He was caught in the middle. He never wanted this at all. He tried to make it work.....but it's all gone to hell. Now he's lost her.
It all started with that memorable evening when he met Alicia at the Library. He was in the business section, searching for a book called "The tales of an economic Assassin", the book he needed to study for his Economics assignment. He couldn't locate the book. So, the obvious thing to do was of course, ask the librarian.
At the Librarian's desk, (her name was Mrs Smythe by the way) he asked,
"Excuse me Mrs. Smythe, could I have a minute" he said in a low hushed voice
"Oh, its you Mr. Jones. Of course you may, how may I help you?" Mrs. Smythe answered with a smile.
" It's just that, I can't seem to locate a book called "The tales of an economic Assassin". I know the Library stocks it, I checked the online system before I came over." he said
"Oh, that book....the last copy just got checked out not half an hour ago. You just missed it, unlucky." she said
"Are you serious? I really needed that book for an assignment due in a week or so" he says in sad tone
"ummmm, I'm not supposed to do this, but seeing that I know you, I'll make an exception..." Mrs.Smythe replied
" Do what Mrs. Smythe?" he asked
"I'm gonna give you the name and ID of the student that just checked out the book, so you can look for her and maybe persuade her to give the book to you first...."
"That's huge Mrs. Smythe, thanks"
"You're a good kid, you deserve a break"
So, after getting the name and student ID , he immediately headed for Student services. He asked them for the students contact number, and when he got it, he proceeded to call her straight away.
The phone rang a few times, when someone picked up.
"Hello, Alicia...Alicia Daniels?" he asked
"Yes, this is she...who is this?" she asked curiously
"I'm sorry to bother you Alicia, I'm Will Jones, and I got your number from student services. I'm calling because I believe that you just checked out a book from the library called "The tales of an economic Assassin"?" he explained
"Yes, I did, is there something wrong? What's it got to do with you?" she replied rather firmly, still unsure about the call
"Well, its just that, I really need that book for my assignment, due next week. So, if its not any trouble to you, I would like to ask your permission to maybe have the book first, until I finish my assignment." he elaborated
" Well, its alright with me I guess, I won't be using the book until next month actually. I just like to read ahead." she was starting to sound pleasant
"Its settled then, when can we meet? are you still on campus?" he asked anxiously
"i'm not actually, i'm staying off campus. we can meet tonight if you want, maybe 9-ish, at Bonzo's ?" she suggested
"That's perfect, I'll see you there then, I'll try and get a table near Bonzo, so it'll be easier for us to find each other"
That night they met at Bonzo's the place where all the Uni students hung out. He sat near Bonzo. Bonzo is a statue of a Zebra, the restaurant mascot. There were only 3 tables near Bonzo, so, it was easier for them.
Will came 20 minutes early so that he made sure she could find him near Bonzo. He ordered a coke, and waited for her to come.
At 10 o'clock sharp, he spotted a woman come in, she was beautiful. She was a brunette with short hair, had just the right amount of curves he liked, and a face that looked beautiful even though, he could see she was not wearing too much make up. He hoped it was Alicia. To his amazement, the woman, walked towards Bonzo, and had that look of a woman that was obviously trying to find someone specific. So, he tried his luck and said
"Umm...Excuse me miss, but you wouldn't happen to be Alicia?"
She was startled, looked at him for a while, and answered " oh....uhuh....i'm Alicia.....you must be Will is it?"
Will, still not believing his luck, said " yeah, i'm Bill.....eh.....I mean Will"
She giggled and reached inside her sling bag to pull out the book and handed it to Will while saying "here Will, enjoy the book" and immediately started to turn to leave when Will opened his mouth to say
"uhm, wait.....do you need to leave already? I mean, if you don't have any plans, I was actually planning on buying you dinner, since you've been kind enough to let me use the book."
She paused for a while at his invitation, which made Will nervous. Finally, she said,
"Sure. I'm not doing anything, and i'm starving by the way"
He was relieved she said yes. So she sat down across from him at the table, and waited for the waiter to take thier orders. When that was done, they started talking.
They started with the basics, where they were from, and then to what they studied, and when thier food arrived they were debating about...
