Two days later and I have not seen hide nor hair of the hot freshman, and I'm beginning to wonder if he's not the one avoiding me. Peering around the semi-crowded lunchroom I search for his face, biting my lip as I do so.
"Girl, you need to relax." I finally return my gaze to meet Thea's and see she looks a little amused, her eyebrow raised at me and a smirk playing on her cherry red lips.
"I am relaxed." I reply as I fidget.
"No, you are so not relaxed." Laurel rolls her eyes at me and pushes my tray closer to me. "Eat something on your own or I will force you to." She points at it and gives me a look that leaves no room for argument.
With a sigh, I grab the apple from my tray, taking a big bite, swallowing before I give her a smile. "Happy now?"
"Better. But you need to eat more than one bite to make me happy." She lets out a laugh at my behavior. "I'm serious. Besides, you're the one who's looking to be a doctor. You should know how to take care of yourself." Shaking her head, she digs back in to her own food.
Shaking my head slightly, I continue to eat the apple I picked up as I resume looking around the room. Suddenly I do a double take, and realize that, yes, that really is him over there.
Dropping the core of my apple onto my plate I quickly sanitize my sticky hands and take a few sips of my water.
"I found him." I lean in as I speak in a low voice, just above a whisper. But to be honest I don't need to, the cafeteria is both crowded and loud, no way someone all the way across the room can hear me.
"The hot freshie?" Laurel raises her eyebrow and grins when I nod to confirm. "What are you waiting for?"
"I thought we already established that Caitlin, our Caitlin right here, does not possess the ability to talk to guys that she thinks are hot unless it's purely school based talk." She gestures at me while she talks.
"Oh, I know. But the hot freshie totally did that lame high five thing she did back a couple of days ago. I want to see if she can get away with it again." She giggles back to Thea.
"I am right here." I say, feeling a little indignant to somehow be excluded from the convo which was about me. They continue to go back and forth, ignoring me and I shake my head and push myself to my feet. Turning I relocate him and, trying to make sure he doesn't see me, I make my way over to the area he's sitting in.
As I move closer, he and his friends are standing up and saying their goodbyes between them. High fiving each other and doing that handshake to hug thing that a lot of guys do. Perfect timing, I think to myself. Quickly I slide up on the outskirts of the group, just as he's turning around and claim a high give, threading my fingers through his for the third time now. His eyes widen the slightest bit in surprise, and I smirk at him. "Love you bae."
Before I can make a fool of myself any further, I slip my hand out of his and move past him back into the crowd and nearly have to fight my way back to my spot.
As I slide back into my spot I notice both Laurel and Thea are staring, slightly open mouthed at me. Or behind me, I can't tell. "What?" I raise an eyebrow at them, and finally grab a bite of my pizza.
"He couldn't take his eyes off you." Laurel comments at the same time Thea does, "He's still staring at you." I blink at them as I sip at my water again. "What?" I begin to turn and Thea grabs my arm effectively drawing my focus back to her, "Wait!" She exclaims, "Don't be obvious that you're looking."
"How do I, oh whatever I don't really care." Rolling my eyes at her I turn around, immediately my eyes are drawn to him this time. My mouth drops open jus the slightest bit when our eyes meet. Two sets of brown eyes meeting, melting together. My eyes are drawn to his lips when a smile begins to form. I bite my lip as I look between his very kissable looking lips and his deep eyes. I feel myself blushing as his eyes examine me from across the room, and I shyly raise my hand and wave my fingers at him in greeting.
"Oh my gosh." Laurel squeals and without looking I assume she's tugging on Thea's arm. "I know! I know!" she giggles back. "Our little Caitlin has a not so secret admirer!"
"They grow up so fast." Thea sniffles dramatically, "It seems like just yesterday she wasn't able to so much as talk to a cute guy." Laurel joins in and they both laugh hysterically.