He Found me at the Movie Theatre

Chapter 2: Hudson's POV

  She walks away and buys her movie ticket. I can't help but stare at her.

  "Hudson. Hudsonnn. HUDSON!" Jackson shouts to get my attention.

  "Yeah sorry what?" I say trying to act like I wasn't just thinking about a girl who I'd never have a chance with.

  "You can't like her, have you heard about the drama her and her friends start?"

  "She isn't apart of that friend group anymore. And I'm sure she isn't like those girls." I say maybe a bit too confidently.

  Did I really believe that though? I didn't even know this girl. The only time I had ever really talked to her was to show her where to buy a movie ticket. I see her walk the halls like nothing in this world could touch her. But I don't know, something about her makes me feel like she's not how other people describe her or how she can come across. Something about her makes me compelled to talk to her. I want to know her.

  After I get home from the movies I find myself staring into space on my bed thinking of ways to talk to her or to even see her face tomorrow. This is so pointless, why I am thinking about a girl who probably doesn't think about me anyway.

7:30am

  I launch myself out of bed. How am I up so late does my brain not listen to my alarms? What time did I even fall asleep it wasn't like I was out too late. I was just lying down, thinking.

  No time for this crap again, I gotta run downstairs, grab some quick breakfast and drive to school.

I pull into the school parking lot. This protein bar I grabbed, tastes like dead grass. Since I decided to stay up late, which made me wake up late, I had no time to make breakfast so I gotta grab something from the cafeteria.

I start walking into school where I'm greeted by all my football friends. They all come up to me loud as per usual. But then, I see Presley. My friends got to go right now I need to talk to her again or at least get her attention. Colton our quarterback notices right away who I'm staring at.

"See you at first period Hudson!" Colton says running past Presley loud enough for her to hear and get her to look at me for a quick second. God I hated Colton sometimes but he was smart, at least she'd know my name now. The rest of the team follows Colton. I start to walk over to Presley.

I kick the side of her shoe with mine, she looks up at me, her cheeks start to turn red again.

"So how'd the movie end up being?"

"I thought you had already seen it, Hudson." She says teasing me and laughing at the idea of me watching a movie like "The Wind of the Roses". I really liked the way she said my name. Her voice was soft-spoken, very gentle and pleasant to listen to.

"Yeah no I definitely didn't watch it." I say scratching the back of my head. I've never felt so nervous and tongue tied talking to a girl it was extremely embarrassing. Before I could think of anything else to say the bell rings and I'm still starving. But I wave goodbye to Presley and run to class.

Colton gives me good advice about talking to girls during gym class. I feel prepared to talk to Presley and to maybe even get her number?

But, nothing. I don't see her for the rest of the day. Or the next day, the day after that I see her face but she doesn't even look at me.

After I got home from school and I sit sinking into my couch as if I had become apart of it, watching Netflix. I get a text from my dad to go supervise/ manage the movie theatre tonight.

My father owns the theatre but has to take care of my mom who's sick in the hospital. He hasn't been around much so I've been the one checking in on the theatre.

  I love managing the theatre though. I got to hire a lot of my friends, I get pretty good snacks, and I got to order people around. Presley doesn't know I own it. In a way, I don't want her to know because, well, I don't know... What if she stopped going?