«mistakes like this»

elle gives up and climbs out her window and goes up the fire escape. she get onto the roof as she usually does and sits on the edge. she stares at the bright city of manhattan as the sun goes down.

a few minutes later she hears noise on the fire escape. she ignores it and goes back to being on her phone.

jim gets onto the roof and sees her. he nearly trips causing to get elles attention.

elle turned around and saw him.

"uh hi," he said awkwardly.

"hi" she said back.

"i didn't think anyone would be up here," he said.

she just stared at him, he's pretty, she thought to herself. he had dirty blond hair and pretty blue eyes.

"i'm jim," he sat sitting beside her.

"i'm elle," she said admiring his features.

"that's a pretty name," he said.

"are you hitting on me?" elle asked.

jim laughed, "only if you want me to be," he said.