For the very last time I shut down the computer and say goodbye to everyone in the office. I have to admit that I won't be missing this place, at least not for the upcoming summer.
It is the beginning of June and I just finished my internship at a home design company. Now I can officially say that I am in my last year of college.
My boss walks up to me and gives me a steady hand. 'We will miss you here Emma and we wish you luck with your career. I am sure you will get far, hopefully we will see you again some time.'
I smile thankful and grab my bag. 'Thank you for this opportunity.' I say polite and I walk out of the building. I have to try hard to keep myself from running. They know I'm glad to have vacation but that would be a little bit overreacting wouldn't it? But I am so done with being polite forty hours a week. A hundred days internship latterly made me insane.
Don't get me wrong I really had a great time here. Nice colleagues and I learnt so much in a half year. It is crazy how quick the time flies. I'm not even twenty yet and already in my last year of college.
I unlock the car and start to drive home. I drive into the never ending traffic jams. One more time.
I really hate summers in Holland. It may be called summer but that doesn't mean the weather is nice. Since I left the office I had only seen rain. I have to admit that I'm not a person who likes to sunbath the whole day and I don't like it when It's so hot you can't walk around without swat covering your body. But when it is summer, I would appreciate some sun. After I got home I first watched some video's on YouTube hoping that the rain would go away so I could walk my dog. But when I finally admitted that the rain wasn't going to stop anytime soon I convinced myself that with an umbrella I would survive a walk with the dog.
'Koda!' I shouted. 'Want to go for a walk?' Of course the stupid animal was excited, I mean who gets excited to walk in the rain, only a dog would.
I grab his leash and the umbrella, the biggest one I can find. I put on my shoes and we leave the house.
Outside I notice there is a nice smell. It is like the rain has brought to live all the sentences of the trees around me. And the pavement is shimmering a bit. If the sun would brake trough I it would make a beautiful rainbow.
The dog absolutely doesn't care about all of that and walks in front of me towards the park on the outside of the city. I usually don't often walk the dog, my mom or my brother does because they're home more than I am and I don't like our dog I like our cat. But today she was buzzy for the rest of the evening and my brother found some friends to play with. So it was just me tonight. I guess tonight I could visit some friends. We hang out almost every night, listen to some music or go eat somewhere. Just crazy stupid talk.
I look up when I hear a door slam and someone runs past me pushing away a bike to make his way through as fast as possible. The bike falls to the ground and Koda has to jump away to avoid it from crushing him.
I pick up the bike and look around to see where the boy has went, but I can't find him anywhere. Koda is distracted by the sentences around him again and walks on like nothing happened. I follow him and we continue our walk.
When we reach the park about ten minutes later I find the person who just surprised us and I now see it's a boy. The boy found a tree and with his hands in his hair he sits there, quite, not moving a muscle and absolutely soaked by the rain. I can't help but look at him, the way he stares in front of him gives me goose bumps. His eyes seem so angry and sad at the same time. He looks broken. Before I realise it Koda and I reached the tree and it just feels wrong not to say anything.
So not really knowing what to do I carefully open my mouth. 'I'm sorry, but is there something I could do for you?' The moment I said it I regret my words, that sounded so stupid. And I guess the boy agrees because he looks op to me, still mad-looking and his voice sounds just like his eyes look. I don't think I have ever seen eyes being this blue.
'What in hell could you do for me? You're nobody.' The answer was supposed to scare me of and I stay silent for a moment.
'Well...' I look at him and see the rain drop down his dark blond hair. '... This nobody could make you a cup of tea.'
The moment I said this his expression changes. The boy still looks annoyed but also a little bit curious. In the meantime I have observed him and he is shivering because of the rain and the T-shirt he wears isn't much of protection from it. 'And I have a big umbrella.' I say when he doesn't replay.
I swear I now even saw him smile for a moment. He looks at me with disbelieve, not understanding why I would make an effort.
