Beauty and the Geek Boy

Chapter 4-Will

*Geek Boy*

The moment I left the library, I sagged against the wall, my breath vacating my lungs in a single solitary whoosh. I could still feel my heart beat thudding in my skull, rapid and erratic.

Saturday.

Ellie Kent, aka my seven-year-crush, was coming over to my house on Saturday. Ellie Kent. My house. Saturday.

After seven years, I'd managed to hold a half-decent conversation with my crush without completely humiliating myself. The entire time, I'd alternated between trying not to salivate in awe and being so completely frozen that the most complex thought I could manifest was: Wow.

Every time those thick sultry lashes brushed her creamy cheeks, my heart missed a beat. After every single stutter she made, all I was able to visualize was rubbing a hand down her back and asking what was wrong. Whenever she licked her lips, all I could imagine was pressing my lips to hers. And when she shot me that million watt grin, the grin I'd only glimpsed from afar for so many years, I was sure she'd stolen my soul.

There was no way someone could be that perfect.

For a moment, I shut my eyes, visualizing the past thirty minutes. In my mind I tasted her perfume in the air as I peered into  those large blue eyes--the eyes that looked up at me as if I was her saviour.

Wow.

"Will?"

 I blinked and straightened, turning to watch Catherine make her way down the hall.

"What are you doing out  so early?" she asked, inclining her chin towards the library doors.

I stepped towards her, shrugging. "I need to give in that form to  Mr Meyer." And get away from Ellie's dazzling smile. "Why are you out so early?"

Catherine stiffened. She locked her gaze on the wall behind me. "Er, Kensington lets the students out early if we finish all the work."

I frowned. She was avoiding my gaze.

"Anyway," Catherine said. "Come on. Lets give in that form."

 Throwing one last glance at the library doors, I followed after Catherine. In my mind, I imagined Ellie's face, her pearlescent eyes wide in awe as I steadied the bookshelf. She had literally stood just a few inches from my arm. Heat had practically emanated from her body, raising goosebumps on my skin. Just a slight movement and our skin would have brushed.

Wow.

In another universe, a universe where I was a handsome jock, I would whisk her off her feet. I'd have taken that occasion in the library to ask her on a date. Then I would have rung her doorbell with a bouquet and chocolates. Followed by a night dining beneath the stars, it would have been perfect.

But that was another universe.

In this universe, Ellie was the beautiful girl who had completed a four-year dance course as a sophomore and, after trading study hall, happened to volunteer at the library I spent my last period at. She was the head cheerleader who had deigned to grace  a geek with her presence.

I doubted she even remembered my name.

"Will. Will! Earth to Will."

I blinked rapidly. Catherine peered up at me, her mouth twisted into a scowl.

"Yes?" I asked.

She raised an eyebrow as she inclined her head towards the door to our left. "We're here."