Tell me something sweet to get me by

Chapter1: Pearls

Blue. Silvery-blue. Like pearls.

That's the color of his eyes, the boy on the school bus. He's new in town, must be, I've never seen him before. It's a relatively small town, so I know everyone here, grew up with most of them.

But him? Never seen him before. Still haven't really. He's wearing a slightly too big hoodie with the hood pulled up and over his head. All I can see is black hair peeking out from under the hood. The only reason I know his eyes are a silvery-blue is because when I walked down the aisle to my seat he had glanced up and made eye contact with me. Sadly, he had immediately looked away as if he were to shy to continue the staring contest with me.

After sitting down, I examined his attire. He's wearing black skinny jeans and red high top Converse. His hoodie had words in silver on the front, though, because I'm seated in the seats across the aisle, I can't make out any words other than 'sweet.' The last and oddest thing I notice about the boy with gorgeous eyes is that he had hot pink earphones with white stripes plugged into his ears. Cute.

He has his body turned toward the window and his red backpack in the seat next to him, like he's trying to avoid any unnecessary human interaction. Definitely shy...or just hates everything. Either way.

I continued to stared unabashedly at the boy until my dearest sister knocked me out of my thoughts...Literally.

Receiving a smack over the head, I turned to glare at my sister. "What the hell, Mikasa?"

She peered at me through the black bob cut, tugging at her old, red scarf. "I've been saying your name for almost 10 minutes."

"Oh."

"Are you okay, Eren? You're staring at that kid for a while now..." Her eyes shined with worry.

"I'm okay...Do you know who he is?," I looked back over to him curiously.

Mikasa leaned forward slightly to see around me. "Dunno. Looks kinda short, dontcha think."

I looked back over to him to see if what she said was true. I couldn't help but chuckle quietly when I noticed that his converse clad feet were a few centimeters from touching the floor. Instead of letting his legs hang there, he has his toes pointed out slightly so they touch the floor of the bus. "Yeah, I guess so...Kinda cute, though."

Mikasa looked up. I could see amusement shining in her eyes. "Eren's got a crush," She whispered in a sing-song voice.

"Shut up. I do not." I whispered back harshly.

"And it's on a guy." She giggled quietly next to me.

I huffed, looking away from her and back to blue eyes. As if he could sense that I was looking at him, he looked back at me. It was then that I notice just how cute he really is.

His skin is pale but it doesn't look bad on him like it does on some people. I examine his face and find that he has a few piercings. The first one I notice is that his bottom lip has two light blue studs on the left side and while it may make others look tough or punk, it makes him look soft and small. The other piercing I can see is his nose, the right nostril, and a dimple piercing, which both match the light blue of his lip piercings. I can see some other piercings on his ears but can't really make them out from inside the hoodie.

Other than his piercings, I notice that his soft, black hair is split slightly on the left and looks to be styled in an undercut underneath the black hoodie. The hoodie. Recalling what I had been thinking of earlier, I glance down at the front of his hoodie to see the writing on the front. Written in a red speech bubble are the words'Tell me something sweet to get me by' written in silver handwriting. I silently recall that the words are lyrics from a band named A Day To Remember.

He's unbelievably adorable and gorgeous. I almost can't take it as I suck in a breath.

Noticing me staring, his cheeks shade into a light pink and he quickly turns back to the window.

Okay, so, maybe I do have a crush.