This stranger guy , entered the convenient store and went across the cashier table to grab a drink. He was wearing a plain white tshirt and maroon shorts as i remembered . And me? I was dressed horribly , as i mentioned earlier my nightgown was torn. I didnt know his name , like i said before but there was this sudden spark and inner voice that actually told me DAMN! Im in love. Honestly , it was weird , it was peculiar and i can go on describing him with all the adjectives i know . I wanted to get hold of his attention so i started pushing Jordan towards him , it was an epic fail . I bet he thought i was retarded , he gave me that look and opened the doors of the store and left with his black bicycle.

He did not notice me at all , but i watched him through the glass door until he was out of sight. The next day , we had our exhibition . We were distributing more brochures , and as we were doing that my helper ran to me to report that some guy was misbehaving with buddy . I mean noone dared to do that till date. I was enraged and i went along with her to look for this so called "shameless unknown guy". When my helper took me to the same spot where that guy insulted buddy , i could only get a glimpse of the guy. He was fair , but i noticed the same black cycle as the guy in the convenient store. Could it be that , its the same person? I felt silly for even raising this question like as if he was the only guy in the world with a black cycle. I ignored this , and i told my helper to report to me if anything of that sort happens again in the near future. 

Our exhibition was going on really well , and we earned a lot of money and i mean A LOT for young adults like us. It was a three days thing , and we had random people purchasing our items . Some of them came from the church nearby our house , some were our neighbours who bought a lot of stuff , dresses , tops , kidswear everything. I must admit these people are actually really supportive.

 I had this weird neighbour named Ken , who used to visit my house every single day. People in the neighbourhood said , that he actually had some problem but he was fond of me. He used to stay in my house upto 9pm daily and he would do nothing actually , but it invaded our privacy it was uncomfortable for a girl like me to see a random guy lazing around in my room just because our parents are friends , ive told my mom about it but she said it was okay as long as he didnt do anything of 'that' sort , u know the sort of thing girls are afraid that guys would do. The bad bad thing i used to call it.

When our three days of exhibition was over , we decided to share and split the money into two, one half for jordan and the other half for me . Shaina demanded that she wanted to receive a share too as she also did alot of work and this was something that we cant deny , to make her happy we gave her a quarter of the amount that we have , call us greedy but yes we were at that time. We three decided to celebrate , our style , something like a success party because the exhibition was beyond our expectations (literally) . The kind of party we were talking about was a house party , with splashes of water. We wore the ugliest looking outfits because we knew it would get wet and we wanted to play with those colourful powder , so wearing a nice shirt on this ocassion was not sensible. We wore our tops , and we started spraying each other with the water hose , running from left to right , to the garden and back. Our house looked like as if a unicorn just exploded. 

The walls turned pink and we panicked . Right when we were trying to remove the stains from the walls , Ken walked in my house and told me that he wanted to join us for whatever reason we were celebrating , (he didnt even know the reason) . And at first we were like oh well , the more the merrier but he just wouldnt leave . And we had to shower , we three would have occupied all the bathrooms so where would ken go? And he was getting annoying , he threw a sum of coloured powder at me , and yup it entered my eye and it was disturbing. I told Ken nicely , "why dont you go home first , shower and change then come back here and join us?" , he looked at me with despair but gave no response , Jordan asked him for the second time and he looked at us with a more fierce look then the previous one and finally he ran outside of my house and we were all shocked. We instructed my helper to follow him and make sure he reaches home but he was out of sight , as she reported. I personally had to go outside and search for the boy , me and Jordan stood infront of his house waiting for a response from inside , his helper came out finally after 15 minutes and told us that Ken had locked his room door and wouldnt allow anyone to enter. I entered his house , although it was very awkward and politely knocked on his room door , i called out his name and he screamed at me , like literally and he banged the room door . I didnt know what to do , Jordan said we needed to break down the door. But i thought of giving it another try , so i again called out his name but this time there was no response so, i thought of giving him a break for a while and we proceeded to my house as we also needed to shower. After showering , Jordan peeked out of my room's window and saw ken with his awkward looking colourful bicycle infront of the gate , Jordan called me and even i was shocked at the sight. We ran down and peeked through the slits of the gate . He called us outside and apologized for his childish behavior . What can we do now except forgive? We were still reluctant to hang out with him but we also had no choice. It went on and on and slowly we got used to his habbits . I remember being with ken at around 8pm in my house one night and i was so eager for him to leave , the door bell rang and i thought it was his helper coming to pick him up as usual , i was already so happy until i saw an adult looking guy asking me if i have seen his dog , i told him to give me more details for the same and he said it was a beagle , that had a mixture of a brownish white and black coat. This was familiar , i mean this point was familiar . I used to play with most of the dogs in the neighbourhood and i had the abiliy to recall which dog belongs to whom , most of the time all the dogs were familiar with me so they would come over for a treat , it wasnt very hard to recognise the dogs as my neighbourhood only had a few of them . So this guy , asked for my help to search for his missing dog and rather than allowing ken to go home without doing anything useful i told him to help us search for it , suddenly while walking in the middle of the night trying to escape from my mom , cause she would never let me leave the house after 6pm i saw the guy from the convenient store again , my love at first sight guy? We saw him speeding with his bicycle and Ken stopped him , (ken didnt know him too) and ken asked for his help , he agreed and i was trembling like i wanted to talk to him but i couldnt , i was so shy . 

