Beautiful eyes, beautiful golden
yellow-brown skin. It was like she
glowed. No girl at my high school
looked anything like her.
“Hi,” she said.
“Hi,” I replied.
I was dumbfounded. I had no
idea how to talk to a girl that
beautiful. She was shy and didn’t
speak much, either. There was a bit
of an awkward pause. Luckily Tom’s
a guy who just talks and talks. He
jumped right in and smoothed
everything over. “Trevor, this is
Babiki. Babiki, Trevor.” He went on
and on about how great I was, how
much she was looking forward to