First Encounter

What is love?, Am I in love? or, How does one fall in love? have always been the questions asked the by the hopeless romantics.

Love simply is that feeling you get when being surrounded by a genuinely happy family. OR

That special feeling you get when you see a certain person who makes your heart skip a beat in a good way, who slows down time whenever you are together and causes you to feel things you didn't think you could feel before.

"The tricky part then becomes how to show that love to someone.

1-The bullies who will try to make life miserable just for them to get your attention.

2.Then we have the hopeless romantics who will start small by texting frequently, by sending flowers,chocolate, love notes etc

3:Then we have the straight forward type of people, who without hesitation tell you how they feel".

Falling in love is easy ,being in love is quite hard, but getting over a failed love when you want to is upright impossible and that's why Aria Soledad has given up on love.

Aria Lim after migrating from China to Philippines at the age 10, thought that she would have settled down in her mid 20's, doing a job she loves and just loving life in general, but not everything is as we want it to be and her reality manages to somehow always be different and obscurely opposite from the one she envisioned.

Still she manages to be optimistic, charming and quite a hardworking clerk for an advertising company whilst also being a third year medical student.

One might think that she's not trying enough or trying with very minimal effort, which is most definitely not the case.

She may have given up on love and immediately hate at anything remotely romantic, but experiences tend to shapen us all and Aria is no stranger to such experiences.

Having always been on the receiving short end of the stick, she has grew some rather strong feelings towards love.

She did have casual relationships though which was sex only, kinda ironic that her favourite movie is No Strings Attached which basically was about a sex only relationship featuring the tandem of Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher.

She also had rules of engagement, which she uses as a disguise to avoid getting hurt ;

No staying over.

No dates or hanging out.

No need to know about ones past.

And her favorite of all, no romantic gestures what so ever.

With these so called rules she felt that her heart would always be protected and safe, but unknowingly allowed that to ruin some relationships that could have lasted.

Then their is Seth Gonzales who is 23, handsome, well mannered and a rich tycoon with emotional baggage.

He has as his head is in the clouds with so many ideas he probably could take technology to the next level, and most importantly he is a believer of true love which as a result made him become often naive and gullible in relationships.

He may not have realise it then but all his relationship were based on material things, his lovers never loved him back the way he wanted.

He probably never realised it because he always felt alone and still grieving the loss of his parents.

Seth had a rather intense and neglected childhood, from private lessons in piano, kickboxing and linguistics, he never had time to be somewhat normal.

Always insearch of love from wherever he could find, thus how he got tagged as the billionaire playboy.

Who could blame them though, he's 6'11 with a perfectly built physique and to top it all of with green eyes which literally shimmer under the sun's reflection.

Even with his rather terrible luck with love, he's optimistic in finding the one.

Being the only son and heir of two multi billionaires who happen to be the owners of the most trusted technology companies in the Philippines, he also inherited all the wealth and stress that came along.

There are certain coincidences that feels like orchestrated plans which have been in motion from the very beginning and that's exactly how the first meetings of Aria and Seth felt like, two souls constantly being drawn to each other.

It all started with Aria having a typical bad morning as she woke up late from the sound of "No Strings Attached" playing in the background.

Woke up with a slight headache then immediately started scratching her hazel colored eyes with intensity as to stop herself from falling back to sleep.

She sat down at her bedside Feeling stressed out and unprepared for the presentation that could change her life, when she notice that her alarm did not go off making her few minutes behind schedule.

Hurriedly she jumped into the shower before putting together whatever seemingly professional suit she could find.

Unfortunately, her waking up late was just the beginning as her car breaks down at the side of the road, giving her no other option but to order an uber which will take atleast 30 minutes to arrive.

Having giving up and looking hopeless, she then tied her hazel colored hair into a ponytail style before openings the bonnet of the car to see what's wrong.

Not sure what the problem was and how to solve it, she stood at the roadside angrily with sad tears on the verge of falling from her eyes whilst trying to catch the passing cabs.

An uber suddenly by arrive infront of where she stood unknowing to her that it was already booked by Seth.

His reason for not using any of his own cars that day because because it was his first day going back to the office since his parents died and saw it fit to transport under the radar.

He wanted to avoid commotions from when he'll arrive at the office, the employees, the paparazzi, all who are interested to know if he will be a great successor to his deceased parents.

Thinking it was the uber she booked, Aria hurriedly entered in the backseat, putting herself only few inches away from Seth's face.

She then share a confuse, intense and lingering eye contact with him, whose shocking expression was highlighted by his shimmering green eyes that was noticeable even with his glasses on.

Could this be the start of their love story?, love or hate at first sight?.

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