I will always remember the way she used to tease me. It used to drive me crazy. Crazy, really crazy, but in a good way.
Every week we'd be in that lecture hall listening to that old dinosaur Dr Philips go on and on about something none of us cared about. He'd be droning on and most of us would be trying our hardest not to fall asleep by playing games on our phones and pretending to look interested.
And she would always, always, make sure she sat behind me.
She'd kick my chair again and again and come close to my ear and blow in it and make these weird stupid animal noises. She always had this mischievous kind of way about her, it was funny, like a teenager, a kind of boyish personality where she'd always be looking to make a joke, to do something different, to make you think she was a bit cooky, or different.
And I would turn around and whisper for her to 'fuck off' or leave me alone, but she wouldn't stop pestering me in those lectures, because she didn't want to stop, and she knew deep down I didn't want her to stop, even if I didn't know that at the time.
I remember, the other girls would look at her and think she was weird, but she didn't care. She was different.
This kept going for a few months, and I thought nothing about it, after the lecture she'd disappear, I'd see her hot red hair and black leather school bag disappear off in to the crowd as we left the hall and I wouldn't see her again until the next week in the lecture hall as she crept in and sat down beside me. She was strange, you wouldn't see her around. Even though she was super, super beautiful and fit, with a gorgeous bouncing head of red hair and a real sexy, petite busty figure, I and everyone else around me didn't even notice her; she didn't come to the parties, she didn't eat lunch with anyone. She was a mystery. I didn't even know her name. Until one very memorable day...
At the time, I was really into fitness. I had some dumbbells in my apartment, I'd lift weights and do yoga, I'd play tennis with my friends, and every morning I'd go for a run to start the day.