Serendipity

You were walking along the corner of the street carrying a bag filled with face altering products from the store that everyone in your age patronizes. In your mind, you are already planning on what kind of make-up you will do for tonight's party hosted by some rich kid in your school living in a 2-storey mansion in the outskirts of town.

Your friends came just after you have worn your shoes to pick you up. You ran downstairs and kiss your mom and dad goodbye and rush to the front door. The same old routine happened, you are gossiping about how horrendous the new hairstyle of your classmate, Rebecca can bring back to life a dead person. You were laughing your ass out but stop abruptly as you were nearing the venue for the party. All your mouths were left hanging because of how humongous the house of your filthy rich classmate is.

Your friend is done parking and you went out of the car, jumping as if warming yourself up for some strenuous activity. You retouched your lip makeup with the cheap lipstick you bought.

You entered the door and immediately the mix of the smell of sweaty people and cigarette hit your nose. You inhaled it all in and said to yourself, ‘this is going to be a long night.‘

You started dancing on the dance floor like a maniac as you were eyeing your longtime crush. He was chatting with his friends, with a cold bottle of beer in hand, he was oblivious that you are already melting him with your unwavering stare like how a lion stares on it prey. You felt tired and stopped dancing to get a drink. You stayed at the bar station, eyes still locked with the side profile of your man and as if on cue, he looked at your side and a hint of smile surface in his handsome face.

Your heart was beating erratically and loudly that you cannot even hear the music and the noise around you. You started thinking of the reason behind that smile and started contemplating whether this is the perfect timing to tell him your feelings for him. It has been years since you had them for him and throughout those years, you have planned numerous attempts to tell him “I like you” but the universe does not seem to cooperate. Then suddenly, someone pulled you out of your deep thoughts, your friend, Anna. She asked if you could join her on the dance floor and you said ‘Yes’ seeing this as a good enough reason to evade your thoughts for a while.

You were jumping to the beat of the loud music. Your heart was beating in accord with the bass of the blasting speakers. You were enjoying this moment. You felt free from the world, free from the judgments and evilness of other people. Then suddenly, someone bumped into you, it was your crush! But he was dancing with some girl that is wearing almost nothing. You felt betrayed.

In your mind, you just want to stop dancing and hitch hike to anyone who is already leaving and go home and do some ugly crying in your bedroom. You were about to leave the place when again, you caught his eyes staring at you, as if his studying your whole physique. He then met your eyes and then that familiar smile resurfaced.



Annoyed with the mixed signals that he is giving you, you stormed out of the house and when out to catch some fresh air. You were walking silently feeling the cold breeze of December wind. And started reminiscing the memories that you have shared with him.

‘Hey there, need some help?’ this was the very first sentence that he told you when you first met. You were carrying a gargantuan of a project for the science fair. He saw you struggling and being the gentleman that he is, he offered you some help.

‘Never thought that you were a jazz person’ he said smiling to you while you were sitting on a bench at your school park, doing your assignment for the next period while listening to jazz music that was on loud speaker because you left your earphones at home. Then you answered ‘Yeah, listening to it never failed to calm my mind.’ Surprisingly, you have managed to say that to him without stuttering because your heart was already pounding inside your chest like a horse galloping in midday.

After remembering the feeling that you have felt before, you have found a new drive and motivation to finally say to him your feelings. You said to yourself that there is no such thing as a perfect timing, and now is the right time to say it to him or else you will never get the chance to confess and you will regret it eternally.

 Keeping your reservations aside, you stride to the front door of the house to find the master mind of the chaos that is happening in your mind. As you were approaching the porch, you saw him went outside the door with wandering eyes, as if he is looking for someone. He suddenly stopped and fixed his eyes on you. You felt the familiar feeling of tiny butterflies flying in your stomach.  “I like you” you said. He then started walking towards you, you were left dumbfounded and frozen, you do not know what to do.

The next thing you knew, his lips were already on yours. You felt a rush of electrifying sensation run from your foot to your head. You seem to forget how to breath like a normal person. The whole world just seems to evaporate before you and there is only him that you can see.

This was the time that you have long been fantasizing. You never thought that this was possible because he was known to be one of the most popular, strongest, and masculine people you knew. Never in your wildest dreams did you imagine that he is also a gay…