THE MEMORY

Chapter 5

Andy turned and he nearly bumped someone thus spilling on whoever that person was. He fortunately saves the latte and as he starts to apologise the room lit up.

Andy freezes in his tracks and does not know what to say. There she is, Cinderella. It has been too long. Yes I mean it has only been two days but the longest two days of his life.

"Oh, Shakespeare its you." She was rather excited to see him.

""

"Hello? Anybody there?"

"yeah I am sorry I was just in my train of thoughts."

"You are such a bad liar you know."

"I am shocked that I get to see you again."

"Yeah how could I forget. You spilled my coffee."

"oof so I am the coffee spiller I guess."

"You are funny." Cinderella giggled in satisfaction.

"Yeah I try."

"Well it was great seeing you again. Later."

At this point Andy is very star struck. He is seeing her Cinderella again. She heads off into the distance and Andy realises this and he calls her out.

"Hey, I didnt get your name."

"ALICIA."

It all came together for Andy now, the name he heard was not Alison, Aliyah or Amber. The name was Alicia. The sweet and glorious Alicia capable of making him weak to his knees.

"I wish I was in the same class as you."

She bursts into laughter and Andy is again hypnotised. He might die of hypnophobia. The fear of dying because of hypnotising.

"Are you still there Shakespeare?" she said this waving her hand in front of his eyes.

She snaps her fingers and he finally awakens from his cloud nine experience.

"What happened?" he had no idea what caused it but he knew why it happened.

"You ran away with your mind."

"Oh genuinely?"

"Yes. I almost thought you were a zombie. Your moaning was kinda scary."

"Oh my goodness you heard that. I am so embarrassed right now."

"Hey, it's ok. It happens."

"Im sure it does because no one is immune to embarrassment."

"You got that right Mr Dreamer."

"Oh you already have another nickname for me. You are really going to make fun of me for the rest of the year."

"Yeah it is my thing to name people but I do give them cute names ok."

"To be honest, I dont think that Shakespeare is the name for me because there is only one Shakespeare that has ever lived in this modern day. I am Shakespeare the second."

"Woww, you are just so funny."

"And I am so in love with you."

That was the death defining moment of his life. He never knew if it was going to cause turmoil or she was going to be understanding and say that they can give it a try. Alicia looked at Andy in a disappointed manner. It was clearly written on her face that she did not expect what Andy said.

There was an awkward silence for about fifteen seconds and Alicia broke the silence and responded. "Hey I have to go, my friend is waiting for me over there. It was great talking to you Andy." Something was not right. The way she evaded the whole conversation. The silence that she broke. Andys confession! This was written rejection all over. Did the young man experience his first rejection?