It's been about a week since I last saw Paige and I'm currently sitting in the cafeteria with Jay and a couple of his friends. Jay has his right arm wrapped around my waist holding me to him as he talks with his oafish friends. Such a guy thing to do. Probably claiming me in front of everybody. I really wish he'd stop with this jealousy thing.
As they talk about football and lord knows what, I don't pay attention at all. I'm too busy with stuffing my face with lasagne I got from the Italian pop up store inside the cafeteria.
"Woaw, Maya, slow down there girl." One of Jay's friends tells me.
"Shut up. Humfry. Need foophg. Leam meh lonegh." I say with my mouth full not even bothering to find out which one of them said it. I hear laughing coming from all around the table and then feel a kiss being placed on the left side off my temple. Seriously, Jay's sweet and all but I'm trying to eat here. It's technically his fault for my hunger. I had one bite of food last night and that's it.
After a few minutes of eating a strange feeling radiates over my body, like someone's staring at me. I then chew the remainder of the food in my mouth and swallow slowly, trying not to look like I just devoured my lasagne. Grabbing a napkin I bring it to my mouth and cleaned any sauce or residue I might have of the lasagne.
"Dang girl! You sure can eat!". The same voice says from before, I look up and realise its Jay's best friend, Chad. I then glare at him and throw the napkin at him making everyone at the table laugh, especially Jay.
Still feeling like someone was watching me I raised my eyes and scanned my eyes across the ocean of students sprawled throughout the café. My eyes then suddenly lock with familiar cerulean eyes.
The look in her eyes were so intense that my breath hitched. Jay noticed this and asked me if I was okay. Turning my head to him I just smiled and said I was which made him smile at me and squeeze my waist. He then returned to his friends, becoming fully engrossed in their conversation.
Returning my gaze to the opposite table I came to find that she was still staring at me. She had her arms folded and one leg crossed over the other. She was wearing ripped leather leggings and a body hugging white t-shirt. Red high heels adorned her feet and her blonde hair, which was parted down the middle, framed her face beautifully.
She never once took her eyes off me. Everything about her was so very intense. Looking at her I noticed she smiled timidly at me and I couldn't help but curve the ends of my mouth upwards and smile back at her.
She slowly licked her bottom lip and cocked her head to the side and smiled more widely at me. When she did that, it made me scoot a bit closer to the table and I placed a stray curl that fell in front of my face behind my ear, while doing this my eyes kept flickering down to the table top and then up to meet her eyes. She made me nervous. And no one ever did that. Maybe I'm just intimidated by her. Yeah right, who checks out their intimidators?
Me. That's who!
A masculine voiced coming from my left then interrupted the little interaction I was having with Paige.
"Hey babe, you think I should cut my hair?" Asked Jay causing me to break eye contact with Paige and direct my attention to him. For some reason I didn't want to look away from her, but I forced my eyes to. I mean it would be extremely weird if my boyfriend were to speak to me and I not answer him because I was having some intense staring contest with a girl sitting opposite me.
"Hhhhhhmmm...." I said contemplating his question. "Maybe a little at the back and a trim on the sides? Yeah babe, that would be extremely cute." I told him giving him a flirty smile so as to please him.
Running his hands threw his hair, he gives me a wink and lopsided smile and says, "Anything for my woman." With that being said he scoots even closer to me and wraps his muscular arms around my waist, pulling me closer and kisses me on my lips. The minute his lips hit mine I suddenly become aware of the fact that Paige was probably still watching me from across the cafeteria. The realization, for some reason unknown to me, makes me feel squirmy and I do not enjoy the pressure of Jay's lips against mine as much as I was supposed to. With my lips still locked to Jay's, I take a quick glance in the direction of Paige, hoping that Jay, or anyone else for that matter, does not notice.
I was right. She was still staring intently at me. The look on her face however, was not the same as her previous one which she had a few moments ago. Instead, her pink lips were pressed into a thin line which made her look rather annoyed. For a second, a saw something flash through her eyes, but it left as quickly as it came. I saw her chest rise up slowly and she released a heavy breath.
She looks...pissed?
Closing my eyes I break eye contact with her and then place my hands on Jay's chest, pushing him away slowly which causes me to effectively break the kiss we just shared.
"Mmmmmmmm. I love your kisses woman. I got a class right now but I'll see you later on yeah?"
"Okay, yeah babe, see you."
After we said our goodbyes Jay and all his friends get up and leave for class. I'm now left alone at the table that was just moments ago surrounded by meatheads.
