All the characters in this story are over 18. Yes, they meet in class, but it is a college class. The female protagonist is 22, and the male is 27.
Oh, My Sweet Rapture
He sat behind me in my sophomore poetry class. It made it hard to write, or think clearly about the words of others that I was listening to. I couldn't help but be aware of his presence. Sometimes I thought I could feel his body heat. I knew I could feel him looking at my back.
I'd pull my hair to the side, sometimes, when I felt him looking at me. As if I were doing it absently, though it was really such a secret, sensual gesture. My neck is quite long, and very pale, and I knew that he could see the small sweet mole I had beneath my right ear. The first time, I heard him suck in a breath, so softly, and I knew he had seen it. I knew he knew that I had showed it to him. ...yes, this is how I flirt. Indecent mole exposure.
All in all, I'm definitely not one of the "sexy girls" in the class. I'm tall, and wear my dark hair in blunt bangs that come right to the tops of my buddy holly glasses. I wear eyeliner sometimes, but never lipstick. I prefer it when boys don't stare at me. But he watched me. I could feel him watching me. He wore glasses as well, but not constantly, and behind them, his eyes burned with a heat, and a passion. His voice would get thicker as he read his poetry, and I could feel him staring at my back.
We had said not more than a few words to eachother. We realized we both had a penchant for Chuck Taylors. I complimented his scarf, and once, his Alkaline Trio t-shirt. He called me out on a Dr. Horrible quote that I worked into a poem. Did I mention that smart boys are crazy hot?
He wore that weird scruffy face-hair that emo boys seem to have such a penchant for, and a ring graced the side of his bottom lip. Which, I should mention, was also pretty hot. Did I mention that emo boys are damn sexy?
One day I was out having a cigarette before class. He strolled up, a camel wide hanging from his fingers, smoke curling up his tattooed arm. I suddenly felt very naked in my crazy-old modest mouse tshirt. I'm pretty sure you can see my bra through it. "So, what random internet musical are you going to plagiarize today?" He asked, cocking an eyebrow at me.
"None." I shot back. "I was planning on working in a few choice lines from Debbie Does Dallas."
He gave me a strange look and walked away.
"Way to go." I hissed to myself. My whole face was flushed when I went in. I kept my head down as I walked past him, thankful for my hair, my glasses, everything I had to hide behind.
I couldn't focus. I kept reliving the horrible moment when I brought up a terrible old porno to my crush in my college poetry class. Who DOES that?! I couldn't even function when the teacher instructed us to begin a free-write. I stared at the paper in front of me that I'd written the phrase "Debbie Does Dallas" on, beneath my name and the class name.
"Okay, who wants to read?" My teacher spoke in her weird not-quite-english voice, which sounded like a put-upon Professor Sprout from Harry Potter.
"I would." His voice seemed closer behind me than I expected, and I jumped.
"Oh, fabulous!" Prof. Sprout clapped her hands together, and I wanted to hit her in her inanity that detracted from the intensity of the voice behind me.
He cleared his throat, and there was a nervousness about him as he rustled his paper.
"I see a secret
No one knows I see it
Except her"
He cleared his throat again, and I felt my blood pressure rising in my ears. I reached my hand back, smoothing my hair unconsciously, wondering if he was talking about me.
"She is a secret
It lives inside her
But I see it like a mark upon her flesh
Like an angel kiss"
I slowly turned, and his eyes were staring directly into mine. I gasped, and it was as though the entire room faded around us. It was his eyes. His lips. His voice. And my body, responding helplessly to his words.
"Like I could drink the dregs of her mind
When I see her secrets
She knows I see them
She shows me her pale truth