Different

Chapter three <3

  My long walk home was boring, uneventful and eerily silent but I was ok with the silence. It allowed me time to think. Although a lot of my thoughts were centered on one person only..........

................Colin Horward..............

  I simply couldn't shake his image from my mind. It seemed the less i tried to think the insistent thoughts of him stayed in my treacherous mind. The worst part of all this was that i was enjoying it, I probably had one of those foolish lovestruck expressions you only see on TV and read in romance novels.

              Gosh what was I turning into.

  I'd never been this hung over a person in my life except that one time 4 years ago when I thought I was inlove -sigh- but thats a story for another time. Talk about it being a 'boy' - insert ming barf here- and one that went to the same school as me, was in my class............ Aaargh, I screamed at myself.

      It was freaking me out on all accounts.

  I don't like boys, I really don't. I'm not a lesbian or anything no matter how much i wished I was sometimes, they just  creep me out on some nameless level or its more like I'm too Jaded in my opinion of them to want to try and understand how their minds work , I'm not entirely sure how it works. Anyway, the fact I even noticed one came as a shock to my otherwise boy-immune system.

       But really could you blame me, the boy was a walking sex god. Everything thing him screamed sex on legs.

              God............It was awesome.

And I hadn't even gotten past his face .....Wait......wait.......... why am I having these thoughts, what happened to the Katarina Auguste who didn't acknowledge the male species that we all knew and probably didn't love

        Where was that girl........... I liked that girl...........

  Just then it occured to me that I was about to walk past my house when I noticed the moving van parked in front of our supposed next door neighbors house which had been empty since the past year. It seemed that was about to change, but I couldn't stop the curiosity that was pondering on who our new neighbors were or what they would be like.

  My curiosity was solved, however it was quite unexpected.............. Quite............

  It was his cologne that hit me first - I would know that smell anywhere- before I adgusted my eyesight and took in the rest of him. It occured to me during the period of my brain shutting down and myself blacking out that he had aquamarine eyes that were these beautiful mixture of blues and greens and silky looking midnight hair.

     " Oi..... are you alright" I heard someone ask in that sexy british accent voice as said person shook me lightly to get me to wake up.

                        "Hmm", I mumbled groggily

      "Are you alright", the person asked again. I noticed I was lying on the ground in my yard so I quickly sat which caused my head to spin rapidly.

   " I guess so ", I replied whilst holding my head in my hands. I opened my eyes to see Colin's hand outstretched towards me so I grasped it and immediately felt some form of electricity shoot up my arm which almost caused me to fall back down but fortunately he grasped my upperarms and held on until my equilibrium had readjusted itself. I looked up only to see him looking down at me with concern clearly written across his features.

  I stepped back slightly -since the close proximity of our bodies was beginning to affect my thinking capabilities- and he let go of my arms and then we just stood there in awkward silence.

  " I don't usually do that ", I cleared my throat.

    Could this be anymore of a farce.

  My heartbeat and braincells were slowly reallighning themselves to a somewhat functional status which was quickly demolished when I heard his voice replying to my otherwise stupendous state ment.

         " Really? ", He inquired and just stared at me like he was trying to figure me out.

I could only nod.

Jesus effing Christ

What was I turning into.............. Girls 're' us

  He was still staring at me and I couldn't help but stare back at him like the -as of that moment- lovestruck moron I was quickly turning into, not that i had anything against worshiping the very ground he walked on. 

God........... what am I thinking, I scolded myself mentally. My heart was beating so fast, it felt like it was trying to beat itself out of my chest.

Could he hear it............ 

    " You know .......... if we're going to just stand here and not say anything I should probably just go", he said while motioning towards his house which just so happened to be next to mine.

Ohh........ did I forget to mention that the Horwards were my new neighbors, it must skipped my mind.

      " No, no, ......... well yes......... ok ok forget what I just said " I quickly said taking deep breathes to steady my chaotic thoughts.

I took a really deep breathe........... exhaled then counted to ten in my head before opening my mouth again. Throughout all this he looked thoroughly amused.

    " What I meant to say was that...... er......... thank you for not letting me break my face on the sidewalk. "

     " You're welcome............ I think ", he replied. " You know I think I've seen you before ", he paused to ponder on his thoughts; " You're that girl in front of me aren't you."

The fact that he even acknowledged my exsistence me want to kiss his feet..........literally speaking

                    " Hmm-mm " I mumbled

From his house a man who was carrying a ton of boxes screamed for him to come with unloading their remaining stuff.

          " I'm coming ", he shouted back then to me he said " I didn't get ur name"

" Kat, I mean Katarina but people call me Kat....... for short...... that is, not that their much people that actually call me that seeing as I don't have that much friends or any for that matter and ............ i think i'll just shut up now" I finished when I noticed him staring at me like I was the most amusing thing he'd ever seen.

       " You're funny ", he held out his hand " Colin "

" I knoe that " I huffed as I quickly shook his hand. That tingly sensation of electricity was still there.

I was quickly getting wary of his hands.

" I'll be seeing you ", he said and did that boy head nod thing at me as he walked away. And like an idiot -which I was vastly becoming- I just stood there and stared at his retreating figure instead walking into my own frigging house.

             I mean ........... how stalkerish of me 

  My brain and my legs must have come to an agreement as I found myself walking up the stairs to the front door of my house but couldn't stop myself from glancing over to see what he was doing and to my utter delight and heady embarassment he also stood by his door carrying a huge box when he glanced over and caught me staring at him.

           He smirked............

Mortification from the fact that i'd been caught oogling him hurried me along and I quickly found myself bolting up the stairs to my room. I didn't even reply when my mum came to check on me, I just buried my face in my pillow and willed myself to sleep.