My Second First Love

  What does it take to have a good and sophisticated love story? Does it have to be something that catches everyone's attention? A story that typically have a rich man and a poor woman? Or something like a fairytale type? I actually don't understand those concepts of love stories. They all seem fake to me, maybe it's because I have never experienced those things.  I must say that I had no particular prince charming story that I expected in my life. I mean I was a shy and ordinary girl living my life in a simplest way. I never seen flowers are beautiful as they literally are, not even a moment that last for minutes in a fact that it actually take a seconds in reality.     For me, things are kind of fast and real, like how people struggles with their daily life. Like how other teenagers like me suffer from studying like there is definitely no tomorrow if we mess up.    But I am still secretly dreaming that one day I could experience things like fantasy, a princess-like story. A moment that would stop the time as well as my heartbeat.     My reality is such a hush. Like how these foods in my lunch. "Why do we keep on eating here? The food sucks" said Marie, she's my bestfriend. I, Marie and Sofia are best of friends since we are six. We are neighbors and my families are also friends with each other.  "We don't have a choice, we'll be late if we go and eat lunch on other place. Those were too far from school" answered Sofia.  "Let's go, we still have time to review. Let's get our brains explode". I say then suddenly stand up to acting like leaving. They followed me and we went straight to our room in the second floor of the building.    I am Ellie. I am 18 years old High School Student. People usually says eighteen is the best year for every person as they tend to experience their first love and their hearts start to burn into this year. I actually doubt that, I am about to turn nineteen and I never felt such thing nor experienced those.    Maybe because I am not that attractive as Sofia and Marie are or maybe I am too introverted to other people that I always miss the moments to grow my love life. I don't know, I actually don't have time to render in those kinds of things. I am busy studying to pursue my dream career, I want to be an accountant. Such a high dream for me but not as impossible as it seems. I have no time to waste, I need to learn a lot. This is the only thing that I can give in return to my parents' handworks and sufferings.   We have a chicken restaurant, a small one in the city. Both of my parents are working for it. It is obviously hard since they avoid having lots of employees to cut-out the cost of expenses. I usually help them every weekends though they hate that idea so much because they want me to focus on my studying. But what can I do, I see how they work and I want to help.   I am an only child and my parents centers their attention to me. Well, at lease I am lucky at this part. I have the fullest of love from my parents and I love them so much.    Both Sofia and Marie have a better living status than me as their parents are professionals. Sofia's parents are both campus instructors. Marie's dad is a physician and her mom is a manager of a merchandizing company in our city. Though we never felt those kind of difference, we treat each other equally and we rely to each other when we needed.   We had a few minutes walking until we reached the second floor of the building. There's a huge crowd of girls saying different kinds of things. I can say that someone got their attention.  "Is there a celebrity? I asked. "Nope. I think the transferees are here" answered Sofia. "Transferees? Who are they?" I asked her again. "Didn't you know? There three guys coming in our school. They are swimmers, they actually compete for national team last year" answered Marie. "So what's so important about it? As if they're handsome or tall or what" I answered. "Do you think girls would cram like this if those guys looks bad?" said Sofia. "Maybe at lease one of the looks good to gain attention like this". added Marie. "Do we have to wait here? We'll be late at this state. I need to review" I said with a disappointed face. This can't add to my disappointment with our lunch.   Suddenly the girls moved. An aisle of them was made and I saw a three tall men walking towards us. They don't seem clear at first because the came from afar. People still looking at them. We started walking in the side until we met them close. Sofia and Marie looked at them and I heard they said something like praising their looks. I was looking at my phone at that time, when we are straightly walking and met them I suddenly smell something. I looked at the boys and my eyes met his eyes.   He looks like smiling but he's not. His eyes were calm and attractive. A brown eyes with a puppy like shape. A man who has a clear and almost perfect face with a fair skin. He also looked at me, I don't know how long it took but I remembered those details. Even in a crowd of girls, I saw him clearly.   In not of my favor, my feet suddenly stopped. "Wait" I said. Sofia and Marie stopped and looked at me. "Why Ellie?" Marie asked me. "I smell something like a soap" I answered and I looked at him.    He also looked at me but this time, he smiled. I was just in blank face expression but everything seems to stop and I had nothing inside my head, its all blank.