In His Eyes

Chapter 8

I woke up the next day with a terrible headache. I was still wearing yesterday's clothes, forgetting to change. I held my head while trying to remember yesterday's events. In the mid-process of remembering, that's when my stupid action hits me. I kissed him on the cheeks!

I hid my face on my pillow and screamed. Why the hell did I do that? It was a stupid question because the answer might be because I was drunk. drunk. Yeah, that's it, I was just drunk.

I let out a sigh and get up to prepare for the day. I took a cold bath to get rid of yesterday's stench. For a smart person, I sure do stupid stuff. As I finished my bath, I took a sit on my bed and that's when yesterday's events still couldn't escape from my head.

I took my journal and decided to write about yesterday's events. I do this sometimes when I want to take something off my mind, I write them. I start with what happened at the bar, with Max pretending to be my boyfriend and calling me babe. Why did he do that? What are we, to be honest?

The next thing I wrote was that I took hold of his. It's my fault why I'm feeling this way, I took the initiative action. I wrote the rest of what happened last night. From the taxi ride up to the events that lead to me kissing his cheek.

Maybe, I'm just overwhelmed, I thought to myself. There's no way I would do that without me knowing.

I finished writing the events and lied down on my bed. I took my phone and decided to scroll through my twitter newsfeed. Without even knowing I typed Max's twitter handle at the search bar.

I looked at his twitter, his latest tweet was a song he shared from Spotify.

@car1max: Lost in You – Khai Dreams

I grabbed my earphones from the bedside table and decided to click the tweet that will lead my phone to play the said song. It was an upbeat song, and I felt my cheeks heat up with the lyrics of the song. Who is this song for?

"I'm not tryna complicate none of this."

The song played through my ears. I quickly searched for the lyrics to read it.

"Lemme just come tell you how I feel."

Confusion was all I felt as I read the lyrics. Who is he talking about? Who is he singing this song about? Does he already have a person in mind? These are some of the thoughts that rummage through my head.

"Cuz I don't even know. I don't know why."

I stared at the ceiling of my room and kept listening to the song, no longer reading the lyrics.

"All your love I'm tryna find, I'm so lost in you."

Irritated with the beautiful song, I decided to stop listening and got lost in my own thoughts. That's when I decided to look at my notifications. 2 messages, one is from Max and the other is from Philip.

Philip: where are you? Let's have lunch later!

Philip is also staying at a dormitory that's why we always hang out when we have the time. I replied that I will meet him at Mcdonald's around 12 PM.

I looked at Max's text and got confused at to what he is speaking of.

Max: I have something to tell you later.

~*~

"I have a question," I asked Philip, looking down, taking an interest in my food.

"What's that?" he asked, biting his burger happily. I swear he loves to eat so much but never gains weight.

"I have this friend in class," I started. He raised his brow judgingly and I decided to raise mine as well. "He doesn't know anything about love as he never had one before, he told me," I continued, sipping on my drink, "he's asking me if how could you know if you like someone?"

He looked at me, smirking at my words. Seriously, this guy.

"Tell this to your friend," he said, air-quoting on the word friend. I raised my eyebrow at him, wanting to smack him on the head. "You just do, there's no exact explanation if you like someone because deep down, you'll already know the answer."

"But how do you know if the person he likes is the right one?" I continued asking.

"When everything that doesn't make sense somehow does. When everything fits perfectly like a puzzle, that's how you'll know."

My friend, even if he likes to tease, he's an expert at this as he's a romantic. I looked at him nodding before waiting to ask my next question. I want this question to be perfect as don't want to push the subject any further.

"What to do if the person is still unsure of what he is feeling?"

"You sure know a lot about your friend, are you replacing me?" I smacked his head at his comment. "Ow, ow, okay okay," he said rubbing his head. "You wait. You wait until you can no longer or until you're sure."

"Hmm," I said, thinking about his answer. "Okay, thanks."

"Now go and eat your food, I have a lot to do after this," he said as I haven't actually taken a bite of my food. I laughed and proceeded to.

As we were eating my phone vibrated, signaling that there's a new notification. I fished it out of my pocket and saw that there's a new message from Max.

Max: Let's meet later.

I smiled at his text and proceeded to send a reply.

Axel: Sure, meet me at my dorm around 3 PM.

"What are you smiling at?" Philip asked, smirking, getting ready to tease me. "Who are you texting?"

"Max," I answered, my face blank so that he won't get to tease me.

"Figures," he said, finishing his food. He picked up his phone from the table and decided to focus on it.

I decided to text Max to gather more information on where we are going.

Axel: Where are we going later?

He immediately replied after that.

Max: Anywhere you like. Just want to spend the day with someone.

I blushed at his message. I looked at Philip and it was a good thing that he's still focused on his phone.

Axel: Sure

I closed my phone as Philip whispered, "stop smiling so much, it creeps me out."

I smacked his head, again, from across the table and we both laughed. No matter how much he teases me, he's still my best friend.

~*~

I took my phone and wallet from the bedside table and went out to wait for Max at the gate of my dorm. It's quarter to 3 when he texted that he's already walking towards my dorm.

I went out to the gate and that's when I saw him walking. The events of last night went flashing in my head. Here I was, never liking someone before starstruck by a simple but dangerous boy.

I waved at him and when he saw me, he smiled and ran. He's running towards me when I felt my heart beat a little bit faster than it normally does.

Please heart, please behave, I begged at my own heart.

He was already in front of me when I stopped begging my heart to calm down. Here's the man in front of me, the reason why my heart is beating like crazy.

He's wearing something simple today, just a plain black shirt and shorts. He smiled at me, showing off his perfect cupid bow lips.

I shrugged off all the thoughts from my head and decided to talk to him.

"Let's go to the park?" I suggested, he nodded and walked beside me.

"How are you feeling?" he asked me, I looked at him, slightly confused at his question. "You know, from drinking last night?"

"Doing good, nothing to worry about," I answered as we arrived at the park bench and decided to sit down. I looked around the scenery. The park is at the middle of the road, making it the roundabout of the cars and other vehicles.

"You remember everything from last night?" That's when I started to choke on my own air. I looked at him, flushed at his question but answered it anyway.

"Nope," I lied. I just can't have any confrontation right now.

"Oh," he said, sounding disappointed. He looked down on his own hand and that made me blush even harder.

Oh, Max, I remember everything but I can't tell you that.

"Anyway," he started, looking at me as if nothing happened before that. "We have a game this Wednesday, it's your turn to fulfill your promise."

I nodded at him. I looked around me and decided to breathe in the air, half polluted, half clean. So, I'm going to be someone's cheerleader this Wednesday, what a turn of events.

~*~