The Fateful Encounter

I approached the young man with a smile. “Aren’t you Zainal? The one that had the crush on me last time?,” I asked him with cheeky voice, bending forward a bit as he was sitting down, backing me. The man turned and shockingly said,
“Hmm, maybe I will if we actually know each other darling,” he said sarcastically. My goodness, I got the wrong person!! I blushed. Oh! My face feels like it’s on fire. I feel like a total idiot. Gosh! Wish I can be invisible this instant. Too bad I’m not Invisible Girl. Agh, what would he think of me!?
“Owh! I’m so sorry! I mistook you for another person, I thought you’re.. you’re..,”
“Zainal? The one that actually had crush on you? Hehe..” he smiled mockingly.
“Yes! Wait, NO! I thought you’re him! Oh man, I just humiliated myself! To a stranger! Argh!,” I said, trying not to scream. I don’t know what to do and this guy over here seems to have a good time for himself seeing me this way.
“Haha! Chill, it’s not the end of the world that you got the wrong person, that you think had a crush on you!! Haha!” he went on, laughing like it was a colossal joke.
I can’t take it no more. All I can say is, “Agh! Fine!,” I start to make my way out of the scene when suddenly a firm but gentle grip grabbed my wrist. I stopped, all of the sudden, my anger, frustration and shame fade away.
“Wait! Don’t just leave, yet. Please, have a sit. Relax.” Either this man over here have power to “hypnotize” me or he is just irresistible because I actually sit down.
“Man, do I really have to go through this?” I whined. I looked down, I just don’t have the guts to look him in the eyes.
“Aww, so cute! Hey, look at me baby,” he said in a flirting style. His index finger, raised my chin up. For the first time I actually looked at him. A typical malay-like sort of face, jet black hair, he just seems so… so… so ordinary. But, the thing that charmed me is his sparkling eyes, full of confidence, and a smile, so pure, so genuine, born from the deepest part of his heart. I know this sounds so dreamy and all, but to me, that is what I saw in him. Then with a smile he said coolly,
“So, how many guys actually have crushes on you, because I can’t see the reason why wouldn’t they,” he said, sipping his iced coffee with one eyebrow raised.
This guy really like to flirt, said in my mind. So, let me play along with him. I got valiant and replied, “I lost count! Like you have said, men just can’t resist me! Hah!” I snubbed, feeling good. I watched him carefully, he’s shocked. But only for a split second before regain his cool and continued,
“Hoho! So let’s see, just now, you act as if you just shown your naked childhood picture to the whole campus, completely in shame, the next second I know, the zero turns to hero! You got bold, and backfired me!” he said sarcastically.
“You really are one interesting girl. Oh, where are my manners. I forgot to introduce myself. Hi, the name’s Raf, Asyraf. And you are?”he asked.
“Haha, well my name is Amanina but you can just call me Nina” I smiled.
“You too are one heck of a man. You dare to play and flirt with some unknown girl. No bad eh, Romeo?” I said, kicking his shin. He flinched, then said,
“Ahaha! I’ll take that as a compliment thank you. Hey, order something for yourself, drinks are on me. Waiter, can you take this lovely girl’s order please?” said Asyraf with one hand rubbing his shin under the table.
“Okay, I’ll have carrot juice thank you. So tell me Asyraf, how many girls have you flirted with before?” I smiled mockingly at him. Unaffected, he just gulped down his drink, smiled and replied,
“Well, actually Ms. Nina, giving a specific number is impossible because there’s just too many of them. But you, you are totally different! And I like it! Haha!” he went on, glaring at me with his gorgeous brown eyes.
“Oh really? How so?” I demanded.
“Most of the girls fall for my words. But you, you fought back and actually giving a hard time there! Do you know that?” he said.
“Aww, I’m flattered. Too bad, I don’t fall easily with only words. And for your information, most of men fall for my looks. So I think we found our match eh?” I said, stirring my drink that just arrived.
“Hmm.. So, it’s words versus looks. What is this? Some sort of fateful encounter? Yuck! Gross! Haha!” he went on laughing.
“Hey, it’s quite romantic okay. Minus the part that I got the person. Hehe.” I said, jerking half my tongue out.
“Sheesh, I know you’re a girl, but that’s just so lame!” Asyraf replied.
“Fine, so what? I am a girl! Hello?! Anyway, what course are you taking since you are so interested in girls? Let me guess, Flirting 101?” I laughed.
“Hardy har, so funny. Nope. I’m taking psycho. You?” he asked.
“A psychologist to-be or a psycho maniac in the making! Haha! I’m taking Aviation Physics,” I replied.
“A pilot, not bad. Wait, if you are taking A.P. isn’t our faculty are next to each other?” he said
“Yeah, how come we’ve never met then?” I asked
He smiled, rubbing his legs against mine, with his charming smile and heart melting eyes he said something that I will never ever forget,
“Maybe what we were supposed to do is have this so called fateful encounter I guess. And who knows, this can get further. Would you like to join me to go on an exploring mission and see where can it take us?”
I don’t know what hit me then. I agreed. I actually joined his so called “exploring mission”! Where have this mission took us? Well it has been two years, and the mission still goes on! We “explore” each other a lot. Things that are funny, interesting, sad, shocking and etc. were explored. Still we never run out of things to share. I love him, same as the way he loves me. Though he says that he loves me more than I love him. Hehe. So, that is the fateful encounter that changed my life, maybe when he actuall got the guts to propose me, I’ll continue this story, maybe I’ll name it “The Fateful Encounter: Extended”. But that is in the future, or maybe the next minute because he just called telling me he wants to meet me to say something important. So, wish me luck! See you!