Author's note
Hi! This is gonna be my first time publishing a story that I've written. I've been thinking about writing some more chapters, too, so get comfortable and enjoy it!
~Alca out!
I don't even know who you are.
As far as first impressions go, I'm a reasonably easygoing guy. I try not to judge too harshly, and I always give people the benefit of the doubt, but I'll know pretty quickly whether I'll be able to get along with someone from the minute I meet them. The keyword being meet, as I won't be able to determine whether or not I'll like someone if I haven't met them before. Yet she seemed to have based her entire opinion about me on hearsay, on what she's seen and heard of me through third parties. It was obvious from the moment I first saw her look at me, because as soon as I stopped appreciating how beautiful her eyes were, I noticed they weren't contemplating me. She wasn't sizing me up, figuring me out, she was actively trying to set me on fire and burn me to ash with just a look. It shocked me, I had no idea what I could've done to make her judge me so harshly without ever having spoken to her. I contemplated walking up to her to ask, but at the time I was not nearly confident enough for such a move. I pretended not to see the way she looked at me and turned around to spend the next few days trying to forget about that look, even though I was completely unable to stop thinking about those eyes.
Over the course of the weeks and months that followed, I learned who she was and figured out the most probable reason for her to hate me. Apparently I had wronged a close friend of hers, and that was all she needed to conclude that I was in fact an asshole, not worthy of her time. Fair enough, I guess I had that one coming, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, after all. Months passed, I graduated, life moved on and I had long since forgotten about her, as I had about a lot of people I shared a school building with on a daily basis for years. I can only assume she had forgotten about me as well, I couldn't imagine her walking around with a grudge against a random guy she had never once had a decent conversation with. She seemed way too put together for something as petty as that.
Apparently though, neither of us had truly forgotten, as became obvious when we spontaneously ran into each other at a party years later. I noticed her first, it was impossible not to, she was as gorgeous as ever. A figure to die for and a beautiful face, highlighted by eyes that radiated power, intelligence and character. When she noticed me, they started radiating something else. Immediately, they narrowed, it was like nothing had changed, she still loathed me. I wasn't the same person I was back then, and I wasn't about to let this slide. I made sure her full attention was on me before winking at her with a cheeky smile, and blowing her a kiss. If looks could kill, I would've exploded right then and there. Instead, for me, the game was on.
Up until that party, I genuinely did not care about her. I knew her name, who she was and I knew that I found her incredibly attractive, but that was that. Now, it was personal, she had taken a petty teenage grudge based on assumption and hearsay and carried it all the way into her early twenties. If she wanted to play childish games I would indulge her, but I would play to win. I was already looking forward to seeing her again, and made sure to get myself invited to the next party I knew she'd be a few months later. I thought about the type of person she was, and figured that by arriving fashionably late and being generally aloof, acting like I was only there to favor the host with my inspiring presence, I would be able to piss her off the most. I couldn't even imagine how on the mark I was.
I made sure to mingle with different groups, listening to their stories with rapt attention, but steering the conversation in my direction whenever she was in earshot. For over two hours, every time she was near me, she heard me talk about how great I thought I was. I must have been beyond annoying for those I was talking to, but I didn't care. I would never see these people again, they were just a means to a purpose. I was not going to accept a woman like her hating me every time she saw me, to let it fester and ruminate. Instead, I was going to push her to the breaking point, annoy and frustrate her until there was only one possible outcome, an explosion. From there, perhaps in my arrogance, I saw two possible consequences. Either it would turn into a screaming match on one of the parties we were both attending, or...
Or I would take that incredibly sexy piece of ass home for the hatefuck of a lifetime. This was the more favorable outcome, naturally, because damn if she wasn't incredibly hot. I was going to have to be extremely careful though, having her call me out in front of a few dozen people because I asked her to fuck me would not end favorably for me. I had to make sure that she was interested before making any sort of move. I got my first opportunity sooner than I expected, at the same party where I made sure she heard me talk about myself to a few different groups of people. I was in the kitchen, getting a drink, when all of a sudden I heard a biting voice.
"You really think you're something else, don't you?"
My heart stopped. Not because I hadn't expected her to say something to me, but because I suddenly realized she had never talked to me before. I had never heard her voice, we had judged and loathed one another for years but we had never interacted directly.Hearing her voice made me all the more determined, I was going to fuck this girl. Maybe not tonight, but some day I would take her home and fuck her brains out. I was going to take her in each and every position I could possibly think of. The thought of her tight body convulsing through orgasm after violent orgasm suddenly turned me on like nothing else, and I noticed that after the involuntary stop earlier my heart was now pounding out of my chest from excitement. This entire thought process took about a second, coming up with a response required no time at all, it just came out.
"I'm sorry, but I don't think I know who you are."
The look of absolute loathing and disgust immediately radiating from her gorgeous face put all the looks she had ever given me before to shame. I tried my best not to grin, but some of my cocky satisfaction must've come out through my eyes, because she steeled her features and answered quickly.
"You know exactly who I am, don't think you can rile me up this easily."
Oh, she wanted to play ball.
"You're right, I know exactly who you are, but I don't know you, do I? We've never talked."
"We have nothing to talk about."
"And yet you just initiated our very first conversation. Why the change of heart?"
"Because you are an arrogant piece of shit and I wanted you to know that nobody here likes you."
"Ouch! You're wrong, though. I am an arrogant piece of shit, I'll give you that, but there's at least two people here that like me."
"Please, they just pretend to like you."
"Ah, no, that was everyone else I was just talking to. I don't care about any of them actually, never saw 'm before and I'll never see 'm again. I just wanted you to hear what I was saying, which is why I kept you in earshot. Since you're one of the two people here that likes me."
"I do NOT like you."
"Yes, you do. Why else would you go out of your way to listen to what I'm saying, to walk over here and talk to me?"
"Because I can't stand you and someone needed to knock you down a few pegs."
"Why would you even care? Like I said, we've never talked before, I don't know you and you don't know me. What other reason could you have other than being interested in me?"
"God, are you really this conceited and arrogant? You honestly think that if someone hates you it just secretly means they like you?"
"No, babe, I think it's really easy to hate me, since I'm a manipulative, conceited and arrogant braggart. I'm saying that I think it's you specifically who likes me."
"Believe whatever you want to believe. I have better things to do than this."
"Again, why did you initiate the conversation then?"
"Shut up. Just leave me alone."
Step one completed, the seeds of doubt have been sown. Either she didn't think this through or she was actually vying for my attention, I had no clue which it was, I was hoping for the latter but expecting the former. Even in my wildest imagination I still felt I was deluding myself about her being even remotely interested in me.
Nothing else happened at this party so I got out of there to plan the next one. I got another chance soon after when another mutual friend went to study abroad for a year and threw a going away party. This time, I showed up perfectly in time and behaved like the perfect gentleman. Never once talking about myself, showing an interest in everybody at the party, and smiling brightly. She still looked at me with the burning hatred of a thousand suns, but I could see that she was confused. This time, I made a show of going to the kitchen for a drink, and she didn't disappoint.