Chapter 5

Time seems to flow fast when I’m in his presence. It feels like yesterday that I first spoke to him. Now it’s time he leaves school. His school semester is coming to ended. I am in confusion now. I want him to stay here with me in this place. Something doesn’t feel right with me. I keep thinking about him even when he’s not around. I keep wishing I would see him in the corridor of his classroom or in the canteen. I even started to doodle his name on my hand. Crazy, isn’t it? Yeah, seems like I’m developing feeling for him.

“Okay, you don’t have to be so dramatic. It might just be a crush. It’s just you are looking it in a magnifying glass.” Doing her nails, Mona commented.

“Or she’s really in love with him. You can’t strike out that possibility. He’s good looking, nice height, and might even have a nice body. If you ask me, I will say you actually are in love with him. You keep talking how you both spent the evening afterwards. So, I thought something did bloom between you.” Monica threw that statement at me, looking puzzled.

“Did I do that? Like every day?” now this is my turn to look puzzled. I knew I started to think a lot about him recently but never paid attention to my words around girls.

“Oh, come on! That’s not love. Maybe just a crush. Don’t think too much girls. We are not in the stage of life to think about stuff like this. We have so many things to do.” Said Mona. The nerd she is.

I didn’t respond to their comments after that. Yes, I can’t focus on these silly teenage feeling. I need to do things that matter. If I can’t concentrate on things that are important around him, I must avoid him. So, that’s what I’m going to do from now. I just need to stop going to terrace. That must do since Ryan doesn’t roam around like the others.

So, after that day, I stopped going to terrace. But who knew I can’t get him out of my sight or my mind? It feels like he’s everywhere. In the corridors, in the canteen, even in the playground which is not possible since I’ve never seen him play. I keep thinking of him. It became too much. I couldn’t focus on a single thing that isn’t him. Maybe this is what they meant when they said, “You can’t stop thinking about something by doing the same.”

But then one day, everything came back to normal. I stopped crossing paths with him. I still keep thinking about him but that’s it. I don’t go crazy now. I think about him time to time and wonder how he’s doing. Since all the seniors are way too busy in their exams, maybe he’s busy too. Maybe he’s burying his head in books all the time like he always does but all these are only my assumptions. Just like that all the exams are over, and he’s gone. I can’t find him even if I try now. He’s just gone just like how he came the first time. Now all I can do is think about him when I hear someone mention his name or see a shadow similar to his.

Things became better over time. I completed my studies and am working with my two girls, Mona & Monica, out of country M. We started a business on our own. Since the twins are rich, we didn’t have any problem with investment. Ever since our genius Mona created the formulae for cosmetics without chemical damage over time, we worked on developing the product in different forms. I maybe a genius too but all my talent lies in my words. So, I do the business, letting mona focus on her research. After 3 years of hard work, we finally became a brand popular among not just rich but the ordinary people too. There is no household without at least one of our products on their dressers. We decided to come back to home nation and expand our business here too.

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