Accidentally In Love by Teri
Prologue: Beautiful Woman by Teri
Author's Notes:
(Note: this starts in October of 2004.) This is the first book in the story the sequel is in production.
Prologue

Prologue: Beautiful Woman

************************************

Nick Narrating:

Let me tell you about this girl. She's perfect yet imperfect at the same time. I know I'm not making any sense here but hear me out. She's beautiful; 5'9” dark brunette, green eyes with a light natural tan that makes her skin glow in the right light.

She's funny, sarcastic, witty and so intelligent that it scares me sometimes. She parties every Friday night and reserves Saturdays for date night or movie night depending on her mood or relationship status.

She's in her last semester before she gets her masters degree in English Literature and Education. After all of this; and she turns 21 in just a week.

However in all this perfection are her flaws.

She overanalyzes everything, down to what she'll wear for a night out with her friends. She won't let a guy get close. I'm the only guy that's seen her cry, seen her vulnerable need for approval side. She swears she'll never fall in love and that she'll die a virgin because and I quote “men suck”.

I care for her yes. Sometimes I think that I could love her if I'm not already in love with her.

Other times I think to myself how stupid it would be to hook up now, we've been friends for years and I personally struggled to keep things platonic for a long time and to go for something now would be undoing all of that.

Then I think about the way she smiles, the way she cooks, the way she walks, how much it hurts to see her cry or get angry. It reminds me that maybe I do love her and that it's worth it.

We act like an old married couple according to our mutual friends. We do just about everything together. We have a trade off, she cooks, and I clean, well sort of. We go to the movies, out to clubs, on double dates or just the two of us out to dinner. But mostly we stay in and veg out in front of the TV watching movies or some sporting event.

When we have significant others they get jealous of how close we are. This makes most of them get fed up and leave. Sometimes they stay and try to ruin our friendship which results in them getting kicked to the curb. She is always there for me, after every breakup, cheering me on when I leave them, or cheering me up when I get my heart stomped on.

Honestly I don't know exactly when I started to see her as a woman and not the little 12-year-old girl my sister Leslie met at camp and brought to her tenth birthday party.

Even then she seemed wise beyond her years and we became instant friends. We've been through everything, from when my voice was cracking, to when her father was diagnosed with cancer.

I moved to LA to help her through college, after she called me one night her freshman year crying about her roommate being horrible. Now in two months she's graduating after taking a double course load, summer session classes, and college courses in high school. Yet she has time for partying, writing her thesis, and being a captain on the soccer team, while still keeping her sanity. She amazes me sometimes how she deals with everything so wonderfully.

I couldn't be more proud of her or more proud to know her.

End Narration

*****************************************



This story archived at http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=7928