I'm your typical college student, attending a local university. I'm Asian equipped with average looks; I have pointy eyes, black hair, brown eyes that seem black, overweight. Most of all, I have no experience in love.
There was this girl who I fell in love with, but at that time I don't really know the difference between love and lust.
The first time I saw this girl was during our P.E. practice. We were inside the canteen, rehearsing for our commercial reenactment, or that's what I thought we were doing. While, she was sitting on the ground in front of the classroom; eating bread.
The canteen is just right beside our P.E. classroom which was located on the 7th floor.
I immediately noticed her and asked one of my classmates, Lance, if she was in our group. She was really cute. When I say cute, she is literally cute, her height and looks. She was indeed the prettiest girl I've ever seen, well, based on my taste.
Lance nodded and said she was indeed in our group, so I asked Lance to go and ask her to come inside the canteen and join the practice.
Lance went out the canteen and was walking to her direction when he changed his direction as he was embarrassed to talk to her and decided to take a glimpse at the classroom. Returning with a smiling face, he told me he couldn't do it, as he was shy enough to go and start a conversation.
Having no choice, I went out and talk to her.
“Hey, why don't you come inside? Everyone's inside, practicing.” I told her.
“Hmmm, Okay.” She responded.
She got up and immediately finished her food before we could even enter the canteen. As if, she was afraid of being asked for some of her bread. That sight was really cute though. Greedy and stuff about food, as I also love to eat.
When we got inside, that's when I noticed that we weren't really practicing. The only thing everyone did was sit, talk, eat and play mobile games. I was really ashamed, as I told her that we were practicing and no practice was indeed happening.
She looked at me and smiled. She sat and took out her tablet and started playing one of the trending games at that time, the subway surfer. I looked at her while she was playing, all my attention was focused solely at her and she started to be a bit self conscious. She would look at me while I look at her and I would smile when our eyes meet.
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A moment later she asked me if I also wanted to play, because I would not take my eyes of her.
“Want to play?” She asked, smiling.
“Can I?” I asked.
“Yeah, you can.” She said while handing me the tablet.
I received the tablet and played, while playing I asked for her name, and also told her my name.
“Hey, what's your name? Mine's Marcus.” I asked.
“I'm Desiree.” She said.
“How old are you?” I asked her, curious about her age.
“I'm seventeen, you?” She said while asking for mine.
“I'm also seventeen, when's your birthday?” Knowing she's the same age as me I asked for her birthday.
She wouldn't answer and tell me when, so I took her Identification card and looked at it for myself, but before I could even see when, she blurted it by herself.
“March, March 20, 1999!” She exclaimed, seemingly embarrassed.
“Ha-ha! I see, I'm born on April, So, you're older than me.” I laughed as I found out that she was older than me.
She was so embarrassed that she was left speechless. I don't know why she was so embarrassed though. Throughout our stay at the canteen, we haven't started another conversation and was only playing subway surfer, taking turns when it is game over.
A moment later, we presented our commercial without practice. Miraculously we got better grades than those groups that practiced.
It was already late when the class ended. It was 7:30 in the evening. Everyone was on their way going home, when she suddenly asked me where I live, so that she can go with me if were from the same direction. As riding a public transportation vehicle would be dangerous at night.
“Hey, Marcus, where do you live?” She asked me.
“I'm from Liloan.” I told her.
She seemed relieved when she knew I was from Liloan.
AUTHOR INFO: Liloan is from Cebu, Philippines.
“Really? I'm from Consolacion. Can we go home together?” She asked while smiling.
AUTHOR INFO: Consolacion is also from Cebu, Philippines. But if based from our school, Liloan is further than Consolacion.
Damn, she was really cute when she asked that. Imagine, me going home with her, what a blessing that was. But fate was too unfair, my stomach was acting up and I had to turn down her offer, while giving her some excuse.
“I really can't today. I won't be going home soon, as I have something important to do.” I told her.
My heart was bleeding when I said that. What a wasted chance.
She looked a little down but still nodded. She then went down the building and headed to the jeepney stop.
AUTHOR INFO: A Jeepney is a public utility vehicle in the Philippines.
I immediately went to the toilet to do my stuff. After, I hurriedly chased after her, but I couldn't catch up to her. She had already boarded a jeepney towards Consolacion. Feeling down, I searched her on facebook, and found her. I added her and waited for her to accept me.