One Fine Day
I think about something in my mind, the beginning of this story of me and her.
“Happy Birthday and have a great moment yeah!” she said to me.
I read it from my Facebook inbox that day. I wonder who this girl is. Later then I added her as my friend. Her name is Adrianna and she was there on my birthday party but I did not realize her. Then, we chit-chatting and commenting each other in my birthday photo gallery.
Now, it had been a month since I know her. Everything happens on my birthday, while my friends were celebrating my party in the students’ park in our residential college. She was the ‘photographer’ that night and she was the one who took all our pictures. Plus, she was the one who upload the photo and I put them all in my photo gallery. I could not stop myself from thinking about her. The truth is, we are getting close to each other since that night.
“Adham, you seem like having affair with that girl aren’t you?” asked Zam, one of my best friend when I dropped in their room.
Then G his roommate interrupting and added, “Yeah! That’s true, I know you both commenting each other again last night. Like only both of you exist in that photo and Facebook world.”
They try to make a scandal between me and Adrianna.
“Hey, not only last night lah. It started since his birthday lah! Remember?” said Zam to G.
But, I just laugh and said, “No. Nothing lah! She is just friend like others too.”
Then we went out to have lunch in “Azura” one of our most visited restaurants since we started studying here in The National University of Malaysia. Tonight as usual we will come again to watch football match between Manchester United and Liverpool. Oh, you cannot tell how much I love Manchester! There, we ate and after finishing our foods we went back to our room.
“Don’t forget tonight at eight sharp!” said Zam to me. I just nodded at him and smile.
In my room, I did some ‘cleaning’ then I open my laptop and online. My mind keeps thinking of someone, and I waited her to online. There she is, I wanted to have some more chit chat with her.
“Assalamualaikum. Hai there!” I started.
Then she replied, “ Waalaikumussalam. Hello, how are you?”
“I’m great. Thank You Adrianna! You are so concern.” I replied.
“Just make words to started conversation lah!” then she laugh.
I added, “So naughty. What are you doing tonight Adrianna? Busy?”
“Not as busy as you I guest? Just doing assignments and then went to lala land. By the way, I have told you to just call me Ana, okay?” she said.
“Okay Ana. Can we have some more chit chat tonight?” I asked her.
“Yeah sure. Buzz me when you are around. Okay. Bye Adham,” she answered me.
“I will. Bye Ana,” I replied her and smile in happiness.
I really cannot wait for tonight, I hope the football match will be so awesome and then I will have an awesome moment with this girl too. She is someone so different with other girls. What is so special about her until I keep thinking about her since I know her? I cannot explain by myself. I just feel something different. But then, something interrupts my day dreams. I have got a phone call from my ex girlfriend, Hani. We just broke up about two months ago. I wonder why she is still haunting me.
“Yes.” I answered her called.
“Hai. How are you? Can we meet somewhere? Please,” she asked me.
I said, “No. Don’t bother. I won’t see you again.”
She started to cry and begging me, “Please, it won’t be long. Just meet for a few minutes only.”
“Could you stop crying? Where? What time?” I asked her back.
“Right now. In the students park. I promised you it won’t be long,” she said.
“Okay. Now,” I said and cut the called.
Then I walked to the park, she is there already. This girl is the one who had hurt my heart a lot until I do not want to see her face ever again. I wish I never knew her before. I really don’t like to hear her crying like that on my face while I done nothing bad to her. What am I? A hungry monster who will eat you alive? You are the guilty one, but you make people thinks that the truth was you are the victim of a man like me. You twist the truth about the ending of our relationship story. What a great story maker and what an annoying person you are!
“What do you want?” I asked her without she could say anything.
"I never want to see your face ever again!" I said to Hani without even looking at her face. I was so angry after what she did to me and still angry.
"I am sorry. I know it was my fault and I should not do that. Please forgive me my dear. I will never do it again. Could you give me another chance please?" she keep asking me for apologizes.
"Our relationship was over. You have no more chance. I will never believe you anymore because everything that happened between us now started because of you. Just forget me and find someone else okay. Good bye." I said to her again. Then, I just walked away without looking back and left her alone crying in regret.
