Slice of life (or, More Personal Drama)

Note: All the names used in the following post are completely fictional!

You know that cute guy I told you was at the welcoming ceremony of my college?http://crazygurlmadness.blogspot.com/2006/08/evening-all-keels-over.html

The cute blonde bespectacled one I wanted to share my locker with?

Well, he was in the cafeteria today, studying alone, in the sunlight streaming from the large windows, in a corner, all alone at a table, looking like a serious, calm, godsend.

Which he is, but I think I've covered that already.

I come into the cafeteria with a guy friend and meet up with plenty of people I know since high school, and I sit at the end of the table and I notice...

DUNDUNDUN. Admin Guy. Across the room.

No, he's not Project Boy (Hah, I wish), but droooooool...

I interrupt a friend's speech ("Eva") on something or other (frankly, nothing registered because, HELLO, ADMIN BOY!), and I say, "That guy in the corner is hot."

Eva hardly misses a beat. She says, "I know. I totally spotted him."

"Kitty" turns around (she was at another table talking to "Josie"), and asks, "Who's hot?"

Eva says, "The guy in the corner. The one who's studying and looking studly."

Kitty glances at him. She grimaces. "Oh, come on. He's nothing special."

Me: "Are you kidding? That guy is sin rolled into sex rolled into hotness!"

A couple of the people around turn to look at me in a disturbed fashion.

Me: "Well, what? It's true."

Josie: "Wait. *to Eva* She's talking about the guy in the corner?"

Eva: "Yeah. He's cute, huh?"

Josie: "Yeah, I guess."

Me: "It's okay, infidels. I know I have taste."

Eva stares wistfully at Admin Boy as he keeps studying, unawares. "Too bad he's no acquaintance of ours."

Me: "Yeah, seriously..."

There's a long pause in the conversation.

Me: "How much do you pay me if I go talk to him?"

Eva: *laughs it off* "Excuse me, he's mine."

Me: "Oh, come on. I saw him first!"

Eva: "What do you mean you saw him first, I saw him--"

Me: "At the opening thing, I saw him. Hah!"

Eva: "Well, whatever. Fine. Bitch."

Kitty says, "You won't have the guts."

Me: "Wanna bet?"

Before they can answer, I stand up and head straight towards Admin Boy. All along, I'm thinking, what am I gonna ask him? How the heck am I going to strike up a conversation??

I stop next to him (hotness!), and I ask, with a smile, "Sorry. Is your name "Adam"?"

Okay, that may sound random, but he reminded me of a kid I used to know.

He looks up. OMG. GORGEOUS BESPECTACLED EYES. "Hm? Oh, yeah, it is." He's smiling. He gets a dimple when he smiles.

I cannot believe, meanwhile, the uncanny guess. "Really?? What's your last name??" I wish against wish that he is THE Adam, the first kid to make me laugh out of my wits in elementary school.

No such luck. He is not. Still, I will not let this hunk escape.

"Oh, that's a pity," I say, sitting in the chair next to him. "You look a lot like a kid I used to know in elementary school."

He shakes his head and smiles apologetically. "Sorry, it wasn't me."

I laugh. "That's okay. So whatcha doing?"

He looks down at his notes. "Studying French."

I raise a brow. "Are you any good at it, so that we can at least have something in common?"

He laughs. "I'm not bad at all."

I grin, and think that he could possibly be my soulmate (I was charmed, gimme a break). "That's great! What program are you in?"

I, of course, know the answer to this. But, hello, his dimples and gorgeous smile made me forget, so like a ditz, I actually asked.

"Administration," he says.

"Oh," I remember now. "Yeah. I saw you at the welcoming ceremony. When they told us Libs to get up, you didn't, right?"

He laughs, clearly amused. "Right."

He's the kind who looks straight into your eyes when you're speaking to him. With those gorgeous blue eyes, and he's looking actually focused only on me then.

He is so hot. I can't even meet his gaze, most of the time. Actually, I'm starting to get extremely embarrassed because I never did this before. Strike up a conversation with a totally hot loner/nerdy/sexy stranger, I mean.
At least I'm still smiling pleasantly.

"Um," I say, running out of steam, "look. I came to talk to you because I saw you and you look really cute. But you really do look like an Adam!" I hurry to add. "You have an Adam face, I mean."

I KNOW! I JUST WRECKED THE BASIC RULES!!! I'M AN IDIOT! MY OWN MOM screamed at me that I totally broke the rules when she heard!

He looks vaguely surprised, but doesn't lose his smile. Oh well, might as well go with it.

"So, um," I say, probably red beyond red but still smiling (because I'm overloading with happy), "I'm CM." I outstretch my hand. "Hello."

He takes my hand. His touch was gentle but firm at once. I don't know how to describe it. It was pleasant. Not like, 'I'm shaking this person's hand because I must', you know?

"Hello," he says.

I say, "I know that's weird, but I still expect us to greet each other from now on if we ever see each other."

He chuckles. "Okay."

"Really. Don't make me threaten you," I joke.

"Okay," he repeats.

We exchange a last smile, and then I say, "Well, then, see you around, okay?"

"Okay, see you," he says, still smiling.

I stand, and walk back to my table with as much dignity as possible.

I am greeted with stunned silence upon my return.

Eva sums up: "You are my new idol."

I know. I am so awesome. I feel totally emancipated, in a WHAT-THE-FUCK-WAS-I-THINKING-I-AM-SUCH-A-MORON-I-NEED-SELF-FLAGELLATION-QUICK sort of way.

At least I can plead stupidity.

Or I can greet him next time I see him. Maybe invite him to lunch with the gang.

But... HOT ADMIN BOY. *SQUEEE*

I love college.

Still writing chapter 19 of OiH.

Love,
CM

P.S. I STILL HEART YOU, PROJECT BOY! (Even though you don't know I mention your existence online. If you found out, you'd probably be scared out of your wits.) But you have to let me say Admin Guy is off charts in chick flick hotness and eligibility.

P.P.S. Besides, Project Boy, it's not like you're ever going to see me as more than that crazy girl you team up with for projects, so I gotta keep my horizons open.

P.P.P.S. WHY MUST ALL BOYS BE SO CUTE AND NICE AND FUN AND AAAAARRRGGGH!!!