 He asked me "hi , um can you describe the dog to me" i stammered and he was like "okay nevermind forget it" . We found the dog nearby a dustbin at the edge of some old house and we were not sure if it was the one but it met all the descriptions given to us. We returned the dog to the guy , but there was another problem. He told us that the dog was nomore wanted , (the guy was a worker not the owner) so, he told us that the owner didnt want it anymore . Ken and X ( lets call my love at first sight X , since i didnt know his name) got so pissed , like if you didnt want the dog anymore why would you search for it for so long? I told them that we can try and get the dog a new home but X didnt agree so he went back home , ken and i had to ring the doorbells of most of the houses until we could find a right owner for the dog . The next day , my helper reported to me that the same guy who insulted buddy , insulted him again , and this time it happened publcly. I got so irritated , i changed into my tangtop and shorts and i left the house to get hold of the guy and to set things straight , I was secretly praying that this guy wasnt X , i mean i was already so in love with him and everything will be ruined if he insulted my dog because buddy was my priority. I ran with my helper and i was like OH DAMN its the same guy , X . I was so sad , like literally. But i needed to take revenge , i didnt know where X lived so one night when my mom told me and my helper to buy butter and some other stuff from the convenient store i saw a house , with an angel statue at the top , the gates were opened and i could hear voices from inside .

 I didnt know how , i didnt know why but just like the spark i had for him in the convenient store , the same spark led me into thinking that it was his house. I asked my helper if it was his house , but she didnt know too. The next day , it was a Sunday i passed by this house again and to my surprise i saw him on top of a motorcycle with the same white tshirt and this was such a coincidence as i merely just guessed the correct house. I still wanted revenge , for what this X guy did to buddy . So the next day , i purposely took buddy for a walk on his lane i went back and forth pass him for around 10 times until he got so fed up of me and he screamed "If you dont leave from here , i"ll burn your dog" i got SO pissed when he said this . But i didnt know why a brave and straighforward person like me turned speechless when it was my turn to scream back , i have no idea what you call it but i actually melted upon looking at his face and i immediately rushed back home . I knew he disliked me from this day onwards so, it was time for me to make a good impression for myself. Everyday , from that day onwards i would pass his house daily just to get a glimpse of him. I used to be well dressed just incase he passed me and i used badminton as an excuse to play infront of his lane as his lane was wider then the rest . By 4.30 in the afternoon i would change to the most goodlooking clothes i had and walk pass his house it wasnt nice if i was already ready and if he was not at home , but most of the time i could see him from his balcony but whenever he used to notice me i would quickly run like an idiot. I had this other clingy neighbour but she was much better then Ken , she used to visit my house ocasionally and again she was the daughter of a family friend, ive visited her house once but that was the first and last time as i saw her dad beating her up with a remote just for asking permission to visit the mall , we had plans of shopping together but that too not alone we had my aunt to accompany us but her dad still didnt allow us because he thinks that its unsafe and we could be stabbed or something , her dad was a weird man . Ever since that day , ive never thought of visiting her house again. 

