Pain Mascara

Chapter 13

The air that I breathed in the city of Los Angeles made me feel calmer and I felt so much happy to be back in to the university life, well determined to build myself standing alone as a loner.

It was our final year semester start date and the hall was fully crowded and noisy. The students were busy talking to each other sharing all their vacation stories and I myself sat on a bench by the hall thinking to myself "Stephie, don't you feel glad that you're sitting by your own instead of faking how great you're vacation was", as I knew that none would have had such a miserable vacation when vacations are meant to be for collecting beautiful memories to cherish where instead I had a vacation which made me to walk out of home with the intentions of never returning back.

I was fully lost in my thoughts and all I could remember was someone patting on my shoulder asking me to move from my bench. He was tall, masculine with beautiful brown eyes and his touch made me shiver and his looks made me frozen. I kept on staring at him as if it's the first time I'm seeing a boy in my life.

"Hey miss I'm Adrian would you mind making a move as we are to arrange the benches".

"Oh, I'm sorry", I went red with shyness and I made a move, but that moment I knew that I have built a connection with this boy. I walked towards where everyone is being gathered for the reunion and made myself comfortable in the crowd.

As university started my life kept on being busy from uni to the flat and flat to the uni but despite of all I felt some kind of a sensation in my heart where I have already built curiosity to look for Adrian and his whereabouts. I still remember like today our second meet up.

The day was sunny and bright, I was at the grocery store buying food for the week when I heard someone calling "hey miss dreaming how have you been", to see Adrian at the store holding a can of beer.

"Hi, I'm good how have you been"

"Is that how you respond to someone so casual, is your life so boring", I wish that moment I would have explained him my situation as a loner but I kept quiet with a smile.

"Well I see, you're good at dreaming ha, not a talker like me", I still kept smiling; maybe I was speechless in his presence.

"Okay, miss smiley dreamer, would you at least mind telling me your name"

"Stephie, Stehpanie", that's all I said and I walked to the cashier and Adrian followed me too.

After paying the bills we both said bye to each other and walked on our ways towards different directions but inside my heart I wished if we could have walked the same direction, where I would have got to know him better. Though we didn't have met each other being in the same university I always wondered how come I made such a connection with him in a split second hoping he felt same too.

Every day I went to college wishing to meet Adrian but I never had the opportunity of meeting him or seeing him. My curiosity of knowing him more arouse day by day, I kept on searching him on all the uni blogs, portals online but every effort made only my curiosity grow, nothing else.

You might think off me crazy but I knew that I was looking for a companion a relationship which made me feel as if I've been knowing Adrian for a life time.