I Saw You from Across the Room…
Chapter 2 "I couldn't stop thinking about you…"
Zack couldn't stop thinking about her. She was unlike anything he had ever seen at the Tipton before.
All he knew was her name, Morgan. She was so beautiful, with her long dark hair and that smile. And her eyes, her eyes were so…beautiful.
She was different than all the other girls at his school, who were dumb blondes and had all the same looks.
He had to find her, I mean; he couldn't just let her get away like this. She was so perfect, and so amazingly beautiful. Plus, he had her cell phone.
I can't stop thinking about that guy I met in the lobby, Zack. That was all I knew about him, but it was all I needed to know.
He was SO cute. That smile, it was something that lit up an entire room.
I sat on my bed in the hotel room, in my striped pink and red pajama bottoms and a pink tank top.
Where's my cell phone? I asked myself, panicking a bit. Without thinking, I jumped off my bed, and ran into the living room of the suite.
"What's the rush?" My mom asked, as I ran for the door.
"I think I left my cell phone in the lobby, I'll be right back." I said, unlocking the door, and then running out into the hall, and down to the elevator.
The elevator went down, floor by floor, and it seemed like hours before it got to the bottom floor. Eventually it did though.
The doors opened, and then, I saw him again. Zack was sitting on one of the couches, writing with a pencil in a blue notebook.
The lobby was empty, with nobody but him and me in the room. It was silent too, with no guests and bell-hops running around everywhere.
I walked up to the couch he was seated on, feeling like a dork in my soft red socks and my pajamas.
I sat down next to him, and then he finally realized someone besides himself was in the lobby.
"Hey." He said, closing the notebook, and putting it to the side.
"Hey." I replied. Wow, we have a HUGE vocabulary don't we?
I continued on, "I dropped my cell phone, have you-"
He cut me off, "Yah, I have it. Here it is." He said, pulling it out of his pocket and handing it to me.
"Thanks." I said, taking it from him, looking into his deep hazel eyes.
"No problem." He replied, smiling that smile again, making me weak in the knees. It's a good thing I wasn't standing up; I would have fallen over.
"Well, I have to get going, I'm pretty tired." I said, standing up, him doing the same.
"Me too." He said, walking beside me to the elevator, and pushing the little up button.
He kept smiling at me in the elevator, and I smiled back. We both didn't say anything, until we got out, both of us on the 23rd floor.
"You're on the 23rd too?" He asked, as we walked out of the elevator.
"Yah, Suite 224, you?" I replied, trying to play it cool.
"I'm in 221. So, I'll see you around then?" He asked, as we walked and were in front of my suite door.
"Yah, you will." I said, as he walked off about a foot, and I opened the door, seeing my mom sitting on the couch, watching re-runs of Law and Order.
"Who's the hottie?" She asked as I came through the door. Apparently she got a glimpse of him when he walked off.
"His name is Zack." I said, walking to my room and shutting the door, ignoring what-ever else she said about him.
I collapsed on my bed, and began to go through my cell phone. I noticed I had 1 new message from a number I didn't recognize.
I pressed the button to play the messages, and then put it on speaker, waiting to listen.
A voice came through the speaker, and then I heard the message:
"Hey Morgan, its Zack. I just wanted to tell you that, when I saw you from across the room, I couldn't help but become breathless. I wrote you a little something, well; actually it's a song, so here it goes."
Then, he started to strum the guitar and sing the song. It was clearly about me, with some of the lyrics like; When I saw you from across the room/I couldn't help but get memorized/By those beautiful eyes.
I finished listening to the song, and I felt a feeling I had never felt before in my life.
Even though I didn't know him barely at all, I felt like I had forever. I felt like he knew me too. It was so weird.
I couldn't stop thinking about him all night. He was in my dreams, with his song playing in the background. I couldn't believe that I was dreaming about a guy I just met.
Zack kept thinking about her all night. He wondered if she listened to his message yet, and if she thought he was a total dork when she did listen to it.
He still couldn't believe he did that. The real question was, WHY did he do that?
All he knew was that he felt something about this girl that he hadn't felt before with his 20 other girlfriends, and he hardly knew her.
He didn't know what this crazy feeling was, but it felt kinda good to him. He just hoped she liked the song and didn't think he was a dork.
He turned over on his side, and then drifted off into sleep.