Sydney.

I heaved out a huge sigh as I swerved around a corner heading into the parking lot of the corner First Choice Mart. I kicked up my skateboard, threw it under my arm and walked into the Mart without missing a beat. "Evening Syds." Maya called from over her shoulder as she set up some office supplies on the shelves behind the register. "Hey May." I said. I gestured to my board and then to behind the counter. "Mind?" I asked. "Be my guest! Or customer." She giggled. I smiled.

I heard her step down off the step stool as I turned to the set up with the large selection of giant cases of soda. "Ringing you up for the usual?" "Yep" I chuckled, not sure what I was laughing at. I pulled out a usual Pepsi case and walked over to the bags of chips, quickly selected the baked Lays and grabbed a pack of sour apple gum and plunked them on the counter.

Maya smiled and began to ring me up. I sighed and rubbed my eyes tiredly. Maya noticed.

"What's up?"

"What?" I asked dumbly.

"What's up with you every Friday? I know I should know, but, I don't and I mean you come in with your guitar and you look like you ran around Texas twice without taking a break." She said with a soft laugh as her caramel hair curled delicately around her face.

"I play at the small coffee place, you know the Break Room. Yeah and you know me. Just naturally tired." She laughed again.

She set my bag on the counter then leaned both elbows on the counter, set her cheeks in her hand and looked up at me and said. "Have I ever said I'm totally jealous of your eyes?" "Only about a million times."

Yeah I have purple-y blue-ish eyes. I have Alexandria's Genesis. It makes your eyes purple. Maya is totally hating me for it.

She stuck out her tongue at me and stood back up, leaning her elbow against the cash register.

"Also your hair. It's so… Different." "Thank you?" "It's a compliment, you know." she giggled.

My hair was jet and I do mean JET black and my long bangs that went over one eye were dyed a dark magenta like color.

We talked for a bit, no one really came on Friday's so I wasn't holding up any line.

Then we heard the bell on the door ring. Surprised, we turned our heads.

I froze.

I looked up to face the over six foot guy towering over both me and Maya in the store. He had strawberry blond hair and dark blue eyes. He was wearing really beat up jeans, a broken in oversized black sweat shirt. The sleeves were pushed up to his elbow. He walked in smoothly stopping to look at me, probably because I was staring at him.

I tore my gaze away quickly and flipped my long swooping dark magenta bangs in front of my eyes.

I took my stuff off the counter and kicked my skateboard around to my feet.

When the guy turned to go into the back of the store, he ran into one of the stands.

Without thinking I asked, "You okay?" He turned.

"Yeah, just not thinking. Surprise, surprise."

I laughed. He smiled and turned back around. "

Maya tapped my shoulder. "Oh my God he is so HOT!" she mouthed. I rolled my eyes. "You say that about half the guys we know." I whispered. "But yeah he kinda is." I agreed.

"Well?" She whispered.

"Well what?"

"Go say something to him!"

"Uh yeah no thanks." I hissed.

"Why not?" She protested.

"Cause I'm not about to go down there, open my mouth and have the words that come out be, uh, umm, yeah, uhh." I said.

She rolled her eyes and leaned back down with her arms resting on the counter. "You gotta take a chance sometime!"

"Yeah, but sometime is not now."

"Your helpless, I hope you know that."

"Yeah I know."

I turned around, and nearly jumped.

There he was right behind me.

He smiled softly at me and said, without taking his eyes off me, "I suggest next time you guys want to gossip about me, you should probably do that after I've left." I felt myself blushing.

I don't blush.

"Sorry." I mumbled. Not removing my gaze from his. There was something in his eyes.

Literally.

I wanted to say something about it, but when I opened my mouth he seemed to know what I was going to say and stopped it by saying. "Uh yeah I'm gonna need seven cases of the Coca-Cola and make that eight cause one has to be diet." He informed Maya, who's jaw dropped at the large order.

"Stupid Nudge…" I heard him mutter under his breath.

"E-E-Eight cases of soda?" She stuttered.

"Uh yeah." He said casually.

"Throwing a party or something?" She asked.

"Something like that." He said, loading a few cases on the counter and slapping a twenty on top.

"I can get the rest." Maya told him coming around the counter and pinching me.

Sending me a sign with her eyes that said. "Hurry up and flirt!" He let out a heavy breath.

"So… I'm gonna go." I randomly said, ignoring Maya's sign. "Um… Have fun at your party or whatever." I said. Taking my things and skating out.

I thought about the stranger at the Mart the whole ride home.

He was kinda cute.

I thought. Going over him in my head.

I wonder who he is. I hope I run into him again. He seems like a mystery worth discovering.