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Liz stood there feeling nervous as she stood there on the front steps of her new high school. With it being in the woods and everything. In the distance she sees her cousin Ivy waving her over to her group of friends. She hesitates before heading over to them. “Hey Liz!” she says. Liz replies with “Hey Ivy.” Ivy smiles at her, and introduces the girl to her friends. In the corner of Liz’s eye she see someone standing by the wall. With a group of people, girls and guys. And they were all incredibly beautiful. Specially the one that seemed to be staring at her. The boy had dark brown hair that comes down covering his face, like its shielding him from the world. From there she could still tell that his eyes are a beautiful green. And this absolutely gorgeous guy was staring at her. He could have been a model for crying out loud! Ivy says Liz’s name turning her attention to her once more. “Hey Liz, what’s your schedule??” Liz shrugs pulling her schedule out from her backpack. Handing it over to her Liz says “I don’t really know, I haven’t looked at it yet.” Ivy smiles at Liz and glances down at the paper. She glanced at the group Liz had been looking at earlier, with the hottest guy she’d ever seen. Ivy continues to mumble “No way.” before looking back at Liz. “What? What is it?” liz asks. Ivy starts squealing “All your classes are with Julian! He’s like one of the hottest guys in school! Well except from other guys in his friend group.” Liz tilts hed head a little bit “Uhm? Who’s this Julian guy?? And don’t you have a boyfriend?” Ivy laughs and points at the same guy Liz had been staring at earlier. “Thats Julian, and just because I have a boyfriend doesn’t mean I can’t still look.” Liz proceeds to look over to see that guy again. To find him staring right at her. His stare made her feel all warm inside. It made her face heat up, and she had to look away from his beautiful eyes.
Walking down the halls of her new school, Liz sees everyone staring at her. Guess it’s just that new girl thing. She walks into her next class, which is Algebra. There’s only a few other kids in the class, so she heads towards the back choosing a seat away from other people and sits down. When she sits down the teacher walks into the classroom. She takes one look at her huffing and continues to write her name on the board. Turning around she said “My name is Ms.Cobbler, and we have a new student today” Looking at me she says “Would you like to stand up and introduce yourself to the class?” Liz wanted to say no, but you know what happens when you say no to the teacher, so she stands up and mumbles “Hey- My names Elizabeth but you can call me Liz. Uh I just moved here obviously. And I guess thats it” she sits back down trying to make herself invisible to the class. A few minutes later someone walks through the door. It turns out it the guy from earlier. Julian. Liz looks up and see him looking right at her. Making eye contact with him she quickly averts her eyes anywhere else but him. Liz hears a soft chuckle and someone sits next to her. God, he chose to sit right next to her. How worse can this day get!? Why can’t this guy leave her alone? He was probably just some stupid Jock. I mean there’s no way that guy could be so beautiful and popular without being one right? She looks to the side very slowly seeing him stare right at her. She can’t help but get lost into his eyes once more. She inclines her head better staring right into those deep green eyes. She feels that she could get lost in his eyes. Over, and over. He stares right back at her, smirking at her and winks. Liz snaps out of her daze and shakes her head, attempting to shake the sense back into herself. She can’t help but steal one last glance at the boy they call Julian. As he is very handsome. But he’s looking towards the front of the class now. As she should be to. But she can’t seem to take her eyes off of this guy. It was like this guy was the son of a god. Eventually when Liz pries her eyes off Julian she takes her pencil fiddling with it. While absentmindedly listening to the teacher talking in front of the class. She starts to chew on her nails. It was something she did whenever she was nervous and this boys gaze was making her EXTREMELY nervous.
The class seemed to be going for hours. As soon as the bell rang Liz stood up gathering her things. As she turns to walk out, she runs into Julian. Causing her to stumble back. But Julian wraps his arm around her waist, preventing her from falling. Liz’s eyes widen and quickly finds her footing, stepping away from the taller. Up closer she could help but admire him further. She was half tempted to brush his hair from his face. But she knew she could never do that. A few seconds tick by and she realizes their staring into each others eyes. She averts her eyes, suddenly occupied by her disgusting nails that she had been chewing on. Bring them up to her mouth to chew on them again, Julian gently grabs her hand surprising her. He glances into her eyes, seeming to swallow her whole. Her knees turn into jello. How could this guy be any more charming? She didn’t think she could support her weight any longer.
Liz gasps when he leans down closer, whispering in her ear “Maybe watch where your going next time, Huh?” His voice was like silk. She could feel his hot breath on her neck. Her breath hitches just the slightest bit. She nods slightly before taking a few steps away, while looking at him. Before turning around and walking away.
