"You're Hannah Flack, right?" someone asked Hannah as she sat in a booth in a coffee house, her work opened in front of her, a pen twirling in her hand as she bit on her lip nervously whilst reading through one of her text books.
"Yeah" she replied and looked up to find a familiar face stood above her, smiling down onto her. The tall bay was quite well built, a bit more muscular than Mark and he had black hair which was shining in the light, his face was blessed with all the right features, nice blue eyes, a smallish nose and a smiling mouth.
"I thought so…I'm in your lectures at college" he said and sat down opposite her, offering her his hand which she took politely;
"The names Daniel" he informed her "Daniel Cook"
"I'd give you my name but it seems you already know it" Hannah smiled slightly and the boy laughed and leant back in his seat, folding his arms over his chest;
"So…I haven't seen you around in a while…one minute you were there and the next you wasn't" he said and Hannah raised an eyebrow at him before running a hand through her long, curly hair and looking back at her books;
"I was ill" she muttered
"But you're feeling better now?" he asked her
"I'll get there" she whispered and the boy took a deep breath. He knew she had been pregnant, the whole lecture hall had been whispering about it so it wasn't a shock to everyone when she began to show. But now, she looked skinnier and Daniel was curious to find out why. He had noticed Hannah sat in the front row of the hall, whilst he and a friend sat at the back, dossing around if you like. But he had never gotten the guts to talk to the good looking girl which was odd for him considering he was normally an absolute flirt with any female who even looked at him. The day he had found out she was pregnant he had been shocked. She seemed such an innocent girl and then he told himself she must have a boyfriend for she didn't look like the type who would sleep with anyone that offered themselves.
"You've lost weight" he stated and Hannah closed her eyes for a moment in annoyance before dropping her pen onto the paper;
"Look" she began "I don't know why you're talking to me…and it is quite clear that you know I was pregnant…the whole college knew"
"Knew" he jumped onto her wording "you used past tense"
"Well if you managed to get into college then I am sure you can figure out what happened by deducing sentences" Hannah said bitterly and Daniel couldn't help but think how witty she was.
"I'm sorry if I'm intruding" Daniel said, peering down onto his lap "it was just that you hadn't been in college…and then when I saw you I thought I would make sure you was okay because you looked different…it's just that I sit behind you and thought you looked a nice girl…clearly you want to be alone so I will just go" he said and began to move off. Hannah sighed to herself before gripping onto the end of his black winter coat sleeve and pulling him back;
"I'm sorry" she said "it's just that the last few weeks…they've been hard and not many people have cared about my well being"
"Hannah" he turned around to face her as she let go of his sleeve and he took a seat opposite her "I can clearly see what has happened and I get it if you don't want to talk about it, I mean, we barely know each other"
"That's true…but you can see I lost the baby…I slipped" she said, not dragging Clarke into it because she didn't want to confuse matters with Daniel who didn't need to know what happened.
"I'm sorry" he whispered, finally able to say it. Hannah nodded once and looked down at the table;
"I'm fine now" she said, not sure if it was entirely true "so you'll have me back and answering questions in class in no time"
Daniel laughed at her and ran a hand through his hair;
"I did notice you tend to know most of the answers…so do you spend half your time studying?" he asked her and she shrugged;
"I guess a higher percentage than fifty should suffice" she grinned "I just want to be able to become a doctor"
"I guessed that was why you took the medicine course" he chuckled "but I mean seriously, all that time studying?"
"Yeah" Hannah laughed at his shocked expression "and I can tell by the way you sit at the back and don't put your hand up to answer many questions that you don't study much?"
"Correct" he admitted, raising his hands into the air "I thought I wanted to be a doctor…but now I'm not so sure"
"So you're wasting college fees?" Hannah checked and he shrugged
"I said I wasn't sure…not that I didn't want to do it for definite" he told her "but…don't you ever go to any of the college parties on campus?"
"I don't live on campus" Hannah said "I live in NY with my dad and stepmother"
"Then you're never lived" he informed her "you ever drank?"
"Only a small glass…you know you have to be twenty one to drink?" Hannah laughed
"Rebel" he said "it's much more fun than studying day and night"
"At least I'm passing" she tormented him and he rolled his eyes and checked his watch.
"I have to go…but…can I have your number?" he asked and Hannah turned red;
"I'm taken already" she informed him and he winked;
"He doesn't have to know" he said but before Hannah could say anything else he held his hands up "joking, joking" he assured her and she narrowed her eyes but a small smile was on her lips "no…it's just in case I get stuck on any homework and I need the brain box of the class to part wisdom onto me"
"I should suppose so" Hannah said, tearing a corner of her notebook page and writing down her number "it would stop Dr. Radbury from yelling at you all the time and disrupting out education"
"So you do know who I am?" he grinned and slipped her number into his pocket
"I know of you" Hannah said and he stood up
"Then that is something I will have to change to make myself look good" he grinned and Hannah went back to her work;
"Goodbye Daniel" she said and he walked off, with Hannah looking after him as he went.
