Chapter 1: New beginnings
I used to be popular, crazy and fun! I have to say I was happy, with lots of friends. But one day something clicked in me, I started seen how most of the people I considered my friends were really stupid, not because they couldn't learn is just that they focused on having money, and being popular. Little by little I stopped belonging there; to the point I couldn't hear the conversations I found ones so interesting were now absolutely boring and shallow.
I wasn't always a miss popularity who got all the guys, 2 years ago I was a little nerd who loved anime, manga, reading and writing stories about girls and unicorns…
I used to feel ashamed of myself when I saw pictures of those times, I must admit even till this day I really like my improvement but I didn't like who I was anymore. So I started picking up my old hobbies, reading was the first one, I spend most of my weekend in my favorite bookstore buying all the books I found interesting, I have rich parents so it's no problem to spend almost $100 just in books. Mom and Dad were actually happy about my new found personality; I was more serious now, more focused about what I wanted and who I wanted in my life.
"Mom, Dad I'm going out!" I said taking my keys
"Where?" my dad asked running toward me, I know he thought my whole good girl new personality was just an act
Dad was a 40 year old man with black hair just like mine only his was short and mine came all the way down my back.
"to the book store dad, I want to see if there's some new stuff, maybe I'll stop by for a coffee afterwards, I'll be here at 6 for dinner, don't worry" I said smiling and then I gave him a kiss and got out the door.
My house was I guess what you would call a mansion, with lots of gardens, I used to brag about it a lot but, I don't really see the point anymore. It isn't a good thing that my friends like me for my money…
The book store was a few blocks from my house so it didn't really take long, as I walked throw the door and saw a big table with all the best sellers from that month, the smell of book pages hit me, this place was probably my favorite in all the world, I went throw all the sections that interested me, in less than an hour I had two piles in each hand, the left was maybe and the right one was the "taking home" pile, I sat down on one of the couches placed between the book shelves and began analyzing my books, as I read the cover of a book named "The seventh tower, The fall" I saw from the corner of my eye a guy looking at me, with a curious stare, he was tall, with blond short hair, he was wearing the bookstore uniform, I turned to look at him and he smiled. I smiled too going back to my book, "what the hell!" I thought he was probably stupid, to me every single person was an idiot until they showed me the contraire.
"Hi! My name is Ian" a male voice said behind me, this surprised me, I jumped and my book went flying in the air. "Great" I whispered standing up and picking up my book. He was still standing there "oh God" I though
"Hi!" I said politely "I'm Anna" I said sitting down on the couch again
"So you come here a lot?" he asked, but I could see he already knew the answer, I had seen his picture of "employee of the month" when I came in the store, I came here all the time he probably saw me more than a couple times.
"Yeah, I love it here" I said losing interest in the conversation
"The seventh tower huh..." he said taking the book from my hands opening it and smelling it. I was going to yell at him for taking my book, but when he smelled it surprised me, I did the same thing, I knew only people who really value a book smelled it, and every book had its own smell.
'it's a great series, 6 books, Fiction of course as you can see in the cover, I don't understand why it never became famous, I guess today's stuff is vampires…" he said lost in thought, this guy was actually interesting, for the rest of the evening he helped me Carrie the books as I took more, by the time I went to pay I had 25 books and no idea how I was going to take all those bags home.
"Well I guess you will be going now" he said smiling
"Yeah" I said a little disappointed "want to come with me and we can get a coffee or something?"I asked hopeful
"Sure, my shift ended like an hour ago so I'm free to go" he said laughing. He stayed with me following me around with 3 pounds of books in each hand just because he wanted to?
We drank coffee and talked about our favorite authors and our love for books, he was really interesting, he offered to call me every time there was a crazy book sell or other stuff I could be interested in. I gave him my number, hoping he would call not only for that.
