Do not blend with the crowd. You'd get drowned.
That's how she heeds her life.
She somehow does not blend with the crowd neither but she was told anyone great does not because someone great stands out!
Little did she know, she's meant for far greater things.
Never one who seeks attention and fame,
Sky Luwalhati Dela Asuncion dwells by her own fairly well. But she can manage being with a group too. Either way, she's a charmer.
Wherever she goes she somehow brings fire and that's how she'd get noticed.
She has this strong aura of a headstrong woman and confidence wrapped together.
Normally, teenagers would rave for fame and attention at her age but to Sky, attention walks to her feet submissively.
She gets voted as their school's talent camp president.
She gets voted to be their team's muse. Or she gets to represent her school for a contest without suggesting it. They just keep on coming.
Attention and scrutiny were here best friends until she got tired of them one day.
She does the normal things though- study, play her various sports, bond with friends, getting a life and exploring her capabilities to find weaknesses and strengths.
Yes, boys go to her too.
But most of the times, they got swayed by her reckoning force so instead of getting near, they stood far away.
As they find it, she seems too much to handle.
She's got too much fire to tame.
So most of the time, they got intimidated.
Also, she doesn't easily get attracted.
Yes, she finds anyone handsome handsome genuinely but that's that. She wants more than the physical and she wants more than intelligence which makes it difficult for her to get attracted with anyone.
She tried actually and yet failed in relationships because later and sooner she or the other cannot meet ends. It's only the eagerness that feeds it in the beginning of the relationship and it ends there when the interest dwindles.
So she gave up.
For two, almost three years, she remained in relationship with herself. No man caught her attention.
Not until that one summer day..
When her heist of summer took her breath away.
She was busy talking to her neighbors outside her house when she got a call from her favorite cousin whom she considers an older sister more than a cousin if that's possible.
"Sky, honey, I got you something!" Her cousin spoke on the other line with so much excitement.
"What is it?" She asked directly, always on point.
"I.. got you.. a.. blind date!" Her cousin mused slowly and oh so fondly!
In every progressing word spoken by her cousin, her eyes got bigger literally!
"You must be kidding me!", Sky exclaimed.
"Oh well, he's tanned, raven hair, big eyes and.. ", Her cousin spoke languidly enumerating the qualities which would catch Sky's interest.
And indeed, she's hooked!
"..and smarty pants! Tsadaah!"
And both can't help their bubbling laughters this time.
It's been so long that she tried to be having a relationship actually and this time, why not? She asked herself.
After a while of pause and her cousin detected that, she then dropped the bomb for Sky..
"Tonight at 6pm. He will pick you up at the monument. Ciao! ", and as swift as the call came, just as swift it ended.
She shook her head staring at her phone unbelievably. But laughed after though for finding that call and her cousin hilarious. She's got a date now to prepare for.
Just like that.
She went to the other side of the pathway when she excused herself from her friends to get that call.
When she was about to go back, she caught this man doing more like the middle of sauntering and brisk walking at the other side of the pathway..
Holding a tennis racket in his left and seemingly gathering his whatabouts..
Maybe because he is new to the place. She thought.
The man did not see her but even when he got farther, her eyes still followed him.
And that to her is unbecoming of her. Strange.
That's how she met the man she always denied herself from but can't get away neither.
Talk about how difficult and strange true love is.