Serendipity

chapter 18

I don't know what to say I am too stunned and overwhelmed so I did the one best thing I could do I smiled at him. He was closely scrutinizing me and there was a little smile on his face but he is very different from the way I have imagined him. I mean ... he is handsome and all that but I feel like I don't know him.

"You are pretty just as I imagined," he told me. I pushed my glasses up as I looked up at him, I know I am blushing. I don't know if I should hug him, shake my hand with him or something else... I don't know. When I imagined meeting him I had made hundreds of scenarios and none of them matched how I feel right now.

I am happy yet I am not, I am relieved yet I am not, I am scared yet I am not, I don't know what's happening to me.

"How are you?" I asked him shyly and for a moment it seemed he is in a daze but then come out of it and scratched the back of his neck nervously.

Another action that I have never imagined Mr handsome doing. I felt like he would be a very closed-off person, would barely smile, but full of confidence and nothing could make him "nervous". I never thought so, he is different but still, he is my Mr handsome!

"I am good and you princess?" He asked me and I smiled at him. My eyes went to the bag I am holding for him and without thinking much I pushed it to him, he looked at me with a small frown and I blushed.

"I bought something for you!" I told him to which he nodded but his lips turned downward.

"I am sorry I didn't buy anything for you" he apologize genuinely feeling sorry.

"It's okay," I shrugged it off. It doesn't matter that he didn't bring anything for me, I wasn't even expecting it. On the other, I was expecting him to notice what I am wearing but as I expected he forgot but it doesn't matter. What matter the most is he is in front of me. I look down at his clothes, he was wearing a brown turtle neck with blue jeans the second thing that I imagined was wrong. I thought he would be all black like ... Hunter.

'What the hell?' I flinched at myself. 'You are seriously not comparing him with Hunter.' I scold myself.

"I wanted to tell you something..." He started looking a little nervous and a little sad for some reason.

"Baby!" A voice called from a little away from us and a small came on his face, a wide smile. He looked at someone, I followed his gaze and saw a pretty brunette walking toward us, No! towards him!

She came near us and walked into his arms. She pecked him on his lips and he smiled at her as he looked at her with eyes full of love. I stood there with a frown, I feel like I can't even move. I was too stunned!

"Princess meet my girlfriend Rose, and Rose meets my friend ... princess," he said and paused as he realized he doesn't know my name. But that bothers me as much as the word girlfriend bothered me. I am his friend? A friend! I felt like I have been slapped as I stood there. She was saying something to me.

"Huh?" I asked as I came out of my thoughts.

"He talked about you a lot, sometimes even I get jealous but then I will tell myself that you are just his friend and I have nothing to worry about. And now that I have met you..." she paused as she looked me up and down.

"I think I shouldn't worry anymore, you are a kid. Are you 18 yet?" I felt insulted and I could feel tears gathering in my eyes but I tried too hard to keep them in. I can't cry in front of them. I force myself to smile as I looked at him, he was looking at his girlfriend with a soft smile.

"Babe don't make fun of her!" He scolded her lightly then turned towards me.

"She is joking, don't worry" he reassured but nothing can reassure me right now. Whatever I am feeling right now is too painful.