One of my problems is that I never, and I mean never, make a good impression on people when I first meet them. Take Mrs Hudson for example. The headmistress of the school I work at: I stumbled into her office 15 minutes late because I got off at the wrong subway stop and I snapped my heel so I looked everything but neat and tidy for my first ever face to face meeting with her. Thank god she liked me.
And now was another perfect example. The hottest guy was standing in front of me and all I could do was gape and think of something witty to say.
He was looking at me expectantly.
"A very tough day I guess." He said with a twinkle in his very blue eyes.
I finally got my mouth to work.
"You have no idea." I said with a small laugh. "It's only 9.30 and we've nearly had a murder on our hands." And I lifted up the bunny that was still sitting obediently in my hands.
Mr Blue Eyes laughed. God did he look good when he laughed.
"A bunny murder?"
"Oh yes they are the worst." I replied.
"You think? I always feel sorry for the ants that the little ones stomp on; kinda harsh way to die dont you think?" he asked.
"Can't say I have a set opinion on that. I'm not much of an ant fan really." I was about to say something else that had nothing to do with ants when a girl called Vera ran towards me.
"Miss Iiiizzy!"
I turned to face Mr Blue Eyes grudgingly.
"Give me a minute."
He nodded; smile still stretched across his face.
I bent down and sat on my knees so I could be level with the tiny blond hair brown eyed girl.
The minute she saw that she had my full attention she let loose.
"Bobby pushed Rachel off the swing and I told him to stop but he wouldn't and then he took away my spade when I was about to build a sandcastle and now he wont give it back and Rachel is crying because she hurt her knees when she fell on the ground and they're bleeding."
She stopped to draw breath.
"And Fray said I should go and tell you because you'd know what to do and I cant see Miss Tina anywhere."
"Ok sweetie: you hold onto this bunny," and with that I finally freed myself from the bunny and went off in search for Tina who had the first aid box, but not before shooting at an apologetic glance at Mr Blue Eyes who just laughed as he also bent down to talk to Vera.
I jogged to the swings where thank goodness Tina was already administering first aid to Rachel.
"You ok there Tina?"
"Yea I'm just fine thanks. You go and see how Vera's doing. You know what she's like when she gets over excited. I'll go and talk to Bobby once I'm done here."
"Ok you do that. Listen give me a shout ok? If you need anything."
"Don't worry Iz. Rachel has a hissy fit when she gets a paper cut: you should know by now." Tina laughed.
With that she turned back to Rachel who had tears running down her face like Niagara Falls, and I walked back to the bunny cage to find My Blue Eyes still talking to Vera, who was gazing up at him with nothing short of total admiration on her face.
"You alright there Vera?" I asked.
"Yeah I'm fine." And just like that she ran off; but not before giving Mr Blue Eyes a dazzling smile.
He got up form his position on the ground, whipped the dirt off his black jeans straightened his shirt and leant against the bunny shed next to me.
"So you like kids then?" I asked him.
"Yeah; but I couldn't eat a whole one." He said in perfect seriousness; which just caused me to snort rather unlady like.
"It's true. They can be very filling." He laughed.
You know when you're talking to someone and you just can't stop? Well that's pretty much what happened here. I don't think I've ever laughed quite so hard. Hell I knew nothing about this guy: his name, what he did for a living, where he lived or what his favorite shoes were. All I knew was that he was making me laugh and feel very good about my self. When I was talking he would look me in the eyes and smile; he was giving me his full attention. Sometimes I got the feeling when I was talking to guys that they were just looking through me and wondering what was on television. But not with this guy.
From talking about how crazy kids were we somehow got onto music, which led onto art which in turn led onto TV which lead onto films and it just carried on like that and it could have carried on even further had Markus not come up to me.
"Miss Izzy? Miss Tina says we need to start heading back to school. Are you coming?"
"Yeah sure just give me a minute." And Markus ran off to join the others.
I bit my lip nervously, a nasty habit of mine, as I pealed myself off the wall of the shed.
"Well in that case I better get going."
Mr Blue Eyes (I STILL didn't know his name!) nodded.
"You know what? I don't even know your name and now that I have to go it would be a good time to enlighten me."
He smiled his smile.
"My name's Jared."
"Miss Izzyyyy!"
"Ah shit I best be going. See you around Jared!" I smiled at him and turned away to jog to the tree where the class were getting together.
"Bye Miss Izzy!" I heard Jared call after me.
The smile that had at that point spread across my face stayed there for the rest of the day.
'I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability' - Oscar Wilde
Ok so there's part 3! I'll put part 4 out in a bit!
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