One day at a time

Rest.

Caleb's POV

What a queer girl. How come I never noticed her before.No she's not beautiful but something about her makes me think of her ever since we spoke... Ahm,okay.. I spoke.

Dominos. A weird name too. Anyway, I'm glad I got to talk to her today. It was funny how she never seemed to take an interest in me. I'm so used to all the attention the girls give me.
Sorry, not bragging.. Just stating the fact.

I logged on to facebook.  Checked her older posts.  Few religious, few funny and others philosophical.
Philosophy. Aha.  A genre I might like talking about.  I'll keep this in the corner of my mind.

Well people don't usually think I'm that kind of guy. 
They know me as an impulsive tattoo freak who bunks classes and  a crazy wild traveller.

But there's this part of me who nobody knows about.
No, not even Varjok. Of course he's the bestest buddy one can have but no one has entered all the different realms in my mind.

I'm sure there are a lot like me. So that doesn't make me weird.

Sheesh. I keep drifting away.  I need to focus.  Back to Doms.
Now that I look back I remember meeting her once, in the shopping mall.
She was wearing a long blue dress with her short hair let down.  She was cute, I thought.
She seemed to recognize us too. But that's all I guess. We never even greeted each other. 
Somehow this incident stuck in my head and chooses to resurface today.
If I remembered facts like these, I would ve got through my exams. 

But that's me, I have selective memory. I am usually forgetful. Like one day,  I was just sitting in my room thinking bout life and then I heard someones b'day being celebrated.
Since I hate to be in a crowd, I didn't really bother to go out to check whose it was and take the effort to wish him.  I kept to myself. Later that morning,  I heard someone knocking on the door. 

I opened to see an angry looking varjok standing right outside. And I realized it was HIS birthday. That forgetful.  I forgot my best friend's b'day.
I had to get him a sub burger to apologize.

Food makes everyone happy. Especially him.

It's 11 in the night. And I'm hardly sleepy.
I checked my messenger.  No one online from my contacts.
I checked the group. I saw her name showing a green dot.
I didn't have a second thought before texting her.

"Hey!!" I waited. She was still online.
No, now she's off. Oh well. Back to sleep then. 
No wait. I saw her typing.
"Hi.. " It sounded confused or so I thought. 
" I didn't see anyone else online except you. That why I texted.  I'm bored. I found your number in the college group."

Uh oh.Was that too rude? But she's typing. I hope it's not get lost jerk.

"Oh. Alright.
How are you.?"
Hmm. She's sweet I guess.

"Good.what are you up to? " I know that's not a great question, but how else do you continue a conversation.

"Nothing much. Just resting! "

"After a hectic day? "

"No,quite the opposite. I rested so much I feel sleepy again. That's why had to rest."

I was giggling at that answer.

She's definitely something.

I sent her a thumbs up." Great work!  "

She smiled back.

And then I decided to sleep. Let me make this clear. I'm not attracted or crushing on her. She's just interesting! Maybe I ll get a good friend here? 
Maybe. Maybe not.. I decided not to push it too fast. So I ended the convo.
"Good night doms, hope you have the best sleep! "

"Good night Caleb."

Wow. She's socially awkward too. Another thing in common.

Then..I pictured myself getting a tattoo that said "life" In Latin.

Tattoos are like a taboo in my hometown.
But I think we need to do what our heart says. And I have 3 now. My mom hates it.

One that says "Beauty in misery".
'A heart' that's similar to the one from our biology book, only fancier.
And Buddha's face.

I'm an atheist now. I was agnostic earlier.
I experimented a few religions before that.
And Buddhism?  Let's say we have a complicated relationship.

Slowly I drifted off to sleep.