I went to my room and have some shower. They I pray Asar and sleep for a while to rest my mind until Maghrib. After done the prayer, I get ready to go to Azura again for the football match. I waited for Zam and G to come to my room. They are always late.
“Don’t forget tonight at eight sharp!” I recall what Zam said to me before.
“You forget it by yourself, so you should remind yourself Zam,” I thought about it in my head and just smiling. Then they come and we went to the place by Zam’s car. Tonight we had another company, Mamat who is also in our group. Actually,we have a group called “The Ninja”. Only we know about it and it was so funny that we had group with girls too. I just realized that Adrianna is also one of our group members. What a co-incidence.
“You see. Our friend is always smiling alone now. Have you become crazy or there is someone dancing in your eyes now hah Adham?” G said to me.
Then Zam added, “Ya lah. When we talked to you also you didn’t hear us. Feels like punching straight to your nose.”
Then they laugh. Mamat also interrupts and said, “Hey! Don’t disturb him lah. Adrianna is dancing in his eyes now and calling him.”
Then they laugh more and more. But I just smile and ignore them. This people really cannot stop talking about me. However, I did not mind at all. They know my entire story because we are best friends since our first year in this university even we all are studying in different courses and from different faculty. About me and Hani, nothing they missed. They always will to be with me no matter what happened to me. I love them so much!
We just arrived at Azura and sit at one of the corner there and we had ordered for our food. While waiting for our foods, Zam said something that caught my ears, and I pay attention for that.
“It’s ok what? She is a nice girl. I don’t really know her personally. But I know she is a nice girl.” I saw G and Mamat nodded as if they were agree with what Zam said.
“Ya lah. You also are single now. It’s not a problem to try and find someone else. Make sure you find someone better and be serious lah. At least you can forget Hani and be happy and normal again,” said G.
“We will always supported you man! That what friends should be right?” Zam added.
Mamat was just nodding because he always did not talk much like the others.
Then, they stop talking about her. Suddenly, Zam starts singing in low tones. I heard his baits like, “Oh my Adrianna, my Ana darling, my dear, my Ana.” Then G and Mamat followed what he did. G becomes Zam’s backup singer, while Mamat acted as if he is a drummer and he tapping the table. I just sit in silence and watched them. Feels like punching them all. After finishing their ‘performance’ they looked at me and smile with full meanings. Me, as usual just smiling and ignore what they did.
There our foods are, serving by the waiter. At least it could stop their naughtiness. We ate our food and have some conversations after that. But luckily they did not mention about Adrianna again. Not long after that, the football match started and we shouted for our favorite team in each excite moments. At the end, the result is 2-1, which the winner was my Manchester.
Then we went back to our place, I mean our room. It’s the time I have been waiting for. I online and find her name to make sure her online status. I buzz her as I said I will before.
“Assalamualaikum. Hai Ana,” I started.
“Waalaikumussalam. Hello Adham,” she replied.
“What’s up? Busy with assignments?,” I asked her to make sure I did not disturb her.
“Nope. Finished already. Just online and had some chat with friends,” she said.
I felt something and asked, “Friends or boyfriend?”
She laugh via words and said, “No lah. All my girl friends only. I’m single okay?”
I feel relief, and smile. Then I added, “Seriously, are you still single?”
“Yup. I am. Why did you ask me that?” she asked me too.
“Just want to know about it. I do not want to get punch by your boyfriend if he knows I am chatting with you,” I told her.
Then she said, “No worries. No punch from anyone. Or I supposed to be worried if later your girlfriend will attack me in the café and I might had ‘curry mee’ as wig on top of my head huh?”
Suddenly I laugh when reading her words. She is fun and cute. All she did was always pleasant to me. I really feel that I am in love with her. I never experience these feelings even with my ex-girlfriend before. She had my heart already and suddenly I remember what Zam and others had told me. Then I realized that it was true. Why shouldn’t I try, because it was not a crime at all to fall in love when you just broke up two months ago. I think that I should grab this chance, because all I could think right now is always about her.
