The boy from the cafeteria

Date: 6/13/2019

I went to this college mad far in a neighboring state for a day to visit. I made some friends with a group of really cool girls and sat with them in the cafe, which was kind of set up like a highschool lunch room lol. I got up to get food and walked up to what probably should’ve been a line of people at the counter for the kitchen, but instead it was just people standing next eachother so they could order as soon as one of the cooks was ready rather than it being linear. It was super crowded so I went on the emptier side, and like two people ask me what i want (at different times)but the other one is super busy after I tell him, so after some waiting I just ask the guy now at the register nearest to where I am. I was ordering a personal pizza (standard rectangular freezer pizza lol) with low expectations but then saw this pizza that was super gorgeous and poofy and looked kind of like one of those pan pizzas I love from dominos but even better. They’re taking FOREVER to make my order with all the others being there so I tell the new guy I want the one that the other person ordered. I leave to sit down because I’m tired of waiting at the counter. After chatting with my newfound friends, I go back up to check on my order only to find it was completely fucked. They gave me some side I ordered but not even the pizza, and I was REALLY UPSET. I start complaining and the guy puts in one for me, and when the pizza is done it’s the regular ass shitty pizza and I am PISSED. I start going on and on about the pizza and how irritated I am (not yelling tho or anything), and they say that their shift is over, so I angrily walk back to my table, but am surprised to find them following me, and one of the girls sits down, and we start chatting a bit, and then the guy who actually made my pizza sat across from me. I hadn’t really looked at him like that before, but I realized he was GORGEOUS. He had amazing cheekbones, caramel skin, and medium length wavy hair. After lunch ended, I had decided to leave for the day. When when I had gotten up, my back was turned to him for a moment, and when I turned around, he had gotten up super close behind me to spook me, which worked each of the many times he did it as the day went on. However. I later began plotting for revenge. and him and I walked down a path where he unlocked his mountain bike. I found a regular one (like a citibike) and we talked about mountain bikes and the Pennsylvania mountains as we rode together. I slammed on the breaks to make sure they wouldn’t fail me and they weren’t as strong as I’d like, so I kept a slower pace after that behind him. There was a set of walls that were steeply slanted toward eachother in a “V” shape. I was terrified to ride on these, as my bike wasn’t meant for inclines or environments that really good mountain/bmx bike would be able to to handle with relative ease to a standard bicycle. I rode as far as I could up there on one of the walls then jumped off and grabbed this metal bar on top. I used this to climb to the top and jump off into the pavement outside of the walls, and a wave of relief washed over me. The boy was waiting for me at the end of the wall, but out side of it, and teased me for exciting the way I did instead of using them as monkey bars to get all the way to the end, and showed me how he’d done it. He encouraged me to try, and I vehemently refused. I did NOT need that kind of stress in my life, lol. We walked into the parking lot and there was a mom in an SUV picking up kids that he knew who offered us a ride home. Him and I realized we were the last two in the car as the others had all been dropped off while we were chatting away. The mom was driving on the highway, so I thought now would be the opportune time to break the news to her that I did NOT live nearby. I said something along the lines of her of “You probably aren’t going to like this, but I live closer to philly than I do to this school.” However, she was totally cool with it and I looked up the directions to my house, and it was somewhere between 60-90 min away. She told us that a big snowstorm was coming, and a wave of dread washed over me. She just wanted us home safely. However, my new friend would be safer staying where I live because of how soon it’d be starting. Also I was relieved that we had left school early in the day instead of sticking around on campus or going to friends houses to hangout. In what felt like no time, we were approaching my house, and it wasn’t yet snowing. We walked the long way around the house to the door to my unit and then walked a bit past it we we chatted, where I found a stack of packages for us it was unusual to have mail delivered to the house, but also to have any kind of snow in September. The entire time, I could sense that he wanted to kiss me, like a looming threat, but I was too anxious and simply pretended to be unaware, until he came close to me again. I told him that we probably shouldn’t, which kind of soiled my revenge plot, to surprise him by moving in to kiss him the next time he snuck up behind me like that again. (Wasn’t sure if I would go through with the actual kissing part though) I brought the mail to the door and my mother opened it, and welcomed us in. I showed him around a bit, and then I woke up. The layout inside was different though, similar to that of my grandma’s home in New York. (Which isn’t even logical because of how my House is shaped, or the size difference).