 Once , when she came to my house , she wanted to plot my garden and plant apple trees or something . She always had these weird ideas in her mind leading to chaos. I remember the time she wanted to make a coconut drink from the coconut tree infront of my house , i ended up falling down as i tried to grab a coconut. This time as she was digging through the wet mud of my garden , since she claims that she knew mostly everyone in the neighbourhood i decided to inquire about X to her . I described him in detail , every minute detail that i remembered and she was like oh isnt he Christian? And i was like oh his name is christian? Christian who? And she replied me saying , christian jonathan(isnt it ironic to have your first crush's name so similar to your present one , christopher and christian...). She claimed that he was one of the most popular guy in the neighbourhood . She also told me that he was her relative , i was happy by the fact that i could use this as an opportunity for her to introduce me to him. The moment she left home , i went on facebook and searched for his name because we had mutual friends the search was made easier. His profile was blank and it had 2 or 3 selfies but i was contended . He still didnt know me though but i sent him a friend request , i even stalked him on twitter and i realised that he was mostly active there , he used to update his status on a daily basis , and from his tweets i came to know that he was a religious and a nice type of person. As usual , ken came over and i told him about Christian , he didnt like the idea of me telling him , and according to people it was because he had a crush on me , i didnt believe them though. That same afternoon , when me and ken were walking , i wanted him to accompany me pass christian's house as i mentioned earlier i wanted to get a glimpse of him daily. The moment we left my house , we saw christian and his friends playing soccer and ken immediately yelled "HEY CHRISTIAN , THIS GIRL, VIC LIKES YOU". I wrapped his mouth with my hand and screamed at him for embarassing me publicly , christian didnt pay heed though infact he came to me and asked me if i knew a girl named jaynie. And this Jaynie i recalled , she is my far relative well i dont know if its true but she claims to be my far relative . Christian asked me if i could invite her over and we three could hangout together , ken said i started blushing for no absolute reason and i was so happy,it was amazing . Ive always wanted to hangout with X , my christian. 

The night itself i called jaynie and invited her over she came the next day and at first we three actually socialised pretty nicely , he used to talk to me but it was still very awkward . Jaynie told me that she and christian are cousins , i was delighted because i thought that i can actually ask her to help me make the first move since i was actually into him ,i told her about my feelings and she promised to help me. Jaynie used to stay up till late in my house upto 11 pm and my mom didnt like this , and she wasnt very fond of jaynie as she wasnt a girl with a good reputation , she even got kicked out of the girls squad mother and daughter hangouts we had because of the same reason. One fine night , she told me that christian was locked in his balcony i dont know how this was possible but i panicked and offered to help her and save him or something. Little did i know that i was pranked . i was so scared to leave the house it was about 9pm at that time and my parents were out for dinner , my grandma was still awake and i didnt want her to complain to my mom so we actually had to sneak out , it was my first time. We went infront of Christian's house and i saw christian right infront of my face , i was pissed not because i was pranked but because i was forced into doing something i wasnt allowed to do , sneaking out . Christian handed over a pearl necklace to jaynie with her initial on it , i was amazed by the fact that wow this pair of cousins love each other a lot . Me and Jordan cared for each other , but not to that extent . Christian caught me looking at him and asked me if i wanted the same necklace sarcastically , i kept quiet because i was really shy. Just before i could talk , his parents arrived in a motorcycle and me and jaynie ran away as if we had been chased by some wild beast. What if his parents complain to my parents? I didnt want that at all. Jaynie was picked up right after that and she wanted to come back the next day. The next day , another similar thing happened that prooved that the 2 cousins cared for each other to a great extent , when we were walking at around 7pm Jaynie got hit by the rearview mirror of a moving car and the way he got stressed out , it was weird , did i mention that i asked him if he was related to my clingy girl neighbour? Well he said he wasnt so this neighbour of mine was clearly a liar . Anyways , back to the story he told me to go inside my house and get some ointment so i can apply it to her , i ran up my house and when i finally got the ointment , they were nowhere to be seen. I stood infront of my house for about 5 minutes , calling out their names and the bypassers stared at me , it was weird so i entered my house and came out again after 10 minutes to check on them. They were right there standing infront of my face when i asked them regarding where they were , they told me they went to the convenient store nearby so i was okay . The next day , Christian even introduced me and Jaynie to his cousin that also lived in the same neighbourhood.

