The tide in my heart was high the whole weekend, I couldn't do my basketball practice with a clear head. As the chapters goes by, you'll see me playing in a lot of sports for the college and basketball is one of those. The Match with our rival college was not many days away and I had to practice hard, but I jus couldn't and kept thinking about Adam.
Weekend went by, though it felt that it went lare than the usual. On a usual, ( except the high tide in my heart still persisted), Monday morning while getting ready for the college Sully comes banging open my door. She couldn't contain her excitement " Adam asked for your number ", she said this and started jumping out of excitement. Yes! it felt like he had asked her number that was her excitement. Anyways coming back to me! I had no words and it kind felt like an achievement in itself 😋. Yeah again! Adam was in the same department as mine just a different section.
I went with the same excitement to the class with a hope of stealing a glance at him when I pass through his section. As I neared his class, this thing called heart couldn't contain itself and I was nervous , unlike me, I know. I came through the window of his class and scanned the whole class only to be disappointed of not getting a glance of him.
All of a sudden a known voice called me from behind " Chaeun, are you searching for me!" . Oh my Freaking God! my heart jus popped out ( not literally though).
I couldn't look at him and ran into my class without looking back. I was embarrassed about myself the whole morning and did not even go out during my break time scared of seeing him.
And finally comes the lunch break, I had no choice but to leave the class, but decide to leave last and made even my close friend Graty( my close classmate) leave late.
With the confidence that everybody would have left the class premises, we sneaked out and bumped right into Adam. Wow! that was some great art of making myself more embarrassed.
Nevertheless, I tried to be as normal as possible while graty was dieing to hold her laugh looking at my embarrassed face.
Surprisingly he din say anything, those captivating eyes looked at me, his hands moved towards my cheeks and pinched them slightly and he smiled at me and went back!
Graty's mouth was wide open at his gesture and I was awestruck. I realized I couldn't move and it took me sometime to get to the cafeteria. That afternoon I decided not to bump into him again and quietly sneaked in between the afternoon classes to the basketball court.
I wanted to sweat this feeling out. This excitement all felt so unrealistic that a guy like him might like me. If you ask me the now me, I would tell it was worthless feeling that way. But the then me felt it was some great achievement. Obviously it was my first ever feeling of what we call love.
Anyways I practised the whole afternoon and went back to the barracks to get my bag to head back to the boarding house.
There he was standing by the entrance of the basketball court waiting for me to come out.
This time I was more in form and decided not to embarrass myself again and approached him as calm as possible.
" I couldn't find you after the afternoon class today! I thought you might be here, I am glad I found you", Adam said. " Yeah! I had to practice so sneaked out". He told me that he took my number from Sully and apologized for pinching my cheek during the lunch break.
It was all good and he walked me to the boarding house and I bid him a "see you" and returned to my room. I clearly don't remember what we talked about during the whole walk because this in itself was something I did not expect so felt like a dream. That night in the bed I thought ti myslef " How did he know to find me in the basketball court " . I told nobody about my sneaking out or where would I be, neither did he ask anyone where to find me. That small girl in me felt fascinated just by that small gesture that " He could find me", Jus then my 90'S phone beeped and Adam'S name popped on my phone, It said "goodnight! I'll make sure to find you wherever you are. So next time you cannot escape! ,Sweet dreams!". I texted back goodnight and put my phone aside and got ready to sleep. All of a sudden there was light coming from my phone and Adam was calling me.
We talked almost the whole night. Nothing about love was talked, but about our likes and dislikes and parents and family everything. As I put the phone down I realized I loved him.
It felt good and got up and went for nu early morning basketball practice. Yes! I couldn't sleep a wink that night but I wasn't tired instead I felt good.