Quadrants

Leaving school

    "James is so hot." Scarlet heard from the amount of squealing behind her. She felt annoyed because her music was on full blast. Girls are idiots she thought. They kept blabbering about a guy that no one would ever try to mess with let alone date. The boy they were talking about was James Love, someone every girl was buzzing about. Sure Scarlet thought he hot was too but she never had a chance.

   Scarlet continued to listen to her music. She had her backpack in the seat next to her, where it always was so no one could sit with her. She stared at the window. Getting zoned out was her specialty especially on the bus.

   Something poked her shoulder and she ignored it as she always did. It's one of those girls I bet. She continued to wait for the bus to move.

   The song stopped to play the next song on her playlist. "Excuse me?" Scarlet turned after hearing an angelic voice next to her. It was James. James Love. Frick'en James Love. 

   She took out her earphones and looked at him. Face getting hot she continued to stare. "May I?" he asked pointing to her belongings on the seat. She grabbed her stuff and quickly turned her face back to the window. 'Why did I do that? I've never let anyone sit with me.' she thought as soon as the backpack was relaxed on her lap. In the reflection she saw the girls behind her giving her evil looks to the back of her head. The bus started to move. She plugged the headphones back in trying to avoid eye contact.

Oh godohgodohgodohgodoh-

Her thoughts were interrupted by a sudden touch on her hand. She slowly moved her eyes, careful not to move her head, to her hand. It was a hand right next to her own, barely touching her. 

'He doesn't seem to notice' she thought, but was completely wrong. She tried to steal a glance at his face but ended up facing him. He looked at her in her eyes which in turn, she had a huge blush across her face. 'Why is he staring at you' she thought, eyes locked on his trying to make sense of the situation. 

"James Love" he told her. 

"S-scarlet. Scarlet Diamond." she answered. She had never been this nervous before. Why here? Why now?

"Well hello there Ms. Diamond" he gave her a sweet grin like out of a fairy tale. The world around him seemed to glow.