Your Love Is Standing Next To Me

Chapter 2 - Pizza?

Same boring college day, same rain. After courses, I stopped at Safeway, deciding I couldn't live only with yogurt and coffee all day long. Yes, I needed a salad. I bought all the groceries I found there and hoped they wouldn't taste that bad if I added some old salad dressing I remember I had in my fridge.

I entered my apartment and saw a piece of paper stuck on my balcony door.

"PIZZA?" it asked in careless handwriting.

I opened the door and saw him standing in is balcony.

"I've been waiting for you, darlin'!"

"Hi, Alex!"

"So, wanna join me? I don't like eating alone"

"I was thinking of having a salad tonight, but..."

"Pizza sounds more exciting, believe me!"

"Ok... But do you want to eat it here?" I giggled.

"Oh, no, sure! You can come to my place if you don't mind..."

"I'd normally invite you to mine as I don't usually go alone to strangers' places, but it's a huge mess right now, so I think I'll accept..."

"Wise decision, darlin'! Let me come and pick you up!"

"Not that fast... What about giving me 5 minutes to fix a couple things and then..."

"Ok"

I went inside, undecided what to do. Well, this escalated quickly. Brushing my teeth was the first thing I did, you know, just in case. Even though I was going to eat again, but... I combed my hair, retouched my make up, applied some more lipstick and my favourite Kenzo perfume. I heard a knock on the door. He was faster that I'd expected.

"One second!" I shouted running crazily through the apartment searching for my phone.

I opened the door and there he was, wearing a black t-shirt and looking perfect. Why he's always that perfect?

"Shall we?" he opened the door of his flat and we got inside.

I entered his little flat and the first thing I noticed was its smell. That aftershave... It just turned all my senses on!

"Soooo... Which pizza do you want?"

"Hmm... I don't know... Maybe Quattro stagioni... What about you?"

"Same as you. I love it! But do you know anywhere we can order because...you know... I'm kinda new here..."

"Of course"

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"It's delicious!" I said cramming a huge piece of pizza into my mouth. "The first real food in days!"

"I'm glad you like it. It's very tasty!"

"So... Tell me more about you!"

"About me? Why?"

"Well, you know, I'm still a fangirl meeting her dream boy..."

"Dream boy? I'm flattered! But no, no, no... You're my friend now. And somehow my only friend here but nevermind... You already know so much about me and I know nothing 'bout you!"

Yeah, he was right...

"Ok... I'm Marie, I'm turning 20 next week..."

"20? Only 20?! You're so young then! And one week?! Ohhhh... There's gonna be huge party here!"

"No, not really. I don't enjoy big parties very much... Anyway, I'm French, you know..."

I stopped and caught a stunned expression on his face.

"What?! You're not... I don't know, British or American or..."

"Nope. You're surprised right?"

"You bet I am. But... You've been living here since...?"

"Last year so!" I cut his sentence.

"I don't believe it! But you're such a good English speaker that I... I still can't believe it!"

"C'mon, it's not that spectacular."

"And you have a very beautiful accent! It was weird because I couldn't recognize it at first. And..."

"And what?"

"Nothing, just... your nose..." he laughed ashamed. "You don't have that long nose French people usually have...!"

"Oh, c'mon! And beautiful accent... it's fake, Alex! But yours... it's perfect!"

"Yeah, you know, I didn't like it at the very beginning... and at that time I was trying my best to sing with American accent but then I decided not to give a fuck about it and... it seems like people like it more this way..."

"They definitely do!"

"Wow... I just learned some cool stuff 'bout you, darlin'!"

I started to giggle. "Darlin'" again...

"By the way, this morning, there was a tune playing from your place... What was it? I seemed very catchy but I couldn't recognize it!"

"This morning... I have no idea, but I don't remember turning the stereo on."

"I'm pretty sure it came from your place, darlin'"

"Oh, I must've been playing something then"

"Playing? You play guitar?" He seemed rather shocked.

"Yes" I replied a little proud about this fact.

"Wow!!!" Alex was very surprised about his new discovery. "You. Play. Guitar. Seriously?!"

"What's so unbelievable? The fact that I'm a girl, isn't it? Please, not that stupid remark again!"

"No no no no. Just that I really liked that tune. It was amazing! And I couldn't imagine you playing it. Actually I couldn't imagine you playing guitar. But that's awesome! Honestly! You're very good! We should jam together one day!"

"Thanks, I guess"

Alex Turner just invited me to play guitar with him!!! I was on fangirl mode again.

We finished our pizzas laughing and joking around. I was waiting for some cuddles in the kitchen (if you know what I mean, Arctic Monkeys fans). We drank Cola and had a great time.

"Yeah, I guess I should leave now. It's getting late and... Tomorrow I have morning courses"

"Yeah sure..."

He followed me to the door and opened it for me.

"Hey Alex, thank you for everything! It was a great night!"

"It definitely was. I hate being alone. Anyway, you're welcome anytime you want, bear that in mind!"

"I will! Good night!" I slightly stretched myself and placed a little kiss on Alex's cheek. It felt so nice...

Ok, so I might have a slight crush on him. A very slight one, though... but still... Omg, it's Alex Turner!