Finding You

HER NAME

Four hours after all that traumatic experience, Flight QR1211 was rescheduled and finally landed at Xi State.

However, Enoch wasn't able to forget how that 5 foot 8, Flight Attendant looked at him. It was as if she wanted to tell him something. Her deep blue eyes and ginger hair make her stand out in the crowd. Her smile brightens the mood but her exotic voice dominates the people around her.

Her light makeup didn't hide her freckles from her right cheek across her small pointy nose to her left cheek, and that thin heart-like lips that he wanted to kiss. "To kiss?" Enoch chuckled a little when he thought about kissing Nuala's lips.

"Sir, excuse me, is there a problem?" asked the flight attendant with a small smile on her lips. Enoch looked around only to see that he was the only one left inside the cabin.

He just gave the lady his signature cold gaze with a nod before unbuckling his seatbelt. He was so lost in his thoughts that he didn't even notice that all the passengers left the cabin. He shook his head but when Nuala's face popped into his mind again, he smiled. He stood up to get his bags and left. "Iceberg. So cold." said the blonde flight attendant.

He didn't miss what she said but he ignored it.

As he was walking through the passenger boarding bridge, he suddenly remembered something. It wasn't his luggage he forgot, but Nuala's contact details.

Taking one step forward and two steps back, battling whether to go back to see her or not. After a few seconds of thinking, he decided to go back, but before he could walk near the plane, he came across the attendant who called him "Iceberg".

"Hi, sir. Did you leave anything behind?" she asked in surprise.

Enoch scratched the back of his neck to hide his embarrassment before talking, "No, actually, is Miss Nuala still there?"

The woman smiled, "Oh, I'm sorry. She already left. Do you need anything from her?"

His shoulders dropped, 'I knew it.' he told himself. "No. Never mind." He said, then he left without looking at the woman; Enoch didn't want anyone to see him a little dejected.

Enoch arrived at his father's house 2 hours after he left the airport. It was a simple four-bedroom, two-floor bungalow house with a garage and a small garden. His father has kept his mother's mini garden even if she had passed for nearly a decade.

Thinking of how much love his parents had for each other made him smile. He shook his head in amazement when he found his father planting white roses, his mother's favorite. 'After all these years, he's still doing the promise he said to his mother.' he thought.

"Hi dad.." he crouched down to meet his father's eye level.

Henry Smith, his father didn't look at him but replied, "How was your trip?" Wearing a brown gardening apron, a pair of brown gloves with a small garden shovel in his right hand while the flower is in the other hand.

Enoch brushed off the usual emotion he felt when he remembered the unfortunate event that happened earlier but smiled a little when he remembered Nuala's face. "Dad, I met a girl today and this one is different." He said, helping his father to steady the rose bush.

Henry looked at him in disbelief, "How many times have you said that?"

Enoch, saying those words was nothing new to his father, in fact, he has had two girlfriends in the past, and he also has said those words but both didn't end well.

The first one was when he was 20, it was when he got into the military. They broke up because it was a long-distance relationship.

The second one lasted about 2 years but the woman got pregnant by someone else, it happened when he was 25.

Now Enoch was 30 yet he still says those words. "No, I'm serious, Dad. Nuala's different."

"How is she different?" his father asked, picking up the gardening tools laying on the ground. By this time, they are done planting roses.

"We met in an unusual way.." Then Enoch started telling his father about the hijacking fiasco, how Nuala cared about humanity and how she offered legal help to the perpetrator.

Then and only then does Henry understand how "this girl" is different from the other women his son has met. It seems like Enoch has found the girl version of himself. But something is odd about "this girl" or maybe he's just thinking too much.

A few hours later, the father and son duo had their dinner and talked a lot about Enoch's training and about his father, Henry's new literature book.

His father is a well-known romanticist, author, and Literature professor. He has written 8 books in total, 4 about European literature, 3 romantic novels, and a book that no one has ever seen except, Beetha, his wife.

Enoch's mother, Beetha asked Henry if she could read that book as her death wish. Whatever was written on it, only they know.

It was already 10 in the evening when Enoch went to his room. There, he turned on his personal computer and searched for a name. With the keyboard tapping sounds, he typed the name he was looking for. "Nuala Kawolski.." he mumbled.

Since he wasn't sure about the spelling of her name, he almost gave up until he saw a photo of a little red-haired girl with deep blue eyes standing in a healthy vineyard.

He clicked that photo and he stumbled upon an article dated 11 years back, with the title "The Simple Princesses: The Simple Multi-Billionaire Daughter of Enya Riggs". Then he started reading the article silently.

There he saw some photos of Nuala when she was 5 years old riding a bike with ribbon laces, her smile was pure and innocent. When she was 11, holding a bouquet of Baby's Breath flowers, when she celebrated her 16th birthday, and when she graduated college.

The more he sees her pictures, the more he falls for her.

One of the paragraphs in Nuala's mother's interview says, "People say that princesses tend to grow up entitled, but I say, it depends on how you guide them. My husband and I wanted her to grow upright, nice, and kind to everyone because we don't know what kind of struggles other people are dealing with."

"So she was brought up by her parents just like the way her parents were brought up." Then something hit Enoch, "So she's not only a rightful person, but she's also a princess. I wonder..."

Enoch was too consumed by reading the article about Nuala's mother and looking at her photos, he didn't hear that someone opened the door behind him. "What's up!" said the man behind him.

He jolted in surprise and accidentally closed the browser. "Hey! You startled me!"

The man laughed as if Enoch said a funny joke. "You looked so funny! What are you doing?"

"Nothing!" he exclaimed.

"Come on, I understand. Women are not allowed in your workplace so I totally get it." the man mockingly said.

"f**k off!" he whispered, fearing that their father might hear them.

"Is this how you greet your older brother? You know I missed you," he said. That man was Flynn, Enoch's twin brother; he's 15 seconds older than Enoch.

Even if the two were identical, people can still clearly distinguish who is who as Enoch has a rugged, rough, and tough image with a cold and snappy personality, while Flynn on the other hand was the clean-cut, neatly dressed, goofy with easy to get along with persona.

But despite it, there's one similar thing between them, they are both animal lovers.

These two may have a love and hate relationship but got along well when they reached adulthood. Enoch pursued his dream to serve their country while Flynn became a Veterinarian, he put up his own animal clinic and helped a local organization to rescue animals.

And one more thing, they had fallen in love with the same girl when they were 16 years old but neither of them got the chance because the girl went after the president of their student council.

Because of that, they've promised each other that they will never fall in love with the same girl, ever again.