First Meeting

Huff !! Finally!! She said releasing a big sigh after sorting out her last luggage. "Why do we have to shift so much ?" she pout angrily and laid on her new bed, and without knowing fell asleep, since she was already tired of the journey. It was evening when her mother called her. Lazily she got up and went down the stairs. She knew what her mother was going to say, so she did not let her speak and said, "I'll leave for the visit in a few minutes" her mother just smiled and nodded. This is a very common thing to her as her mother always insisted her to have a walk around and visit the new neighborhood of the place whenever they shifted somewhere. It was spring time, so cherry blossom were there on trees and a light breeze was blowing. She was looking around the place and noting the roads and alleys to remember while traveling. It was quite sometime now that she was walking and now she felt thirsty, so she stopped by a department store and went to buy some drinks. She had just bought her milkshake and opened it, when someone bumped into her, causing a little bit of the milkshake spill on her favourite shoes. She widened her eyes ready to say something, she looked up at the person who caused such a disaster and saw a young boy moreover of the same age as he looked at her and just said a simple "sorry", bought his banana milk and walked away leaving her totally infuriated in a messy state...

After cleaning the mess on her shoes, she started walking home straight and went to her room and sat on her bed. Her head was hot, and really she was feeling very hot  die to the unwanted exercise, so she went to open the one and only window of her room beside the study table. As soon as she opened the window the sight made her both shocked and angry. She saw the same boy from the department store, sitting on his bed and playing on his phone.

With the sound of the panes he looked up but she hod behind the curtains, when he saw nothing in front he continued to play. After sometime he got up, kept the phone on the study table and went to the washroom. Seeing such an opportunity, she thought of an idea to take revenge on him. She brought a long wooden stick from somewhere, put double-sided cellotape on one end of the stick and held the other end and slowly and carefully passed the stick to his room stuck the phone to the stick and pulled it back. Now His phone was with her. As expected, he came to his room and could not find his phone. She, after watching him for sometime came out and showed him his phone. "You...you are the same girl from the department store right, who bumped into me today ??" he asked. "Umm... correction, YOU bumped into me and spilled the milkshake on my FAVOURITE SHOES, so if you want your phone back then apologize toe nicely, a simple sorry won't work". At first he did not agree but then he had no choice so he apologized band she gave it back. Then he asked, "I have never seen you before, are you new here ?". She then narrated her story that her father's job makes them shift so much, that she is her new neighbour from now on. After they had chit chatted and were getting along well with each other when they realised that, "Oh I forgot to introduce myself, I'm Lee Junghoon", "Oh! and I'm Cicilia Xavier". Then Junghoon said," It's getting late now I have wake up early tomorrow. Well then Cic-Cici-Cili, uh! I can't pronounce your name," he pout cutely "uh can I call you Lia ? That I can pronounce... hehehe" , " It's okay you can call me Lia" and she smiled sweetly. " Bye... Good Night" they said to each other before closing the window.

Next day, "A new college again.Huff " she said and entered the principal's office. " Oh- Cicilia ? Cicilia Xavier ?? Am I right ? the principal asked, "Yes sir"  she said and bowed. "So you are the new student, I see. Well then these are your details. I hope you would not have much trouble to find your class". "No sir, it's alright" she smiled and left the cabin. "I did not find it difficult to find my classroom. The teacher saw me and said,"Are you the new student??","Yes sir" she said, "then come when I call you" she nodded. After sometime, she was called and she entered. "Please introduce yourself" the teacher said and she began, "Hello everyone, My name is Cicilia Xavier. I am new here and I want to make new friends, hope you all will take care of me" she smiled to everyone. The teacher spoke, "There's an empty seat beside him, go sit there. Lee Junghoon raise your hand." She saw the empty seat and the person who raised his hand and both of them smiled at each other. The class began. At lunch time,"We meet again" he said showing his bunny smile. She replied with a nod. "So you are my new neighbour and my new seatmate...then let's have lunch together" he said and dragged her to the cafeteria. Then sat at a table munching their foods, when he asked, "So your hobby is basketball right ?" She almost choked on her food and asked, "How'd you know that ?"." You pabo, you have certificates and trophies of basketball in your room, I saw through the window. You must be very good at it". Then she narrated, how she started playing basketball, years passed by and every school she has been to till now, she played in that school's basketball teams and was quite good at it. "Quite good ? You seem to be a very good player, as I can infer from the number of trophies  I had seen", he said. Well I don't really know, I haven't played for a while", she said with an unsure look. "Will you play in our college, if you get a chance ??" he asked with shining eyes. "Maybe" , she replied shortly. Then there was a silence for sometime untill Junghoon decided to break it and asked,"Lia I had seen so many group photos of you in your room, were they your friends ?? Do you still have contact with them ??" Lia's expression turned into a sad one. "Well if you don't want to sahre it's okay, I won't force you" he asked concerned. There was silence. He asked again worried, "Are you ok-" she cut him off and said, "My dad used to transfer a lot, so I never had a long friendship, most of them I have lost contact, I barely remember everyone", she said and gave a sad smile. "It's alright" he said patting her back to calm her down. "Umm...Lia, it's almost time for our next class, let's go", he said with a joyful smile to cheer her up and change the topic. "Yeah let's go", she said and smiled genuinely. He sighed in relief seeing her better.

After the school got over, they went back home together.

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