MITCH'S POV
"Yeah, alright guys," I smugly say before turning around. As I'm about to round the corner to the washrooms a girl bumps into me, dropping her purse on the floor. Without hesitation, I pick up her things noticing that she has a minecraft book. "Here, I believe you dropped this. Minecraft... That's a good game and this book, I've heard about, just never really thought about reading it," I say handing her the book.
She seemed distressed, so I asked her if anything was wrong but she kind of just shrugged me off... weird. As she gave me eye contact, I don't know what it was... like my insides just flipped upside down and I even started to go red in the face. "Well it's been fancy bumping into you dood... by dood I mean d-o-o-d, no specific gender or anything," I say now, sort of nervous. With that, I give her a smile and head back to my table.
"So Mitch, who was that girl you were talking to?" Jerome asks as he nudges at me.
I pause for a moment, damn. I didn't even get her name. "I... I don't know."
"What do you mean, you don't know Mitch?" Matt harps in.
"Man, you look so flustered Mitch," Rob adds in.
"Oooooo, you like her," Preston states.
"I do not, calm down, calm down," I play it off. "I didn't get her name, she was so shy and didn't even look at me... so yeah, whatever.
"Biggums, she's still at her table, go talk to her again," Jerome encouraged me.
"No no, I really shouldn't."
"Common," Matt and Jerome say at the same time.
I glance over to Rob and Preston for a bit of guidance, noticing that Jerome and Matt start to laugh to themselves like they've been caught doing something.
"Don't look at me Mitch, this is all on you big boy," Rob smirks.
"What he said," Preston says distracted by his phone.
"Alright fine, I'll do it. What table is she sitting at?"
Jerome looks back to point it out but pauses.
"Whats wrong?" I ask.
"She's gone, must have left," he says.
I don't let it show, but my heart kind of sunk. "Oh well, it's no biggie. Common, lets get another round."
"Alriiight!" Matt announces.
I glance around the pub once more, scanning for her but no luck. For the rest of the night, I try not to seem down but I don't think it's working. The boys decide to call it a night earlier than usual. Oh well, I go back to Montreal tomorrow evening and then I can forget about this all.
*In the hotel*
I sit on my laptop checking my twitter as Jerome takes a shower. I check my name to see if there might have been a tweet related to me, she had a Minecraft book - maybe she watches it too? My search was soon interrupted by Jerome singing some song as he walked out of the door to the bathroom. I couldn't help but laugh.
"So how you been?" he asks.
"What do you mean?"
"About the girl doooooooood," emphasis on the dood.
"Oh," is my only response.
"Well I mean, it couldn't have been that big of a deal right? It was just fluke bump into right?"
"I... I don't know man. I was fine at first, she just seemed all upset or something but then she looked at me dead in the eyes and thats what killed me."
"Oooooo, biggums. You definitely like her. Well what, so you have no idea who she really is?"
"Not a clue. She had a minecraft book on her, so I thought she might watch it too... I'm on twitter now.. there's no sign of her. Guess that's that," I say admitting defeat.
Jerome pats me on the back "Want the other guys to come down? We could have a boys night, I even snagged some beer on the way back here."
"Sounds like a plan."
"Ayeee!" Jerome shouts as Rob, Matt and Preston all come barging in.
