Short Fun Writing Challenge

Prompt 2

It’s been months and the semester’s almost over. I haven’t seen her face around, not even in the library where I walk into her almost all the time during the past semesters. Sure the university is big as hell and there are a lot of students both dormitorian students and off campus students but I never fail to see her. I’ve had a lot of friends since the first time we met and officially became friends but no smile can ever out stand her smile.

Her—the only word that I can use to call her. It’s better if I don’t mention her name. Liking her has been a big secret ever since she beat me to telling her about my feelings. I’ve only observed her from afar. We never really got the chance to seat beside each other because her last name starts with a letter that’s farther from mine. I know that we’re already in college but in that only class where we can only be together, the instructor decided that he’ll arrange our seats according to our last names—alphabetically.

It wasn’t only me who noticed her smile. Even that same instructor we have in the same class noticed that smile the first time she walked in the room. I can even remember him say, “Always keep that smile wherever you go” when he called her name.

Everyone in the class looked at her too, to find out who the smiling girl is. Later on, as we hang out I found out that everyone she’s friends with knows about how she smiles a lot. She’s very friendly and kind and so some people tend to abuse her kindness. I never saw her pout in a sad way or frown or cry. I profiled her as someone who’s bubbly, smart and kind. She has this way of looking at things and life that no matter how hard things are for her, she always keeps that smile. I guess that’s what I liked about her most.

Since I wasn’t able to unlock my phone because it was pretty expensive—in my perspective—I don’t have a way of communicating with her. So the only chance that I have is whenever we happen to bump into each other, or during our class, or when there’s this major’s forum that they call. We’re both Dentistry students so we have that. But I seldom attend the forum so I don’t know if she attends the thing all the time.

One day though, I received a love letter from an anonymous sender, she never got the chance to read it but she knows that there was a letter. Because it was passed around from person to person and it happened to pass by her. Since she’s in one class with a guy who she knows stays in the same dorm as I am—he’s not my roommate, just a dorm mate—she gave the letter to him and so he gave it to me. She asked me about it and I was actually hoping that it was from her, secretly of course. She told me that she would put her name if it was from her but then there aren’t any names so I just brushed the whole thing off my head and called that day a day.

I don’t know what happened, but one afternoon I walked into her and she suddenly told me that she likes me. It surprised me because no one really liked me except that person who wrote the letter. It’s not that I’m unattractive, maybe because I don’t really feel like having a girlfriend that I don’t really care what girls might think about me. There’s this girl though who keeps on following me around and chatting with my mom on Facebook. I don’t really care, but somehow I feel shy whenever that girl mentions about talking to my mom when ‘she’s’ around. She doesn’t seem to bother though.

So since that day that she told me that she likes me, we became even closer. It shocked me that she likes me and I didn’t know what to say. I didn’t want myself to appear a bit of in a hurry so I told her that I want to say I like her, but we have to get to know each other more. And so we promised that we’ll stay friends and we’ll get to know each other more without any awkwardness. She even made me promise not to tell anyone that she likes me which I found weird. I mean, if you like someone, shouldn’t you be keeping that a secret with a friend rather than the person you like? But then it was cool, so I kept my mouth shut. I just wish I was able to tell her I like her too, but then I don’t want her to think that I’m one of those guys who’ll tell her he likes her because he found out that she likes him. I wanted to give it time.