The Moon Hiding at Dawn

Chapter 11: Horizons

A slap to the face...

And another...

Repeat it a hundred or so times...

This is what kept me busy in this... night. I don't even know how to describe it anymore. I just finished taking a shower after getting home but the mental image remains unwashed: two senior students in the brink of graduating, hugging in the rain, confessing their love for each other.

THINGS ARE SO DAMN FAST I'M TURNING RED EVERYTIME!

I slumped in my bed, staring at the ceiling. The moonlight being the only source of light that illuminates my usually dark room.

Kallen... Who would've thought? The number one prick to my own lifestyle would turn out to be the one I love. Well, it's not as if I won't be an introvert now. I'd still want to avoid contact with people and the unnecessary conversations that they bring. It's just that... Let's just say she's the exception to everything I previously had as an absolute rule.

My phone vibrated the first time in ages.

Hey, it's Kallen...

My heart feels as if a whole battalion is marching across it back and forth.

This is real right? And not a prank. She asks.

I replied, telling her that I can't believe it either but that's definitely not a prank. We've known each other that we'd mess up with anything about everyone except for two things: experiences and feelings. That and I'm also not an expert in pranks and I never tried doing much in my whole years of existence.

What do we do now? I asked.

I don't know either... She replied.

Then let's continue being what we are. Except that we know what we feel about each other so we don't have to hide anything. That would be fine right? I replied. This is actually a first for me as well and I don't read a lot of romance stuff at all. It never interested me up until recently.

Ok then! I'm gonna get some sleep now. I love you!!

Sweetest of dreams. I love you too!!!

Give me a moment...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I scream, internally of course since it's the dead of night, as I read the conversation again and again before returning to the slap-to-ascertain-reality segment. Never in my wildest dreams did I think this would actually happen. I wholeheartedly thought that I'm going to die single and have pretty much accepted and consigned myself to that fact for so long that everything love related just whooshed above my head.

That said, I have no time to really dwell on these kinds of things tonight if I want to retain my usual lifestyle. I still have a class for tomorrow so I covered myself with a pillow and forced my way to slumber.

The next day arrived. I got to class first as usual. Kallen was late again... as usual. Professor Raymond entered the class to give out-of-school passes for us to finish remaining preparations for the club fair. I don't see the sense of why a university still requires this for college students and all the more do I not see the sense of giving it to people who really have no classes to attend to anymore. As much as it sucks and is illogical, a policy is a policy and we are nothing but forced to comply.

He also told us that the student government would be in charge of the actual event so we could rest easy and fool around as much as we want.

"All of you deserves rest after being ordered around by an asshole of an administration." So he says.