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pilots with dimples

it was a friday and the three of us were terribly, terribly bored. and it wasn't the burden of assignments that shouldered us, it was being stuck in this hell-hole of a hostel. bored, we decided to go to the city for a round of karaoke.

but first, food. melbourne wok. someone with pink hair waved at one of us. it was sean from college! we just sat down and had dinner together with another two of his friends.

as i sat down, i eyed him in his uniform which suspiciously looks like what we would wear back when we were in high school. he looked adorable. sean introduced his friend to us and told us that he was a pilot. A PILOT. he was eating with his hands like how malays do.

i have this terrible behaviour of drinking water during meals and when we ran out of water, rachel smirked at me. and pilot boy got up and took another bottle of water for me. what a gentleman. being a dickhead harith is, he put the water bottle out of my reach. and pilot boy pushed it back slightly for me so that i could reach, while looking down (i told you he was rather shy). it was the most adorable thing ever.

the three of us texted one another in the group saying HOW CUTE PILOT BOY IS. harith caught on and attempted to 'help' me. he offered a drive in his car and and then subtly pointed out that I FAILED THREE TIMES IN MY DRIVING TEST (correction: i only failed twice!). i asked my friend to fuck off. in the group chat, harith said he succeeded in making pilot boy  look at me for a minute and laugh.

six of us decided to go to the arcade. fuck karaoke. the cute pilot boy is worth it. we planned to squeeze in the car but they refused to. the police. anyway, when we met them at crown casino, we squeezed in the car to find a good parking spot. rachel caught an angmo from the opposite car looking bored so she waved at him and smiled. the angmo smiled back. and i spoke in chinese: HE SMILED BACK! (just to test if pilot boy could speak chinese) and he does! because i caught him smile! with his dimples!

when we got to the arcade, the three boys only played the car-driving machine. while the three of us went around exploring and harith kept going for the PICKING THING UP MACHINE. and he won two stuffies for us. we took a picture in the photo booth and rachel and i said STOP STOP LETS ASK EVERYONE TO COME AND TAKE A PICTURE and harith was so pissed. he went like CANT WE TAKE A FAMILY PHOTO. JUST THE THREE OF US. it cracked us up. we lost the photo at the end of the day anyway.

after that we went to the three boys and i asked pilot boy to play this star wars game because it looked somewhat similar to flight stuff? at least to me? but i couldnt bloody find the machine anymore and he followed me around the whole bloody arcade like a lost kid. finally found it and leaned on him to scream in his ear that I FOUND IT. even paid for his game. but he said it was different. oh well.

in the end we sent him home. hawthorn.

"is it unilodge?"
"how did you know?" and he looked at me, genuinely surprised. and it was the most adorable thing ever.

we even asked about his chinese name and when i guessed it right he looked at me again with that genuinely surprised look and i just died. he gave the exact same face when i mentioned his high school friend. also, harith and him talked about flight stuff that i couldnt understand.

when we said our goodbyes he said goodbye with a handshake.