Untypically in Love: First Sight

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Some names and events have been changed to protect the identity of certain individuals.

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Chapter Four
First Sight

After a few more weeks of listening to Megaera go on and on about Matt, I was ready to vomit. She had officially ruined my determined single life and I was now cruising the market for my own boyfriend that would smash hers out of the water. What was even more aggravating was that she didn't even have a boyfriend. Matt apparently always had a girl on his arm, usually a little blonde, and Megaera didn't have the nerve to approach him. That didn't stop her from talking about him though. I didn't have any classes with this mystery boy of hers, so I had to hear everything about him like he was some sordid romance novel hero being described to me in overly exaggerated adjectives. For several moments during one of her tirades I considered life long celibacy and began wondering if you needed to be Catholic to become a nun. I was officially done with boys.

Then came the last day of school before our winter break. I was dying to get out of there, planning on a short trip up to Utah to visit my family for Christmas and get over my lack of boyfriend woes, eager to let Christmas presents and large Utah snow drifts bury my social life until it was time to return home.

There were only a few hours left of school and we were released from our classes to attend the pep rally. Megaera and I hated school spirit just as much as we hated high school sports, so we decided to go on strike. Only not so much a strike as sitting in the cafeteria with the rest of our crowd instead of the gym.

Within moments of arriving in the cafeteria, Megaera practically pounced me looking more excited than I had ever seen her before, with the small exception of a Ska concert when she accidentally started a fight between a bouncer and some guy that mistakenly grabbed her ass.

"Dude, you have to come and meet Matt." She squeeled, obviously wanting to show off her potential boy toy to her friends. Rubbing salt in that wound.

I seethed.

"He's right there," She said and pointed to a long table where a few empty seats remained sitting amongst at least five boys. Three of them I knew personally, leaving two boys sitting on either end of the table. One was tall and skinny and wore glasses. He was adorably cute.

The other boy caught my stare for much longer than his friend did. He had shaggy brown hair that was begging to have my fingers ran through it and a goatee which was odd cause most guys we new still hadn't had the potential to grow facial hair. He wore an army jacket and underneath all black. Sexy wasn't even the proper word to describe it. I exhaled without realizing that I was letting out a soft whimper, the sound of not having been kissed in a while. My face felt flush as I continued staring at him, unaware that Megaera was leading me toward the table by the hand as my heart skipped more than one beat. Withing seconds of taking one look at this gorgeous boy, I was practically undressing him with my eyes, unable to even consider controlling myself.

"I don't care who Matt is," I thought silently to myself. "But God help Megaera if she doesn't hook me up with his friend."

The closer we got the more my mind began to drift off. As a fourteen year old girl I was well versed in the art of letting my mind get away from me. In the days long before Twilight, I was perfectly capable of constructing a dangerous romantic - and possibly vampiric - tale involving this mystery man and myself, one that would certainly be saved in my brain for lonely cold nights.

I grinned from ear to ear as we approached the table, unable to get the visions out of my head. I couldn't take my eyes off of him. I wanted to touch his hair. Oh! I wanted to touch that hair! I wanted to do many strange things when I looked at him. Touch his hair, smell his neck, lean my cheek against his chest and have his hands all over my . . . and then in the midst of me my mental lust induced asthma attack, Megeara stepped behind the sexy beast and said, "Jia, this is Matt."

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