It's a Love Story♡

The Man I Love (Part 3)

First step to get closer

It's been quite a few days since Jake texted me and since then we've been talking non-stop. I'm not much of a talker, it's hard for me to find people with whom I can talk about everything. Despite knowing him for so long, he was still a stranger to me and I love how much we vibed. He suggested music he listens to and I loved it. He is the first person whose suggestions I actually took after my best frien, ofcourse. Few days later, I heard he chose a maths teacher I'm familiar with. I've never changed my life decisions for someone I just started talking with, but for him I want to leave and join this class, and so I did. But my luck sucks, suddenly, Sharla decided to join me as well. She is my friend in maths class and needed a different teacher as well. Surprisingly, I was feeling dejected when I thought that I won't be able to sit with him. Why am I even feeling like this...?

Suddenly, the door opened and he walked in. He is wearing a black jacket as it's November and looked at me. I quickly looked away, trying not to make him feel like I've been thinking about him lately. Passing by me, he sat one sit behind me. A moment later, suddenly I got a text from Lizzy, it's a candid picture of me and Sharla taken just now and I realized I've been sitting in a way so that he can see my side view. I looked at him first and found him staring at him. I quickly turned away and tried to focus on what was in front of me. I can't believe he clicked my picture and sent it to her. Like this, we carried on with the two hours class.

We were about to leave so I was packing my bag when suddenly he poked on my back slightly and left a guitar pick on my desk. I stared at his back as he left the room. Sharla nudged me and asked excitedly, "Is he that guyy??!" I nodded with a smile.

Quickly, I put the guitar pick in my bag and got up with her saying, "I was asking him where can I get guitar picks as he plays guitar, so he suggested he will give me one of his."

"That's so sweet, seems like he likes you."

"I don't know, after Nathan I don't know if I'm ready yet" I murmured.

She went to another class as I got out of the building and walked toward the field listening to music. As I walked by, my eyes fell on him and his on mine. After a lot of thinking if it will be appropriate for me to sit beside him, I finally did. Well obviously I didn't do it just like that, I thanked him for the guitar pick to spark a conversation. We sat side by side as we watched our mutual friends playing soccer. Even though, we talked so much in text but now I was just sitting here shyly not knowing what to talk about. I could sense he was feeling the same.

I hated that despite changing my class, I had to sit with Sharla but today, I was lucky that she had to sit for a biology test. I walked in the room and took the sit in front of Jake. We talked sometimes and did our work when teacher passed us 2 timetables. I knew Sharla's schedule so I decided to go for the slot: 9:30 am - 11:30am, 3:00 pm - 5:00pm and 7:00 - 9:00 pm; 3 days a week. He chose the same slot. Am I being a bad friend here? Well, Sharla wasn't sure if she would continue with this class so it was okay, right? Now that I can actually have a proper face to face conversation with him, I felt better. Today onward, it will be different.

-To be continued