The Only Exception

Oh, man.

It was Fall Semester of 2017. The semester for college starts around August. The summer heat throws its last kisses during the first few weeks of school.

I hate college, or school in general but I'm surprisingly good at it.

The first day of school is always nerve wrecking. It's incredibly awkward just like me. It's 2017 and people tend to question my awkwardness due to the fact I'm "good looking." People can be so tricked by looks, it's insane. I personally don't like to admit out loud that I'm good looking because I don't want to look like I'm full of myself, and I'm not. I know, I know you're probably curious as to how good looking one can be. Here's my appearance: tall (about 5'8), long brown loose curly hair, big green eyes (with an unfortunate sad look to them), thin nose, high cheekbones, medium sized lips, freckles (that I HATE), and unfortunate pink cheeks. People ask me if I was that girl from the cheerleading team, or if I ever tried to be a model. But on the contrary my friends, I'm a bookworm, nerd, and I am very awkward. All my life, I've kept to myself because I feel like I scare people away with the amount of awkwardness that drips from me. (I do have a few friends and I've had a few boyfriends..I'm not that weird.) (All child like relationships.) By the way, my name is Maria. I'm half American half Colombian.

I've called off love for a while because my last boyfriend, Leo Gold absolutely broke my heart. Long story short, he cheated on me. He seemed like such a sweet guy, and BOOM he cheated on me. Leo was handsome, he was a bit shorter than I would like but he managed to steal my heart. We met at my church group, and then we managed to hung out a few times. We were only dating for like a good two months. Still, broke my heart. That was when I graduated high school in 2016. Here's your high school diploma Maria Baker, oh and Leo cheated on you. I still see him around with his new girlfriend, arm in arm.

That was enough about me, let me tell you about my fall 2017 semester. I had a class at 9:00 am so I barely found parking. I dislike people who have 8:00 am lectures, they steal all the parking spots. I walked quickly to get to my class because it was 8:55 am. I was walking past these guys, all very tall. They eyed me as I walked past them. Ugh.

I walked into my class, and as the time approached closer to 9:00 am. I soon realized that the guys in my class were slowly coming into my classroom. Great.

As they filed in, one with nicely trimmed beard, and piercing green eyes manages to make eye contact with me. I looked away real quick. He's way way way better looking than Leo. He's so handsome. He was dressed in a black Nike shirt and gray gym shorts. He was wearing a navy blue baseball hat. His choice of outfit for the first day of school was hideous but his face made up for it.

I tried to look friendly so that a girl can sit next to me and that we can be friends and talk about the guy with the green eyes. A girl with shoulder length black hair sat next to me, she didn't even look at me, but it's alright. The professor, an old man came in and began telling him about himself, "welcome to Luke College. My name is mr.Doogan. I will be teaching writing 101. I have been teaching for about 10 years, I used to work in technology before I did this. I have three kids. Now, before we go over the syllabus, everyone is going to get a chance to tell us your major, and a little bit about yourself." I felt my eyes rolling uncontrollably. I've been in college for two semesters (1 year) and I have done this, not in all my classes but in some. I was mentally cursing the teacher because I really didn't want to do this. I was practicing in my mind of what I was going to say, and how to leave a good impression for the good looking man in the back. I was too focused on this when the teacher was calling on me, I didn't notice. "What?" SEE HOW AWKWARD I AM ALREADY. I heard the room roll in laugher, that's it. Without the guy even talking to me, I know I already left a bad impression.

"Maria Baker?" He repeated, for what felt like the fifth time. "Uh, yes that's uh- me" I managed to get a smile out of me. "Okay please stand up and telling us about yourself and your major."

I slowly stood up. I didn't want to face the back of the classroom. I felt my cheeks heat up. "Okay..My name is Maria Baker. I am pre med. I like pizza." I smiled to the teacher. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a guy elbowing the guy who I had made eye contact with. GREAT. I sat down too quickly. Mr.Doogan eyed me, "Maria what are you going to specialize once your in med school or after?" "A Doctor" was what got out of my mouth. I'm so dead. I'm going to drop this class. That's when the class erupted again, in laughter. I mainly heard guy laughter. That's when I looked around the room to scan it, to realize there's only 6 girls and the rest are guys, about 14. My life is over. The teacher was even laughing. My awkwardness has come to a point in which it's now funny. Fantastic.

Once he was done laughing, he said, "Okay Maria. But what are you-" I cut him off, "I want to specialize in Pediatric Surgery." I said. He smiled, "very ambitious. I wish you luck, Doctor." I sunk down in the chair. As the presentations went on, I would look and wait to see until the cute guy would talk. That's when he finally stood up. He was really tall. A lot of the guys were really tall. A few had mentioned during the presentation that he was in the Luke College Baseball team. "Hi, I'm Rick Warren. This is my third semester in Luke College. I'm a baseball player." He was too confident. "I am majoring in business." He did a silly grin towards my direction. "Wow Mr.Warren, that's great for you, I wish you luck." He sat down, with a smile the size of Texas.

Not only am I embarrassed, I have given Mr.Cocky an ego booster. The presentations went on, and once they ended the teacher went over the syllabus. And that was it for the first day of this class. I was talking to the girl next to me, her name is Ana. She was telling her schedule, I saw the guys filing out. I was waiting for them to leave.

I left the class once I saw that it was clear. I raced to the library because duh, books. I was so focused on the which one I was going to get, I was scared significantly when a male voice said behind me, "Doctor." I dropped the book I was holding and that's when the male voice comes over, "sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." "It's fine" He was helping me pick it up, that's when I saw the navy blue hat. I drop the book again. He smiles, and picks up the book. "Your in my class, which is why I called you doctor." He said, smiling even more. His smile is a silly boy grin. "Yeah I know." I said as I scan his face. He's too good looking. He's tall he's about 6'1. He grins again, "how are you?" Why is he making small talk?! "Good." I continue to scan the books. "I'm good too" he says. I can tell that I got him in a uncomfortable place, so he says, "I'll see you in class." And walks away, and out of the college library. I watch as he leaves, with his head down.