7

NATHAN

I didn't plan this, I swear. I wanted to get a cup of coffee and bumped into her, and no, I didn't hear her with my super hearing. It doesn't work like that. In the streets where there are noises, you have to have full-on concentration if you want to hear someone from afar, and that's not what I did. I didn't even know she was going to be here. Could it be fate bringing us together? I hope so because I want to believe there could be something between us. Something cosmic.

But I don't think there's going to be anything cosmic between us when she wants to run away from me right now.

"Wait! Please!" I yell. But, she doesn't stop.

"No, why should I? For all I know, you could be even worse than that creepy guy with the dirty beard," she says, and it stings. That guy was a pervert, and for her to compare me to him is a slap in the face. This means I hurt her by leaving and not saying goodbye, and if she's that hurt, does that mean she likes me? Maybe she did like me, and I blew it by