"are you serious?...how can you like Half-Blood Prince rather than Order of the Phoenix? HBP was obviously written so that it would be easier for writers to turn it into a screenplay...." Matt says with enthusiasm, enthusiasm that someone 21 years old should not have regarding the topic of Harry Potter.
"But apart from that, HBP answers most of the questions that were left hanging, and it also adds to the conundrum of Snape, is he good or bad?" she answers calmly
They both pause and fiddle with thier fries for a few moments, and when they looked at each other, they started off smiling, then all of a sudden both of them laughed, probably at themselves, at why they were so passionate about a kids story.
They continued thier conversation while eating dinner, on until dessert and till closing time. They got the message from the waiter to leave when the waiter brought them the bill, when normally you were supposed to pay at the counter. They got the message and Will paid. They left Bonzo's and walked towards the parking lot.
They walked towards Alicia's car first and when they arrived, he said
" Alicia, do you think that maybe we could maybe do this again some time? maybe?..."
She looked at him with those sexy hazel eyes, leaned towards him, and gave him a small peck on his cheek, and whispered.....
" I'd love to...." moved away from him to enter the car, looked back towards him with a smile and said ..."if you stopped saying MAYBE......"
And that was that...... Well......not really
To be continued.....
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Saturday, September 23, 2006
Not quite a triangle...
She was into him like a fan was into a movie star. She thought that he was an Adonis on earth. So intense was her admiration of him, that if she had seen him walking on the other side of the street, her kness would get week, and she had to hold on to something to avoid falling.
The thing about this scenario was that the so called Adonis, had the same kind of feelings, the whole week in the knees ( but as a guy, that would be un-macho to admit, so he settled for excessive heart pumping), kind of thing....for another girl.
The third character, was the most popular girl in the University. She was the standard, head of everything social, smart, obviously gorgeous, and athletic too, which was a rare thing. She was just swatting off love confessions from guys..(and girls) like a...ummmm.....fly swatter?
So let's recap, and give names to these people. First, the love sick girl, her name was Diane. Then, the love sick guy who was adored by Diane, his name was Matt, and the girl who the guy Diane adored named Matt liked, her name was Anna.
So, this was the love traingle.....but not really a triangle. If u look at it, a triangle has three lines ya? Diane loves Matt, one line. Matt loves Anna, one line. But Anna loves nobody. No line. So, it becomes like a capital "A" without the line in the middle...ahh...u know what I mean.
As fate was going to play it, there was a basketball tourney on campus. It was between the University faculties. Matt was playing for the Business Faculty, and was the star, as he was also on the University team as well. They were up against the Medic Faculty, which was Diane's faculty and she was also the support medical team, she came to support them. (She would have come anyway, for Matt of course). Anna (she was an engeneering student by the way) was on the organsing committee of the tournament, so she was running around, organising.
It was the 4th quarter, and the Business Fac was leading the Medic Fac by 2 points, with 40 seconds on the clock. Medic Fac had the ball, the point guard raising his arms, calling the play, and the team obliged by taking thier positions. 35 seconds to go. The ball was now in the Business Fac's half, the point guard passes the ball inside to the Center. He holds up the ball. 30 Seconds. The Business Fac Shooting Guard, left his mark, to double team the Medic Fac's Center. The Medic Fac's Center, saw this and immediately passed the ball out to the unmarked man outside. 25 Seconds. The ball now on the outside, with the Medic Fac's shooting guard setting up to shoot a three pointer. The ball left his hands, travelled as if in slow motion towards the hoop. And swoosh, the ball went in. The crowd went wild. Medic Fac leads by one.Matt, immediately called for time out. with 20 seconds on the clock.
The coach was furious on the bench. He especially gave a telling off to the guy who left the marker open. He immediately refocused, and took out his plasctic drawing board. He drew out a plan, a tactical plan. Few seconds after that, the ref blew his whistle, and it was time to see if the plan was a good one.
