I was a disaster in the PT classes. I had considerably big
boobs and it embarrasses me to go running with them. And the fact that the PT
class was co-ed distracts me more. While I was trying to escape the warm-up
routine, I heard the seniors at the door.
“Hello, Mr. Reed? Can we make an announcement?” Krystal, the
prettiest girl in senior year asked.
Mr. Reed nodded without a word and continued to write into
his notepad. That is when I saw him follow Krystal into the room. He was tall,
lean, and muscular. His blue eyes searched the room randomly and he took a deep
breath to start talking
“Good evening. I am Christian, your head boy. I would like
to…” I did not hear a word of what he said. I was way busy appreciating his
perfect features. It was not the first time I was seeing him. He comes home a
lot for my brother. Also, his father and mine are business partners. Their
family comes home during Thanksgiving or New Year parties. Sadly, I never try
to talk to him because I know he can never like me back. There is no point of
building hope and finally watch all your dreams collapse. I shook my head and
blocked him while he continued to make the announcement.
Things changed after I came across a Facebook post.
If you like my post, I
will make a confession in your Inbox. Put this as your status and I will like
it back. Then you have to make a confession too!
I thought it was interesting and copied her post to my wall.
Many of my friends liked it and I made confessions. What I did not expect is
Christian to like the post. My heart skipped a beat when I saw his name in the
notifications. He graduated out of school and I don’t see him much anymore. We
live in two different cities because of his college. So, what if I tell him I liked
him? It’s not like he’d come and hit me if this goes wrong.
“Hey” I sent him my first Facebook message.
“Hello, Serena. Where is my confession? J “He sent back.
After contemplating for a long time, I replied.
“Christian, I like you. I know you are the most popular guy
of school. You play basketball and steal the show with your guitar. You dated
some of the best looking girls in the city and you are a Greek God in the looks
department. I know I am just an ordinary girl who struggles to submit her
assignments on time. I have no social life and the only party I ever attended
was my best friend’s birthday party when she was 10. I am undoubtedly fat and
lazy. And look at you. You can never be mine. But I can’t get over you either.
I guess that is my confession. Sorry.”
He did not reply. When I was about to log off, I got a
message.
“I always thought you were cute ;) But your brother would have killed me if I
proposed to his sister. So, I was scared to talk to you. Haha, you are
not fat. And if you think you are fat, we can always run on the beach and steal
some kisses in between. Will you go on a date with me when I come back?”
Surprisingly, a
Facebook post played cupid between us. When he returned for holidays, we
went on our first date and it was magical. Our families found out we were in a
relationship and they were happy about it. After we were done with college, we
had a grand church wedding. We stay together in California now. After 9 years
of togetherness, it still feels unbelievable. My own life story is an example of an unexpected fairy tale. No one expected the extraordinary Head Boy
to fall head over heels for the ordinary Nerd. Sometimes, you just have to
speak your heart out. Otherwise, you never know what you will be losing.
