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He had first seen her in the green.
Ricky was dicking around, trying to get him to rate the girls that he saw from 1-10. He wasn’t really paying attention to him, just looking around trying to spot the girl he had seen in the parking lot earlier. Ricky tapped him on the shoulder, pointing to a girl walking from the Life Science Building.
That’s when he saw her.
She had the biggest cloud of hair he had ever seen in his life. Not an afro, but just… big.
In the light, it kind of looked like sunbeams. Her skirt was layered, like one of those birthday cakes you see at the expensive bakeries. Striped sleeveless gloves stretched from her elbows and a sleeveless jacket continued the theme. Her glasses covered half her face, and in another life she may have been those nerdy kids that hung around the library before class. In this life however, she walked with an air of self assurance. She knew who she was and she flaunted it openly.
Ricky was still waiting for a response. Seeing Alex’s hesitancy, he took a shot and yelled “4 OUT OF TEN!!” directly at the girl. Ricky ducked behind a tree before she could see him.
Alex was not so lucky.
The girl, looking around, locked eyes with unsuspecting Alex and charged towards him. Alex had only just come out of his fog, so seeing this girl he had just been admiring stomp his direction with a look that could kill flowers was, to say the least, a surprise.
“What the fuck did you just say to me?”
Alex sputtered. “No no no! I- Well you see my friend- he- we-”
She shoved a finger in his face. “I don’t want to hear it, dickbag. I just spent a whole day trying to convince my professor my research project was sustainable, and now I have to go find samples from GOD KNOWS WHERE. I have not come THIS FAR to be catcalled by an insecure fuckwad who probably cries himself to sleep when he isn’t at a bender.” Taking a breath, she flipped him off with both hands and stomped away, her combat boots leaving tread marks in the grass.
Ricky came back from behind the tree, laughing his ass off all the way. “Look at her face! I think she started to cry! She should have thought of that before deciding to get dressed in the dark!” He wiped tears from his eyes and shoved Alex in the side.
Watching the girl go, Alex nodded half-heatedly.
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That night, Alex didn’t go to the bender Ricky invited him to. He stayed in his bed, looking out the window, thinking about that girl. It’s not that she was ugly, far from it. She certainly hadn’t deserved the four Ricky gave her.
There was something about her, something special that he couldn’t describe. She was so…confident. She walked like she knew who she was, didn’t need approval from anyone else.
He would give anything to be like that.
At least orientation would be tomorrow. Maybe he could find her again.