The Business Fac point guard passes the ball to the shooting guard. He in turn passes it back to the PG, at the same time Matt, the PF runs outside (with his marker following him) to the three point area to recieve the ball from the PG. 15 seconds. Matt with almost one touch, passes it back to the PG and immediately spins from his marker and towards the Hoop. His marker, trying to catch him slips, and Matt was open. The PG spots this and passes to Matt, who jumps to dunk the ball. He dunks it just on the buzzer, but not without falling awkwardly due to the Center bashing into him. At that point, Anna was watching Matt. She felt that feeling of amazement. How brave was this guy, putting his body on the line for the sake of his team and team mates. She now felt something for him now, as if cupid had shot one of his little arrows again.
Matt was fell hard on his ankle as well as unconscious caused by the Center banging into him. Diane immediately saw her oppurtunity. She hurried off to see to Matt. She took her out her medical kit, and did the standard operating procedures. She was actually getting worried now, as he was in worse condtion than expected. She called for the other volunteers to strecther him off to the ambulance already ready outside the gym. She followed him in the ambulance, up till the ER. The doctor checked Matt out with the usual tests, and at last asked the nurse to get Smelling Salts. He waved the smelling salts in front of Matt's nose, and in turn, Matt woke up. Diane was relieved.
When Matt was concscious after the smelling salts, he was still groggy, and as fate would have it again, he saw Diane first. He tried to focus, but couldn't so he went back to sleep. The Doc told Diane, it was allright. He's just tired and will be staying at the hospital for the night. Diane stayed with him that night like the loyal lover she was.
The next morning, Matt woke up with a headache, but mist definitely better than the night before. He turned his head, and saw a woman, he did not know, but swears he's seen in his dream, the woman who saved him. He sat up on his bed, and realised his ankle hurt and was bandaged. He slowly got out of bed, and went towards the Angel in his dreams and gently shook her shoulder to wake her up, and when she opened her eyes, he said " excuse me miss, who are you? and how come you're here?". Diane, who was shocked, seeing the love of her life, right in front of her eyes, was speechless. She wanted to kiss him, but no she can't, she had morning breath. So, she immediately closed her mouth with her hand so he wouldn't smell her breath. She spoke
" Umm, I'm Diane, I was on the Medic staff at the game.....you were unconscious.....I followed you on the ambulance.....you had to sleep here......I thought you shouldn't be alone..."
Matt felt the feeling of warmth in his heart. How caring was this woman? Taking care of a stranger like me. And she looked cute too. Then Matt said "No way.....you did that? thats really nice of you. You really didn't have to you know?", she immediately answered, "I wanted to". At that moment, they stared at each other for a whole ten minutes. They started going out after that.
Let's review this. Diane loved Matt, Matt loved Anna, Anna Loved nobody. Now, its Diane and Matt Loved each other. Anna wants to get to know the guy who dunked the winning dunk at the game.
Sometimes, the third party is irrelevant. When two people are meant to be together, fate will see to that. Even if takes some pain in the ankle.
Two weeks after Diane and Matt were dating, Anna worked her magic on Matt. Matt dumped Diane for Anna.
Sometimes, life's just a b***h
The thing about this scenario was that the so called Adonis, had the same kind of feelings, the whole week in the knees ( but as a guy, that would be un-macho to admit, so he settled for excessive heart pumping), kind of thing....for another girl.
The third character, was the most popular girl in the University. She was the standard, head of everything social, smart, obviously gorgeous, and athletic too, which was a rare thing. She was just swatting off love confessions from guys..(and girls) like a...ummmm.....fly swatter?
So let's recap, and give names to these people. First, the love sick girl, her name was Diane. Then, the love sick guy who was adored by Diane, his name was Matt, and the girl who the guy Diane adored named Matt liked, her name was Anna.
So, this was the love traingle.....but not really a triangle. If u look at it, a triangle has three lines ya? Diane loves Matt, one line. Matt loves Anna, one line. But Anna loves nobody. No line. So, it becomes like a capital "A" without the line in the middle...ahh...u know what I mean.
As fate was going to play it, there was a basketball tourney on campus. It was between the University faculties. Matt was playing for the Business Faculty, and was the star, as he was also on the University team as well. They were up against the Medic Faculty, which was Diane's faculty and she was also the support medical team, she came to support them. (She would have come anyway, for Matt of course). Anna (she was an engeneering student by the way) was on the organsing committee of the tournament, so she was running around, organising.
