Little Things

Hi guys! So this is my first story on Wattpad, it'd be great if you could share your opinions, ideas, and give me advice since i'm new and all. I hope you guys like it!

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 Moments. My life is made up of a series of moments, moments that last forever deep in the ecstasy of my memory. When you die they say your whole life flashes before your eyes, but I didn't see my life or my most cherished memories... I saw you.

 Let’s rewind a bit to the summer of 99. We were young, dumb, and had no idea of each other’s existence. I was sitting down at the park, under my favorite oak tree reading Tolstoy when it began to rain, ice cold rain. Turns out it wasn’t rain it was your ice coffee, you know the kind you buy at McDonalds. I inhale sharply and wipe the coffee off of my newly ruined book.

 “Sorry,” I hear someone mumble. " I swear I'll buy you a new book." They reassure me, the voice was deep, yet oddly gentle. I lick my lips, yum that coffee actually tastes pretty good. 

 “Mmm that’s good! What order do you take?” I look up and am immediatly drawn in by the most captivating green eyes, they're the colour of emerald with flecks of gold sparsley scattered around the pupil.  "What's your coffee order?" I ask immediatly regretting what I had said, of all the things to say I ask him what his coffee order is. 

“Well it’s not every day a stranger in the park asks what coffee order you take.” I immediately feel stupid, my face flushes red. “It’s just an ice coffee, the kind you buy at Tim Horton's.” The boy runs a hand through his chocolate brown hair and hands it out to me. “I’m Cole, Cole McGrath”

“Oh umm hi,” I wipe the coffee off my hands, “I’m Katie Lawson.” I shake his hand and feel his rough calloused fingers against my pale, soft, dainty ones.

“So Katie what school do you go to?”

 “I'm gonna be a senior at McKinley High.”

 “Yeah me too, I think I’ve seen you around some times.” He begins to scrawl on a little slip of paper and hands the chicken scratch to me.

 “So…what is it?” I furrow my brows trying to decipher what he had written. Cole started to laugh quite awkwardly.

“I-It’s my phone number, see it says call me at the bottom.”

“Oh so that’s what that said? I totally see it now, uh huh.” But really I honestly have no idea what he wrote, his four’s looked like nine’s and his one’s looked like seven’s, so I just give him my number instead. “Here just take mine, it might be a little bit clearer.”

“Yeah, good idea." He agrees."So I guess I’ll see you around.”

 “What makes you say that? What if I don’t want to see you around or maybe a meteor hits, I die and you’re left wondering if you’ll ever see the tragically beautiful girl you spilled your ice coffee on at the park. A lot can happen in 24 hours." Well that was a mouthful to say. Atleast it's better than asking for a stranger's coffee order

“You’re something else Katie Lawson, you know that?” He waves goodbye, turns around and walks away.

I tuck my caramel hair behind my ears as I feel my face heat up, the colour of rosehip consumes my golden freckled face. I finish up the last few pages of the chapter I was on and throw my copy of Anna Karenina in my tribal print messenger bag, when my cellphone rings. It was probably my mum calling to ask if I’d manage to have a near death experience for the whole 30 minutes I was gone at the park five minutes from home.

“Yes mum, don’t worry I guarantee I’m one hundred percent safe, I even met a cute boy at the park.” I talk fast before she can complain, oddly enough the other end was silent.”Uhhh mum? You there?”

“I’m cute?” A familiar voice says. It was Cole.

 “Dammit." I groan at the realisation of my mistake. "I really need to learn to read caller ID, plus I’m only making your head bigger than it already is.” I tease.

 “You said I was cute.” Cole repeats as if I hadn't heard the first time, only furthering my embarassment. I can already imagine the smug little grin he has plastered on his face. “Anyways, I was just calling to make sure you didn’t give me some weirdo’s phone number.”

 “Consider yourself lucky.” I hang up before he can get another word in. I mount my old sunshine yellow bicycle, sling my messenger bag over my shoulder and pedal home.

 “Oh thank God!” My mother startles me with her shrill voice, lifting both her cheesy manicured hands in the air, as I walk into the front foyer.

“Mom I was gone for a whole thirty minutes, its ok.” I reply.

 “Hey Kit Kat.” My older brother Lukas says, just waking up with messy hair and pajama pants on.

 “Hi, pour me a glass of that oj too, will ya?" I ask.

 “Hey uhh mom when’s Kit Kat’s doctor appointment?” Lukas asks completely ignoring my question, I decide to just pour a glass for myself.

“Oh dear!” My mother says kissing Lukas on the head. “You’re a life saver, I almost forgot. Come on honey, gulp down your orange juice and I’ll wait for you in the car. ” She says as she fumbles for her keys and heads out the door, almost tripping over her own two feet. I gulp down my orange juice and slip on my favorite pair of red vans.

“Good luck, I’m sure it’s nothing.” Lukas wishes as I rush out the door. He was referring to the terrible leg cramps I’ve been getting and strangely high fevers. Sometimes at night I’d even cry because the pain would be too much.

 “Thanks, bye, save me some Oreos please.” Obviously the whole entire pack of Oreos would be gone by the time I got home without even a crumb to spare.

 “Okay.” He mumbles through a mouthful of cookies as I shut the door on my way out. I hurry over to my mum's black Mercedes.

“Hurry up Katie.” My mum says tapping her watch, “We have fifteen minutes to get there!”

 “Okay, okay, calm down.”

 “Don’t tell me to calm down missy.” She says as the engine rumbles to life. We were going to the Hospital 20 minutes away give or take, but with my mother’s terribly unsafe driving it’s about ten.

“Mum my cramps have been getting worse.”

“Oh, sweetie –Get outta my way you freaking moron!-“she says honking the horn manically.  “It’ll get better, the doctor will prescribe you something, don’t worry.”

 “Mum, He was going the speed limit...you’re going like 10 mph over it, you know that right?”

 “Honey one thing I’ve learnt in life is nobody gives a damn about the speed limit.”

 “Great pep talk mum.” I say placing earphones in each ear and gazing out the window, watching the cars pass by. Everybody had a life of their own, one that wasn’t mine, a story of their own slowly unfolding. Every single person in each one of those cars was going somewhere, just like me, their destination undecided and ready to be in for one hell of a ride. I flip through the music on my ancient iPod as I watch the hospital slowly come into site. We back into a parking space, missing the car next to us by an inch. We proceed to walk into the building and the minute the sliding doors open I’m greeted with the site of nurses in colorful scrubs and the sterile cleanly aroma of a hospital. 

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I'll admit this chapter was kinda boring, but it's just to get a feeling for the characters. :)