Album: Heartbreak Weather
As always recommendations for songs, artists, or albums to write to are extremely welcome!
Jasper gazed through the haze that enveloped the bar. Sweat and heat intermingled to create a blur effect over everyone’s faces. His friends stood near the bar; they were trying to pick up a pair of girls that didn’t necessarily seem unwelcome to their advances but seemed (frankly) way out of their league. It was another Friday night out that he would forget about. About every other week the same thing would happen: it would start with someone texting that their work week was terrible and that they needed a drink, then Jasper would try to convince his friends that they could go some place far more respectable than the bars they usually favored (somewhere with tables that weren’t sticky and people weren’t always drunkenly shouting), but, in the end, his friends would win out and they’d arrive somewhere far too loud and hazy and not at all to Jasper’s tastes. If Jasper didn’t know that his friends would do anything for him no matter the circumstances, he would be annoyed, but if he really cared, he had no doubts his friends would be willing to compromise. So that’s why Jasper stood a ways away from the bar, his back as close to the wall as he dared, watching his friends inevitably fail at pulling the girls, chuckling at their antics, while sipping his drink slowly (after all he had to be sober enough to get himself home later and the subway was a bitch even when you were sober).
He didn’t quite know when he noticed her, but it was clear she had noticed him far sooner. She was stunning and exactly his type. She smiled at Jasper and he turned away, while his friends were okay with meeting and taking home random people in a less than sober state, he had his own reservations (mainly because he’d just never clicked with anyone that quickly). Even as he settled his focus on his friends again, his back to the mystery girl, Jasper closed his eyes and her face was stuck in his mind. She was gorgeous and by the way she was looking at him it seemed like she was confident and forward, two things he always liked in a date. But there was something else about her, some sort of edge that scared him a little bit.
Yet as he turned around again, surveying the bar again, Jasper saw her making her way across the room, towards him. As their eyes met for the second time that night, Jasper felt like running away, like trying to hide, because it truly felt like she could see everything in his soul.
“My name is Astrid.” She smiled as she came to a stop in front of him.
“Jasper,” He replied, extending his hand out for her to shake (God why the hell would he giver her a handshake).
Despite what he thought, she grabbed his hand, firmly shaking it and grinning a bit at his obvious embarrassment. How was her handshake attractive? Good God, Jasper was fucked.
“I’m just going to be honest, I think you’re really attractive and it’s obvious your friends ditched you.” She—Astrid—gestured towards his friends at the bar. “So, I decided I’d come and chat with you.”
That moment was perhaps the only time in his life that Jasper was really ready to risk it all, something about her was magnetic, pulling him in closer until he wasn’t sure he could pull himself free. He took a moment to ponder, downed the rest of his drink, and looked her in her eyes once more.
“Well, in that case, would you rather find a better place to talk—I hate this bar.”
Her smile seemed a little too sure of itself, but Jasper didn’t let himself think too much, and let her pull him away from the wall, towards the exit of the bar.
A/N: Another quick write, I don’t know about this one though, I don’t like it as much as stuff I usually write, so I may write something else to this song in the future.