It was the 4th quarter, and the Business Fac was leading the Medic Fac by 2 points, with 40 seconds on the clock. Medic Fac had the ball, the point guard raising his arms, calling the play, and the team obliged by taking thier positions. 35 seconds to go. The ball was now in the Business Fac's half, the point guard passes the ball inside to the Center. He holds up the ball. 30 Seconds. The Business Fac Shooting Guard, left his mark, to double team the Medic Fac's Center. The Medic Fac's Center, saw this and immediately passed the ball out to the unmarked man outside. 25 Seconds. The ball now on the outside, with the Medic Fac's shooting guard setting up to shoot a three pointer. The ball left his hands, travelled as if in slow motion towards the hoop. And swoosh, the ball went in. The crowd went wild. Medic Fac leads by one.Matt, immediately called for time out. with 20 seconds on the clock.
The coach was furious on the bench. He especially gave a telling off to the guy who left the marker open. He immediately refocused, and took out his plasctic drawing board. He drew out a plan, a tactical plan. Few seconds after that, the ref blew his whistle, and it was time to see if the plan was a good one.
The Business Fac point guard passes the ball to the shooting guard. He in turn passes it back to the PG, at the same time Matt, the PF runs outside (with his marker following him) to the three point area to recieve the ball from the PG. 15 seconds. Matt with almost one touch, passes it back to the PG and immediately spins from his marker and towards the Hoop. His marker, trying to catch him slips, and Matt was open. The PG spots this and passes to Matt, who jumps to dunk the ball. He dunks it just on the buzzer, but not without falling awkwardly due to the Center bashing into him. At that point, Anna was watching Matt. She felt that feeling of amazement. How brave was this guy, putting his body on the line for the sake of his team and team mates. She now felt something for him now, as if cupid had shot one of his little arrows again.
Matt was fell hard on his ankle as well as unconscious caused by the Center banging into him. Diane immediately saw her oppurtunity. She hurried off to see to Matt. She took her out her medical kit, and did the standard operating procedures. She was actually getting worried now, as he was in worse condtion than expected. She called for the other volunteers to strecther him off to the ambulance already ready outside the gym. She followed him in the ambulance, up till the ER. The doctor checked Matt out with the usual tests, and at last asked the nurse to get Smelling Salts. He waved the smelling salts in front of Matt's nose, and in turn, Matt woke up. Diane was relieved.
When Matt was concscious after the smelling salts, he was still groggy, and as fate would have it again, he saw Diane first. He tried to focus, but couldn't so he went back to sleep. The Doc told Diane, it was allright. He's just tired and will be staying at the hospital for the night. Diane stayed with him that night like the loyal lover she was.
The next morning, Matt woke up with a headache, but mist definitely better than the night before. He turned his head, and saw a woman, he did not know, but swears he's seen in his dream, the woman who saved him. He sat up on his bed, and realised his ankle hurt and was bandaged. He slowly got out of bed, and went towards the Angel in his dreams and gently shook her shoulder to wake her up, and when she opened her eyes, he said " excuse me miss, who are you? and how come you're here?". Diane, who was shocked, seeing the love of her life, right in front of her eyes, was speechless. She wanted to kiss him, but no she can't, she had morning breath. So, she immediately closed her mouth with her hand so he wouldn't smell her breath. She spoke
" Umm, I'm Diane, I was on the Medic staff at the game.....you were unconscious.....I followed you on the ambulance.....you had to sleep here......I thought you shouldn't be alone..."
Matt felt the feeling of warmth in his heart. How caring was this woman? Taking care of a stranger like me. And she looked cute too. Then Matt said "No way.....you did that? thats really nice of you. You really didn't have to you know?", she immediately answered, "I wanted to". At that moment, they stared at each other for a whole ten minutes. They started going out after that.
Let's review this. Diane loved Matt, Matt loved Anna, Anna Loved nobody. Now, its Diane and Matt Loved each other. Anna wants to get to know the guy who dunked the winning dunk at the game.
Sometimes, the third party is irrelevant. When two people are meant to be together, fate will see to that. Even if takes some pain in the ankle.
Two weeks after Diane and Matt were dating, Anna worked her magic on Matt. Matt dumped Diane for Anna.
Sometimes, life's just a b***h
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