Behind the Glasses

Curly locks and Tattoos

"Goodmorning class, today you will need to get with the same partners as yesterday and go over scenes 2 and 3 with them." Mr. Fitz says to the class as soon as we walk into first period today. So I go to my desk in the back right in front of Marcel, who is already sitting down working.

"Uh, hey Marcel," I say as I sit down in front of him, this is gonna be awkward.

"Oh, hey Ally! I'm already on scene 4 so do you need me to catch you up or do u have it?" He asks looking at me with his beautiful green eyes.. I wonder what he would look like without glasses.. Snap out of it Ally! And me.... Need help? Please, I take that as an insult... Boy I GOT THIS!

"Oh no, it's fine. I'm pretty sure I have it." I say in a snooty tone because how hard could this story get? Honestly?

After going through the rest of English class, a stressful math class, and a grueling biology class...I am so ready for lunch. Once I get my lunch table, I tell Jessica I have to go study and leave her to eat with some of our other friends and head straight for the roof.

When I get to the roof, Marcel was sitting on his lonely bench like usual.

"I figured you'd come again today" he says with a cheeky smirk on his face, he has the cutest dimples ever!! Omg, snap out of it Ally.

"Yeah, I like it up here and also I'm just really stressed right now."

"Oh, what's got you so stressed?" Admitting that I am having trouble in school is really hard... Especially for me, but it's just Marcel, I'm sure he won't judge me.

"Well to start off I didn't understand scene 2 and 3 as good as I thought I did and I just can't stand that biology class, the teachers insane!!"

"Oh, Ms. Frizzle? Yeah I'm not to fond of her evil ways..." He says with a chuckle, "ya know I could help you after school if you want."

"You mean like a tutor??" Oh god, I've never needed a tutor.

"Yeah, we could just study together..you could come over to my place today after school if you want.."

"I'd love to!" I say honestly "thanks Marcel."

"No, thank you Ally..."

"For what?"

"Giving me a chance, I almost feel like I could be myself around you"

"uhhhh..... Aren't you being yourself right now??" I say with a chuckle

"Not exactly.." He says looking back down at his food.

"what do you mean?" I ask, confused as hell, and that's when the bell rings signaling that our lunch has come to an end.

"bye Ally," he says before taking off for his last class of the day, leaving me on the roof, alone and confused, Again.

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It's about 4:00 and I'm headed to Marcel's house. I forgt to tell him I had work and I wouldn't be coming till around 4, I hope he didn't forget. When I arrive to his flat, it looks pretty shady from the outside, hopefully it looks better inside. Never judge a book by its cover I guess.... I knock on the door and there is a long minute of silence to follow, so I knock again.

"I'm coming!" I here a deep, raspy voice yelling from inside and I can here the man unlocking the door and the most beautiful guy you ever see opens the door, that's not marcel... but they definitely resemble each other. It's probably his brother or something. He had curly locks that were semi-wet... he must have just taken a shower because I can smell the clean scent and he had a towel draped over his right shoulder. His eyes were bright green and he had glasses just like Marcel's. His body was not totally covered with tatoos but he had plenty. His muscles were extremely toned and his basketball shorts hung low on his hips just enough to see a perfect V-line and did I already mention tattoos.

"Um Is Marcel ho-" I start but I'm soon cut off.

"Ally...uh I thought you weren't going to come?"

"Marcel?!"

"Um, yeah...it's a long story. I was just in the shower and since you were late I didn't think you would come so I went to shower, but we can still work, lemme just go put a shirt on." oh god, please DONT put a shirt on.

"No, it's not that... You just look so different."

"Trust me if I knew you were still coming I would not look like this."

"Oh, I'm sorry? I can leave if you want..."

"No, stay... Please don't leave. C'mon in."

"You sure?" I ask walking inside.

"Yep just let me go get a shirt on... Uhh make yourself at home!" He says turning around and leaving the room. I look around his flat, it's so comfy and cozy. I walk around the living room and there's cool trinkety things like an old guitar and a keyboard with a journal next to it with some doodles on the outside. I start to pick it up, but quickly put it back down... That is none of your buisness ally!

I walk around to a stack of movies he has everything from Forest Gump to Titanic and all the old classics inbetween. Just then Marcel walks in with his books in hand wearing a white V-neck t-shirt and I can still see his tatoos peaking out from under his sleeves.

"Okay, do you have all of Act one??'

"Yeah, but I didn't get to read much after that."

"So in Scene one Romeo and Juliet meet and spe-" Marcel continues to talk while flipping through the pages... I don't understand what's going on with his looks... But I like it. I mean he just looks so different. his hair that is usually slicked and combed back with gel has dried into a wild curly mess that he continues to push back with his hands. Dear God if he runs his fingers through his hair one more time I may just crawl over this table and attack him. how can marcel be this GORGEOUS, I mean I feel like this can't even be real. Like what happened in between school and now, did he star on 'What not to wear', I mean COME ON! After 30 minutes of scene one I'm still starring and I think he begins to notice.

"You doing good so far?"

"ummm uh yeah.."

"Well whats confusing you?"

"Confusion isn't the problem it's just so BORING!!" I say frustrated, "I can't stay concentrated on it long enough!"

"Okay, well I don't need you falling asleep on me... Lets see, scene two opens up as the famous balcony scene where Juliet is confessing her love for Romeo... So watch, stand up." I just do as I'm told and don't ask.

"Okay so you're Juliet and you're on the balcony" he says picking me up by surprise and placing me on top of the couch to where I'm standing on it.

"I'm Romeo down here hiding in the bushes" he says hopping behind the couch "and your like 'Oh Romeo, your so hot right now, there's no way I can handle you!" He says in a high pitched voice and I simply just chuckle at the fact he's actually making this sound more interesting for me so I let him continue his foolishness.

"And then I pop out." He says jumping from behind the couch "Juliet I promise you can handle me because I like you too!" And he jumps over the back of the couch to where he's standing on the 'balcony' with me. And we are inches apart...

"And then we stand here looking into each others eyes realizing we are from two totally different worlds, your popular and I'm nerdy, or so you thought, but we also realize we don't want to lose one another so it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.." He's looking into my eyes and I have a feeling we are no longer talking about Romeo and Juliet and again I get the feeling on the roof where I want to kiss him, but this time I don't have to... because he leans in first.

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