them continue their bickering, with Jesse and Keith smiling and Xander just watching them with an air of boredom. This might be a daily thing for them, I start thinking to myself only to be interrupted or should I say jarred out of my thoughts by someone's hand on my shoulder and on the table in front of me.
You know that frustrated feeling you get when something just keeps happening to you all day long and you start to wonder if the universe is just cracking a joke at your expense, well if you know that feeling, then you probably understand how frustrated I am right now.
Instead of even tryna locate the owner of the hand on my shoulder, I just do the first thing that comes to mind. I remove the hand with enough force to confuse the owner, stand up and immediately flip it to the persons back moving the hand all the way up on the persons back, all the while keeping a tight grip on the persons wrist and I gotta say when I heard a painful groan from the owner of the hand, I was feeling proud of myself cos this just means that all those karate and self-defense classes I took wasn't in vain.
'Now to find out who the idiot is', I think to myself as I turn around, only to come face to face with Xander looking really pained and almost instantly I let go of his hand, stepping away from him as he tried to regulate the blood flow in his hand.
He turned towards me with a look of incredulity almost as if he couldn't believe that I would be able to inflict such pain on him or maybe I was mistaken.
"I am so so sorry, I didn't know... I didn't mean…. It just kinda...", I stuttered my apology. And since I knew I wasn't making any sense whatsoever, I just looked up at him and silently muttered an apologetic "sorry".
"Don't be", he said while waving his hand as if he was wiping my invisible sorry from space. "I guess I just never expected such strength from a small human like you". Okay did he just call me small, or am I actually losing my mind here and what does he mean by 'small human like me'. 'Um excuse you, I'm not small', I replied in my head and simultaneously mentally rolled my eyes.
"Well like I said I'm sorry, I just don't like people touching me", I said conclusively. With that out of the way I reached for the table to support myself and place my ass back on my seat only to be stopped by my name this time. I turned back and Xander just pointed to the place beside my tray where my notebook and pen from my first class was proudly staring back at me. Before I can stop myself I'm muttering, "how did... Oh…. This is bad". Realization dawned on me as I finally understood the reason why he had touched me in the first place. But how did I get so out of it that I didn't notice when he placed my things beside my tray cos I'm sure as hell that they weren't there when I got here.
"I can see your eyes finally put themselves to good use��. That was all he said as he turned and walked out of the cafeteria leaving me standing and staring after him like a Loony who just lost her muse.