play with fire

     The young female made her way through the crowd, earbuds in ears, mildly jiving to the music playing on her phone. She was the upbeat type and easily got lost in her own world, making her behavior nothing out of the norm when her favorite beat drop rang in her ears, eliciting a shuffle of her feet, though the action caused her to bump into an innocent bystander, which also wasn’t anything out of the norm.       Pausing her actions, she immediately jerked the earbuds out of her ears, and looked at the stranger she’d hit by accident. Much to her surprise, he was tall, handsome... and oddly familiar looking, causing a cant of her head and a furrowed brow. “I’m... really sorry. Sometimes I forget about my surroundings when I’m wrapped in my own head. You good?”