My mood wasn't the best after that and I rarely got to speak to my mother, and I still had another month to go. I didn't know how much more I could take of this school or my aunt.
Today at school was odd for some reason they gave us extra study hall, and people that weren't normally in our study hall were in our class. That was fine I rather have more down time then go to classes any day.
It just so happened Tom was there and a couple of his friend's. He came over to me and said " let's play euchre, you in?"
I simply responded with " I'm in."
That's when I looked up to see him...
He was tall and lean with dark short brown hair, and was wearing a plain white tee and dark blue jeans. His skin was lightly kissed by the sun. He had a simple smile on his face and looked like he had no cares in the world. I was stunned... I was speechless.
I was being stared at...
He was sitting right in front of me. When did he sit down. I had to shake my head to recover.
I had seen cute and handsome guys before. Even dated a few so why did this guy leave me breathless...
I wasn't normal like this around guys I was confident. And more importantly why have I not seen him before.
Before we started playing cards we got into teams. He was on my cousin's team and I with another guy I didn't know. I could hardly focus on the game at hand, and had to resist the urge to look at him. It seem though every time I failed and glance up at him, he always seemed to be looking back at me. Then I would fumble with my card and end up making the wrong more. I thought it could not get any worse then this... but as it turns out I was wrong.
I felt something nudge my foot I looked slightly down and to the side to see what it was... my heart skipped a beat. It was him, it was his foot! I was like ok it was a mistake, and tried to focus. Then I felt something on my leg, again I looked, again it was him. I looked up at him...I stopped breathing He was smiling at me. My mind was jumbled. I didn't know what to think. I all could do was smile.
What was I doing, I knew how to flirt with a guy, but here I was acting As if I didn't know the concept. I had to think, I had to pull it together. Before I had time to gather my thoughts, something touched my knee. My heart started racing I didn't need to look this time, I knew it was him. It wasn't his foot this time either, it was his hand... His hand was on my knee!! My mind was screaming, my heart was racing and I at this point wasn't playing the game. Pull it together I screamed to myself...
I finally had enough since to think. Ok he was just a big flirt and he was trying to win the game at hand. That's what I had finally came up with. Because look at me, even though I may not be unattractive... I was not his type. There was no way I was his type!
Knowing this I was finally able to regain enough since to actually flirt back.
There wasn't the pressure from before knowing he could never actually want me.
So we laugh and flirted back and forth with light touches and pushes. All the while the card game continued which in all honestly with weren't really apart of. So at the end of it there really was no winner. It just ended cause study hall was over. We parted ways... and just like that he were gone.