The boy in the red leather jacket
A story mixing fiction and true stories
Chapter 1 of an undeclared amount of chapters
I was sitting in a full class surrounded by computers and peoples voices mixed to a loud buzz. I didn’t feel like i belonged, but then again i never do. I’m always that girl that looks uncomfortable but somehow i had wished that on my first days of college i would feel like i i was one of them.
That i would become a diligent, cool, proud student, when instead i felt like a shallow shell of myself; empty of any context and my facade that was clearly visible would fall apart of the slightest touch.
While i was trying out my emotions like trying out shallow ice with a stick my heart stopped when he walked in. Hes appearance oozed confidence, his relaxed yet stylish clothing made me doubt everything i wore. Why did i pick this dress couldn’t i pick a safe choice that i felt more confident about and why do i have the same cardigan as last time he saw me, oh why?
He looks out at the class and meets my eye staring at him, immediately and too obviously i turn my head around.
My mind keeps telling me I’m nothing compared to him and i look around at the other girls. Their all in perfect length and body measurements. Not with so abnormal length and with weird body shapes at me.
I feel like crawling in to a hole and hide from the sun. With my luck my bleached hair would stick out like a spider web and he would dig me up looking disgusting, dirty and worn out.
I saw him last time at the welcoming seminar, he walked in much like today shining from the rest, casually dressed but obviously a well thought outfit. I was out of boredness staring at the people walking in and measuring them to my perfect male requirements that i had been talking with my friend online the whole last night. At the moment he walked in i got dreadfully selfconscious of the bags under my eyes the talk had left and i tried my best to remember did i look at all decent the last time i looked in the mirror. He was perfect.
Obviously, i never talked to him and every time i saw him in the hallway we both looked away like we where busy to do something important, even if i at least was sure he was a new student like me.
Like a death shot to my fantasy that was already measuring him next to me i remembered my friends words: ‘you know karin, nothing perfect is never meant to be kept, there’s just no challenge in it. We get bored and i doubt a man would love to be worshiped, you need a man whos less perfect, someone you can help to fix.’
the thought that i couldn’t get something that was perfect made me want it even more. But every time i saw a man measuring up to the measurements i stood there dumbfounded not even trying to change.
I woke up from my thought to realize the teacher had already started talking and the girl next to me had already written a full page of notes. Shit, i was screwed, as always.