perhaps that smile of hers would finally win a more permanent admiration.

he made her laugh, but didn't make her nervous- nor did he stir that sense of excitement, or summon butterflies. the kind that makes a girl even more becoming...
and yet,
the other he did exactly that. he made her smile bigger, laugh harder, and feel alive. more alive and more beautiful than she has in a...well let's say, a while.

it was different with the latter he. she didn't know how it was different, but just that it was right. more right than anything has felt in a while. and she pondered how one lunch could change the course of a semester, and quite possibly her life.

she was always the type of girl to fall in like easily, painfully mistaking it for love

but with him. the latter he, there existed a mystery.
her entire life, she was a book to be read, yet could never find a dedicated enough reader. perhaps the latter he would be the one person willing to pass the prologue, finally reaching the first chapter.

and that was enough for her. enough to give her the cue to give him another chance, another lunch.

if he was even willing to scan the first sentence of the first page, in the first chapter- well she was willing to take him along for the adventure of a lifetime.

she wouldn't skip any sentences, nor any words in his chapters. now, she couldn't promise she would keep reading because that's how life was. and how it had to be- there are far too many stories to read them all.

 but she was willing to discover if his story was worth being a part of. even if only for a brief chapter.