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How I Believe It All Started Anyway

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Once upon a time...
I was studying. That 's how I believe it all started anyway. It was late in the evening, and I was studying for my French test. I know, the language of love, supposedly. Well, for some reason this magical language hasn 't done much for me in the last three months.
My name is Arianne and I 'm a nineteen-year-old Harvard student. My major is foreign studies and
I literally have absolutely no social life. That 's right, no life. Does that seem strange to you? A student who goes to Harvard must be crazy rich and have a million friends, I know. But I 'm not like that. I 'm here on a volleyball scholarship, not on my daddy 's credit card.
My roommate decided to switch dorms the day before college started, so I 'm in a room by …show more content…

Sub-consciously, I heard him answering me and then I did it. I did the most stupid and ridiculous, annoying and absolutely the most amazing thing ever I looked into his eyes. And I mean really looked.
Like a forest, the deep green pools with occasional random brown speckles, completely overtook me. It was all that I could see, hear; feel. Those eyes, still sub-consciously being stared at, seemed to kidnap me into their depths and I felt that I was gone, for sure. They were insanely intruiging.
To this very day, I don 't understand how I managed to find my way out of that jungle, but after about two seconds, I snapped out of the trance he forced on me, and directed my attention on what he said. I almost cried in embarrassment when I realized that I had missed everything that he had just spoken. Feeling my cheeks burning at the stake with a crimson red, I shook my head slightly and asked him to repeat himself. It was then that a Forest Fire emerged from his lips as he smiled at me; oh, such a dizzying action.
"I said," He repeated slowly, as if to make sure I didn 't miss a single word this time, "I 'm Freddie. And I was told that I was going to be staying here; room 154?"
Again, my trance was lifted and I smiled in return, even laughing a little. It ended up sounding more like a burp or a hiccup than an actual giggle, but believe me; a giggle IS what I was going for!
"I think you 're a little confused,"

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