The Great Escape || fuenciado

fast times at Clairemont High

Jaime's POV
The three boys stood about five feet from me. I adjusted my light-colored flower crown as I breathed in, and breathed out. Someway, somehow, this conversation would be okay. Regaining my composure, I strode up to the small group as confident as possible and looked into Vic's dark caramel brown eyes. His eyes, they were so easy to get lost in. I had been gazing into them for only seconds and I quickly noticed the main emotion that they held. It was confidence, but it seemed fake, for lack of a better word. It was like he was hiding something else deep inside the dark chestnut rings around his pupils. For now, I couldn't quite determine the emotion or possibly emotions, but hopefully I'll be able to soon. Breaking out of my trance, I opened my mouth to speak.

"H-hey Vic," I mumbled, stuttering in the process. I frowned slightly at myself, I rarely ever stuttered, or mumbled. Quickly brushing it off, I tried to regain my previously shown, confident expression.

The short boy slightly tilted his head to the side, coming off as confused. He pushed his darkly shaded black sunglasses farther onto his head so that they would stay put in his shoulder-lengthed, curly, dark brunette hair. When he looked over to his brother and best friend they simply shrugged. He then looked back at me, taking in my appearance, studying my features before finally speaking.

"Yeah?" Vic said, his angelic voice sounding confident and even a bit cocky. Although, that seemed fake as well. I could hear the slight waver in his words. The tone of his voice seeming forced, more powerful and forceful than how it seemed he would speak. I know it's odd that I was able to pick up these details simply by speaking a single word, but as I said before, I speak to a lot of people who hold many different emotions. This allows me to learn the traits that go with those emotions and also makes it easier for me to pick up on them, as long as I'm paying attention.

"I just uhm. Uh, how are y-you today?" I spoke, or more like tried to speak. What is going on with my mouth? I asked myself. Unfortunately for me, my preparation on my short search for them wasn't successful since I seemed to have been at a loss of words. To add on to that misfortune, I was slightly shaking but tried to put on a small smile, hoping to give off a friendly vibe. I guess it worked because I noticed the other two boys smiling slightly. That very well could have been and most likely was to express their amusement however.

"Fine..." he said questionably. "How are you?"

"I'm good. I think.. yeah! I'm good," I said, nervously chuckling at my own stupidness. But soon after I said this, some kid ran past me, causing me to fall forward. It felt as though my fall happened incredibly fast. The environment around me was streaky, blurred slightly, nothing was prominent. You would figure I would quickly make harsh contact with the multi-colored tiles that made up the floor of the school, but no. Something entirely different and in my opinion, much worse, happened.

With my luck, I of course fell directly into Vic's arms.

"Oh wow uhm okay hey," Vic said, blushing slightly. Thankfully he caught me and quickly lifted me back up onto my feet, patting my shoulders to stabilize me. His face was only a light pink simply from the awkwardness, but I felt my face heat up in mere seconds after our collision. My face was probably one of the deepest shades of red it was able to show. I heard Vic's brother chuckle a bit and I noticed that Alex simply moved back a step or two, just smirking as he watched the event.

"Uh uhm yeah I-I'm really sorry about that. I should uh probably get to class now you know," I said extremely nervously. Of course, since I was seriously one of the most clumsy people to exist, I just had to fall into the school bad boy's arms. Therefore reasonably, all I wanted to do was get away from the awkward situation I had created. It was even worse knowing that both Mike and Alex had been standing next to Vic the entire time, witnessing everything. It was pretty much my fault though. Sure, it was the kid who ran by that actually caused me to fall but I was the one who was standing so close to Vic and I should have caught my balance or something.

"No, no. It's fine, it wasn't your fault. That kid ran into you, there was nothing you could really do. I promise, it's fine," Vic assured me, practically reading my mind somehow. He then showed an amazing and perfect shining smile. It wasn't a huge smile, which confused me, but it was still a smile. A smile that made my heart swoon. Smiles were no doubt at all one of my most favorite features in any person, along with eyes. Vic of course had perfect eyes as well as a perfect smile. Not only were they simply beautiful to look at, but the held so many feelings. However, many of those feelings were hidden in those two specific features. Anyone that looked closely could tell that they were there, but I knew that only the people that truly knew him, the real him, would be able to see what those feelings were. That's what I wanted. I wanted to be someone who knew the real him, someone who could indentify any of those typically hidden emotions, no matter how hard he tried to mask them. I then realized I had been lost in my own thoughts once again so I quickly replied to the boy standing in front of me.

"Haha okay uhm thanks. I guess there's just a lot of fast times here you know?" I said lamely, grateful for Vic's understanding.

"Yeah. Right so I guess I'll see you later, Jaime right?" Vic questioned, biting his lip and tugging on his black lip ring. I smiled, my dimples appearing as my heart fluttered at the thought of seeing and speaking to him again and also at the sound of my name coming from of his lips. For some reason, when he spoke my name, it had depth and meaning. I loved it.

"Yep. Jaime, Hime-Time, Hime-ito, that's me! I uh yeah I guess I'll talk to you later Vic," I rambled, still smiling. As a result of my mind being fuzzy do to the fact that I just had a kind of actual conversation with the boy I had an obvious attraction to; I was simply saying whatever thought came to my head, which was not smart at all since I undoubtly sounded incredibly lame.

"Right, see ya," the boy said casually and strode off down the hallway with his two 'side-kicks'.

I let out a breath I was unaware I had been holding in. In return, my body relaxed and my mouth upturned into a small smile a slight sparkle in my own caramel colored eyes.

One encounter down, hopefully many more to go.

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A•N

Wow! Okay long time no update and I apologize for that. I'm just lazy and school has been a huge trouble. Now that I'm in a writing class, I will hopefully be able to work on this story a lot more which makes me very very happy. I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. I found it very cute and their first encounter was awkward but adorable and fluffy. Okay that should be all!
I love youuuu.

(ps- would you guys like longer chapters? I've really been trying to make them longer but it's not really working :( tell me what you guys want and I'll try to do it my best because you guys deserve the world)