Its been a couple of weeks since my 'incident' with the bad boy of college- Chris and since then we've been going out; its not what you are thinking though although I wish it was. We are just friends. Eating together a lot of times and going out for sightseeing were some of the few things we've been doing. Everything was pretty normal and ok.
I was super happy today because my dad called that he would be coming home tonight. Its been weeks that I have seen him and I guess I've missed him considering the fact that the house is lonely just for me alone.
Carmen, our cook would be coming around today to cook dinner for me and my dad so I actually have no worries right now and just to top it up, Chris has been driving me to school which means he also drops me home after school.
Walking out of the school, I spotted Chris already by his car with his group of friends whose names I don't think I can remember now. When they saw me they just waved and left.
As we drove, Chris announced that there was somewhere he hadn't taken me to and our visit wouldn't waste time so I agreed to it.
He drove to a waterfall whose view was so breathtaking. I came out of the car to take in the sight and my was it beautiful. Turning around to drink in more of its beauty, I stood rooted in my spot when I saw what was before me.
Chris stood in front of me with a rose flower in his hand and asked me in the most sweetest way possible the very question I always waited for;
'Charlie, would you be my girlfriend?'
I stood in front of him mute; I couldn't process anything right now. Here I was standing right in front of my crush for two years now who asked me a question I have been dying to hear and now I couldn't utter a word, I couldn't even nod, couldn't blink, couldn't do nothing but just to stare at him not taking my eyes off even for a second. I was frozen.
It felt like minutes before I felt someone's hand on my face and I realized I have been crying; it was Chris who touched me.
"Are you ok Charlie? Do you not like me? Did I do something wrong? Is it the flower? Am I-
I cut him off from his rambling when I just did something I could only imagine doing in my dreams. I don't know what came over me but I just kissed him. That's right, I KISSED HIM
Realizing what I did, I immediately moved away from him blushing furiously. I couldn't look at him anymore because I felt shy all of a sudden.
I heard him chuckling and when I looked up, I saw him looking at me smiling.
"I guess you've just given me the answer to my question right? When I didn't reply him, he put up my chin so I could face him and he kissed me again slowly holding me by my waist.
When he was done, he said one more sentence, eight words that if it were possible I would be melting by now. He said it.
" I love you".
He gave me the rose and we sat down on a rock beside the waterfall. We removed our foot wears and dipped our legs into the water admiring nature. Who knew there was ever a place like this?
I still couldn't believe that Chris just asked me to be his girlfriend and I agreed- like really, who would have thought? I imagined myself telling Emily the story and her squealing in delight. But I was still greatly confused as to why it happened. I like the fact that after weeks of technically waiting for Chris, he finally asked me out but the reasoning part of me just needed to know what made him ask me. There are other girls that were his type and although his behavior actually showed that he liked me but I was still curious so I just blurted out the question,
"Chris, why do you like me"
He looked at me and smiled. "What's in you not to like? I don't know if you can actually remember Char, but I want to take you back to your first year. Can you remember seeing flowers on your table with love notes?"
I nodded wondering how he knew about those love notes that I usually received when I just started college and then it clicked.......

Flashback........
It was my second day of college after I met Emily the day before. We came to school together and we were very punctual that particular day. We had the same schedule since we were both studying accounting.
"Char hurry up, I wanna choose the best seat in class. Somewhere no one will be able to disturb me" Emily whined
"Ems we are practically the first set of students here this morning so stop whining and I wonder why you want to change seats. I am OK with my seat"
"But-
I cut her off roughly when I told her to go on without me since I was trying to find a good parking space.
She huffed and left me to go to our lecture room. It wasn't up to a minute when I heard my phone ringing.
I picked it up to hear Em screaming something I couldn't really hear. Emily is a bubbly person so almost everything gets her excited. I had to calm her down to hear her properly.
" Char, you have to come here right now, you really have to see this"
I quickly packed to see what got her excited this time around.
Getting to the class, on my table, I saw lots of flowers on the table with a note. Ignoring Em who was just saying I had a secret admirer over and over again, I picked the note and it said,
"You have a super cute smile and I think you are the most beautiful girl I have ever seen"
I gave the note to Em and looked around the classroom. There was no one around so who will this be from????
Day after day, I started receiving gifts from flowers and chocolates with little notes attached to them without knowing who it was. The last time it happened was when the note read "I am in love with someone who would never notice me"
.........flashback over

"That was you?" I asked completely stupefied "how did you expect me to know that? There was no name attached to your letters and you gave me absolutely no clue" I uttered completely mortified
Scratching the back of his head which I noticed was a sign of nervousness he said, "well, I actually thought you would notice, I have been in your class since day one and anytime you received those notes, I made sure to be nearby so when you didn't acknowledge me I thought you didn't want me"
"Let's just forget about the past and focus on the present, on us" I suggested
"Its cool by me"
And that's how we sat down enjoying our closeness until I remembered my dad and dinner. I checked the time and saw it was not too late. Reluctantly I informed Chris about it and that I needed to go and he drove me home but not before giving me another kiss.