'Do you know who I am?' is the only thing he says and I look at him for a moment. 'We'll I would think you'd be kinda stupid for sitting in the rain like this. But I guess you have your reasons.'
His careful smile has returned and I see him thinking about something and I can't guess what. With his right hand he gets the hair out of his face and he stands up. I take a step back to give him space and I can now see him clearly.
It is a boy from around my age. He wears a thin t-shirt from a band I recognise, my friend talked about them once but I can't remember their name or music. Not really my taste of music anyways. He had weird hair, it least for my standards, It was wild with different lengths. He also had his lip pierced, normally I would absolutely hate that, but I have to admit it suited him. He seemed tall. With long arms and legs and a long neck. He had a beautiful face and every aspect of it seems to fit him perfectly.
For a moment I'm sure he is going to walk away, done with my talking. But he looks at my dog and I see him thinking some more. After what seemed like minutes he opens his mouth.
'Tea is fine.'
He said absolutely nothing on the walk back to my home, he just looked at my dog, so after a while I asked him if he wanted to hold him. He nodded and I gave him the leash. I was thinking this was a bad idea, I mean he is an absolute stranger and I don't even know his name and I'm giving him tea. But there was something interesting about him. He seemed so pleased with this awkward walk, what made it less awkward. I told him he could walk with me under my umbrella, it was big enough, but he kept a safe distance. When I said I wouldn't bite, you know to break the ice, he answered simple. 'I don't know that.' I guess it was supposed to be funny but there was no smiling let alone laughing.
Halfway home he suddenly opened his mouth again. 'Tell me about your dog.' He commanded, so I did. I told him everything I knew about the stupid animal and I told him I actually wasn't a fan of dogs and that I learnt him this trick were I would say go away and the dog would peacefully go away at any time. He laughed hearing that but he never reacted to anything I told once. But I guess that was OK, hearing me talk relaxed him and I was proud I have made him laugh. He had a beautiful smile.
When we reach my home I unlock the door and invite him in. I put the umbrella in the garage so it could dry and let the dog walk freely. I keep talking while doing all this and show him a bit of the house. He takes a seat in the kitchen chair by our big dinner table while I make 2 cups of tea.
'You have a gift making people forget about things.' He says while sipping his tea.
I smile. At least he listened to what I said and that made me glad. 'Well thank you. My friends say I'm also good at giving advice and putting things into perspective. Just good with words sometimes I guess.'
He nods. 'Why didn't you ask me what was wrong?' I had to think about this question for a moment. 'Well I guessed if you wanted to talk about it you would. And I figured you didn't. At least not to a complete stranger.' He smiles and nods again looking at his tea. 'This is nice tea.' He says 'It is.' I answer and we both laugh a bit and smile at each other.
'What if you would tell me about you, then you wouldn't be a stranger anymore.' He said seriously.
I sat back in my chair and observed him once more. 'Well my name is Emma and I'm nineteen years old. I walk with my dog while I actually hate dogs and offer tea to random soaked strangers sitting under a tree.'
He smiles while looking at me. 'like me.'
I smile back. 'exactly. After this summer I start my last year of college, I want to be an architect. Then I will work some years and after that I may start my own company. I like to make music, just for fun and I'm addicted to Netflix. I normally don't really do anything spontaneous like this, I like to have everything carefully planned. You were not really scheduled in my day but I think I could fit you in.' What could I tell more? He does look entertained and the smile hasn't left his face since I started talking.
'Tell me about boys.' He says, clearly interested. I laugh. 'Well there's not much to say I'm afraid. I haven't had a successful relationship so far and I don't have time for one anyways. Not that I am not interested in a handsome boy.' I smile challenging. He seems surprised. 'Are you flirting with me?' he says a little bit panicking.
I smile satisfied. 'Neh, I was just wondering how you would react.' I say and drink my tea.
He blushes a bit but it could also have been the hot tea warming his body. 'Well I'm not that good with girls.'
'I figured.'
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Thank you for reading this, I'll try to post as much as I can. So what do you think and who is the boy? :P
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