•Sour Attraction•

1: •sour strips•

The scenery passes by and what only feels like 5 minutes later, I pull into the parking lot of the grocery store. Before I ran out the door I grabbed my moms list. I park the car in the almost full parking lot and then make my way into the store.

As I enter, the first thing I notice is the amount of people in the store. I take a deep breath and grab a basket. My mom only needed a few things like milk, eggs, butter, and some meat. I walk into the appropriate isles and sections of the store to find the items on the list. Occasionally bumping into someone and constantly swerving around people.

I finish grabbing all of the things on the list and I immediately make my way over to the candy isle. I reach my hand out to grab the last package of sour strips when another hand reaches out. Both of our hands touch and sparks fly up from my hand and through my arm. I quickly pull my hand away as if I had just been burned. I step back from the snack and look up to see a very handsome guy that is about my age staring down at me.

He has a sharp jawline and beautiful blue eyes. He had more of an athletic build, but not too athletic to where it is gross. His hair was a jet black and it was left messy on top of his head. I just wanted so bad to run my fingers through his hair, but I restrained myself and held back.

"I-I'm sorry... you can have it." I say as I look to see if there is something else I would want. I see some gummy bears and grab them.

"Why would you grab something else if this is what you wanted?" The guy asks. I am surprised at how good the guys vice sounded.

"Because you want it. And I'm not willing to fight you for it." I say with a shrug. The man looks at the candy then back at me. I give him a small smile and make my way to the self checkout, just wanting to get out of this over crowded store.

As I'm scanning my stuff I notice that instead of the gummy bears being in my basket, the sour strips were now in there. That guy must have put them in there. I look back towards the isle and see a glimpse of the same guy. He sees me and smirks, making me blush. He then walks away into another isle.

"Mam, can you hurry up please? I have somewhere to be." A lady in what looks like her 40s says to me. I quickly say yes and finish scanning and paying for my stuff. 

As I reach the car I put the bags into the passengers seat and get into the drivers. Why did that guy give me the last sour strips? Why did my arm feel like sparks were flying up them when his hand touched mine. Why was he so hot?!

All of these questions flew around in my mind as I drive back home. God I hope I didn't embarrass myself. OH GOD! I hope I don't see him at school tomorrow. He looked the same age as me, but I could be wrong. Right?

"How was the store?" My mom asks as I enter the house. I set her keys back on the key rack and set the grocery bags on the kitchen table. I walk back into the living room and plop down onto the couch next to her.

"It was..." I start. My mom smiles and pauses the show she was watching. "It was eventful." I finish. My mom laughs in response.

"What happened?" My mom smirks when she sees the small blush that takes over my nose and cheeks.

"Nothing. It was just super busy." I quickly say and try to sneak my way out of the seat, trying to hide the fact that I am about to run into my room so I can be anti social and awkward by myself.

"I can see you trying to sneak away. Get your ass back over here and let me have some quality time with my daughter." I pout and walk back over to the couch and plop down. My head now on my moms lap while my legs are sprawled out on the rest of the couch.

"What really happened?" She asks as she runs her hand through my medium length light brown hair.

I sigh as I look up at her. My mom always knows when I'm lying about something. I go to her for everything and she goes to me for everything. My mom and I are super close. And I am super grateful for her. She knows me so well.

"I saw a cute guy while I was buying my sour strips." I admit. Her face immediately breaks out into a grin.

"Did he talk to you? Did you talk to him? How old was he? Was he with anyo-"

"Mom." I give her a pointed look. She laughs a little and nods her head.

"He did talk to me a little bit. I also talked to him a little bit. He looked to be about my age and no, he was not with anyone." I answer all of her questions.

"Explain everything to me!" I laugh at how excited my mom looks. She is like a 16 year old in a 40 year old body.

"Okay well, I got all the stuff you needed and then I went to the candy isle. I went to grab the last bag of sour strips and another hand went to grab them too. Our hands touched and I may or may not have felt a bunch of sparks run up my arm when we touched." I explain.

My moms face has now turned into a huge grin.

"I instead grabbed some gummy bears so that he could have the sour strips. But when I was walking to the self checkout I noticed he switched the sour strips with the gummy bears." I smile to myself.

My mom looks down at me and nods her head. "I've never seen you like this." She says as she continues to run her hand through my hair.

I smile and close my eyes. My mom continued to watch her show as I watched with her. When Damien got back from work we all ate dinner and went to bed. But now this is the time of the night where I over react and think about all of the things that could possibly happen at school tomorrow.