Snippet #1452734

[Later that day...]

"Where are you..." Angel stalked through the darkening park, searching desperately for her sketchbook. Ever since realizing she'd lost halfway through the day, the girl had been trying to retrace her steps, which had finally brought her back here. Her day had been less than enjoyable to say the least. And to say the most, it'd been a damned nightmare. Not only had she gotten detention for being late to her first class, but she hadn't been able to focus on anything all day. Why? Because she couldn't keep the guy she'd met that morning out of her head. Every class that day, she'd just zoned out and started thinking about Alejandro, not returning to reality until one of her teacher's had called on her. Not that she wasn't used to not paying attention in class, but normally it was because she was busy drawing something, not daydreaming about some stranger.

What the heck was going on with her? This was a guy she'd never met, and now he was constantly on her mind. How exactly did that make sense? Maybe it was just guilt, she reasoned. To be fair, she hadn't been all that nice to him. Yeah, he'd kinda started it, but that didn't give her the right to accuse him of spying on her. The guy practically saved her life--okay, maybe not her life, but it'd been better than landing on the ground--and in return she'd acted like a total jerk. How was that for gratitude.

No matter how much she told herself it was guilt getting to her, Angie knew there was more to it than that. From the moment she'd laid eyes on the guy, something had just...clicked. She couldn't explain it, but it was like that warm, safe feeling that came with the feeling of being watched, only stronger. The girl groaned, running her fingers through her hair. She felt like a middle-schooler with a crush on a celebrity. It was ridiculous. All day today, she'd found herself hoping she'd run into him again, that maybe he was new at school and that's why she'd never seen him before today. No such luck though. Which begged a few key questions: Who was this guy? Why had she never seen him before. And what the heck was he doing to her head?