One Touch

• No One Else •

Dear diary, it has been a week since our last encounter. I start school tomorrow. 12th grade! Senior year ... And I'm still writing in a diary. Right. I'm trying not to forget him. His face his smell his clothes ... His ... Gloves. He never took his gloves off once. I wonder why? Maybe he was just cold. I guess it was chilly that night ... But I doesn't matter he said he was just passing through ... Just passing through.

Willow took a deep breath and closed her diary. She was sad she would probably never see him again. She felt she knew him. Somehow...

It was night. She was in her bed. So she reached over and turned off her lamp

She thought about the day ahead of her... School
Senior year.

Another year, finally the last, although still another year of being the shy quiet kid in the back of the class.

All because she as too shy to do anything about it.
Maybe that would change this year ....

And with that final though she drifted off.

THUD

Her eyes popped open she sat up in her bed. She saw something in the Corner ... A PERSON! what the-

Who - wh- who are you?!

She shakily demanded. But she wasn't scared
Curious
Not scared

A tall dark figure slowly walked toward her.

She still couldn't see who it was

The figure came closer inching it's way toward her ... Until it reached the moons light shining through her window

Who was it ... Who was this person in her room ...

No the figure was fully in the moons glow she could see who it was

Ethan?

RING RING RING her eye opened and she sat up in cold sweat.

A dream ... It was just - just a dream.

•••

Willow still a bit frazzled from her dream "encounter" walked out of the door of her apartment. she locked it behind her and started her walk to school.

•••

Once she arrived she was alone again as usual no old friends, in fact the last friend she had moved away and nobody else would go near her because she was too "different"

She was at her locker when she heard the buzz of students whispering and talking. But once she started to listen a bit closer she heard them say something about a new kid checking in at the office

Uh a new kid as a senior... I wonder who it is?

She though about it for only a moment and then putting it in the back of her mind she looked at her schedule and went to her first class

While her new teacher was talk she was busy getting a note book and pen out of her backpack.

She wasn't listening very closely but she did notice when the room got quiet.
She looked up having just gotten her pen out only to see something baffling.

She looked up to see him. Ethan ... Ethan Black
And at that point she heard nothing the teacher was saying , she just sat there and stared at him

He was talking to the teacher, he hadn't noticed her yet. Until his head turned and locked eyes with hers

... It was like that moment on the bus ... Just them

That is until everybody stood up for the pledge of allegiance, thus breaking their stare.

Willow shook from her trance and stood and even though she was mumbling along with the rest of the class, she was looking as him ... Was that... A smile on his face?

When the pledge of allegiance was over the teacher looked at him and told him grab a seat but be wise, it will be your seat for the rest of the year!

At this point Willow looked away, of course, he's one of the cool kids, he won't sit with me.

I must be crazy what am I thinking? Him sit with ... Me? Resident weird girl? Ha no way, there is absolutely no wa-

And just then he sat right next to her. The resident weird girl.

She just looked at him. So surprised at what just happened, so excited the he sat next to her. So surprised in fact the she almost didn't notice that everyone in the class was looking at him.

But he was only looking at her

Just her

No one else