Board Thread:Short Stories and Fanfictions/@comment-43957690-20200202011114/@comment-43957690-20200208033203

-Part Two-

Jess was in love the moment she saw him.

She’d been in Atlantis at the time, window-shopping. Her eye had been caressing a particularly intricate necklace made of opal and gold. It was very goddy and very elaborate, what with the gems arranged to look like delicate purple feathers. It wasn’t something that Luzia would wear. Much too fancy and pompous.

Jess liked it for that very reason.

In fact, she’d liked it so much that she was about to go inside the shop and buy it, breaking the one rule that she’d set for herself on her secret outings. Never bring anything back.

Jess was about to enter the shop when she noticed his face reflected in the glass, alongside her own. He wasn’t looking at the jewelry, though.

She tore herself away from the window to look at him. “Sorry, am I in your way?”

He smiled. It was a crooked smile that made one dimple appear on his left cheek, and it was a beautiful smile. “Not at all.” he told her.

I should move, Jess thought to herself. It’s not good for people to talk to me.

But she couldn’t get her legs to cooperate. Which was… embarrassing. Especially when the stranger raised an eyebrow and said “Are you okay?”

“I’m fantastic!”

“Good.” He smiled again, and his violet eyes smiled, too. He had violet eyes… and choppy auburn hair, but Jess was more obsessed with the eyes.

And then she realized that she was standing there, staring at him. She couldn’t tell weather she’d been smiling stupidly or deadpan. She couldn’t decide what was worse, either.

“Well I’m Concordius.” He held out his hand

Jess froze a bit. “That’s your name?”

“Nah, I was messing with you. My real name’s Troy. Troy Prikingson.”

“Oh, okay.” Jess tried not to sound too relieved. She realized that she hadn’t shaken his hand yet. How were you supposed to do it? She’d seen it once in a human movie…

Jess spat onto her hand and grasped his firmly, shaking it up and down violently. “I’m Jessica.” She beamed.

Troy smiled again… which made Jess melt again. But he was very nice about not making a big deal of wiping the spit off his hand.

“See you around?” he asked.

“Uh… yeah. I’d like that.”  Jess found herself smiling that crooked smile of his as she left Atlantis- without the opal necklace.