A Different Girl

Chapter 1

"And your eyes, irresistible"

***

I got used to normal guys, to normal dates, to normal kisses every night, I actually didn't get used to these things, I got bored.

I have never done something so stupid but funny in my life, or "an adventure" as they call it, like, I've never jumped from the highest mountain, or laid down on the street, I've never skipped a class!

So that's it, I decided that I should do something stupid in my life that I'll regret it after 5 minutes, but when I grow up, I'll just tell Sam and we'll laugh together.

"What are you thinking about, baby?" Tom –my present boyfriend- asks me.

"Nothing, I'm tired, goodnight" and by that I avoid him, I'm not in a kissing mood.

***

If someone asked me how many guys you dated, I would say infinity, not the kind of a bitchy girl or anything, but believe me or not, I don't like spending the time in my apartment, yeah there are so many friends, but those many friends can't invite me to sleep over every day, so I just decided that the only way to avoid the stupid annoying feel, by sleeping in other bed, and the only way I can do it, is by having a guy (I like hooking up, too)

Sam barks, he wants food, I get out of the cozy bed and go to the kitchen, I put some dogs'-cookies and just get back to the bed, I fall asleep.

***

Next morning I "sneaked out" from the house to the park, it's in front of Tom's house, so I didn't walk for a long time, I was sitting in a punch there, when a weird guy sat next to me, he's like 20 years old or older, he has a black messy hair, he was tall, he looked at me weirdly and start laughing.

"What's wrong?" I asked him.

"Nothing, you look so funny" he said with a weird accent.

"Really? Well, thank you" I smiled.

He looked at me, and kind of got lost in my eyes, I smiled to him, but he didn't smile back, he has those black-deep eyes, that when you look at it, you literally get lost in it, like you are looking in another world, like you are in another world.

"You are so beautiful" he said, and I felt something strange in my body, I've never felt that way, like the whole world was spinning and the only thing that in its place was me, and him, it's stupid, because I just met him, but it was true as fuck.

Suddenly, a woman looked 30 years old came, and grabbed his arm, he stood up.

"I'm so sorry, he must've said something bad to you" she apologized.

"No, not really, it's fine, totally, why are you even saying that? He is not a child"

"Well, he is not, but he acts like child, he is sick, I mean, he has something in his mind, since he was a baby"

"It means that he is crazy?" I kind of don't care or don't think about the words that will come out from my mouth, so I just say it, and the best part in this thing, that I don't regret it like so many people.

"Umm, yeah, kind of, you can say that"

I looked at the guy again; he was still looking at me, like there was something special in my eyes, like the sun was going down, or the moon was showing up, like if I was a star, shining up, so bright.

I smiled, he didn't.

"You are so beautiful" he said for the second time.

"Mike, we should go back home"

"But mom, she is so beautiful, like a book with a bright cover"

"I'm so sorry, come on Mike, let's go"

This time he didn't say a word, he smiled to me, and nodded his head goodbye, and walked away with his mom.

***

I'm still thinking of it, of him, when I woke up the next day, the first thing that crossed my mind was him "like a book with a bright cover"

Tom is next to me snoring, like an elephant, I can't stand him these days actually, he is being boring.

I check the clock, its 7:03 in the morning, I have a lecture after one hour, and my university is 15 minutes away from this apartment.

I put my black tank top, my black leggings and my black jacket, yeah, I'm in love with black, I put some make up, put some food for Sam, and go to my car.

When I turn it on, the loud system makes me jump, I low the volume, and drive it, it's "Till I collapse by Eminem".

I arrive NYU, and for the first time in my life, I quickly find a spot to park my car in.

***

It's 12:00 pm, and since I woke up, till now, I couldn't stop thinking of Mike, that crazy guy I've met in the park, I know I should forget it, but I can't, not because he told me that I'm beautiful, or not because the way he looked at me, for real, I don't know why I can't stop thinking of him.

I have another lecture after an hour, so I just grab my favorite book in the world, and start reading it for the millionth time.

"You Against Me" by Jenny Downham, is the deepest novel I've ever read, it talks about a guy, has a sister got raped by another guy, so he starts searching for him and he decides to kill him, but suddenly, and untowardly, he fills in love with his sister, not his own sister of course, but the guy's sister.

And suddenly, I realized that the guy's name (in the novel) is Mikey.

7/Dec/2015