Chapter One:
Meeting James
Steffi's POV
I wasn't really doing anything special, just walking around my new neighborhood trying to be by myself. I sighed. Why did we have to move? It's not fair. I left all of my friends in Tennessee and they were all jealous that I moved to L.A. So what? It's just a city. I mean what's so special about the fact that 98% of Hollywood's most famous celebrities live there. Alexis told me that, one of my best friends I left behind. I turned the corner and past by an ice cream parlor. All of a sudden a big weight knocked into me, knocking me to the ground. My knee started stinging. Great, first day in L.A. and I already hurt myself. I looked up to see who or what crashed into me. I could tell it was a guy. A very cute guy to be exact. Guess my luck changed.
"Oh my god, are you ok?" he said
"Yeah I'm fine. Well, at least nothing's broken"
"I'm sorry. I wasn't watching where I was going"
"It's ok"
"My name's James. What's yours?"
Hmm an introduction. I wonder if he's into me.
"Steffi"
"Well Steffi nice to meet you-" He then froze when he saw my knee. "Crap, you're hurt!"
"Nah, I'm fine really-" He cut me off.
"Here, you sit down and I'll go get you an icepack." And he ran off
I sat down in defeat and waited. After a couple of minutes, he came back with not only an icepack but with two cups of ice cream. James sat down in front of me and handed me the icepack and the ice cream. I put it on my leg and looked at what the flavor was.
"How'd you know I liked cookie dough?" I said through a spoonful of ice cream.
"You looked like someone who liked cookie dough, I guess"
"Do you have some mutant powers that let you see what ice cream a person likes or something"
He laughed "I wish. So, I haven't seen you here before. Are you new? "
"Ah, the dreaded question I knew someone would ask."
"Oh well if you don't want to answer that you don't have to"
"No it's okay. It was bound to be asked anyways. Let's see, where I should start. Oh, well
my dad's company moved to L.A. and since he's very close to the manager." I scooped some ice cream into my mouth. "Guess whose family gets to move to Los Angeles? Mine" I said with sarcasm.
"Well it's not that bad"
"Yes it is. I had to leave all of my friends behind and I had wonderful teachers and grades and a reputation and, and-" I didn't get to finish because all of a sudden my eyes erupted with tears and no matter how I tried to stop them, they wouldn't. James picked his chair up and moved it next to mine and gave me a hug.
"I think it was a bad idea to ask you that question"
"N-no its f-fine I'm ok-k I just have to accept the f-fact that I'm not going back and I should m-move on."
He chuckled and that made me stop crying. When we pulled away from our embrace, I wiped the tears away with my hand and saw his shirt.
"What?" He asked when he saw me staring.
"Your shirt" I said with a weak laugh
James looked down. My tears had soaked his shirt and his shoulder was thoroughly wet and the shirt was sticking to him. After a few moments of silence, we both laughed. We started talking again and I completely forgot about my crying outburst. James was SO nice I mean I met nice guys before but he was something. Time really flies; I didn't even realize how much time passed until I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket. I took it out and found out it was 7:30. I didn't want to leave though, I had fun with James. He saw my face drop when I saw the time.
"Well if you're not doing anything tomorrow, I was wondering if you want to come with me for and audition I'm having tomorrow?"
"That'll be great. When do I have to be ready?"
"Uhh 8:30"
"Oh ok." I paused. "Do you want to walk me home?" I said with hope that he would say yes.
"Sure. I'd love to"
I got up from the table and stretched. James laughed again when he could hear some of my joints popping from sitting so long. I returned the laugh when his followed in suit. So we both walked the same route I took earlier in the day. When we reached my house, he asked me if he could see my phone.
"Why"
"Cuz earlier it looked like your screen was broken from the fall"
"Really" I said as I took out my phone but he grabbed it out of my hand. "Hey give that back!" I chased him around and when I finally caught up to him I was panting and he didn't even break a sweat.
"Here's your phone. I fixed it and you got a workout too." He said with a smile.
"Thanks James" I panted.
"So I'll see you tomorrow"
I sighed "Yeah, see ya"
I watched him until he turned the corner. When I looked at my phone, I realized that it wasn't broken; He just added his number to my contacts list. I walked back to my house with a smile to my face.
