Soulmate

After that day, we started our day with the normal chat in a normal way. I didn't ask anything about that girl and he also didn't say either but I actually wanted him to tell about what happened after that day. Might be they started talking to eachother or I didn't know. And I didn't want to know either.

My exam was near so I had returned to the city with the sister. It was nearly 5 days earlier before my exam, Annie said that tommorow evening her friends were meeting for the get together because they had been far apart with each other for a longer period. She also invited me to come but I denied it thinking it wouldn't be great for an introvert person like me to be in such gathering as a get together because I nearly knew her friends. I knew some of them even though hadn't talked more to them.

She added that Sayabang was also invited. My ears heard that immediately. Annie looked at my face, I looked at her face and we both smiled. It was obvious that we used to know each other very well without talking to each other. Those type of sisters we were. She had invited him but he hadn't accepted her request to come yet. And what my heart desires had come in front of me, I was waiting for this moment to grab which was actually really meant to me a lot at that time. I messaged him without thinking anything asking to be in the get together tomorrow evening. Sayabang replied to me saying that he couldn't come because of some reasons that time. I saddened my face with gloomy face and texted him forcing to come and meet because my exams were nearby and before exam I actually wanted to see him for my own satisfaction. I wanted to meet him, hear his voice and wanted to observe him nearly. But my efforts went all wasted though I was requesting him repeatedly to come. I didn't know if he was feeling shy or he had his own reasons for denying it.

My image of Sayaband had already accepted that request of my invitation in my imagination but now coming out of that imagination world, it was just opposite of it, he was completely denying my invitation. Then I told Annie to request him again from her side and she told me to wait until evening but I wasn't so patient enought to wait calmly for his decision. My mind was thinking whether he would come or not. Then Annie said he was coming tomorrow evening since she had given bundles of lectures the whole day for denying and told me to be ready to meet him for the first time in real life. I was blushing very much that my cheek turned red and my smile had spread to the ear to ear, it wasn't narrowing to my normal lips. The whole night passed thinking about the day after evening.

"What should I say to him? What does he look like while meeting him so nearly? What will be his reaction when he will see me as an actual person?" I didn't get enough sleep that night. Annie used to wake up and check me from time to time but I acted as sleeping evertime. Next morning, when I opened my text book to read, concentration was totally zero, my mind was roaming here and there thinking about Sayabang. In this way, the whole day passed out and finally the time came to face the reality. The most difficult situation in my life had always been to meet stranger people and initiate conversation. I wasn't really born for it I thought but since I met him, the Kayla that I knew wasn't the same. She had changed a lot without even knowing herself and changed enough to face that stranger person since she had been talkingfor about 1 month on social media. We both, Annie and me got ready for the get together evening. Annie did her makeup brightly, stood like a model and dressed herself perfectly like in a blind date to a guy but me, who had no perfection in anything got blanked at that moment while dressing and putting makeup because I had never been doing such kinds of things in my life. My life was always full of books, theories, formulas, seriousness and many other introvert things which I couldn't explain enough to people to make them understand. Simply I wore a shirt and pant and made my hair straight( my hair was too short to call a Thai cut at that time nearly a boy cut). The only thing I was missing at that time was the overpowered glass which would be a perfect match for me to call a oversmart person but unfortunately my eyes were as active as I was born that I didn't actually needed glasses to observe. I was fined confident about my vision than any other specialities in me. Annie didn't complain about my dress up or never forced me to do make up because she always wanted me to be a real one as I wanted to be. We both left for the get together at the cafe. Annie and I was the first one to be there as I was the one who was excited very much. After half an hour, Annie's friend Nami came with her sister. Nami was her best friend as far I knew. She got into our table saying "Hi" with loud voice, making people turned and looked over us. We both laughed welcoming her in our table and they both arrived at the right time like us who had been there before half an hour earlier before them. Annie ordered some of her favourite drinks, milk tea for me and burger for Nami's sister. Nami's sister Sammy was about 8-9 years old who was just enjoying the get together as her family gathering and Nami who always talked with loud voice, laughed and joked in every moment of her words was eating her pasta. Annie was busy playing with her mobile phone and me, with the boring face waiting for that person to whom I was going to meet actually in real life for the first time. It's been 1 hour, we had done nothing just ordered and waited for Sayabang who hadn't come yet at our gathering. I had already finished three cup of tea with enough sugar to make me fall asleep but that person wasn't coming yet.