 Days continued like this , with jaynie in my house till latenight. Jordan apparently knew christian somehow , so they engaged in a conversation but i was totally out of it , since jordan knew that i was extremely into christian , he did not tell me what their conversation was about eventhough i begged to know about it. My mom really didnt like the idea that Jaynie was always in my house , there was no privacy in the house she felt and she also didnt like the idea that jaynie was influencing me to sneak out and all that because apparently my helper has reported to my mom regarding our actions , she found out about Christian and she also noticed that i was always playing , in his lane so she decided to put an end to this. My mom told me to stay away from Jaynie and Christian because they werent good children , she told me. I had to message Jaynie and made up some excuse so that she wouldnt come over the next day , and that night itself i had a family dinner with my mom's side of the family and my mood was really bad , i messaged jaynie telling her that my mom didnt like christian and i asked her for help, but she also couldnt help me much as she wasnt allowed in my house too. Days after that , i saw Christian passing by my house and his behavior changed completely . Earlier , he would atleast smile at me or even engage in a short conversation , be it about school or whatsoever. But now , he acted like he didnt even know me , i mean, it was really sad because i had to face my mom's rants at home about him and i actually thought that me and christian were actually having good progress in being friends but i guess i was wrong? . He stared at me uncomfortably most of the times. But i used to still play badminton infront of his lane , and just to be safe i used to come home atleast 30 minutes earlier so that my mom wouldnt suspect me being upto anything bad with christian. It so happened that once i was playing badminton infront of his lane and there was a young girl living near his house who called my name continously and she was screaming for god knows what reason , her basketball was inside the sewer and she wanted me to help her take it , "VIC pls help me i wanna play vicc!" she kept saying that but since she was young so, i willingly helped her . Christian came out of his balcony when this young girl was screaming continously , and initially i was happy to see him looking at me from the top. My mood was so good after that but the moment i reached home i received a long text message from Jaynie telling me that Christian was sick and i shouldnt be making so much of noise infornt of his house as it was getting too much , she also stoipped me from playing badminton nearby his house as Christian was always getting disturbed . SO, i did. Winter break was over and school was about to start , i was sad but i diverted my attention into preparing for my new school . Me and my bestfriend from my previous school , planned to meet each other first in the lobby before entering class with hopes that we could be seatmates like we were before. I called a girl from my new school and inquired about the type of people there , the academic program (as only my mom was aware of it) She told me that it was sufficient to carry a rough notebook and my pencil case for the first day , i followed her instructions. The next morning , i got ready and tucked in my uniform , i tied my hair and buckled my shoe , i met my bestfriend in the lobby and my mom accompanied me as it was my first day. 

My bestfriend did not dress up the way i did , her hair was left open , she wore her sneakers and her uniform was not tucked in . She told me that we're in junior high school now and noone here tucks in their shirt , so she helped me re-dress myself . My mom did not say anything as we were childhood bestfriends and my mom accompanied us both till we reached our new class. I was so nervous and my mom told my teacher to look after me. We sat on the first row , middle seat. Everyone stared at us the teacher called us individually to speak about ourselves. We have always been taught to communicate in english , but the people there thought that me and my bestfriend were faking our accents. These people illtreated us and made fun of our accents . There were a hand sum of people from our old school so we used to gather and eat together in the canteen during breaktime. Amongst all the people in the canteen , i was the chosen subject to be bullied i mean it wasnt exactly bullying but there was this senior guy of our school who used to flirt with me in a very uncomfortable manner . Just two weeks of being in this new school , and i could figure out that life would be dramatic here . He and his bestfriend told one of the peons to deliver chocolates to the table where me and my friends were sitting , and the peon said that these chocolates were to be given to a girl named victoria and hey , well thats me. It was so awkward the entire scene i distributed the chocolates to all my friends but didnt bother to eat as i was scared that it was spiked , i had a weird imagination thing i admit. The following days , he wasnt out of my sight , earlier it was the chocolates and now it was catcalling. This isnt right . Whenever i used to walk by the staircase , as i was instructed by my teacher to get a book or something from another class . He would be there , he was always bunking classes and i dont know from who but he knew my name and he knew it very well. 

