SPRING

As I stand outside Grand Hall waiting for Peter- the beautiful clear sky, the smell of soil after rain, the chatter of the newly graduates remind me of somebody I never forget ; last spring when I smiled the sweetest.The loud crowd blurred out as the music rang a familiar scene ..' Long live to the walls we crashed though ,how the kingdom lights shine just for me and you'... The day we met...It was a beautiful day -sunbeams cast tiny rainbows on dewdrops,leaves shimmer under sunlight as they dance to the tune of a cool summer breeze. Students fock the campus with great enthusiasm and various clubs ask freshers to join them, it is the first day of the semester and a membership drive is taking place ; a bustling sight despite the calmness of the thick eucalyptus forest that enveloped the campus from city life. I want to experience something new , something different to mark a new beginning. There is this club that attracts a lot more students than it should have been;A man with brown eyes that appears slightly red in sunlight, a prominent nose and sharp jawline with a soothing voice , he is tall and annoying handsome - a sight to behold indeed, the leader of the club is campaigning , he attracts the attention of all the freshers to his club ,their help-desk thus becomes more crowded . Freshers who see this particular senior for the first time snap pictures and videos of him and despite his calm mannerisms towards the chaos his presence casts , if one looked close enough,one can see exactly how conscious he is of his attractiveness and he takes full advantage of it. "This club offers the youths of St.George College an adventurous, healthy lifestyle throughout college life, it expands one's view of his surroundings which give better ideas to innovate,to create and to be tough" "As the saying goes 'Tough times never last , tough people do' " "We welcome you all to join the St.George College Adventure Club " He must have wanted to be a bit complicated , he could have just handed out flyers like all other clubs but there he is giving full lectures but people listened! ....... Then stands the assistant leader of the club and goes... " We might look tough on the outside but our hearts are as soft as yours if not more" "We will explore the world with a soft beautiful heart,a tough ambitious mind and we will succeed " What a complicated way to conduct a membership drive. Nonetheless,I walk towards the help desk ... " I want to enroll in the club" He stared at me and said .. "You shouldn't just sign-in , that wouldn't do.You sure you will take part in the various club activities ?"....................... the assistant leader asked seriously. "Of-Ofcourse I will, why wouldn't I "I replied defensive . That's when he finally noted down my contact info and signed me in. He seems to be a peculiar man, not at all a hopeless romantic as he claimed to be, such a calculated question after blurting those words like a hopeless lover. A few minutes ago, he was desperately asking freshers to join his club but now it is as if that was a totally different person ,a stranger even to this stiff looking male who's so hard to convince. It surely is a good club to join , however its leaders seemed not so normal.What a waste of pretty faces! I was enrolled and morning class is also done so I have pretty much nothing to do for the day . I went out and joined a friend for lunch, Ruby and I have been friends since high school and now we attend the same college, fate is on our side and we became roommates in the college's girls hostel. Our college does have canteens and a parlour but that wasn't enough to serve the entire population of the campus on busy hours like lunch break , so here we are , a few meters outside the campus in a small tea stall. We talked about the different things we experienced throughout the morning, our first class , the clubs we joined and of course the unwritten rule that really shocked us , the rule imposed on the freshers -we aren't suppose to sit in the parlour.It is reserved strictly for the seniors! ...that is the place you find the most delicious momos. " Now tell me, everyone in my class talked about that handsome leader of the adventure club.Have you met him?" "I saw him near the help desk" "Is he as handsome as is rumoured?" "What's in the rumour?" "That he is handsome , tall and well built, that he is the most beautiful man ever" "He does have a pretty face" "He really is good looking then but why are beautiful men always taken" "They said that he got a really beautiful girlfriend " Ruby adds as she sighs a little.......... It is our little tradition that beautiful men should be talked about while having lunch.Ruby then continued the conversation by telling me that she met a cute boy in her class and the talk went on....... Suddenly, dark clouds gathered and raindrops began to pour , the previous sunny weather is now replaced by a gloomy atmosphere as it slowly started to turn slightly gray, we are in Green Island after all , no one knows when heavy rain will silence the mighty sun and filled the air with fog. We then fight the chilly air with ice lolli, droplets of summer rain wet our shoes, fog enveloped everything , potholes are filled with rain water and a splash is inevitable when cars pass by. "I now take this long journey, fog covered distance and uncertainty awaits me but I have a company, I won't have to be alone " A hearty lunch sure makes me happy, I almost forget the hectic experience I have early in the morning.