Falling For You

Chapter 1

~point of view: Anna (Annabel)

Today was Orientation day for our college. I was soo excited to finally have a fresh start, new school, new town, new beginnings!
I wasn't even packed into my new room yet, but I thought I could do it after my classes. I ran out to go get coffee.
          I was picking up coffee in the college lunchroom as I noticed the time, I was getting late! I grabbed my books and started running out the door with my coffee, just as I was exiting the lunchroom someone was entering it. Just then I accidentally crashed into someone and spilled my own coffee on me. I was soo embarrassed to get my coffee spilled on us. I looked up as I noticed the guy I bumped into.

He had short blond hair, his perfect smooth skin and ocean blue eyes were like no other. He looked at me for a second and that second could have lasted forever and I wouldn't have minded. Our eyes locked and that moment felt forever. I could feel this connection, this attraction just at first glance. I could feel my heart melting away, just sharing this one moment together until his friends gathered around him. He had a group of guys helping him get up. Even though he didn't have much on him. "What are you looking at?" Said one of the short guy standing next to him. And just like that, I bursted out of this bubble of thoughts and remembered I had just spilled my coffee over us. My cheeks got red with embarrassment. "Ayy yo can you stop staring at my homie and look at what you did?" Said that short guy once again.

"Oh I'm so sorry I was rushing and I didn't see you. I'm really sorry, it was an accident." I said to the blond guy that I had just bumped into, I fixed my dress, collected my stuff and stood up.
"It's alright, are you okay? Did you get burned?" He said as he gently grabbed my right arm, looking at the spot where the coffee had spilled.
"I'm okay. Sorry I didn't see you there." I said while cleaning up the mess as he helped me out but his friends stopped him.
"What are you doing? We don't talk with losers let alone show compassion, get up." Said one of the guys from his group.

    "Let the girl clean this up. Alex, It's the first day of college. You can't be nice to everyone, remember what we talked about, first appearances make the school year! Now come on, Let's go get you a new t-shirt." Said the short guy that was holding him back from helping me. 
    I guess they were known as the popular students around here. And I guess this mysterious guys name was Alex..

Alex stood up and his friends padded him down taking any dust that may have gotten on his black outfit, off.

     "Listen ..just stay away from us. We can't have girls like you ruining our rep." Said one of the guys from that group. What did that mean?
     The group left and I cleaned up really fast and headed to my apartment to change my clothes. I was renting out a room in the three bedroom apartment just down the road from the college, it was a quick stop.
  
      I looked around the apartment, a bathroom downstairs for the girl that lived in the downstair room, I hadn't met her yet but I saw her putting bags in her room and she was beautiful, this apartment also had a shared kitchen.
    I went upstairs to my room, it was next to someone else's room, I wonder who rented there. I opened the door to my room and I rushed and grabbed a new outfit to wear for Orientation, I went into the bathroom and got changed. This was the shared bathroom upstairs.
     I rushed and changed my clothes and got ready for the orientation speech happening soon.
     I was so excited to get to know the people I was renting an apartment with, I could potentially see myself being neighbors and who knows maybe even being besties with!
     I opened the bathroom door to leave the bathroom and that's when the door next to my room, opened.
   I was shocked to see my house mate wasn't a girl, it was Alex the guy I had bumped into today morning!
This time his friends weren't with him and he was just as shocked to see me as I was to see him. "You live here too?" He asked.
"Yes! Room 1" I spoke back, pointing like a weirdo at my room.
"Yeah Im in room 2. Well ...welcome to college, coffee girl. I'm sure we'll have an interesting year together. Just try not to bump into me again and you know, like my friends said.. Stay away from me." He said starring into my eyes as he was walking into the bathroom and I was walking out. Our bodies almost touching, We walked past each other in anger and confusion.
      I kept reminding myself that I couldn't like him especially for the way I was treated today morning. I had to tell myself that there is no chance that we could be a couple, not really knowing that In my heart I already had a special spot saved for him.