• Chapter 2
    Hailey
    Don’t you just have one of those days where it just seems that you can’t grasp what has just happened to you? This was one of those days. As the hours passed (for me they were DAYS) I kept on thinking about HIM... he had the handsomest voice anyone can ever have. If anyone can have a voice like an angel then he must look like one, too! But who in the world would look at me?
    After all I’m just a normal girl who happened to pass by that forest at the right time but I’m 100% sure if it would have been another girl who would’ve passed the forest then he wouldn’t even have looked both ways at me. Sure enough, it was me who passed by and it was me who got his attention and to think that back home in sunny Florida where everyone had good tastes, no guy even noticed me. Well I guess its because of there big muscles and pea-sized brain that it was clear to them that I was just some ordinary girl with no body and had two left feet. My oh my, I think we have some crazy people living in this town to think that I am BEAUTIFUL!
    The only people that have thought of me as beautiful are my parents and grandparents, but my grandma, Sue, and my grandpa, Henry, are resting in heaven. That only leaves me with TWO people who think I am beautiful. This is all just so hard to grasp. Why can’t this all be easy like in those love stories where the girl protagonist is a perfect blonde and the male is the football captain? This is not that, no, it is the exact opposite of that! First of all, I am not a perfect blonde with an A+ body and Alex is no football captain either! For heavens sake, he doesn’t even go to the same school as me!
    Which brings us down to Alex Cuttingham. Mysterious, yes. Wonderful, yes. Charming, yes. Angel like voice, DEFINITELY YES! But who is he really? I haven’t seen him in school, and as a matter of fact, I haven’t noticed him at all until today… strange, isn‘t it? I guess he is one of those kids that are home-schooled and don’t go out as much because they have no friends. I wonder if he’s ever even gone out of this tiny town… I wonder if he’s even gone out of his own house before I came. I Definitely wonder about him… this new mysterious stranger.
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    As I was coming down from my room after my restless night, I decided to ask my parents about the Cuttinghams and what they knew about them. That was an epic failure. Apparently none of them have heard of them since we moved here. This is getting weirder by the second. I know we’ve only been living here for a little while but still, in this little town everyone knows about everyone. Like the Johnsons from down the streets already knew we were going to move here even before we actually signed the paper work! This is getting way out of hand! I guess it’s time for a little digging around… Hailey style.
    When I got to school, I decided to ask my friends if they knew anything about the Cuttinghams. I asked Monica and all she knew was that they have been living here since 2 years ago and that they only come out when its either rainy, foggy, or at night. Cyra said that they have a strict diet and that they don’t like to eat anything that is not from home. I think its time to go to plan b: finding it out from the guy himself, Alex. This is going to be a really long day, I said to myself. UGH!
    After school as I parted ways with my friends Monica, Cyra, Shane, and Joshua, I literally ran all the way to the forest. As I got closer I felt HIM closer and closer to me and that really cheered me up. I have never felt this kind of sensation before. This is all so strange, new, and wonderful to me, like it’s all bundled up inside of me. This is all so irrational to me, something so unreal but at the same it’s not a dream or fantasy. I just got to tell myself that this is really happening and this is not fake. But how can I tell myself that? How come I can’t be reasonable with myself?
    As I was waiting for him, I heard a cough. This was no ordinary cough, no sir ree! This was a cough of an angel, MY new mysterious angel. “Alex, where are you?” I asked.
    “ I’m right in here Hailey.” he replied before I could even ask anything else. “How was your day?”
    “It was OK, I guess.” I said nervously. “And yours?”
    “I guess it was OK. But now it is better because I finally got to see you.” He said with a sweet voice that would have made any girl faint. I tried to keep my balance.
    “I was thinking about you the whole day.” He said sweetly. “Were you?”
    It was so hard to find words for this. It was as if someone had erased all my memory and only left Alex’s memories. I couldn’t even remember my own name. “Yes.” was all I managed to choke out.
    He started to laugh his wonderful laugh. “My, Hailey. Is it me or have you gotten much beautiful since yesterday?” He said and that sent my heart beating so fast that anyone in a 10 mile-radius would here it beat.
    “I think you are mistaken, I am not beautiful.” I said with a confused voice. “I don’t even come close to pretty!”
    “Oh, Hailey! How can you say such an absurd thing!” He said in a serious tone. “ You are more beautiful than the whole entire world put together! You are way more precious than the world itself!”
    “I am?” was all I could say since he stunned me with his sweet, caring words.
    “Yes, Hailey. You are more beautiful than this earth of ours, way, WAY more beautiful. Nothing in this world can compare to you! No human being can say that they feel what I feel for you!” He said.
    This really took me by surprise that I almost cried but I tried hard to hold back all my tears. I think he saw me because he appeared out of thin air and wiped away that one tear that managed to escape my eye. I lifted my head and I saw him. I finally saw him! This was like my dream come true. I tried to picture him in my mind the whole entire day but I didn’t even come close!
    He was perfect. He had black, tussled hair that hugged his head and neck . He had milk brown eyes that would put any girl in a trance if they stared into them long enough. He also had lips that were curved into a beautiful smile and a nose that made the cherry on the cake. His arms and hands were muscular and at the same time the were as soft and gentle as a baby‘s hands. But nothing compared to his chest. It looked as if a master artist had sculpted it and put it on his body and all this was concealed by his tight navy blue V-neck shirt and his dark denim jeans.
    I had no words for this. I had to remember something to say to this beautiful human being that was waiting for my response. I took a deep breath and said “It’s just that no one has ever told me such kinds words before.” was all my mind could make up since I forgot literally everything. Except for him, of course.
    “Oh, Hailey.” He said sweetly with a beautiful smile coming up on his lips again. “A girl as beautiful as you must get asked out on dates all the time! This must not be no surprise to you.”
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