CHAPTER # 2: HE WANTS TO MARRY ME!

Sarah’s POV: 

I couldn’t blink my eyes, neither I could move my jaw back up as I kept looking at the gorgeous guy in front of me. He has the most beautiful face with deep sapphire blue eyes on warm ivory skin color. As he looked at me with his eyes deepening more, I gulped and my eyes moved down from his eyes to his perfectly proportioned lips in the middle of sharp jawlines. I could feel myself drooling over his perfectly shaped face and wondered how someone could look that flawless. As far as his dressing was concerned, it complimented his looks very well. He was wearing black jean and on top, a navy blue T – shirt with full sleeves but they were rolled up to his elbow, thereby flaunting his arm muscles with slightly bulging veins. I gulped on those and kept looking at the guy while breathing heavily. He was manly but mysterious and intimidating. His magnetic personality made me stare at him continuously until he snapped his fingers in front of my face and I blinked my eyes immediately and looked down. 

"I - I am sorry..." I said to him and he glared at me. 

"What are you doing here?" I heard Eloise's voice out of nowhere and she walked back to me and grabbed my hand. 

"El, El wait..." I started but she didn't listen and dragged me ahead with her leaving that gorgeous guy behind. 

"El, listen to me..." I said loudly but there was so much chaos that she continued to drag me until we reached a tree where I saw Gene waiting for us. 

"Finally, you guys are here..." Gene said excitedly. 

"Yes we got late because of our dearest, Sarah..." Eloise said sarcastically. 

"I said I am sorry..." I said to her resentfully.

"It's okay, now let's go in the front... Our school students are all there" Gene suggested while I looked back to see that guy again. 

"You ruined everything, El..." I said to Eloise while looking around for that gorgeous guy. 

"What did I do?" Eloise asked in confusion. 

"You didn't listen..." I said out loud and then continued, "You took me away from that gorgeous guy..." 

"What gorgeous guy...?" She asked in confusion. 

"Oh my God..." Gene jumped up in excitement. "You met a guy...?" She added with her eyes widened in amazement. 

"Yes, I did... He was this incredibly handsome guy I have ever seen in my life, Gene" I said to her. 

"What?" Eloise asked in shock. 

"Yes... El, he was so handsome and dashing and - and classy..." I started and then rubbed my forehead before adding further, "He was wearing this navy blue shirt with its sleeve up to his elbow and - and his eyes... So deep and intense. I - I almost got lost in there until I observed his jawlines... They were so flawless, so sharp..." 

"Hold on, Sar, hold on... Oh my God..." Eloise said raising her hand up in the air and then added further, "Where did you meet this guy? What happened exactly?" 

"I - I was following you behind but then I collided with this guy and as I looked up, I was stunned" I replied to her. 

"Oh my God, Sar... You are totally crushing over him..." Gene said excitedly.

"Yeah, I guess..." I started and a smile approached my face while I added, "I think I have developed a huge crush on him, guys... I can't get him out of my head..." 

"Oh my, Sar..." Gene jumped up in excitement, holding my arm. 

"I can't believe this, Sar..." Eloise started and then held me from my arm to continue, "You have a crush on a guy? It's the first time I am hearing this from you since kindergarten..." 

"What?" Gene started and then looked at me in shock before adding, "You never had a crush on anyone before this? I mean I know you since we started high school but not even one crush in middle school or - or before that?" 

"No I didn't... This is the first crush of my life, Gene..." I said to her eagerly. 

"This is unbelievable. This guy must be someone extraordinary" Eloise said and rolled her eyes. 

"Yes, El... Yes..." I started and then walked ahead with a smile still on my face and added, "No one can be that flawless. He is one in a million. You don't know... You didn't look at him" I told her. 

"Wow... I want to see him, Sar..." Gene said eagerly. 

"So do I, Gene..." I said and turned to look at her while Eloise rolled her eyes. 

"Let's go ahead for the protest, come on... Enough of this gorgeous guy..." 

