Tales of the Heart

007 | The First Encounter

"So--- are you a normal or a nerd type of man?" Kristine asks,

For me, I am still not sure about that either. Should I say normal or nerd? Maybe Nerd? I am kind of a nerd sometimes, but from what I heard, most girls don't like nerdy boys, so if I want to hang out with her, especially with Tiana, I had to pretend to be normal.

"I am a normal one, you?" I ask back.

"Yeah, normal type too." I glare at Tiana, as my heart wanted to know, is she a normal or nerd type?

"Oh, Tiana, she is kind of both. Sometimes she acts normally like everyone, the other time is her nerd side. And she is really into ancient history. You will see her a lot if you also plan to marry the library like her too." Kristine giggled and Tiana punchs her on the shoulder for her joke too, which is kinda funny.

"No, I am not,--- she just made it up" Tiana's voice is smooth. Oh my god, am I really in love right now? Why am I falling for this white-headed girl so hard?

"So, as a tradition of the school, there will be a party for all freshmen to come and meet with other freshmen or seniors, and we will both come, and you should too, Alex," Tiana offered. This is so unreal. My crush invited me to a party. This had never happened to me before, I swear to God.

"Yeah so, can't wait---I don't know if Karl wants to come or not, maybe he will. Maybe he won't," I responded back politely while also managing to give her a smile, which she gives back instantly, and she is even more beautiful when she smiles. God, is she an angel?

"So---I'll see you in English class Monday, okay," Kristine tells me,

"Maybe--- if your English class schedule aligned with mine." I exited the car, ready to walk up to my dorm room, before I can do that, I saw Karl, leans his face against the window of our room, trying to catch a glance of me with the girls.

"This is just out of my mind? Can I know your full name?" Tiana asks,

Wait what!! Did she just ask for my full name? This is insane---- why-- what is wrong with my heart? it starts beating fast like manic again.

"Alexander Orlando" I smile at her for one last time before leave with all my heavy stuff in my hand, walking three floors up to my dorm.

"I am Tiana Spencer, by the way---I'll see you around Alexander," she says before her roommate punches the pedal and leaves.

Wait, hang on, did she just say (I'll see you around Alexander), is this really real or am I dreaming? Did my crush just say I'll see you around? This is just insane "insane".

After dragging all of my stuff up three floors to my dorm, I arrived with a grin on my face. When I opened the door, Karl was waiting for me in the living room.

"You know who you are riding with, right?" He asks as he slowly approaches me with the widest smile I have ever seen him make.

"Yeah, it's Kristine and her roommate Tiana. She said you and her are very close?" I mumble,

"She said that she said she and her roommate are very close to me--- are you serious?" He replies. He smiles, his lip is wide open with happiness. I don't know why he is so happy to be friends with Kristine and Tiana. They seem kinda like ordinary girls to me, except Tiana, of course.

"Yeah, why do you look so happy all of a sudden--- you have a crush on one of them or something," I ask, just curious, of course, nothing more than that.

"Yeah--- I am and I mean every boy in this school all has a crush on her." He replies back. Now I start to doubt myself after hearing my senior friend say every male student in this school all have a crush on her, and I hope it is not true and it's just Karl making stuff up just to joke around with me.

"Are you for real, which one, Kristine or Tiana? Those two girls are not that hot, if I am honest with you, Karl?." I reply, Did I just lie to my friend and told him that Kristine and Tiana are not the most beautiful girls I have ever seen in my entire existence on this planet?

"Oh, Alexander The Great, you totally didn't know a thing about these two girls, do you?'

"Yeah, I just met them like an hour ago at Time square when I exited the store, and out of nowhere Kristine just pulled over to the sidewalk and offered me a ride back here with her, that all," I replied back, and I also noticed that when Kristine and Tiana enter the school front gate, every student, just instantly staring at us for no reason, it makes me feel very uncountable.

"Oh my boy, I think one of them is into you, and you just hit a jackpot." He respond with excitement still on his face.

"What is wrong with you today? Why do you make those two girls look like the most beautiful girls in this school or something? And if you think Kristine is the hottest girl in this school, I'm sorry to break it to you, she is not. I saw a lot of girls students three times hotter than that girl and her roommate Tiana combine."

"You are right about something though. I totally agree with you that Kristine is not the hottest girl in this school, but Tiana is. She is also beautiful and very rich at the same time, plus she is very smart too."

