Chapter 3 - Sparks are Flying
The lights dimmed again. I was sure my face was beet red, and for a second I got afraid because I think my face got all the blood in my body. I might faint, hurl or something that is equally or more embarrassing.
Instead, I blurt out the first thing that came to my mind.
"We should really stop meeting like this." I tittered. He laughed.
"I don't know about that," he said. "Have we met before? Because somehow, I really feel um, close, to you right now."
I smiled bashfully and did my best to entangle myself from helped me as best as he could in the dark, steadying me by holding me on my arms. I felt a slight tingle from it, as I struggled to steady myself.
Up on the planetarium's ceiling, were stars sprinkled across the whole space. Plus those little floor lights doesn't give me much light to use to see him clearly. I could only make out his outline from them. His grip on me still hasn't lessened, and he was moving his face side to side, trying to get a better look at my face.
Feeling strangely confident in the dark, I tried to use the Alice and Rosalie hair flip thing. I figured that'll look pretty sexy even in silhouette. My long chestnut locks of hair is probably my best feature in my whole face. Well, probably my whole body.
It wasn't until I felt the soft thump-thump of my bun on the back of my head that I suddenly remembered. I still had my hair up from the cockpit lecture. Oh well.
Hair or no hair, I could tell that this was definitely what Alice and Rose would call a "moment." The guy's grip on my arms tightened, and he leaned a little closer. I could smell rain and pine and a little bit of a spicy scent that I guessed was his aftershave.
We were beyond the weird rushing and almost unearthly heart pounding. I could practically feel the sparks between me and the guy. This feeling was so strong that I thought that I would grab his gorgeous face and kiss him 'til I die. It was so intense that I felt weirded out and suddenly begin to hyperventilate or something.
"Bigfoot Beast," I said abruptly, pushing back slightly, until he let me go. I could hear my skin screaming, 'WHY'D THE FUCK DID YOU LET US LOSE OUR SOULMATE? HIS SKIN IS OUR SOULMATE! PUT IT BACK YOU GOD DAMNED BITCH!' I ignored it and continued my "opening line."
"Um, I mean your shirt. I noticed it before. You like them?"
"Like them? You have got to be kidding me," he said with a slight hint of annoyance and enthusiasm. Shit. I decided to backtrack before I could further more embarrass myself.
"I, uh, mean..you were uh—"
"I LOVE THEM!" he exclaimed, but with a hush hush voice. Phew. I thought he just borrowed the shirt. "So, you're into them too? Not many girls are. They just like those weird pop songs that don't actually have a meaning."
"Oh totally," I replied. "Have you downloaded their new song? It rocks."
"Probably the best since 'Down the Ocean Road.'"
"'Down the Ocean Road? That's only my favourite song of theirs in like, ever!" I exclaimed.
"Mine too." Though I couldn't see his face, from his tone, I knew that he was smiling. Freaky, I know.
Other than the freakiness from knowing he was smiling in the dark, I was smiling too. Maybe it only took for me to pick up a guy is pitch black darkness. Or maybe, all that I was waiting for is this guy. Either way, I had this good feeling for once in this area, feeling that what I was doing was right.
The guy leaned a little closer again. "So, are you going to tell me your name or—"
A small, but intense beam of light shone on us from nowhere. It was directly pointed on his face, showing off his gorgeous goodness. He squinted, using one arm to block it. Also squinting myself, I could make out a small middle-aged scientist in a lab coat with a name tag attached to it. The beam of light was coming from the small flash light she was holding.
"Do you mind?" She snapped, her voice like a librarian in a library. Her face was stern, with little wrinkles forming near her eyebrows.
"This is a planetarium, not Make Out Point. You guys better go back to your seats before I report you guys to your chaperones."
"S-sorry," I stuttered.
"Wait!" The guy yelled. Miss Scientist-Old—Lady was getting impatient and pissy now.
"Now!" She barked. She held me by the arm and dragged me away from the first ever random person that did mysteries to my body.
"So, you never got his name?" Rose asked me in the bus going back to Hornbill High.
"Or where he goes to school or anything?" Alice joined. I shook my head pathetically.
"i told you guys this before. No, a million times NO."
I slumped in my seat on the bus, playing with the hair tie that I used to pull my hair up into a bun just a few hours ago, flinging it on the seat in front of me, picking it up, then doing it again. Jeremiah Merno was belting out the lyrics of "Hero" by Mariah Carey in the back of the bus. I don't know why, but he just did it when he went to the back of the bus. No one even dared to stop him 'cause well.. no one really cares. Or just really tired.
The planetarium show had seemed to go on forever after Miss Scientist-Old-Lady placed me in the front row, where the other staff were. True to form, my two best friends had leaped immediately to the best-case-scenario when I hadn't come back, and had happily distracted themselves throughout the the lecture of the birth and toddler years of the universe by imagining Mr. Drop-Dead-Gorgeous-Adonis and I were tucked away somewhere secluded making out or professing our love for each other. So when I came back to them, looking grumpy and disappointed, they hadn't been willing to believe it at first. Hence them asking me for the umpteenth time what had happened.
