After Him

chapter 1

She comes running after the bus just as fast as she can, when it finally stops to let her in. All soaking wet and cold from the rain, she walks inside the bus and quickly buys her self a ticket. As she walks between the people who are already sat down on the seats, she sadly continues to look for an empty seat. When suddenly a voice approaches to her. "Hey, there's one free seat next to me, come sit" an unknown man speaks up while putting his bag aside from the seat next to him, freeing it for Bianca. She smiles from joy as she walks over to him and sits down. "Thank you very much" she looks at the man with brownish hair and glasses as he looks back at her smiling as well. "It's no problem, uh.. I am Lorenzo by the way" suddenly the mysterious man introduces him self to Bianca as a pinch of red blush appears on her cheeks. "Oh I am Bianca, nice to meet you Lorenzo" she holds her hand in the air waiting for him to shake it. So he does, his palm moves slowly moves over to hers as they both gently shake their hands together. Just once their hands let go of each other, their eye contact just couldn't be broken. Her beautiful brownish almost black eyes silently staring into his forest green eyes as an smile appears on his face again. "Running late to school?," He asks as he finally breaks the eye contact and looks down on his fingers, "Hm? Oh yes, it's the second time this week that I almost missed the bus .. Plus today it's raining like this, something horrible" she sighs while looking down at him as he just nods. The tension between them at the moment is a whole fire, but after a few minutes Bianca just looks away and waits until the bus arrives at the bus stop to her school. As the ride on the bus continues not one of them looks at other one not just for a second, suddenly it just feels weird and kind of embarrassing for some reason. There is this strange feeling inside Bianca making her have butterflies inside her stomach from the fact that someone has actually talked with her. As if it was just a few sentences, but the eyes, they can tell more than you could even imagine.
As time passes by the bus finally arrives at Bianca's final stop, so the bus slows down and Bianca slowly gets up from her seat when out of blue a hand grabs her jacket. It was Lorenzo's hand who was tugging Bianca's jacket. So she turns around to look at him as he suddenly hands her his umbrella. Just take it, you will need it more than I do. Some day you will give it back to me, but don't worry about that" he says with a smile on his face as Bianca notices some small paper hidden inside the umbrella. But before she even gets to say goodbye a group of people push her out from the bus. So she takes the paper out and quickly puts it in her pocket, then she opens the umbrella and holds it above her head.
While she's on her way to school she pulls out the paper that Lorenzo gave her earlier and opens it. The second she sees what is written on it a wide smile appears on her with a slight blush on her cheeks. It was his number that was written on the paper. "Call me to return the umbrella some day" read the sentence that was written under the number, she giggled and immediately pulled out her phone from her pocket and went to her contacts to save his number. Since she was already on her phone, she decided to text him.
Bianca: helloo it's me Bianca :)
She waited for a few minutes when her phone suddenly vibrated, it was a text back from Lorenzo. A smile appeared on her face as she read the message.
Lorenzo: I am glad you actually texted me
Bianca:oh me of course, it was very lovely to met such a nice guy like you Enzo. I can call you Enzo right?
Lorenzo: sure you can, it's a cool nickname :)) Well I hope you will have a good day in school, but now I have to go
Lorenzo: Text you later ~
That was the last message that Bianca received from him, so she put her phone back into her pocket and continued to walk to her school in the rain.
She arrived just on time so she hurried to her class where was her friend already waiting on her, Bella. A friend of hers that she met about a year ago and yet they are acting like they have knew each other for years. "Biancaa! I was scared you wouldn't come today since the bad storm, but you showed up!" Yelled out Belle as she got off her chair and walked over to Bianca to give her a hug. So she did and tightly held her in her arms for a few seconds and then pulled away to see that Bianca was smiling from ear to ear. "Bella.. you won't believe what have just happened to me earlier" she said under breath as her friend immediately put her hand over her mouth. "Did Antonio finally asked you out on a date?!!?" Excitedly asked Bella waiting for Bianca's answer. "Hey woah, calm down. Antonio still didn't asked me to go anywhere yet, however what has actually happened is still as good as Antonio. Well I almost missed my bus this morning but it luckily stopped and let me in, but when I was searching for a seat there was literally nothing free. Until this one guy let me sit next to him, he introduced himself to me and said that his name is Lorenzo," she took a break for a second to look at Bella if she was paying attention and then continued, "However, the best part was when the bus arrived at my stop, he gave me his umbrella because it was still badly rai-" before Bianca could finish her sentence the teacher walked in and interrupted her. "Good morning students" said the teacher as she walked over to her desk and sat down. Bianca just sat down to her table and took out her books for the class.
When the class was finally over, Bianca took her things and left the room walking outside to the hallway. "Oh hey Bibi" said an unknown voice from that was waving at Bianca while walking over to her. Once she finally recognized who it was she smiled and waited for the person to come over to her. The moment he was close enough she wrapped her arms around him and pressed her head against his chest. Alejandro, another close friend of Bianca that moved from Spain to Italy for better education. "Oh how I missed you.. where were you last week? I thought you moved back to Spain because of the bad grade you received from mathematics" Said Bianca as she finally pulled away from him and looked up at his face. "I caught some bad flu so I had to stay home, sorry for scaring you like that" he said with a light smile on his face. Suddenly Bianca's phone started ringing to she took it out from her pocket and walked aside from Alejandra to answer it. When she saw who was calling it surprised her, yes you guessed it. It was Enzo.
Bianca:"Hello??" Said confusedly Bianca.
Lorenzo:"Oh hey, I am sorry if I am calling in wrong time. I just wanted to ask if you would like to go out somewhere after you finish at school," the second he finished his last sentence Bianca opened her mouth widely, not knowing what to say.
Bianca:"uh um.. s-sure we can go somewhere, coffee sounds good right?" with a stressed tone in her voice she answered his question as he immediately spoke up.
Lorenzo:"sounds good well see you later Bianca"
Bianca:"yeah, yeah bye" and with her last sentence she immediately hang up and went back to Alejandro. Her heart was pumping like never before, the pressure inside of her was loading and loading until she finally let it go out. "This guy just asked me out! Oh my goodness, what do I doooooo?? Alejandro help mee" she yelled out just as loud as she could, when suddenly all the eyes in the hallway were on her. She felt immediately embarrassed when everyone just stopped talking to look at her. The judging looks, she could already hear from far away that some girls were whispering about her. "Hey.. please calm down first, okay," he grabbed her by her shoulders looking into her eyes as her breathing got heavier. "I know you are under a lot of pressure at the moment, but please just try to stay cool" continued Alejandro with a quiet and calm tone as he walked aside with Bianca. He let go off her shoulders and light cupped her face with his hands continuing to look into her eyes.
"Okay.. I am better now.. I am just still in shock, but it's cool," Bianca took a deep breath and then let it out as she continued to talk, "this guy, that I have just met asked me out so I didn't know how to react" calmly explained as Alejandro let go off her face and just smiled. "I understand" and without any other words he pulled Bianca into a hug as she wrapped her arms tightly around him.
"OoOoOoOh ~ BOO grosslonano!!" Shouted Bella while walking over to them. Bianca pulled her self away from Alejandro as she looked at Bella and rolled her eyes. "So who's this Lorenzo guy? Tell me more about him" asked Bella as she squeezed Bianca's hand from joy.