Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 13:18:01 EDT
From: Tigahbubla@gateway.net
Subject: Mystery 2

Ok this is the second installment! i'm fast no? ok i already had it written
but i wanted to take it slow. so here is the rest of what i have so
far... i will keep writting on this story if someone asks me to but if i
don't get any feedback i'll just assume no one wants to hear anymore. so
umm.. here ya go

2

	I realize I am a bit paranoid and over obsessive about a lot of
things, at least until I realize it and make a mindful effort to stop.
After telling about six people in the first two days about my close mystery
encounter is when I realized I might need to shut up before someone gets
mad.
	I shut up about her to just about everyone and thought about her
less and less. That is until I saw her again.  Ok picture this.. A big
arena type building... a good five thousand people and me with my little
gotta-do-something-to-stand-out-without-talking self sitting with my
friends on a far side of the building. Ok picturing that? Can't see me? I'm
like the only girl with a jean floppy hat on. Oh see me now? Good ok lets
go on. Lets work out the math... five thousand people.. and two who weren't
even looking for each other finding seats less than 10 feet apart? Pretty
slim chances right? Umm.. that would be like.. one or two in five
thousand. Ok I suck at math.
	So I'm sitting here talking and laughing with my friends (who all
at least seem to think I'm straight) just looking at the crowd. Who do I
spot walking up the bleacher steps on our row but mystery herself.  I'm
sure my eyes turned into basketballs when I first saw her and I even
thought no way that can't be her. But as she got closer it was definitely
her. As I watched she kept going up farther and farther and closer to our
row. I knew there were no seats around me but I wondered still where she
would go. I wouldn't mind having a good seat to watch her the whole night
instead of the play.
	When she was about two rows from us she was obviously looking for a
seat and then her eyes found me. I don't mean glanced over me.. and that is
what shocks me the most. She was quickly scanning the crowd and her eyes
completely stopped on me. And the next shock, a little smile. She so smiled
at me. I thank god I was smiling this time.  I was smiling already because
of the fact she was there and I smiled even more when she looked at me. I
just kept looking straight in her eyes and her into mine. She looked down
and about four rows ahead of ours were two empty seats. She looked at them,
looked at me, looked at a woman she had been walking up the steps with and
apparently told her about the seats, looked at me again and kept looking at
me with a smile even in her eyes until the woman sat and she had to look
away to sit also.
	"Do you see him?"
	"Him? I mean no... wait who?" I asked my best friend Renee who
apparently had been talking to me for the last couple of minutes without me
having a clue.
	"The Brad dude! You know the actor I liked the last time we saw
this play?" She said in a 'well duh' voice.
	"Oh umm let me look," I said as I smirked to myself about the fact
she thought I was looking for a dude. Soon enough I spotted him walking
across the arena with another actor I had told Renee I liked from the last
time we saw the play.
	"Oh! That's him right there walking with Armondo or Roberto or what
ever his name was," I said pointing.
	"Augh! Look how cute he is," she exclaimed.
	I just nodded and laughed.  Now that she was distracted I was free
to look at my mystery chick without as much worry. As I looked to the chair
she was so supposed to be sitting in I got a major disappointment. She
wasn't there! Then I spotted her on the floor of the arena walking towards
the food stand. Perfect. "Maybe I can go talk to her!"  I thought excitedly
to myself. I knew I had missed the opportunity before and I hoped I
wouldn't miss this one.
	"Hey I'll be right back. I am gonna go to the bathroom," I said
knowing that Renee knows I'm one of those people who don't need a bathroom
buddy just to go.
	As I walked carefully down the bleachers making sure I didn't fall
on my face and make a bigger dork of myself than I possibly was already I
kept glancing back up to follow mystery's movements so I didn't lose her in
the crowd. Squeezing through the crowd and trying not to bump into anyone I
as quickly as possible made my way to the row of food vendors and
mystery. When I finally got behind her in the line to an ice cream stand I
froze up. I couldn't think of anything to say to her or do to get her
attention. As she looked around the crowd and started to turn around I
quickly took my money out of my pocket and started acting like I was
counting it to make sure I had enough for the ice cream. After a second of
her facing me apparently looking over my shoulder at the bleachers I could
see her take a quick step back and looked up to see why she had jumped like
that.
	She was looking at me with an expression of what seemed to be happy
shock. She was smiling but seemed a tiny bit scared or nervous anyway.
	"Hey," I said smiling as best as I could even though I was scared
as hell.
	"Hey, its you," she said and blushed, " I mean.. haven't I seen you
somewhere before?"
	"Wow you remember me?" I said. It was my turn to be shocked.
	"Umm, yeah.  I think I saw you out a couple of weeks ago didn't I?
You seemed... nice," she said blushing again.
	"That was SO me! I was out with my friend Sean," I said excitedly.
	"Yeah I saw your 'friend' too. I thought he must have been your
boyfriend though," she said relaxing into the conversation a little as well
as I was.
	"No," I laughed, "I.. umm..he's not my type." I couldn't decide if
I should be too obvious that I don't like guys before she really knows
me. I could feel some kind of electricity between us though and I was
eating it up.
	"Well that's cool then. I was gonna talk to you that night but when
I walked up to you, I thought you looked mad so I just went back to my
game. Then I felt bad b/c I had looked at you like that and you might have
thought I was mean or something."
	"Yeah I remember you walking up to me. But I.. forgot to smile. I'm
sorry I just do that sometimes. I thought you would think the same thing
about me. I mean the mean thing," I said thinking about everything she was
telling me. I realized she had felt the same way I had felt and that is
just too weird to me.
	"I was going to apologize later and saw you go to The Abyss but you
just kept leaving everywhere and then I saw you leaving with that guy and
didn't think I would see you again."
	"Hey! Yeah I remember seeing you at the other places. I didn't
think you were gonna talk to ME though," I said, not having to act
surprised.
	We laughed as we reached the counter and ordered our ice cream. I
found out her name is Isabelle and told her my name and we decided to
exchange numbers before we went back to our seats. I could feel the sexual
tension around us and wondered if she could feel it too. I kept glancing at
her through out the play and wondered if we would talk after the play but a
few minutes before it was over I saw her and the older woman she was with
leave early. As she was walking I saw her look over her shoulder though and
I wondered if she would call me or if I would even call her. It's hard for
me to call someone for the first time and I definitely didn't want her to
think I am boring.
	After the play was over and I got home I still couldn't stop think
about Isabelle as I tried to go to sleep. I finally did and what seemed
like five minutes later the phone rang and woke me up. I threw off my
covers and squinted my eyes to the sunlight shinning through my window as I
realized I must have slept a good bit more than five minutes. I picked up
my shorts and in my attempt to put them on while jogging to the phone fell
on my face. By this time the phone had rang three times and I knew I had to
hurry to answer it since I don't have caller id. I jerked on my shorts and
reached the phone right after the fourth ring.
	"Hello?" I said still laughing at myself a little.
	"Hi, is Val there," I heard a sexy female voice say.
	"This is me," I said still laughing to myself slightly at my
dorkiness, "Who is this?"
	"This is Isabelle."

ohhh the suspense killing you yet? you should go to the doctor for that
*nods* more to come if you want it
tigah