Eyes on You

Chapter 21

A/N : Prepare yourself! It gets a bit lengthy :)

You wander around, aimlessly walk away from the hall where the prom is being held. Your mind is not on the right track, yet your feet carry you to wherever you're going, plus it's still your school area so you won't get lost. At the same time, you keep telling yourself not to break down, you don't wanna be seen so weak and fragile, despite everything that's happening. A few more corners, you turn left, then right, then left again. You finally stop walking, then lift up your face. Your eyes are scanning the surrounding to make out of your whereabout. You can see the bushes are trimmed well, some flowers here and there, so you're actually in that park near your school. Wow, you never thought that your feet could carry you till here.

You decide to settle down, thinking that you're far enough from all the problems at school. You look at the grass, it looks welcoming for you to sit, with faded street light shining upon it. You feel like the atmosphere is safe enough for you to hang around a bit, not too dark, yet not too exposed to public. You take your shoes off, not using your hands, with only your feet. "Stupid heels!" You kick it off, causing the pair to fly separately somewhere. At this point, you don't care anymore where they go. You grumpily sit down, and huff loudly. It's a little habit of yours; you let out your anger and rage sometimes when you're feeling down, maybe it's to cover up the sad feeling so that you won't cry.

You put your hands under your chin, eyebrows furrowed coz you're still a bit mad. But slowly, tears are forming beneath your eyes. It's only a matter of time then they'll be pouring out like a heavy rainfall. Before that happens, your eyes flicker towards a figure, a guy probably, tall and lanky, standing awkwardly like a statue, not far from where you're sitting. You get to make eye contact with him, and he's staring directly at you. Still, you can't make out his appearance. Surprised by his presence, you quickly rub your eyes, in attempt to wipe off the tears before they fall down.

The guy slowly walks towards you, and since the lighting gets better, you can see that he's wearing a grey beanie, dorky glasses, hmm...he seems familiar. You notice his weird knees when he walks, that shows he's not confident. "Hey, ummm...y-you okay?" Even when he talks, his voice sounds shaky. That's when it clicks, he's one of those guys from the Chemical Romance group! He's probably that guy named Mike or something. You're not sure whether you get the name correct or not but whatever, it's not important now.

He stops midway, nervously bend down to pick something off the grass - oh, it's one of your shoes. He seems like he doesn't know what to do, so he just went with helping you collect your shoes, though the other half is still missing. Now that one of your heels is in his hand, he proceeds walking towards you. You aren't sure what to do or where to look as well. Your eyes look away for a while, then go back to watch him. He finally sits down next to you. Gosh, this is super awkward.

He looks at the heel in his sweaty palms, playing around with it for a bit, then open his mouth, "May I?" You don't quite understand what he meant, and the guy can see it from your face. "I-I mean...this shoe. Is it okay if I put it on you?" You're getting nervous as well because this is so tense! You don't know what to react so you decide to just play along. You give him a small nod. He moves a bit so that he's now in front of you, putting the shoe on your left foot. After he's done with that, he lifts his face up and accidentally make eye contact with you. Again with that awkward moment.

Both of you stay like that in silence, before you decide to break the tension. "Um, thanks?" It sounded more like a question. You internally facepalm yourself. When you look at the guy again, you aren't sure whether he's trying to smile or what, but he looks uncomfortable about it, finally he puts on a poker face. "Why were you mad?" He braces himself to ask you that question. What are you supposed to say now? He came out of nowhere, and you don't even know his real name yet! "S-sorry! I'm Mikey btw." Mikey suddenly told you, as if he can read your mind. You look at him surprised, but quickly recover. "Y/n." you told him your name as well.