OUR GEAR HEARTS

chapter 1

I always thought the moment you met the great love of your life would be more like the movies.Not exactly like the movies,obviously,with the slow motion and the hair blowing in the breeze and the swelling soundheart.But i at least though there would be something,you know?A skipped beat of the heart.A tug at your soul where something inside you goes,"Holy shit,There he is.Finally,after all this time,there he is."There was none of that when Kongpop Sutthirak walked into Professor Nan's afternoon computer class five minutes late on the first Monday of senior year.Kongpop was the type of person who made an impression on any room he walked into,but not for the kind of reasons that generate instant and undying affection.He was of average tall height and average build also average attractiveness,That's how i first saw his.There was no slow-mo,no breeze,no soundtrack,and definitely no skipped heartbeats. Kong hobbled in five minutes late,silently,like he owned the place,like he'll been in our class for years,and maybe because he was new or because he was too handsome or the professor could see simply by looking at his that a small part of his soul was craked,Prof's Nan said nothing.Kong sat on a chair at the back of the black-walled computer room, his cane resting across his thighs,and said nothing to anybody for the entire class.I looked at his twice more,but by the end of class I'll forgotten he was there,and he slipped out without anyone noticing.So this is certainly not a story of love at first sight.But it is a love story,well kind of.