Alexis quickly packed all her books together and roughly pushed them into her bag the next day. The first lecture of the day had just ended and the lecturer had just stepped out of the hall. Everybody was stepping out for the next lecture and Alexis was hurrying so she could get a good seat in the next class.
She was fifteen minutes early to the first class so she got a good seat in the second row. She was only early because she refused to take any of the wine Dianne offered her the night before and she went to bed early even though she was tempted to stay awake and witness the intense argument between Dianne and Candace after Candace found out Dianne "took" her bottle of wine.
She picked up her little black back and got up from her seat. She scurried out of the class carefully pushing through the crowd and soon she got into the hallway.
As soon as she turned to walk towards the next hall she bumped into him.
It would have been one of those cliche moments in movies if her books had fallen and they had both bent to pick them up as their eyes met and they immediately fell in love but her books were in her bag and the guy she crashed into, as far as she was concerned, was her mortal enemy.
"I'm sorry" he said nervously scratching the back of his head.
"Adam" she growled clenching her fists. She just looked away from him and tried to walk away but he grabbed her by her wrist stopping her.
"Princess" he called and at that Alexis sharply turned back to face him snatching her hand.
"The guts you have to still call me that" she growled at him.
"What, you suddenly hate the name?" He asked drawing his head backwards "you didn't seem to about three months ago" he added
"Well, I didn't seem to hate you about three months ago but here we are now" She shot back "what the hell are you even doing here? Didn't you get an admission into Stanford with LeAnne?" She asked
"I guess I just prefer Bevard" Adam replied hesitantly
"Oh so I guess LeAnne is here too" Alexis said with narrowed eyes.
"No" he replied sharply "forget LeAnne" he added
"Forget LeAnne?" Alexis questioned now raising her voice. You could now see her veins throbbing in her neck.
"Yes" Adam replied "I came here for you" he continued "Alexis I am so sorry" he added with emphasis on 'so'.
"You really want me to forget about LeAnne?" Alexis began "cuz on prom night, she was obviously all you could think about!" She yelled at him "she was my best friend" she added but this time in a low tone. You could sense the pain in her voice.
"I really don't know what I was thinking" he started "I was so stupid" he continued
"Tell me something I don't already know" she fired
"Alexis you don't know how terrible I feel, I am so sorry" he began with steady eye contact "I know I've been such a jerk to you. I just can't live with the fact that you hate me now because of how bad I treated you. I swear throughout the holiday you were all I could think about" he said dragging out his words.
"I saw several pictures of you and LeAnne having fun and living your best lives throughout the holiday" she said folding her arms
"Alexis, if you could just find it in your heart to forgive me..." He was saying
"I saw pics of you and LeAnne together throughout the holiday" Alexis cut him short "at the beach, the mall, amusement parks, you know, all those places we never got to go, all those places you never thought of taking me" she continued and Adam just stared straight at the ground avoiding eye contact "each time I saw those pictures, I balled my eyes out regretting every moment I spent with you" "now you're here apologizing, telling me you came here for me. What did you think would happen!? You thought I would just stupidly take you back and everything would go back to how it was? Hell no! You were dead wrong Adam, that's right, dead wrong! I wouldn't take you back if my life depended on it. I am so over you. I have moved on with my life!" She yelled at him and somehow she felt relieved.
It felt like that was all she needed. To yell at the bastard who broke her heart.
"You moved on?" He asked slowly raising his head.
"What did you expect me to do, sit around moping while you fucked around with LeAnne?" She questioned and it seemed like she forced herself to push out the word 'fucked'.
There was more to the story.
"So what? You have a new boyfriend now?" He asked raising his eyebrows.
"As a matter of fact, she does" Alexis felt a hand softly grip her waist as that deep sexy voice echoed in her head.
Emanie.
She sharply raised her head to face him with her eyebrows furrowed and her eyes widened. He just smiled and Alexis immediately melted on the inside.
"Hey Goldilocks" he said with steady eye contact. Alexis immediately lost her words so all she could do was blush.
"Is this a joke?" Adam questioned snapping Alexis out of her thoughts.
"What? You thought I would never move on?" Alexis shot back.
"Alexis you went from this..."he began pointing at himself "...to this?" he continued pointing at Emanie.
"I know" Emanie began with a smile "it's shocking how low her standards were before" he added with a one sided shoulder shrug
'ouch' Alexis thought
"I mean, a guy like you..." Emanie continued with a scoff "you look like a muppet" she added and his scoff turned into laughter.
"Well you look like..." Adam was saying
"Beat it freshman" Emanie said cutting him short.
Adam just glared at him for about thirty seconds and then turned to Alexis.
"Bye Alexis" he said "so much for blowing off Stanford" he added and he turned to walk away.
They watched him walk away till he stepped into one of the halls.
"You didn't have to do that" Alexis said slipping Emanie's hand off her waist.
"Do what?" Emanie questioned "save you the stress of arguing with that guy" he added with a shrug.
"We weren't..." She was saying avoiding eye contact.
"Your ex?" Emanie asked cutting her short.
"Yeah" she replied "why are you even here?" She asked.
"I came looking for you" he replied slipping his hands into his pockets "I was just wondering if you wanted to hang out sometime" he added
"Oh, I..." She began but then paused to think "I don't know " she said finally bending her head
Yeah she thought Emanie was cool and all that but she was trying to be careful, she didn't want to make the same mistakes she made with Adam.
"Why not?" Emanie asked with an eyebrow raised "just with my friends, it's gonna be fun" he assured.
"Hmm, I still don't know" she said reluctantly, dragging her feet.
"Goldilocks" Emanie smiled staring straight at Alexis with focused eye contact.
"Fine" she eventually said after about thirty seconds of silence. She couldn't resist him.
"Cool, so tonight?" He asked
"Tonight?!" Her eyes widened
"Yeah, let's meet in front of the dorm by 8" he replied "is that ok?" He asked
"Yeah ok" she replied still reluctant
"Try not to wear something too thick" he said with a smile.
'oh jeez'