This carried on for a pretty long time and whenever he used to be in the canteen we used to make like a code word to indicate his presence. 12'oclock means he used to be infront of me . six o'clock means he was behind me 3'oclock means he was near my right side and similarly 9'oclock meant that he was on my left side. Jordan was young too and new as well , so he couldnt do much to comfort me i didnt even know this weird guy's name. When my bestfriend finally reported to my mom regarding these incidents that occur on a daily basis , my mom immediately came to school the next day and created such a big scene . She yelled at the guy , publicly until people had to inquire about what was going on. From that day onwards , he stopped for a while. Until, we met eachother in a wedding ceremony since i was alone looking for shaina and jordan in the hall he probably used this opportunity and messed up my hair and played with it afterwards but i didnt tell my mom about this because i wouldnt want her to create a scene in a wedding ceremony. In school , we had 1 month of orientation program to get us used to the academic and activity pattern of the school . So, we made a nice friend . we as in me and my bestfriend , she introduced herself as katy and she was a student in this school since first grade. She introduced us to other people but few times she told me , that these mean classmates that i had used to play truth or dare and used to dare each other to talk to me . Most of them wouldnt want to as they thought that i was fake and disgusting , they even used the word 'ewww' to describe me. It was unfair i mean , i didnt even know any of them but oh well this is how life goes? The only nice ones in class were Katy and the girl i spoke to one day before my first day of school , the one that guided me and told me that it was sufficient to bring a rough notebook . But this girl belonged to the popular gang , so although she was nice but i couldnt talk much to her. 

 Katy warned me several times that some people were trying to break the friendship that me and my bestfriend shared but we paid no heed as we thought that our 11 years of friendship did not have such a weak foundation. Days passed by and i missed christian so badly i really wanted to atleast pass by his house just like usual and get a glimpse . Thats all i wanted but that too , wasnt possible. As days passed by , i was constantly reminded of him . I recalled , that me and christian do have mutual friends. His school friends , most of them are in my present school. I decided to ask the popular nice girl for help like to talk to the'mutual friends' that me and Christian shared as she was close to a few of them and we did the same. She took me to one guy , who used to be in Christian's former school and we inquired about christian and he described christian as the former class clown , a very happy go lucky guy who was mostly carefree and always up to something mischevious but he had a good heart. Talking about love , in the mean time katy told me and my bestfriend that she had a crush on one of the popular guys of those times too , who was currently dating the nice popular girl i was friends with. So, it was wrong to help katy but i really dont know whats so good in this popular guy? Most of my classmates fangirl over him but he looks like some kind of alien , he was very fair he had hazel eyes and was always reserved as a person but i didnt find this appealing at all maybe because i was already so into christian. So , my nice popular girlfriend thought of a plan to help me talk to christian it has been 3 months since Jaynie messaged me rudely stating that i should not be anywhere near christian's lane or house . My popular girlfriend said that i should pretend that im playing volleyball and then purposely throw the ball inside christian's house and then ask for it back , u know to gain his attention although i wasnt allowed by Jaynie but come on! It has been three months since the incident . I decided to go for it , but everything was ruined when Katy told all of christian's friends about the plan well , her intentions were good but then she ruined it somewhat as his friends would probably tell christian about the same and it would cause more problems. A few days after this , ken came over and i was peeking through Christian's lane but i didnt dare to pass by it yet . Ken , like a retard , screamed and said "HEY CHRISTAIN ! HEY OWNER OF THE HOUSE WITH THE ANGEL STATUE , VICTORIA IS LOOKING FOR YOU" i was like oh damn! The last time someone screamed my name out loud infront of his house , we ended up not talking for 3 months till now , what would happen now? I ran but i saw christian riding a motocycle heading towards me , After 3 months me and christian were face to face and ken was the intermediate.... Eye to eye with christian this was what happened next.....

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