"I hope this guy isn't some crazy old fat guy like most professors!" Jenna exclaimed as her and her best friend Haley left their apartment to the one and only class they had together.
"I know. That prof. we had last term for Statistics was awful!"
Haley shook her head as a group of guys whistled at her while they walked down the hall. Jenna felt a pang of jealousy. Her best friend was pretty enough to be a model. Actually, she had been for a few years during their senior year of high school. She had long naturally blonde hair and bright green eyes with a small beauty mark under her left eye. She was 5'9 with long legs that we nice and toned. Hell is Jenna was gay, she would even have the hots for her best friend. It wasn't that Jenna was ugly. She wasn't fat but had more curves that most girls her age with large breasts and a bubble butt that she was proud of. Her short light brown hair fell to her shoulders and she had bright blue eyes. No, she wasn't ugly, but when stood next to Haley, she faded into the background.
"Jenna! I know that look. Knock it off, you're a gorgeous!"
Jenna schofed at her comment as they entered the classroom. It was 5 till and almost every seat was filled. They got both lucky and unlucky. Lucky because they found two seats side by side, virtually the only two left, unlucky because it was in the very front row smack in the middle. They shared a mutual look of annoyance and sat down.
Laptops dinged with people using messenger services and phone vibrated with people squeezing in a last text before the professor walked in.
As much as the first day of classes always sucked from the syllabuses to finding out how crazy your professor was and dreading the rest of the semester with them, Jenna was genuinely excited about this class. It was an intro level course, as she was only a freshman, on Literature, something she lived for.
Sure she went out and partied with friends and occasionally got a little drunk, but what she really preferred was to stay home and either read a new novel or write about whatever was on her mind. She wasn't even that bothered by getting stuck in the front row because it met less distractions from the material.
Haley felt differently as she pulled her laptop out and logged into Facebook. Jenna on the other hand was the only one in the room that did not have one pulled up on her desk. She preferred going old school with a notebook and pen. First of all, it helped her remember the material better and secondly, she felt that having a computer pulled up made the class so impersonal.
She felt Haley elbow her as she bent down to grab a pen from her bag. Looking up, she realized why she had been hit. Standing two feet in front of her was what had to be their professor. He looked young, maybe early thirties at the most. Short slightly gelled dirty blonde hair and his eyes were unbelievably blue. He had to be at least 6 foot and was fit but not body builder big which she found unattractive. He smiled at the class.
"Hi everybody. Welcome to Intro to Literature. If this isn't the class you signed up for I would be glad to point you in the right direction. Otherwise, here is a syllabus for the semester. I would advise you not to lose it as I will not hand out any other copies. If that is too much for you to handle, well I advise you to go drop this class. It's too big for my taste anyways. My name is Gabe Nestler. I hate my last name so please, out of respect for me, call me Gabe!" His eyes locked with Jenna's and he smiled brightly as he noticed the pen and paper on her desk. " I know its the first day and we should go over the syllabus and all that shit but frankly, thats boring and I am sure you are just as sick of listening to them as I am talking about it. Instead, lets actually talk about the course. Why don't we start by naming some classic literature that you are familiar with and no I do not count Twilight as classic lit" This got a few laughs and some disapproving mumbles from around the room.
"So who wants to start?"
Haley, having no shame or shyness in her body raised her hand.
"Yes, Miss?"
"Fuller, Haley Fuller." She smiled brightly at him. Jena recognized that look in her eyes. She had her flirt face on. "Three Men in a Boat"
Gabe smiled at her. "Good" before moving on to the next hand.He went through about 15 people, not being deeply impressed by any answer he got as they were the typical ones he heard a thousand times, Pride and Prejudice, Gulliver's Travels, The Scarlet Letter and more. Finally, he decided to call on the "paper girl" that had caught his eye when he first entered the room. She was beautiful in a different way than most of the girls he saw. Rather than flaunt her body like the girl sitting next to her in a mini shirt and tank top, she was in a pair of form fitting(but not skin tight) jeans and a v neck t-shirt. What caught his attention the most was the look in her eye, it wasn't one he saw very often especially in a general education/pre-req. course; she was open minded and wanted to be there. She looked interested and attentive. He called on her deeply curious to hear her answer.
He looked right at her and asked her favorite classic lit. novel, smiling at the surprised look on her face as she had not raised her hand.
"Me?"
"Yes please. And your name."
"Umm, my name is Jenna and I guess I would have to say Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier." The look he gave her caused her to second guess herself. "Is that not considered a classic?" she asked unsure of herself now.
"No I would defiantly say it is, just not an answer you hear everyday." He smiled and nodded in approval. "But none the less, the kind of answer I was looking for"
"Oh my gosh!" Haley squealed.
"What are you freaking out about?" Jenna only half cared about the answer as her mind was other places.
"Did you see that guy! He's seriously hot!"
She smiled "Yeah he kind of is. Better than fat and crazy."
Haley gave her a baffled expression. "No not Gabe! Sure hes decent looking, but I meant the guy to my left two seats. He gave me his number at the end of class."
"I didn't even notice. What about the "look". I know you well enough to recognize your flirting face"
Haley laughed, "I just want a good grade honestly,. I figure if he thinks I'm cute, he will overlook the fact that I couldn't give a rats ass about his class. Besides, he seems a little weird"