"Now, even though that this whole thing got me bored and just participated for the sake of my grade in Science, I actually wish the trip had lasted longer," Alice said, scrolling through her messages in her BBB.
"Maybe we could've tracked him down. Or he could have tracked you down. He seemed to be digging you until Doctor Killjoy came along," Alice continued her talk.
"Yeah, except that he didn't know my name or even what I looked like. Anyway, I tried to look for him after the show, but I'm lucky to even find you guys in that ginormous crowd," I sighed, thinking back to the encounter that I had with Mr. Amazing.
"You know, I think I found out the sparks you guys were talking about. I still don't get how you get it by just looking 'cause he couldn't really see me in the dark—"
"Love at first sight isn't that literal, Bella dear. It also involves pheromones and other stuff too," Rose interjected, explaining 'love at first sight' once again to me.
"Anyway, don't worry Bella babe, we might not know his name or where he goes to school here in this province, but we could track him down if we really put our minds to it," Alice said, giving me hope.
I couldn't help but feel dubious by her statement. "There were nine schools in this trip," I reminded her, "How are we going to find one random guy out of eight other schools? Keep transferring until we run into him?"
"Not necessary," She waved BBB at me. "I know guys at almost all those other schools. I can ask around."
"And say what? Your pathetic loser of a best friend can't even pick up a guy without screwing it up? Rosalie, you know you're not her pathetic loser of a best friend since you have guys falling at your feet which rounds that title to me."
Okay, I wasn't in the best mood right now. Who wouldn't be? An amazing guy was already in your reach, talking to you about 'Bigfoot Beast' but you forgot to ask his name or even where he went to school? Plus, I got groped by this super hairy and perverted gorilla, which made the day more worse.
"Both of them threw their arms around me and gave me a sympathetic squeeze. "We know how you feel, babe." Rose said softly.
"Doubtful. Guys following you all around, I wonder when you felt like this." I muttered bitterly.
This is one of the things I loved about my two almost-sisters, they know and used to me when I'm venting and never takes it personally.
"Just leave it to your awesome best friends, okay?" Alice said. "We'll track this guy down even if it's the last thing we'd do. Right, Rose?"
"Right."
That was sweet. Maybe a little ominous, knowing them. I shot them a suspicious look.
"I'm not sure if that's a good idea," I said. "We don't really have much of a basis here. What if you found his twin or something? Well, if he has one that is. That could be even more embarrassing than the trick I just pulled." I shuddered anew at the memory, though I had to admit, it hadn't turned out too badlu.
"Do you think we're amateurs at this? Doubting your own best friends," Alice said with that 'pity-me' voice. I rolled my eyes and she grinned.
"Besides, who would admit to liking that beastly band?" Rose said with a hint of disgust at the end.
"Hey! Bigfoot Beast rules!" I retorted automatically. My mind was reeling over this matter. Maybe all hope wasn't lost after all. "Do you really think you guys can figure out who he is?"
"We know we can," Rose said, sending a wink to Alice. They're nothing if they're not confident in all things. "Just give us a little time, we'd deliver you Mr. Sparks."
Sparks. Was that really what had been? Sparks, pheromones, love at first sight? Was all this angst worth it or was I deluding myself?
I glanced out the window at the scenery rushing by. We were almost out of the huge city by now, the buildings were thinning and the landscape getting greener and more suburban. With my two beautiful best friends sounding confident, there was very little space to argue. Still, my worst-case-scenario tendencies were still running in full blast, inventing all the possible and improbable ways for their plan to backfire.
"You won't embarrass me, will you?" I asked. " If you do find him, you're not going to, like, tell him you think we're soul mates or whatever, are you? Or that I'm madly in love with him or something?"
They both looked guilty and a car ran over their pet rock, Tyler at the same time, leading me to believe that was exactly what she'd planned to do. "If you don't want me to contact him, I won't," Ali said. "We'll just find and leave the rest to you. We pinky promise." They both said at the same time, which was kinda creepy. Good thing, they never break pinky promises. As in, never. It's the most sacred promise ever invented and we treat it as it is. I lifted both of my pinkies and we made it official.
"But that doesn't mean that I'll get over for you wussing out on us," Rose warned. "If we find him for you, you have to promise to do something about it."
"Look, I'll promise to do something," I promised. "But I can't promise it'll be what you guys would do. I'd do it my way."
They didn't look that satisfied, but it's better than nothing, right? They nodded. Rose told me what she thought about it. "Good enough, I guess."
We pinky swore again on that one. Then I took a deep breath, feeling a nervous little flutter run through me like a stampede of ants. Plus, the butterflies in my stomach doesn't help the situatuion too. They haven't even found them yet, for TheRealChiefVlogger Pete's sake. If you must know, he's the guy I found on YouTube that is doing his who knows how many diet thing.
"Okay," I said. "Find him, and then we'll just see what happens after that."
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