Not as they seem...

Back to Reality

So now here they were, back to school. Back to watching him from the other side of the bus. It was bitter sweet really. Anna couldn't help wonder who the blonde he had ended up with was and if she would be his next girlfriend.

The Eton College kids got off the bus about 2 stops before Belle and Anna had to get off.

She heard the buzzer going and sensed Zander and his friends making moves to collect their bags and head down to the back doors of the bus.

Belle and Anna were still squished in the standing room opposite the back doors. As the boys moved down, the whole bus seemed to quieten and move aside for them. Those guys didn't have to elbow anybody out of the way or push past people's shoulders to get them to let them pass. Not that they realised it all. They had no idea the effect they had on everyone else. They were still chatting away as normal. Anna was acutely aware of all the other female eyes on the bus doing exactly what she was doing. Watching the tall and impossibily cute school boy getting ready to exit the bus.

Just as the bus slowed down, Zander turned around. He saw her and their eyes locked.

She smiled weakly, not knowing if he was going to remember her or acknowldge their brief meeting on saturday.

"Oh hey,!”he exclaimed, his eyes brightening and his face breaking out into a grin. He knocked Rocco in the chest to get his attention, “Hey look, its Anna and Belle- from the party on Saturday!'

"Oh, yeah,”Rocco replied, “Man I was so smashed!”

Zander laughed at his mate, but turned back to Anna. “Did you have fun? I looked for you again, but didn't see you.”

She may have been imagining it, but Anna thought she heard several other girls gasp.

“Yeah, it was epic.”Anna replied, “We were just hanging out in the back room.

The bus suddered to a stop.

Zander nodded thoughtfully , “Yeah, it was pretty epic.”

Anna wondered if he was referring to the actual party or the girl he'd ended up with.

“Next time- come find me.”he added, as the doors swung open,

“We should hang out...."He called over his shoulder as Rocco pushed him off the bus.

The doors closed and Anna felt too many eyes baring down on her. She fought off a severe blush by grabbing her phone out of her pocket and trying to busy herself with looking on i********:. She felt her knees literaly trembling and her heart thumping her chest for a second, but entirely different, time that morning. We should hang out, he'd said. It was all she could do to contain herself. Belle knew better than to acknowledge what had just happened in the middle of the bus, but she knew Belle would be bursting as soon soon as they got off the bus. The background noise slowly returned as everyone seemed to go back to their conversations, or maybe Annas ears just re-tuned back into it, she couldnt be entirely sure.

As soon as they had been deposited off the bus. Belle let out an almighty shriek and Anna finally breathed properly again. What the hell had just happened!!