Now that I'm officially alone, I glance back to Paige to find that she was no longer staring at me. I felt a hint of disappointment course through me. I shouldn't be feeling that, I thought furrowing my tweezed brows.
Now that Paige wasn't staring so intensely at me I looked in her direction head on and noticed she was sitting with a group of girls, all talking animatedly. Paige however, had her head bowed down staring at nothing in particular while a girl with red hair (I couldn't see her face) was leaned in close to her ear, probably telling her something.
Paige then suddenly let out a raspy chuckle that travelled across her table to where I was seated, which settled in my ears. So sexy. The girl the proceeded to move closer to Paige and for some reason I noticed I was becoming quite annoyed.
What the fuck was she saying that was so funny and so secretive that she had to literally climb into Paige's lap?
Just as I finished my inner rant, Paige looked up and met my gaze and held me captive once again. All the while that girl was talking into her ear.
You know what she did? You want to know what Paige fucking did? She put her arm around her little friend's shoulder and pulled her closer while looking me Dead. In. The. Eye.
It didn't just stop there however, she smirked that fucking smirk that always seems to be gracing her fucking beautiful face!
I lost it a bit right there and let out a dramatic 'huff'. I proceed to get all my shit and roughly pack it in my bad, all the while glaring at Paige.
Noticing me glare at her, Paige's smirk faltered and her eyes follow me while I grab my bag, sling it over my shoulder and stomp my way over to the exit. Bumping into someone on the way which causes my bag to be knocked off my shoulder and all my things to be sprawled out in various directions on the white cafeteria floor. I look up to yell at the person who so rudely bumped into me but they were nowhere to be seen.
Shaking away my disappointment, I lean down to pick my things up, muttering how this day just got worse. First I have a weird staring contest with her which turned into...jealousy? And now this.
"Let me help you with that." I didn't notice her kneeling beside me or even walk over for that matter. Weirdly, deep down inside I'm glad she decided to. "Thank you." I muttered lowly looking up at her. She smiled, so I smiled. It was involuntary, I couldn't stop myself, this automatic smiling seems to be happening quite a lot around Paige.
Once everything was placed back inside my sling bag I straightened up and glanced over at Paige. She was staring at me again. That intense, see through my soul stare. I hate to admit it because it scared the hell out of me, but I felt warm all over.
After a couple minutes of silence Paige finally spoke again. Flickering her eyes everywhere but me she cleared her throat. "So I was thinking we should get together soon, you know, so that we can get to know each other." Is she nervous? It can't be, she's so confident, more than me and that's saying something because I walk around like I own everything. "For sake of the project I mean..." she added.
Why won't she look at me? Maybe it had something to do with me being jealous and storming off. I didn't want her to feel guilty. It's not like she did anything really, well technically she did but it shouldn't have mattered. I have a boyfriend. I have Jay.
"Yeah...that's a good idea. If we're going to make this work we need to get to know each other in and out." I notice Paige smirking at me and a confused expression etches its way onto my face, in turn making her giggle. My eyes then widen as I realize how what I just said to her sounded. I begin to blush profusely and hide my face behind my black tresses. I'm so glad I made the decision to wear my hair down today or else my flushed face would be clear for everyone to see.
Paige's giggle turns into a throaty chuckle and my face flushes even more. I need the bathroom. I begin to head in the direction of the exit, trying to get as quickly as possible away from her when suddenly I feel her grab my wrist lightly yet securely, like she wanted me to stay. My heart skipped a beat at that thought, and because of the burning sensation where she just grabbed me. She released me quickly after that. Turning around I give her a questioning look and a smile graces her lips.
"So...do you wanna...uuhm...." I can see her struggle for the right words so I help her out and blurt out "Yes". She smiles so brightly that I just stare at her for a while. Her blonde her cascading down her shoulders, her eyes sparkling. She looked like an angel.
"Great, I'll call you later then." I don't even know what I agreed to when I said 'yes', but all doubt left my mind when I realised we were going to spend time together. Fuck. "Sounds good." I told her. It really did sound good but I hid my excitement.
"Well, I'll guess I'll see you then." I tried to sound nonchalant but I knew better and so did Paige. My voice was shaking.
"Definitely" She replied in that raspy tone of hers and slowly trailed her eyes over my body from top to bottom, making my body burn wear her eyes travelled. Did I just shiver!?
Paige then left me standing there, leaving me with my thoughts. I kept replaying the interactions I had with her over and over again in my head. Sighing, I turn to leave with images of blue eyes, blonde hair and sexy smirks glued in my mind.