Flicker | Momo
@epmomo
How to explain the intangible? Theo had a collection of dictionaries, yet he couldn’t find the words to explain it. The feeling that bubbled deep from inside of him whenever Hirai Momo walked into a room. He had only known her for a few weeks, their first encounter at a party. The moment Theo saw her on the dance floor he could feel an inkling. Of what? That he didn’t know. There was something about her that made Theo throw caution to the wind and slide onto the dance floor next to her.
Now, whenever she walked by he could feeling that something. That electric feeling, his nerves burning at the ends, lightning pulsing through his veins. But it wasn’t painful; it didn’t hurt him. It made him fall deeper. He had spent the past couple of weeks trying to reel himself in. He hadn’t had a crush on anyone before (except Jiyeon for a week but that’s a secret no one needs to know). He didn’t like the overwhelming feeling of losing control; when she smiled, when she laughed, when she so much as glanced at him. Yet, he couldn’t stop the way he felt and he didn’t particularly mind it either. It was a conundrum.
So when Hirai Momo walked into the crowded library and politely asked if she could take the seat across from him, Theo felt like he was stuck between heaven and hell. Heaven because she was across from him, at arm’s length even- and maybe this would be a good chance to get to know her. Hell because the Theo outside of the dancefloor was nothing like how he was on it. He wasn’t full of the bravado; instead he was a shy, somewhat soft-spoken guy who didn’t know how to start a conversation with the girl he kind of liked.
He glanced at the book before her, trying to think of a way to start a conversation. He really wasn’t very good at small talk in a situation like this, and to be perfectly honest a part of him knew he really should just be studying. Neither his mind, nor his mouth, nor his heart seemed to be on the same page. Before he could firmly decide to himself that he should keep his mouth shut and just put his nose to a book he blurted out-
“So- uh- Herbology is a fun class, right?”
(If his friends had been present they would’ve been in the background, howling with laughter.)