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1. Girl Meets Boy

Alex sat at her usual seat in the cafeteria, which means the seat in the far corner, the second one next to the dumpster. A plate of salad was in front of her and she was poking at it with her fork.

She flipped open her cell phone. This was the thirteenth month she lived without Jamie. She looked at the table on the opposite side of the cafeteria. The boys sitting there were laughing hysterically, and the girls were clearly enjoying themselves.

Jamie used to sit there, and those girls used to be her friends. And now, with Jamie gone, everything had changed.

She closed her cell phone and threw it back to her messenger bag on the next seat, but missed. And had landed next to a pair of black Converse feet.

Shit. She muttered. Once her brother left and her best friend and only friend left the campus for a student exchanging program. She had interacted with almost no students in this school in these twelve months.

She put down her fork and stood up, bending down to pick up her phone. But the black Converse owner made a quicker move and pick up the phone.

"Here you go." He said with a tiny smile and handed the phone to her.

Alex received the phone awkwardly and muttered a 'thanks'. Head still refusing to look at the speaker, she shoved her phone into her jacket pocket, not to her messenger bag anymore. She sat down and started her salad poking again.

She was forced to look up when a shadow cast over her.

"Can I sit here?" He asked.

"What if, I say- No?" This sentence was on the tip of her tongue, but she swallowed it back.

He looked at her weirdly and explained, "I'm new here."

"New kid, huh?" That's why he would talk to her.

"Sit here, and you will be damned. Like me." Seeing he hadn't even flinch, she added.

" If I were you, I would choose to sit at that table." She nodded towards the Jocks & co. table. The girls sitting at that table were already throwing curious glances at the guy in front of her. "I am sure Luciana will be over delighted to accompany you to have a tour around the campus."

She expected he would go away and sat at that table or other tables, like those who had asked her before.

But, once again he did something unexpectedly. He sat down and placed his tray onto the table.

Alex raised her eyebrows but said nothing. She continued eating, no, poking her salad.

"Hmm- What's your name?" The guy in front of her asked casually.

Alex's head shot up immediately and found herself attracted to his blue eyes. And she had done a thing she had never done in these twelve months, she blushed. Seriously, that was way too much. Just because she had never interacted with any guys, and almost no girls in these months, and all of a sudden there was this guy with great blue eyes, sitting in front of her, asking her a question, she still should not blush. That was too pathetic. She was not Luciana- Wait, Luciana didn't blush at all. Alex, that was a bad metaphor. Whatever. She was not those pathetic twelve-year-old girls with a crush and hoping to fall in love with their knights in shining armor. Anyway, no matter in what circumstances, she SHOULD NOT blush.

That's pathetic, seriously.

"Are you going to answer my question?" He asked, his head cocking a little, making his bangs fell over his right eye.

"Wh-what?" She immediately snapped back into reality and stammered. "It's Alex."

"Alex…" He told himself. Realizing he hadn't told her his name, he said "By the way, I'm Benjamin."

Suddenly, the cell phone in her jacket pocket vibrated, she took it out and read the text message she had just received.

Go to the library. Keep the letter inside The Tales of Two Cities, and the parcel in the corner of that shelf.

Alex read it twice, and shoved back the cell phone in her pocket. She didn't realize she had already gained the attention of the person in front of her. She grabbed her messenger bag and stood up, holding the tray.

When she was about to turn, she remembered something.

"Bye." She told the newcomer. And she left, for the library.

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A/N: There's a possibility that the names will be changed, and also the content.

I still dunno yet, so, let's see how the story goes.

And yeah, thanks hayleyrae for the review. You've made my day. Hee hee.

One more thing, I don't own Converse, unfortunately.