The chairs are full and there are papers from students everywhere. The room smelled like the woods located a mile behind the garage-turned-coffee shop.
One Girl, Anna, stared at her book providing the façade that she was taking in the information on neurofeedback for her test tomorrow, but really she was thinking about him. That stupid-but-cute boy and his stupid-but-cute dog.
They had run into each other (literally) on the trail in the woods, both of them out for an early morning jog before the sunrise. Talk about a wake-up call.
At the time Anna was annoyed with the male that had run into her.
‘What kind of idiot doesn’t see a neon pink shirt’ she thought.
Then he saw his running partner: a chocolate lab puppy.
‘Aw,’ she thought, still not excusing this guy's apparent blindness to girls in neon shirts.
Then she looked up and saw his face.
‘Oh God, he’s gorgeous’ she thought.
Anna stopped being annoyed and started to wonder who “stupid-but-cute” was and if she had anything on her face from the fall.
His blue eyes looked into her gray ones and his expression softened.
“Wow, I’m so sorry. You must think I’m completely blind.” He said.
‘No just obviously not affected by this neon shirt’ she thought.
“Oh, it’s totally fine” she forced out.
It was all she could think of to say at the time.
He offered his hand and helped her up. She took it and a chill went down her spine.
“God, and I’m rude too. I’m John by the way,” he said.
John's blue eyes were wide now and his face, although somewhat covered by his Hugh Jackman-esque facial hair, was red from what Anna figured was more embarrassment than the run he was on.
“Anna Lewis” she responded with a nervous smile.
They both gave each other a one-over before either spoke again.
“Nice to…” they both began and ended with laughter.
“Sorry to run into you,” she said. “I better be…” she motioned down the path.
“Yeah, me too” he responded.
That was the first time she met John Anderson and instead of studying, she was hoping it wouldn’t be the last.