"Okay... What if we meet that guy at the front" Gene said excitedly and I smiled while Eloise rolled her eyes again. 

We walked ahead for some minutes and reached to the front where everyone was shouting and protesting to make those builders leave that place. As Eloise and Gene began to scream along with them, I kept on thinking about that guy. It was the first time when I was having a huge crush on someone. It was shocking for me as well but I knew how hard I try to deny that fact, it was still going to be there. No one could change that. I developed a crush and I had to accept it. I continued to think about him while looking away when fortunately, that guy caught my eyes again and my jaw dropped down. 

"Oh my God..." I whispered. 

He was standing a distance away from me with some of his friends who were screaming and shouting but he was there, calm and quiet, typing something on his phone. 

"El, El, Gene..." I jumped and held Eloise's arm while they got alert. 

"He's there, he's there..." I said to them in excitement while looking at him constantly, not letting him go away from my eyes. 

"Where, where?" Gene jumped up and asked me. I tried to point my finger at him but some people pushed me from behind and jerked my hand down. 

"He's there... We won't be able to see him from here..." I said regretfully and kept on bouncing to see him properly but after a while, I lost him and wasn't able to find him again. 

"Where did he go...?" I cried out. 

"It's okay, Sar... You'll find him again somewhere. He lives in this small town. You guys will definitely cross paths" Eloise said and I nodded distressfully.

Throughout the time I was there in that protest, I didn’t get to see him again. It was frustrating because I had never seen a guy like him before. I wanted to meet him again and as we walked out of the crowd, I looked around and hoped that I would meet him again someday.

“Let’s go and eat something” Gene suggested.

“No guys… I – I want to go home right now” I said to them lazily.

“Why? Are you feeling okay?” Eloise asked me.

“Yeah – yeah I am fine… It’s just that I didn’t get the chance to talk to mom when I left the house this morning. I think I’ll go home and eat with her” I said to them.

“Okay, no problem… Just be safe” Eloise said and then added, “Do you want me to come with you?”

“Ah no, no… I’ll go on my own… Thanks El…” I said to her and smiled.

“It’s okay and I hoped you meet your crush once again…” Eloise said and smiled while I chuckled.

“I hope so…” I said and smiled while thinking about him and then added, “Okay, bye…”

“Bye…” Gene and Eloise said as I walked away from there to be on my way to home.

On the way, I kept thinking about that guy. He was not leaving my thoughts at all because it was the first time when I liked someone. It was new and exciting although I wasn’t planning to have something with him but I just wanted to meet him again and talk to him. He looked like a nice guy but at some point he was glaring at me which made me nervous. I wondered if he hated me for bumping into him.

Finally, after thinking about him for fifteen minutes, I reached home and entered inside to see mom talking on the phone. As she looked at me, she immediately whispered something on the phone and hung up.

“You are here…” She said.

“Yes...” I said and didn’t bother to ask about the phone call.

“How was the protest?” She asked me as I sat down on the couch.

I took a deep breath and wondered if I should tell her about that crush. “It was good, mom… I ah… I need to tell you something…” I started, thinking that would make our bond stronger if I would tell her everything about my day and all my crushes.

“Yeah what is it?” She took interest and sat down next to me.

“Um…” I started and then remembered that she also wanted to talk to me about something. “Wait, um, you tell me first. You want to talk to me about something in the morning” I added.

“Yeah, well, are you – ah I mean…” She couldn’t complete.

“Mom, what is it?” I asked her anxiously placing my hand on hers.

“Sarah, honey, I ah… First, I want to tell you that I met a man, a while ago… Like some months ago” She said looking straight into my eyes while I got expressionless and couldn’t think of anything to say. I had an idea that mom was going out on dates but I never thought something would get that serious and she would stick with a man for months. It was surprising because I always thought that she was dating to get her mind off from office and stuff and nothing serious would ever happen.  

“Okay…? So…?” I asked her gulping.

“That man… He ah – he wants to marry me…” Mom said hesitantly and I kept looking at her with my eyes wide open…