Shin's Diary

Chapter 3: Chat

Everything that she has been expecting had come true the time she came through the office. Their stares add an air of mystery. She didn’t mind them though but she can hear murmurs from her officemates. She went on and on like nothing’s a big news. She was in a strange stage of her life because her best friend, Carmen, was not greeting her in her usual fashion. As she caught her eyes meetings hers, she simply walked in and grabbed Carmen’s arm. Shin stared at Carmen in the sage of innocence.

“Why is everybody staring at me like I’m a kind of barely aware temptress who intrigues without come-on?” Shin asked Carmen directly, and impatiently.

“Whoa! Chill,” Carmen said and sighed “Everybody seems to talk about your boyfriend, you know. And well. Why didn’t you tell me that the hunk Gab the soccer boy is your boyfriend?”

“He’s not! If he is, I should be telling that to you,” she said defensively. “At the first place, he’s just nothing. He’s just one of my I met him when I was 15 and now, he’s nobody.”

Her face turned disappointed as her eyebrows met. For a split second, Carmen hesitated and later, she forced a laugh. Carmen raised her right eyebrow, flicked her tongue and licked her lower lip playfully. Shin didn’t like it when Carmen starts to become mischievous. She hates to admit that Carmen is so seductive; everyone would be tempted at her looks. Carmen, if noticing her features one-by-one, is not appreciated. She had big rounded eyes, long angled nose, Angelina-Jolie-like lips and freckled white cheeks. But combined together, it looked perfectly. Her diamond-shaped face made her outstanding.

“Okay… but I’m telling ‘ya, you’re having a great catch,” Carmen said it to her. “And oh, Emmett will cover your job til afternoon. Don’t worry about the money, he’ll give it to you anyway. He’s doing that because his ultimate idol likes you,” she almost said it in a whisper. “So Shin, just sit and face the computer and do whatever you want.”

“What am I going to do here?” she asked, confounded.

“Uhm… I dunno… how about check your GB and inbox… or chat with him,” Carmen quickly responded.

“I’m not going to do that!” Shin impulsively reacted as if she wouldn’t do that. But there’s a sudden electricity that’s flowing through her body, she was indeed in a short circuit. She opened her inbox at her crunchyroll account and saw a message from Kato_RiseUp21 that made her heart flipped in heaven. She was overjoyed, she can’t formulate any words to say. She opened the message. She couldn’t help but to grin.

Subject: HEY!!!
Message: hw r u? did u c me on ESPN? I hope u do. I lyk u to hear me dat I rily LIKE you. Wud u give me ur address? --- the complete one so dat I can go der wen I hav sum tym… *hugs and kisses on ya*

Now, she was driven away by that electrifying feeling. She doesn’t know what’s gotten into her head but she immediately clicked the Reply button. It was the most nerve-whacking feeling for her. It is stronger than she felt on the past 10 years.

Subject: ahh…
Message: I’m fyn hir!!! Dis is my address: Blk2 Lot2 Glen Subd., Arevalo, IC. Hope to see u here… LOL… hw r u too??

She laughed upon her situation. Her laugh is more sophisticated than ethereal. There’s a combination of refinement and pureness. Carmen stared at her and she didn’t seem to mind Shin’s unstoppable craziness.

“Who’s that?” Carmen asked. “Is that the guy you want to replace Gab?”

“No, kato_RiseUp21 is Gab, get it?” Shin replied irritatedly. “Uhm… I think you should go, I hate it when you are reading my mails. It makes me crazy --- big time.”
“Okay soccer girl, just update me with your latest buzz!” Carmen cracked a joke but Shin didn’t laugh. Instead, she rolled her eyes. That burning desire had awakened again. She even forgot everything wrong he has done to her.