Stranger or Lover?

Chapter 1

You know when you see someone that you may consider to be really good looking? And you think, well fuck I won't be seeing that babe again. Well that's exactly what I felt when I first saw James on a train when I was heading home from the beach on a Wednesday afternoon in May. 

A couple of friends and I had met at Scarborough Beach that morning, and I was on my way home, using the train, due to the fact that I had accidentally gotten into a car accident and had my car being repaired at the time. I was sitting down listening to my music when I felt a tap on my shoulder, to find this guy staring at me. I pulled my one headphone out and oh my god he had a deep voice. 

"Sorry to bother you dear, but would I be able to sit there?" He asked me. His brown eyes' were shining from the glow of the sun. 

"Of course you can." I said it as politely as I could because I was so distracted by how attractive he actually was. Not just his voice though. He was wearing what appeared as business attire; black dress pants and shoes, and a light pale blue dress shirt tucked in. He had brown hair that had this sexy slick backed look and these piercing blue brown eyes. You could tell he was fit because of his large broad shoulders and he had the sleeves of his shirt rolled up and you could see the muscles on his arms. He sat down and goddamn he smelled heavenly. Cliché I know. I kept sneaking glances at him because come on, what are the odds I would ever see him again?

He got off three stops later and that's when I started breathing again. I quickly pulled my phone out and started texting one of my friends who went to the beach with me, Lisa. I explained what had happened and lets just say, I sent like 100 texts of the emoji with the big eyes of hearts. 

It was a couple days later when I saw him again. In my business law class. MY CLASS. HE WENT TO MY FREAKING SCHOOL. I was late because the stupid car place had messed my paper work up so I had to stay and fill it out so I was 20 minutes late to my lecture. Whoops. So when I arrived I literally ran in, to find the whole class staring, and my lecturer glaring at me.

"Annabelle, I don't even want to know what your excuse is today. Nor do I care. But sit down." Mr.Okeo barked and I quickly took a seat at the back next to my childhood friend Max. And that's when I noticed that someone was sitting next to him. You see normally, It's Max and me at the back, and then the other 15 students sit in front of us scattered around. Nobody ever sat with us. Apparently its because I was daunting but I was pretty sure it was because Max was good looking but bit of a dick head so girls were to shy, and the guys didn't really like him (he got a scholarship for Football and the guys weren't happy because they thought this guy Simon was going to get it but, well, he didn't so they were annoyed at Max. Drama filled, I know.) 

"Max, who's the new guy?" I asked after taking my seat.

"James. He's new. Not your type." He said winking. Ugh. Basically every new person we got here was a girl. Always had been, no idea why but that was the luck we got here at UWA (University of Western Australia.) I leaned forward to introduce myself when I caught a good look at his face. Holy fuck. No freaking way. I think I almost fainted right then and there.  

"I'm James, it's nice to meet you." James reached out and shook my hand.

"Annabelle! You arrive to my class late and interrupt, and now you're chit chatting with the new student. Not happy." Mr.Okeo barked out. 

I sat back in my seat and stayed quite the whole lesson, even though I know I needed to pay attention because we had finals coming up and I really needed to do well. Two hours later the bell went and we started packing are stuff up to leave. "I'll have to catch up with you later Anna, I have a meeting with my Chemistry teacher because I'm flunking the class, oops...could you show James around? I was meant to be his buddy but well, you've been here longer than I have." He trailed off. He was right, He had originally held back from going to University as he wasn't sure what he had wanted to do, but then decided a year ago what he wanted to do, whereas I went straight in. So I knew every little nook and cranny of the campus. 

"Yeah sure!" I smiled and stuffed my books in my bag and started walking. 

"So we meet again hey? I remember you from the train the other day." He had this gorgeous smile and he always seemed to look you in the eyes when he spoke. I liked it. 

"Surprised you remembered." I laughed. Of course I did remember I mean how could I not? By the time I showed him around the whole campus it was our next class, and surprise; he had the same class as I did. Forensic Science!