Our class was finally over and I have gathered all my might to talk to the guy with the blue book. He was walking fast away from our gigantic school gate and hurriedly caught up to him.
“Hey!” I breathlessly caught his attention.
“Hey! Hi!” he said with a goofy smile on his face. His bored eyes were suddenly full of joy and life. He appears to be different person now. If he wasn’t holding the same blue book I might think of him as someone else. And that is when I realized that he might be unknown to me because he varies his façade from time to time. That is why I don’t recognize him being in any of my class. My teacher must just have trouble memorizing students name.
“I’m Matt Rivera. I am the one whom you saved from Jonathan.” I formally greeted. I actually used the word “whom”. That made me chuckle a little.
“Nice to meet you Matt.” he greeted back and started to walk again. He walks really fast that I thought that his gastrocnemius must be really toned.
“What’s your name?” I asked with a little pint of irritation. Seriously does he not know that when somebody wants to know you, it is a prerogative in a social interaction!
“I’m Luke. Luke Monasterio.”
“Oh. Well, then nice to meet you Luke.”
“Thank you.”
God, he is very hard to approach isn’t he? “Uhm, I just want to thank you for saving my butt back there. It was kinda caught in a major ass trouble. I mean, no I’m sorry I’m blabbering.” Okay Matt you’re freaking him out!
I saw his lips puckered into a smile. “Why are you saying sorry? That was kinda funny.” he acknowledge. No one actually said that I’m funny. I’m always the nerd one in our class.
“So, what is that book you’re holding?” I asked curiously. He was still holding it like it was something so precious to him but proud enough to let the people around him that he’s reading it.
“Oh this? This is my favorite book ever. A Starless Night. I loved it so much that I used it to save your uhm butt.”
“Excuse me?”
“Well, I personified one of the character of the book. All that you have seen earlier is a borrowed personality from a book character named Darwin.” he flashed a grin at me like he knew that he outsmarted everyone today.
I chuckled at his foolish explanation, no his silly excuse. “Are you like, a crazy dude?”
He snickered at me. “Dude, saying the word dude doesn’t fit your personality.” He paused for a brief moment. “Maybe I am crazy. Maybe I lost some screws, growing up. But I am sure that I am crazy in love with this book.”
“Why do you do that? Why are you copying the personality of book characters.” I disheveled my hair out of tremendous confusion.
“Maybe the same reason why you’re doing your thing"
“What thing?"
“Suppressing your real personality.” He stopped walking and faced me. “Escape.” he whispered.
“You know, I don’t know much about you and you don’t know much about me but with all due respect” I mimicked him “you’re weird Luke.”
“If you want something so bad, all the Universe shall conspire to make it happen.” he gently whispered quoting of whom I think is Paulo Coelho.
At that time I didn’t get what he had just said and I thought he is one crazy fella. Little did I know that he really is crazy, because I am about to witness the craziest thing I’ve seen in my life with him.
The kettle started to whistle loudly bringing me back to the real world.
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The Conspiration of The Universe (Published under Cloak Pop Fiction)
ParanormaleThe Conspirations of the Universe is a story about Luke Monasterio, a book hugger and a fan boy, who had recently had his heart broken by his girlfriend. He thought that the Universe hated him and so he took refuge to his all-time favorite book, A S...