"Is Tiana even her real name? Who in their right mind named their daughter Tiana?" I expressed my overthinking opinion, and that opinion is also the stupidest s**t I have ever said for a long time.

"Yes and no."

"What do you mean by that, Karl?"

"Her name in the school file is Tiana Spencer, but from what I heard, Spencer is not her real last name. In fact, she didn't even have a last name. And she is also not what you think she is?" Karl replied in a whispering voice.

"So who is she exactly? The President's secret daughter. Yeah, I also heard that rumor too."

"Her real name and status is, Her Royal Majesty Princess Tiana of the Kingdom of Aetas."

"You kidding, right?" Wait what, she is a Princess? I think to my brain. I am really confused right now. Did I just take a ride back home with a Princess? Oh God, I'm gonna need some air right now.

"Yeah, you heard me, right Boy, she is a goddamn Princess." Karls says with big grin still on his face.

"You are joking with me, right?"

"Do you see I laugh? No right, that means I am not joking."

"But she told me she comes here on scholarship like me, and I don't think a Princess comes to study here on scholarship like some normal commoner like us," I replied, still can't wrap my head around it, is she really a Princess? and that question is all I can think about right now.

"She always says that she is a little bit nervous about revealing who she truly is to someone new, that is why she lies. Maybe she doesn't want to make you feel uncomfortable around her," Karl explained, and that explanation still doesn't answer all the questions that I have in my head right now.

"Well, that explains her weird behavior around me," I smirk, thinking back to when she kept taking a glance at me through the front mirror, every fifteen seconds for the entire ride back here.

"I think she likes you, Alex." Karl teases me with that *she loves me* line again.

"No, she is not, and as you said, she is a Princess and I am just a normal New Yorker--I think she's just being friendly, and about the ride, it's just Kristine being a good schoolmate and offering me a ride back here like what good schoolmate would do, that's all," I say. Still, for me, I still think there must be more.

Kristine must have more reasons than just being kind and friendly to me, what if she or Tiana actually likes me back? ---No, No, No Alex, stop daydreaming right now, there is no way that hot girl also has a crush on you---there is no way.

"Alex, hey are you listening to what I just said?" Karl snapped me out of my long daydreaming.

"Yeah, yeah--- what are you saying?"

"I said, get your ass upstairs and help me pick an outfit for tonight," he said.

My mouth drops wide open when Karl opens his closet. His whole collection of outfits is more expensive than my entire house.

"Hey, Alex, help me choose which one I should wear," he asks.

Of all the expensive outfits he has, he decides to pick out the most inappropriate one. I cringed at that outfit so much, rip jeans and a black Demin Jacket with the Gucci logo on it and a lot of spikes. The jacket barely covers his belly and don't let me talk about his shoes of choice,

"Hey, about you, what are you gonna wear tonight? Pick one of mine." He said, eyeing my disaster closet.

"Why? What is wrong with my clothes?" I ask.

"When you were busy going out, I went through your closet, trying to find an outfit for you tonight and after thirty minutes of going through all your clothes, I just couldn't find the right fit for tonight's meet-up," he said.

"All right, I know, it's an expensive rich meet-up, and my normal clothes don't fit in. Okay I got it, but I'm gonna wear my clothes whether you like them or not," I reply, I mean my clothes are not all that bad. Some clothes, I bought from Target for nearly a hundred bucks, so they are expensive.

"You're not really wearing that are you?" He gapes at my clothes.

My hand slides over the fabric, this is the nicest jacket I have that my mom bought for me on Christmas day and I didn't bring many clothes with me. Since I skipped the clothes section and went straight to the food section when I went to the store today, I will have to find time this week to go to the city again.

"What is wrong with my Jacket, this is the nicest one I have with me right now" I reply back to Karl and also tried to hide how offended I was. The leather material is soft but sturdy, the same material most high-end jackets are made of.

"Nothing... it's just too... casual?" he says.

"It's a normal denim Jacket, Karl, what do you expect?"I defend my favorite Jackets over all the other Jackets I have. I also have one other jacket that is way better than the one I wear right now, but the thing about that jacket is, it is not the jacket my mom bought for me, and the one I wear right now is.

"It looks really good on you, I just think it's a little too casual for a meet-up. You could borrow something of mine which I don't really mind at all?" He offered and I refused again.

"No thanks, I am fine wearing this," I told Karl and plugs in my curling iron, to iron my white T-shirt to wear with the jacket.