Upon entering
the room there were exactly two vacant seats. Jaime pulled my sleeve and made
way for the seats.
The guy beside
my seat is asleep and the one beside Jaime introduced herself to us, she has
way too much energy for a morning class.
“Good morning! I’m
Marisol, this is Mark and that sleepy guy there is Leon. You guys look cute,
are you a couple?”
Jaime and I
flustered and blushed
“No!” we said in
unison
“I’m Jaime and
this is Jaime, but you can call him Jay to avoid confusion”
“So are you guys
twins?”
“Wrong again”
After the
professor got in, we were all silent but different from the first one this is
more aloof and loose in the least.
“Is this your
first class?” Mark whispered
“No, you?”
“Technically, no
because our first class was cancelled. Please wake that guy up”
Jaime patted his
shoulders three times and he woke up immediately.
During the roll
call, Marisol along with the professor and other students laughed as they
discover that we share the exact same name.
“If you guys get
married, then you remain Jaime Flores”
“Like that will
happen though”
After that,
Jaime didn’t talk to me for the rest of the period. I didn’t mind though as
Mark and Marisol kept me company.
“I think there
was a junior that’s also named Marisol but I can’t remember”
“Oh yeah? I bet
I’m prettier.”
“Dunno, haven’t
seen her yet”
“Oh yeah, let’s
compare schedules!”
Mark, Marisol
and Leon matches everyday which crosses mine and Jaime’s for three subjects,
one in the morning and two in the afternoon.
“For our
assignment due on Thursday, write a poem about your greatest desire, and you
are now dismissed” the professor said.
Walking outside
the room, Jaime was still not talking to me until I quipped “Atleast the scary
professor doesn’t give assignments in the first day.”
She chuckled.
Suddenly, I felt
lighter and warmer as she smiled after the period.
“See you after
lunch!” Marisol said as she grabs Mark and Leon.
“We won’t be
seeing them in a while”
“Yeah” she said
while fiddling with her bracelet.
The next class was
plain boring as it was just me and Jaime knowing each other in class and I kind
of miss Marisol’s presence. When I said it to her she looked sad for a second
and gave me a stupid grin after.
“It’s not that,
it’s just it seems like nobody wants to talk to us here”
“You have me”
“I guess that’ll
do”
She punched me
in the arm “Stop acting like you settled, it’s not my choice to be stuck with
you”
As I’ve said,
the class was uneventful because there was no class as the professor did not
come. An early heads up would have been nice.
“Early lunch?”
“Sure”
Walking toward
the student lounge, there were some guys are fighting there. It’s the first day
of class and they decided that they hate each other. Jamie seems to be the type
terrified of those acts, seeing how she was flustered by the shouting and
stepped back a bit.
“Let’s go to the
cafeteria instead”
She was jollier
as it was peaceful there and the food is good, while eating I realized we don’t really know each other much
so I asked her some stuff.
Gleefully, she
answered when the topics are about food, music, tv series, and video games. But
when it came to the subject of family she frowned and looked down.
“I like ketchup
on everything!” I exclaimed trying to change the topic
She laughed “That’s
why you like fried foods as you’ve said”
“Yes”
Family seems
like a taboo topic, I should probably avoid it.
“Ever dated
anyone?” For some reason I felt dumber as these words escaped my lips.
“A few in the
past but they were more puppy love than a serious relationship, you”
“I’m a serial
womanizer”
“Really?”
“No, I’ve never
dated anyone. I don’t remember making an eye contact with a woman for more than
eight seconds”
“That is oddly
specific”
“There was this
study where they said if two people have eye contact in eight seconds , they
will fall in love”
“That’s dumb”
“It’s science”
“Try it with me”
“Huh”
“Let’s see if it
works”
“What if it
does?”
“We’ll know it
when we get there”
Closing are eyes
real tight we counted up to three then opened our eyes.
We looked into
each other’s eyes.
For the first
second I wondered who could fall in love in this scenario, it was rowdy, we
smell lick chicken and her eyes doesn’t say “fall for me” instead it says “Blink
you goddamn loser!”
The second
second I got the urge to blink but I was keen on her eyes that everything
around me blurred and the noises were slowly muting.
Third second, everything
around me was muted and blurred. Fixated only on her eyeball where I saw a
reflection of myself. I was fixated on my reflection in her eyes and then
By the fourth to
fifth second I zoomed out and slowly noticed the features of her face. Her sharp
eyes, cheek and nose makes her cute but dangerous look. Her red lipstick
greatly blends with her complexion. The
mole under her eye just made her even more beautiful. Her earrings were small
and golden.
Sixth second, a
streak of her violet hair fell and it didn’t faze her at all. At this second, I
cannot discern her emotions. All I know is that she looks wonderful
By the seventh
second we both look away.
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