Lumanti (Memory)

Hello Again

"Hi," she said nervously taking him out of his reverie.

"Hi, how have you been?", he replied.

"Not bad," she replied.

"Did you have your lunch?"

"Yep. You?"

"Nah, I had a late breakfast."

"We can go somewhere to eat if you would like. There are few good restaurants around here."

He was happy to know that she is interested to stay longer and have lunch together and said, "Sure, we can go later. I am fine for now. Do you wanted to pick up anything in particular at market."

"Umm, not anything in particular. I just wanted to come and see what have they got and pick something up. If you would like to go somewhere else, that's fine too."

"No no. It is alright, lets pick up some strawberries, you have always liked strawberries from market than the store ones."

"umm, yeah, I do." She said slowly while realizing how he was someone from her past and knows a lot about her than what she knows about him and started to get worried. As if sensing, what is going on with her, he changed the subject and asked, "How is your new place like?"

"Umm, It is nice and cosy. I love it. I get my solitude and space."

"Is there a space enough for you to dance?"

"It is not big but ya there is enough space to move around and flaunt my basic moves. So you know I dance as well," she said with surprise.

"Not many people do, but I am few of them who knows that you love to dance and would prefer to dance instead of doing exercise." Both of them laughed and entered into the market. They got themselves some basket and started walking towards farm, talking with each other.

"I really hope we don't have to encounter any snakes like that guy mentioned here today."

"Don't worry, they won't be poisonous." She assured him.

They started walking towards the area where strawberries were found. She kneeled towards the ground looking for strawberries and he joined her in the search. They got themselves some good strawberries and started walking towards other side of farm. They were walking silently, thinking what to say next when something moved between the bushes which led Lumanti to scream and jump towards him. He caught her before she could fall; her hand landed on his chest, bringing them closer. They could hear each other breathing and as their eyes met, they suddenly stumbled and move away from each other. Not knowing what to say, she just apologized. He hadn't mind at all.

"Aaron," she said slowly.

"Please call me B," he asked to which she further added her own question, "I have to ask, why did I call you B?"

He flustered at the question and also felt a bit hurt because it was only her that called him B as she was the one to give him that nickname. "It is funny story actually," he began to reminisce the first time he saw her, as he told her about it.

"I was working at Uni Stall, you know those that they have on Wednesdays or Thursdays. I was there informing people about honeybees and selling honey when I saw you laughing with Ri and walking towards these stalls." He was awestruck that moment he saw her and he really wanted to strike up a conversation with her then but he didn't mention this to her this time, instead he continued telling her what actually happened, "Then you and Ri, made your way to my stall. I started to blurt out random things about bees then let you taste honey. You smiled at me and said thank you and then went your own way. Later that day there was some band playing at Unibar. I was with my friends when I saw you with your bunch of friends. I was going for a refill when you also reached there and said, "Hey, Bee guy."