"May I ask you something Mr. um... Mr. Carstairs ?"
"Dave would do it miss and of course you may. Feel free to ask me anything."
"Well if you don't mind . For someone with so much work like you, you seem to be pretty relaxed."
"Aah a wonderful question indeed. When you have been running this company for some years now it is not much of a work. In the beginning of course there would be moments when you would feel like life or death situation but when you are familiar with it , it is just nothing. Also in my case I work in the morning and my manager handles the evening part."
"And what about the time when you release new products. "
"Those times are pretty stressful indeed. But you seem to be rather interested with my routine. You are quite amusing."
I turned away, I didn't mean to pry....please understand. My face had started heating up. Breathe, remember the river rushing, springs gushing, calm down, relax. Hah.
"What do you mean?" I asked with the most puzzled look I could pull off.
"Ah....it's nothing. Don't mind me." He said with an enviable grin.
"Well then I will be going on then. Goodbye"
"It was nice talking to you miss."
"Uh...well, its Shimmer, my name. And yeah like ughh..(why won't my words just come out right? Hmm..yes let's say that.) Thank you. It was nice meeting you too."
I think I saw a genuine smile forming in his face while I walked by.
But as I was walking by It seemed as if the time had stopped. Well I didn't see any person on my way back anyway. But I really felt satisfied that day. No vrooming of bikes and coughing of cars. The wind was rushing around like in one of those movies where you just feel so good.
One thing that I was surprised by was that HE always seemed to be waiting for me at the time I would come home. Well I don't want to get ahead of myself but it really was surprising how we met coincidentally every day and he seemed to walk with me on my way back more and more. What if he was a psychopath plotting his crime. I mean he was just a stranger I BUMPED into at NIGHT who then Waited to introduce himself and KEEPS ON talking (or maybe even stalking) me. I mean lets think positively...1....2....3....NO I can't! Just imagine one of the anime protagonists with their hand on the head regretting their life decisions, yes that's me.
It had started getting creepy. One day I had even gone to my neighbor's house in the pretense of talking to my friend (just so it would look like it was my house). And that day I also had asked him not to meet up with me anymore. Well he did looked kind of disheartened. (replaying the scene when I asked him not to talk with me anymore.) Was I being too rude. What did he think? Aaahhgg! Damn this society and damn on me. If I had learnt self defense then I wouldn't have to be like this.
And he stopped, he did but then guess what? On the motivational or whatever session we had for our class he was the the speaker. And you wouldn't know that he was from our university. I mean he was wearing the dress code but it was only a belt and I wouldn't go on looking at others belt. I think its rude. Well anyway he seemed to be a prodigy of this place and whatnot. he had successfully whatever its not necessary. Well the girls were gossiping about him so I came to know about him being the owner/vice-president or whatever of Missix. Well I don't know people well. Nothing to do about it. Anyway I suppose that day was special.
I really had been looking forward to that day and when he entered I was confused to being like shit its him and to being embarrassed. He also seemed surprised. Hmm...now I felt really sad, I mean I was just overthinking and all. I didn't even give any explanation to him. I mean I don't owe others any explanations but he had been nice to me. And if somebody had done the same thing to me I would be sad. I want to run away now but the CLASS was so silent and nobody was asking any questions. I had been looking forward to this. Lets not think about myself for a moment and ask some question. Emotions aside I am a student foremost here. So, I asked my questions and I got my answers. The class also started breaking the silence.
I want to run away, jump out of the window and get swallowed by the earth is what I was thinking. He had happily answered the questions I put forward, I guess I should not have thought too much. Well when our eyes locked he just smiled at me. At the end of the class he thanked me for my cooperation, smiled and left. I was happy but embarrassed.
"Shimmerrrrrr.....(suspiciously looking at me), I want to hear a good story now." My friend, Lynette said.
"What do you mean?"
" You know what I mean, how did you know him? Tell me, tell me, tell me!"
Quick think! Tell the truth but not necessarily everything.
" I met him on my way home a few days earlier" I tried to say it as nonchalantly as possible.
"Aaaanddddd...."
"We talked for some (days) time and went our way."
"What did you talk about?"
"Gosh! Just some stuff here and there, I mean we just bumped into each other, sorry here, name exchange there and nice to meet you, bye. That's all. Nothing more." I tried to make myself as angry as possible while saying that.
"Why are you so angry now?" She looked frustrated.
"I mean why do you want to know everything?"
YOU ARE READING
Destiny calls
RomanceA girl was waking down the road heading home in a dark night when she strikes someone. Their meeting was fated to reveal who she really was. Slowly as time passed by she found herself in a place she would have never imagined herself in.