“Ana, are you free tomorrow in the afternoon?” I asked her to look for the chance.
“Yup. Definitely I’m free but until 2 0’clock only. I have class after that. Why?” she asked me back.
“Shall we meet tomorrow around 12.30pm in the café? Will you?” I ask her again.
“Erm. Okay. But I am a bit nervous because we never meet face to face before,” she said.
“I am, too. Seriously you don’t mind to meet me tomorrow?” I asked for conformation.
“Yeah. I’m okay. Well, see you tomorrow. Good night Adham,” says Ana.
“Okay. Good night. Sweet dreams Ana,” I wish her.
Feel like telling her “I want to chat more with you and I fall in love with you.” But, I just cannot do that. So, I keep it in my mind. I need to plan something nice for tomorrow. But I do not know how. I really don’t know how to say something so beautiful. Maybe, I just will straight to the point. I will express my feeling to her tomorrow when I meet her for lunch.
I keep questioning in my head, “How if she refuses me? Will she accept me? She did say that she is nervous for tomorrow. What does that mean? Did she feel the same like me?” I cannot even close my eyes tonight. I could not stop thinking about her. Adrianna, how special you are to me.
I wake up at 10.30 in the morning, luckily I did not have any classes today. After shower, I clean my room and preparing for my date this afternoon.
When it’s the time, I went to the café and sit in one of the ‘table for two’ there. I do not want anyone to interrupts while I am with Ana. I waited for her in nervous.
“Assalamualaikum.” A girl greets me from my back. I turn my head to her, and there she is. So beautiful and looks polite with the baju kurung. I answered her and asked her to sit with me. Her face looks red because she was shy, and she did not look at my face at all. I think she looks funny that way, but also cute.
“Let’s have our food and have some conversation after this,” I told her.
“Okay,” she agrees with me.
Then we go and take our lunch, after I paid than we sit back at our table. I treat her for today, because I wanted to do so. We eat without talking so much, I realized that she was a shy girl.
“Thank you Adham. Next time, it is my turn to treat you,” she said after finishing her food.
“It’s okay. This is what I really wanted to do,” I told her and smile.
She smiles back at me. I love to see her smiling like that. I love her. We talked about a lot of things and have fun together even just ‘dating’ at the café. She is good in making jokes.
Then I know that I have to start telling her about my feeling. It was something that was not so easy to say. But, at least I will try to confess her my feelings.
“Ana, actually I have something to tell you,” I started.
“Oh. Yeah, just tell me Adham,” she said.
Then I look deep inside her eyes, and she look at me too. Like some strength comes to me, so I said, “I like you since the first time I knew you on Facebook. You are so cute, fun, and I always happy when I am with you. But now, it was changed. Now, I fall in love with you Adrianna. You are someone special to me. Will you be mine?”
She looks deep in my eyes and looks like so surprise, then she looks down and her face looks red again. Blushing I guest. Maybe she never imagined that I will said that to her this afternoon. It might be so sudden to her. I feel something like ‘despair’ in my heart. But, I did not show it to her. Few moments we are in silent, before she started to looks at me again.
“Adham. This is so fast. I don’t know what to say. But, actually, I also like you,” she said.
“So, will you accept me?” I asked her again. Then I looked at her straight to her eyes. She just smiling, but then nodded her head.
“Yeayyyyyy!!!” I shouted happily without even realized where I am that time. I can see everyone looks at me and Ana. I don’t care at all because I feel so happy of her acceptance.
“Thank you Adrianna. I love you. And I will always love you my girlfriend,” I told her.
But she still looks around because people still looked at us after I shouted. She seems shy and when she looks back at me, I saw her smile.
“Well. I need to go now. I’ve class after this. See you later boyfriend,” she said.
“Keep in touch yeah! I’ll wait for you. Take care girlfriend,” I wish her.
Then she left, and I went back to my room. This was the best day in my life! One fine day, it happens when I first connect with her on my birthday night. But, today was the greatest day! She is the best thing that ever happens to me. I love you Adrianna!
(2751 words)
(C) Nurul Farhana. 2011. All Right Reserve.