Annie got bored playing with her mobile phone, Nami was looking at me with dull eyes and Sammy had finished her burger completely. To wait and meet hat person we had to order more. Then Annie got up suddenly, dialed her phone and kept it near my ear. There was a response of someone saying "Hello". I heard it near my ear, a very soothing voice, not a husky or bold one but a calm and sweet voice to make me feel relieved. It was Sayabang's voice.

Hearing his voice made me more impatience person, I heard his voice for the first time and spoke to him first time in that sudden call. "You aren't Annie, who are you?" He said after hearing my voice on Annie's phone. So I had to reply telling him, "Hello! Kayla's speaking. We have been waiting for you since 1 hour. Are you not coming? If you then please come soon. We can't wait more than this for you." He replied me, "Yeah, I'm on my way and I'll be there in 15 minutes, give the phone to Annie now."

That ached my heart a little bit though.

His 15 minutes had already gone and we were waiting for next half hour for him. Our another half hour was going to be counted then suddenly Annie got up screaming "Sayabang". I was freezed enough at that moment to turn my back to see him coming. I didn't turn back immediately but wait for him to come infront of me. It was already 7PM and evening had already ended and night was going to come so lights were little bit dimmed at that cafe. I couldn't control to see him and turned around seeing Annie, Nami and Sammy had already turned. As I turned, he was just behind that dim light, his silhouette was sharp enough to tell him having a perfect body, he was coming to us playing his hairs. I thought his hair got messed up during his ride on bike. And slowly slowly Sayabang got near to us, as he got near to me enough to be called 30 cm , I saw his smiling face with fair skin, a cute boy with small height and had worn a black dress that had perfectly matched with his color and body structure. He went to Annie at first because she was the only person that he had already met first and known before. Annie introduced Nami and her sister to him and immediately turned towards me saying, "She is Kayla." He greeted me with a handshake introducing him as a Sayabang. "Yeah, I already know, your name is in my mind evertime." I secretly whispered to myself. Then Annie sat with Nami and her sister, leaving a small space near to Sayabang chair. Sayabang ordered Americano for him. Later I noticed, Americano was his favorite drink after that encounter and I thought of initiating our conversation at first because he wasn't saying anything to me, I didn't want to make our first encounter be like that, completely full of awkwardness with silence. I asked about his work. "How's your work going?" He replied me, " It's pretty good as I earned for myself enough." He also added some questions to me asking about my exam. "When is your exam that you had mentioned me before?"

"This coming Sunday" I replied instantly. We were left behind to talk a bit more about ourselves but we were both nervous to face each other. It had already been 1 hour, we hadn't say a word to each, I literally didn't find any topics or words to say thinking he might judge me on the basis my nature then he started talking to Annie instead. I noticed that he was very much comfortable while speaking to my sister rather than me, might be because he had known and met her before but we had just met before an hour ago though we were talking on the chat for a long time. I thought at that moment.

Finally, we got up to leave for home because we were there for more than 2 hours and it was also getting late to go home. So, Annie stood up at first and Sayabang then but I wasn't. Annie looked at me with her questioning face and gazed for a moment. "OK let's stay for more half an hour now and after that we will all leave together". Sayabang denied telling her that he had to go to his work though it was a Sunday and he had taken a day off. Annie angrily looked at him seeing Sayabang was still standing up on his foot then I pulled his black hoodie slightly from one side and requested him to stay for few minutes more. He looked at my eyes, that was the first moment when his eyes got encountered by my eyes. My eyes talked him saying not to go and he understood somehow and silently sat down on the chair beside me. After that, something encouraged or pushed me forward then we started talking about our like and dislikes, families, education, college life, future goals etc. continuously. When I used to ask him one question, he replied it shortly and then one by one my questions started making a long thread of connection to him gradually.

Our precious half an hour had already passed out ,our conversation was going on but we actually had to leave for the home. Exiting from the cafe, I was looking him secretly without being noticed by anyone there. We got separated from there saying good byes to each other and finally arrived at the home safely. That night was just perfect as I had imagined the day before though we were both nervous at first, Sayabang was as much as like him that I had imagined in my mind. He was more than my expectations and I had never seen a handsome person nearly like I saw that day, my hearts was going to explode thinking about him.

I opened the chat box and texted him, "It was nice meeting you. Let's meet again someday."

He instantly replied, "Yeah sure. I will meet you after your last exam." My heart was pounding again thinking about Sayabang, his face and his voice. Then from that day onwards, I didn't have control over my feelings anymore.

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