When I went off to college, I was ready for a fresh start, a new beginning. I wanted to explore my options and settle on someone as close to my ideal as possible. Little did I know where that ideal was.
I got to college, and after a few months, I wasn't necessarily feeling homesick; it was my friends I missed, namely, one of my closest friends, Chris. I went to Santa Clare college in California, and genius that he was, he ended up at MIT with a very nice scholarship. Don't mistake me; with his sparking blue eyes and unruly brown hair, he was definitely not a typical science nerd. No, he wanted to go into engineering, build a better world with his own two strong hands. That's just the kind of guy he was. I missed him terribly, and we kept in touch with E-mail.. I'd rush home from my classes each night to read whatever witty thought he'd decided to leave with me. Nothing romantic ever happened between us, not in the years we'd known each other-- he always was casually dating 2 or 3 women, and I was always in some screwed up relationship or another. Besides, secretly at least, I cared too much for him to be another one of his flings. So, we carried on as we always had, only from a continent away.
I couldn't wait for him to come back on break.. His parents had moved, but many of his friends remained here, and so here he decided to come. With no place for him to stay, I offered him use of my dorm.
When I saw him come off the plane, my heart leapt uncomfortably in my throat.. Those sparking ice-blue eyes, that same unkempt brown hair.. The lean, muscular build that was beautiful without being showy. My Chris. He came up to me, spinning me around, and kissed me on the cheek. "I didn't realize how much I missed you."
I smiled, my heart hammering, barely able to speak. "Neither did I."
We got some coffee at the school cafeteria, caught up on each other's lives.. we'd both been dating casually, had a few flings, and were none too impressed by the selection. His flight had been an evening flight, and the cafeteria was about to close, so we went back to the parking lot, thinking we'd go out to a local club and dance the night away.
We climbed into my '84 Ford LTD, which usually turned on easier than a 14-year-old boy, and it refused to start. I turned to Chris sheepishly. "Dammit! I'm really sorry about this."
He smiled, his eyes sparkling in the dark, two frozen sapphires. I couldn't get over his incredible masculine beauty, like Michelangelo's David. "Oh, it's all right. Let's go back to your dorm."
"All right." We got out and walked to my dorm. It had started to rain lightly, but neither one of us minded. We both loved the rain, used to go for walks in it on our lunch break in High School. We came back to the room. "Well," I asked, sitting on my bed in defeat, "what do you want to do?"
He sat the wrong way in the chair at my computer desk. "Hmmmm. Let me think." He sort of stared at the ground for a moment, then looked up at me, a smile lighting his face, his eyes sparking. He turned around, switching on my computer.
"Ummm.. Chris? What are you doing?"
I could hear a smile in his voice. "You'll see, hon." I stood up, walked over to him to see what he was doing. He opened Winamp, which was filled with my collection of MP3 music files. He looked up at me and grinned. "May I have this dance?"
I blushed. "Chris, you're ridiculous."