Shy Smiles

Chapter One- The leading role (Part Two)

"Wait...hold the lift please..." From a stranger in the corridor, my fingers did not move an inch towards the right button but being the gentleman, Victor pressed the button and moved to stand next to me. Close like before but still feeling miles apart for my own liking. This intruding stranger stood in the lift but not facing us. I could feel his hand inching towards mine, like the heat from the sun. Closer. Closer. Closer. Ding, the lift doors opened on the second floor and without a word he walked straight out and did not even look back. The stranger also left on this floor, so now I'm alone in this lift, well alone with my thoughts...

"Fefe what did you think was going to happen, he isn't interested" I whisper to myself. Leaving the lift, I walked in the direction of the bus ending the first day of the week at university, and fuck was it a good day.

"Fefe! Pst Fefe, Ophelia!" I blinked a couple of times bringing me back to reality and looked across to my friend, Alessia, quizzically.

"What?" I whisper, then I realise. No... Please no, it can't be. I looked over to Victor and yes it was true, I had daydreamed the entire thing. Not one single thing of that was real. Damn it! I so wanted it to be the case. To have him that close to me, the heat fierce between us. I just kept looking, staring hoping to see something. But I did not see anything. He just looked over me like I was nothing there, like I didn't even exist on his radar. But then I'm sure we've all had situations like that.

"Right then I think we'll leave it there for today, we're going to pick this up again next week" Victor announced to the class. Getting myself back into the room I got myself up from the chair and slowly started packing my things away, but being in a daze from that daydream I did not see that I was the only one left in the room. Other than Victor that is.

"How'd you find today's lecture? I saw you just a minute ago, seemed I bored you into a daydream." Oh my, this was something else, this was like the daydream. I gasped a little in shock at the similarity and turned hesitantly to face him. Looking down both shy and embarrassed I started to speak.

"It was a good lecture, I've just has something on my mind that's all, I do quite enjoy Shakespeare though." I think that gave us something in common and showed he wasn't boring and it's true I did have something, more like someone, on my mind. It was so totally inappropriate for me to tell him, especially as it involved him and being near him. A smirk crept its way onto my face, shit. He looked at me with curiosity in his eyes, those deep brown chocolate pools he calls eyes. Right stop it. I hastily grabbed my remaining things and headed towards the door, not allowing him to say anymore.

Just as I walked pasted the last chair in that row my body started to tumble towards the floor, my bag has already hit it and I was next. Thump!

"Oh shit, are you okay?" He came walking towards me, not slow but not a run either, it's difficult to describe. I sat up onto my knees and rubbed my sore hands, I looked up with the idea of getting up but as I did so my eyes were met with his. In shock, I quickly got up almost hitting his head with mine.

"Oh! I'm so sorry, I...err...should be heading to the bus, you've probably got somewhere to be." I had almost reached the door when he next spoke.

"Actually, I haven't, and I really want to make sure that you are okay, I mean you did fall on my watch." His words just rolled of his tongue like silk caressing my skin, he could talk for days, and I would not get bored. I showed him the palms of my hands and told him I was fine; he hesitantly nodded his head and we both left the classroom behind, both heading for the lift and both getting into the same lift.

"Ophelia, do you mind pressing two. I sort of have my hands full" I looked down at his hands and it was safe to say he had half a rainforest in his hands. Where on earth did that come from? I hadn't noticed until now. Then again, I was trying to avoid looking at him so I wouldn't blush or do something overly silly. I pressed two then zero, the floor I was getting off at, the last chance of that day I had to do or even say something to him. 

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