A few classes later and Liz was on her to the cafeteria for her lunch break. She sees her cousin Ivy walking towards her looking excited. She rushes over to Liz, and starts talking quickly. “Oh my gosh! Liz we’re getting dorms! Me and you have the same room! AND it’s just us!” While Liz was taking this all in at once, she finally finds a gap in Ivy’s talking to ask “Wait why? Why do we need dorms?” Ivy continues to say “Oh you know safety of the school and such. You do know we have to practice fighting and what not right?” Liz entirely confused asks “Wait fighting? What kind of school is this?” Ivy tilts her head “Hasn’t the director talked to you yet?” Liz shakes her head. Ivy shrugs and says “Well your going to have to talk to him soon. He’ll explain everything. Let’s just say your really special Liz!” With that Ivy turns around and walks the other way. Leaving Liz totally confused. Liz deciding shes going to skip lunch, not that she eats much anyways. Starts walking towards the stairs. Until she sees Julian again. Walking towards her, he’s no longer surrounded by other students. Like he usually is in the hallways. He walks right up to her and takes one of her dark ginger curls and puts it behind her ear. Liz stares at him for a moment before coming to her senses. “I-i have to go-” When she tries to walk around him, he gently grabs her arm and says “What’s the hurry Love?” His skin was smooth, much smoother than any boys skin should be. Yet it was still rough. He smirks at her, while she just looks at him. Stumbling over her words she says “I- I said- I have to go upstairs” He shrugs “Why not come eat lunch with me? Hmm? It could be just us two So we could get to know each other a little better.” He winks at her, and she nods slowly. He smiles and pulls her closer to him. “So you hear about that dorm situation?” Liz softly says “Y-yes-” He smiles at her as they start to walk. “Hope our dorms are close to each other 😉” Liz looks at him quickly. He continues to say “So I can get to know you better, OBVIOUSLY. What were you thinking Love?” He leans lower, close to her ear again like earlier. “Something naughty?” Liz feels her face heat up, quickly giving her head a hard shake. He smiles and stands straight up once more. “You don’t talk much do you huh?” Liz opens her mouth, then hesitates. He stops walking and takes her chin in his hand gently tilting it up towards him. “Well, you can talk to me Love. I’ll get you to talk to me anyways. So might as well start talking now” Liz scoffs mumbling “I doubt that Julian” He pretends to jump back in surprise “Ahh! She speaks! And she knows my name! Must be her power!” Liz gives a small giggle. He smiles adoringly at her. Liz looks away quickly.
After awhile, they reach the table. Liz with the food she’s not going to eat and Julian with the food he is already eating. He glances over at her. “Aren’t you going to eat love?” Liz looks up at him, shaking her head. He smirks “You know, you could eat. OR I could have you sit on my lap while I feed you. The choice is yours. Of course i’m hoping for the second option.” Liz’s eyes widen and quickly takes the apple in front of her and takes a bite of it. The crunch of the apple suddenly echoing to loud in the suddenly quieter then usual lunch room. She looks around and sees a lot of people staring over at her. Well maybe they were looking at Julian. Or the fact he was sitting with a girl like her. She glances over at him “Why are you doing this?” He looks at her “Doing what?” She replies “Talking to me. Trying to be my friend. Whatever this is. You don’t have to.” His face softens “I’m not TRYING to be your friend. We’re already friends cutie.” He hesitates before speaking further. “I’m talking to you, because you’re different. There’s something interesting about you.” Liz looks at him for a moment. Liz didn’t know it yet, but she was falling for Julian. And she was falling fast. Way fast. She looks away from him, a blushing mess.
After a while, Julian stands up and says “Lunch is almost over. Let’s get you to that office” He extends a hand towards her. She takes his hand slowly, standing up. He lifts her hand to his lips and places a gentle kiss on it. She shivers at the touch of his lips on her hand. He notices, and lets his lip linger there a moment longer. Liz couldn’t help but think to herself, it felt so right. He finally lets go of her hand and winks at her. Quickly turning around and walking off. He throws a quick “You coming?” over his shoulder. She hurries to catch up to him, not wanting to be left behind. He takes her up a couple flights of stairs. Following behind Julian, Liz can’t help but think about him. About him kissing her hand. Or even about earlier when he caught her before she fell. They reach the final floor and he looks back at her. Probably looking to make sure that she was still following him. But she couldn’t help but notice there was worry, deep in his beautiful eyes. Why would he be worried?