I flagged down the bus and got on, I looked around for free seats around the back and took one of the last one. The bus was pretty crowded and I was lucky to get one at the back, because sitting at the front shows your weak and natural selection is coming to get you. Unless your an old person, then you have survived and need to sit at the front, because you have done your job well.
Thats beside the point. I sat down and plug my headphone cord into my old beat up phone. I swiped it open and opened the music app, I pressed on Nicki Minaj and clicked 'shuffle play'. I looked out the window as the bus hummed along the road, causing me to turn up the volume. After a few more stops, the bus was looking pretty crowded. I sighed as I was gonna be on the bus for another 50 minutes, travelling to the city took so long on Fridays, especially at night because all the people wanting to party get on in their miniskirts and boyfriends tied around their mouth.
The bus stopped as another person flagged it down. I looked around at the bus and realised that all the seats had been taken except for the one next to me, I grunt quite and move my things over to make room for their legs. The person gets on the bus and I look at them discreetly. He is lookinga round the bus and he spots a seat next to me. HE smiles sweetly and sits down. I smile politely and return back to staring out the window. Although secretly, I can smell his aftershave and I'm more focusing on inhaling it than having deep thoughts about life. I ignore the heaveanly smell of coconut coming out of the man next to me and return to staring out the window, just more contently. I have a deep thought about life and how ill die forever alone because I'm 21 and unapproachable. YAY! I smile to myself. All Things Go, starts to play and I sigh. This song always makes me sad. Maybe Nicki's got a point. I sigh again, and I feel a soft tap on my shoulder. I turn to see who was the tapper. I see the man beside me, who looks roughly my age, motion for me to take out my earphones. I take them out and he smiles at me.
"Can I help you?" I ask him politely as possible
"Actually yes, you can help me" He says to me "Would you mind turning down your music, just a TINY little bit, its just I don'tto hear Nicki Minaj while I'm scrolling through my feed" he smiles
"Oh, you can hear my music?" I say, slightly taken aback
"Yeah, and knowing the lyrics makes it hard for me not to sing along. I'm constantly having to remind myself I'm in a public place. Its getting frustrating."
"Oh, well." I pause and think about letting him share my music, because he seemed lonely, "you can share music with me? Only if you want too" I tell him
"Uhmmmm..."
"I don'thave ear bugs." I laugh "Well, last time I checked I didn't"
"Sure that sounds great..." he trails of as he was about to say my name
"Cassie" I say as I offer him my hand. He high fives and to my surprise. "What;s your name?" I ask him in return
"The names McGee, Brett McGee." he says as he flips his hair out of his eyes.
"WOW!" I say sarcastically "Thats original!"
"HEy! Its hard to find good pick-up lines" he argues
"Oh, so that was a pick up line?!" I ask amused
"Pssssshhh" he blushes "Maybe..."
"The names Marshall, Cassie Marshall" I say flipping my hair, imitating Brett earlier.
"HEy!" he punches my arm softly "you're such a bully"
"At least I'm an original bully, not a cliché loser" I fight back
"Alright you win this round, Marshall," he says sarcastically "Now, are you ready?" he asks me seriously. I stare at him confusedly
"Yeah?" I say to him
"Are you sure?"
"Are we having sex, or what?! I am getting mixed signals" I say to him
"OMG NO! Well... Maybe, later" he smirks "No, are you ready to cringe?" he asks me
"Yes. I was born cringing" I smile
"Okay... I tried to warn you..."
"GET TO THE POINT!" I yell playfully
"Can I get your number, I seem to have lost mine?" he smirks at me as I blush and cringe
"Oh god, I'm only giving it to you out of sympathy." I say to him as I grab his phone, "think of it as a favour, now you owe me a favour." I laugh, now its my turn to smirk
"Anything" he says sarcastically placing his hand on his heart and fluttering his eyes.
"Give me your number" I say demandingly
"Teehee" he says as he grabs my phone. I get my phone back and see I have one new contact 'Sympathy Vote' I smile as I look over his shoulder and see what he thinks of my name in his contacts, 'MY BITCH, CASSIE'
"I didn't realise you were my bitch" he looks at me
"or maybe I'm your secret side bitch that your main hoe cant know" I question
"Nah mate. I'm a single pringle ready to mingle" he laughs
"Give me the phone" I say as I place my hand out and demand it.
"Why should I give you my phone?" he questions
"Because I need to do something"
"okay?" he says as he hand me the phone. I open it up and go to messages. I click new message and type in MY BITCH, click on my phone number and send a text saying
'I'm sorry that I'm unoriginal and made your ears bleed from my bad so called pick up lines that I probably just got off twitter' I hit send and smile
"Okay Marshall, times up" he says as he grabs the phone from me.
"Yo, bruh. When are you getting off?' I ask him
"Where ever you are" he smiles at me and I blush
"No mate, seriously."
"Wynyard Station." he says
"Me tOO!" I squeal and get some annoyed looks from those on the bus
"what are you ding in Wynyard, you don't look dressed to party" he asks me curiously
"I, have come to... DRUM ROLL PLEASE" I say as he taps his legs making a drum noise "sit in the park and observe the people in the park"
"What?" he looks surprised "Why?"
"Because its interesting"
"Don't you get, you know. Like, harassed and stuff" he says quietly
"I do nearly, sometimes" I say quietly "I pretend to be on the phone and they usually leave, but there is this one guy who I see most night I people watch. He is so sketchy, I nearly called the police once" I say to Brett
"You need me to come with you. I can scare them away because I'm a 'buff man protecting his lady'" he says jokingly
"Actually, yes! COmE PLeASe!" I whined
"I guess my library raid can wait for another night..."
"No, well go to the library after. It can a date..." I stop as I realise what I just said, "Sorry, not a date, just a thi..." Brett shushed me and smiled
"A date sounds great" he smiled, looking down on me.
His blue eyes looked into my ugly brow ones, my friend says they have specks of yellow in them, but I don't see it.
"the library would be closed by the time we get there? Wouldn't it?" I ask him
"Don't worry, I'm good with the ladies that work there and they gave me a spare key, we can have it all too ourselves" he beams at me and I laugh at his excitement. I have known this man for about 30 minutes and I already feel myself falling for him.
Hard.
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Teen Fictionrandom people meet on a bus and fall in love, they do things that we can't speak of and things we can ;)
