My Boyfriend's(?) Roommate

Chapter 2: Another boyfriend(?)

"Hi, is this seat taken? My name's Caspar"

"N-no it's not"

"Well isn't it my lucky day."

"Yeah.."

An awkward silence passed, and God was it awful. The seconds felt like minutes. It would have just been less awkward to just reject him up front and tell him the seat was taken. Somebody save me! Where did Zoe go!? Where did the cute guy go with my confidence? Then again it would be a bit weird to have him standing here while I talk to another cute guy, but we're not exclusive! I met the guy 5 minutes ago! What am I even saying!? I spent a few more seconds wrapped up in my own thoughts, until Caspar broke the silence.

"I'm so sorry! God I'm such an awkward guy, I should leave!"

He let the blush spread from his neck to his face before hurriedly sliding off of the sofa, but just as he got up to leave, acting on impulse I stopped him.

"Wait!"

He stopped and turned around to flash me a confused look. Uh oh. Now what do I do?

"Sorry, I made things weird. To be honest I'm not very good with guys, I'm only in a club because my friend forced me to be here."

"Really? Me too! I'm so glad you said that! My roommate dragged me here telling me I needed a cute girl in my life."

"Haha my friend told me the same, but I don't think you should have to look for love, I think love finds you in the funniest and most unexpected ways."

Ah there I go rambling on about love to a total stranger, he's gonna think I'm nuts!

"Sorry, I didn't mean to bore you."

"Haha no it's okay, it was nice to just hear you talk about something you're passionate about, plus I'm not much of a talker myself."

He blushed a bit and I smiled. He's so sweet.

Just like that the conversation started flowing naturally. It's funny to think how awkward things were before, I guess first impressions don't count. Once I really got to know him I found out he was very shy and not really suited for the club life, like me. In fact we seemed to have a lot in common. Maybe clubbing was so bad. But it's not like every time someone goes to a club they meet the kind and sweet Caspar Lee.