Mr. Mohawk. That’s what she secretly called him in her head whenever he passed by or whenever she thought about him. Which was nearly always. He had a habit of popping into her when she least expected it; during tests, while speaking to her friends, chatting on msn…Maybe it was an obsession, but then again, it wasn’t as though she consciously went out of her way to bump into him or think about him…did she?

He had fine ink black hair that was sleek and smooth. It fell just past his eyes and he was always running his hand through it irritably, trying to keep it from poking his eyes. And his eyes, how she loved those eyes-brilliant pools of jet black that glowed when he was happy or angry. He never looked at her angrily, of course. Her friends often whispered to her that he liked her too, and she’d look back at them with fake amusement-who said she liked anybody?

But they all knew. During one of their theatre classes their teacher had announced passionately that everybody lacked the “special relationship-slash-bond” that every actor and actress needed when working together. And he’d sauntered up from behind her and suddenly snaked his arm around her waist as though fate had destined it to belong there. She’d been in a state of panic of course, her pale face immediately becoming a violent shade of tomato red, her heart thumping so hard against her ribcage that it hurt…

And he’d simply smiled, as though all of it was completely natural. Maybe it was. She wouldn’t know-he was an actor, attending one of the “artsy” schools. You could never tell with those artsy types, so well hidden behind their many faces and words. He always wore black, black that accentuated his hair and eyes, black that kept him in the shadows, hiding his true intent.

So she wondered. Secretly, of course. Until one day after class, he snuck up behind her again, just like that one lesson, and wrapped his arms around her, dragging her into his world of light and darkness. And then she knew, she knew that Mr. Mohawk was hers.

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Dedicated to YOYO, good luck with ur mr.mohawk!!