Soy Luna One Shots

A Spontaneous but Pleasant Encounter (Gastina)

Wait a second. A doubt, a fearful thought entered his brain and now it can't get out. What if Nina is still with Eric? Could that be why she didn't want to be his roommate, could that be why she tried to brush him off and didn't seem so excited to see him at her doorstep. Heck she didn't even give him a hug.

Throughout the whole meeting he couldn't help but stare at Nina a few times. Oh how he missed her so much. The way she shuffled her feet when the room was quiet, the way how she tightly held her book in her hand whenever she was nervous, and the way how she barely spoke in conversations, overthinking what to say next.

Seeing her reaction to the news was a scary delight to see. Gaston saw Nina's face easily turn red when she glanced at Gaston for a few seconds. Did she hate the idea of rooming with Gaston because she doesn't like him anymore? Gaston would just love to be a mind reader right now.

They both got up from their chairs and left the office. "So I guess I have to unpack my bags.... In our room," Gaston breaking the five minute long silence whilst scratching his head in the awkward environment.

"I guess so. I will say though that I call dibs on an extra drawer just so I can have space for my books."

Gaston couldn't help but chuckle at Nina's statement, at how Nina hasn't changed who she was.

"Gaston it's not funny, you know I like to keep my books organized into different categories. Ones I haven't read, ones I want to reread, and ones I've already finished but not planning to reread them anytime soon." Nina couldn't help but giggle as well. Now Nina and Gaston were both giggling.

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All day Nina tried avoiding Gaston. When she was in the library, she tried to fixate her focus into her textbooks and ignore the not so subtle glances Gaston would throw. Oh how she wishes she can have long conversations and tell him exactly how she feels, but that's the thing she can't. Whenever she just thinks of the idea, she chokes. Chokes and not a single word can come out afterward. She thought she has finally grown to be more confident and speak to others but with Gaston around, all of the development feels like it never happened. Before she used to feel very comfortable talking to him and now it feels like the first day she met him, scary and nerve-wracking.

While he wasn't looking, she couldn't help but stare and wonder how lucky fate has been to her this very moment. She finally got to see him like she has always hoped. Deep down inside, she's never stopped loving Gaston no matter what. Just about five months ago, she finalized her decision to break up with Eric. She told him the truth, how she's still not over Gaston. She thought she had feelings for Eric and she did but only as a friend. She pushed herself to date him thinking it would erase the pain she would feel thinking she would never see Gaston again but not even a sliver of that feeling went away.

Now she's here. Sitting in a vintage, brown chair while reading her newest textbook in the dull lighting of this library. Great, now she can't stop thinking about him and has lost all concentration in her homework. She puts her hand on her face in frustration. "Why do you have to take over mind Gaston," she thinks to herself. Honestly, when she applied to Oxford she wasn't expecting her first encounter with Gaston to be like this. She assumed she would have some time to put herself together and have the guts to have an actual conversation with him. But instead she barely spoke to him today as if she wanted to ignore him and even gave out signs of being uptight. That's the thing though, she isn't like that at all. Her shyness and the spontaneous encounter of him took her by surprise. While already having first day of university stress, she now has past love stress.

She wonders what he must be thinking now. "Does he hate me? Does he not love me anymore? Am I everything he wasn't expecting me to be? Does he want to be friends? Does he want to be more than just friends? Is he even single" She face palms herself again and is getting really annoyed now at her overthinking and spiral of thoughts getting out of control.