The Moments With You

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“what the hell happened last night?” Alec groans as he staggers down the hallway in the architecture block of Milford University, with his eyes full of dark circles, “I couldn’t sleep a wink last night” he thought as he folds his left hand into a fist then uses it to gentle rub his eyes.

Alec couldn’t sleep a wink the other night, his mind was filled with what Martina proposed to him, earlier that day. As he walks down the hallway, slowly gaining balance, he recalls;

“I know you’re in love with Mel Mavis. Right?” Martina smirks, making a face that clearly reads, *I got you now*

Alec stares blankly at her, he was shocked at the word she used to describe what he felt Mel, and he wasn’t really sure he could call it that.

“Hey! Wake up, Earth to Alec… Earth to Alec, requesting for Alec’s return to Earth please” Martina sarcastically calls Alec, while snapping her fingers, she was about to clap, but Alec claps her hands together, giving her a dull look, “I wasn’t that far into it, I… I was just a little shocked, that… that’s all” he stutter’s a little.

Martina paused a while, staring at Alec’s hands which held hers, not giving Alec a reply, she was a little taken aback by how soft and slender Alec’s hands were, “Is he really male?” she asks herself. Soon, her eyes move away from Alec’s hands, meetings Alec’s eyes, who was looking at her, wondering why she stared at his hands like that,

“Is there something on my hand? Or maybe she isn’t comfortable with it”

Alec became flustered, as they made eye contact, the air around them became awkward. Alec and Martina stylishly released their hands simultaneously, though, in a haste.

Alec eyes roamed around the entire locker room, but somehow avoided Martina’s eyes. Same with Martina. Ironically, that was the exact time l she decided it was a good to give the locker room a thorough inspection and observation, as she springs up from the bench, she, herself, asked Alec to sit with her.

As Martina was opening and closing random lockers, Alec took it upon himself to break the awkward tension between them, and most importantly, he was eager to see where this conversation with her will lead to.

“uhm… Martina…”

“Ah! Yes…were you really just a little shocked” Martina forced a grin on her face, attempting to change the topic,

“Well… yeah… yeah I was” Alec replied her, still avoiding her gaze. “Well that was definitely weird” both Alec and Martina thought simultaneously.

“Anyway…” Martina starts, continuing the initial topic of their coming there; “…I think you like Mel Mavis, no! I know you are in love with Mel Mavis and I can help you with your love life”, “said the girl who has been in love with a guy for two years with no result, whatsoever? Martina concluded with a thought

“Well, I’m not really sure Its love you should call it but…”

“But What…. Hmm? Then it’s what?” Martina asks ridiculously “well you know what they say… denial is acceptance” she concludes even though she was half sure she was rambling nonsense.

“Denial is acce…” Alec mutters after her, trying to decipher how that makes sense.

“Anyway, I’m gonna help you, just leave it to me” and with that, Martina tossed him out of her mother’s café as soon as she ended the conversation with him.

“It’s all her fault I’m like this”, Alec grumbles as he recollected what happened the pervious day as he continued his journey to the lecture room half awake.

“Ah! I need coffee asap” Alec sighs as he made his way to a vending machine he spots in front, by the right wall side of the narrow corridor with his half open eyes.

As he was making his order for the coffee, he just decided to look around, while he waits for the vending machine to roll down his cold coffee can, then he spots a black haired, tall figure, who’s side view resembles that of Mel Mavis, but only for a split second.

Immediately, his half open eyes became widely open and he didn’t need the coffee again, he was about to run after the person he saw, so he could confirm, but he was held back by the arm, by another arm.

He impulsively turns to see who held him and was prepared to give the person and earful, but he refrains from doing so when he sees that it's Martina and she has an ear to ear smile on her face.

“What the f**k Martina, I was in the middle of something you know… this better be good” Alec says with an indifferent expression on his face, as he forcibly releases his arm from Martina’s grip.

“Wow Alec” Martina starts, covering her mouth in excitement, it was so obvious that underneath her hands was a really suspicious grin, as her eyes forms the shape of a horizontal crescent moon.

“First, you really sound the opposite of how you look you know, I mean the tone of your voice matches your face, but the words that come out from your mouth is really something, I thought you were polite to a fault” Martina finally uncovers her mouth.

The curly haired girl, walks closer to him, taps him on the shoulder an says to him in a low tone, “secondly, that figure you saw… really was Mel Mavis” she smirks as she feeds her eyes with the view of Alec’s bewildered face, savoring the feeling of being on top.

After a few seconds of thought, Alec finally comes to his senses then says without taking a single breath, “Then, why didn’t you let me go after him, if you knew.”

“And let you humiliate yourself, I’m not sure about that, if you weren’t seeing clearly, he was going out of our block, meaning he has a class” Martina informed him.

“Yeah, I really wasn’t seeing clearly though”, “a class? What is he majoring in?” he questioned

“Majoring?” Martina burst into laughter, “he’s not majoring in anything, he’s a lecturer”

“What?” Alec couldn’t believe his ears, he was so surprised he jolted, “but he-”

“He looks so young, I know; anyway, you really don’t know anything about your crush though” Martina nods her head in affirmation.

As Martina and Alec were talking, they didn’t know when Marina joined them. Unfortunately for them, Marina eavesdrops on what the were talking about and when there is gossip, there is Marina Smith.

“Crush? What crush” Marina became intrigued. With the way blonde long hair girl popped out of nowhere, behind Martina, both her and Alec were frightened.

“s**t! Marina, I told you, don’t ever come in unannounced” Martina scolded her as she held her chest tightly and Alec wasn’t exempted as he was literally gasping for air “s**t I thought my heart was gonna drop” he thought as he gives Marina cold stares.

The second Marina catches his eyes, she didn’t see the cold stares Alec was giving her, “how can a boy be this beautiful”. Marina kept staring blankly at Alec, observing and getting herself mesmerized by Alec’s appearance, for the first time in forever, she completely forgot about the gist she wanted to learn from them.

Martina notices how Alec was starting to look uncomfortable, taking short glances occasionally behind her, placing it back on her then moving it somewhere else, basically his eyes were everywhere and it became really hard to get his attention.

So, Martina decides to see what’s going on behind her, and turns to find her best friend staring vigorously at Alec like a zombie that just found fresh brains for dinner.

Martina cringes “you’re about to drool zombie” she hits Marina hard on her shoulder.

“owwie! Why’d you hit me” Marina came back to herself but she’s cries of pain, while she held her paralyzed shoulder,

Martina rolls her orbs tiredly before replying, “did you hear what I just said?”

“Yeah, I did” Marina replies innocently,

“so, what was it?”

“Did you hear what I just said” Marina naively replies.

Martina heaved a sigh, “she’s gone”

simultaneously Alec chuckles, once again letting Marian catch a glimpse of his bright smile, “how can a man smile so beautifully, wait! Is he even a dude?”

While Marina was still caught up in her own thoughts, Martina heads to the lecture hall while Alec follows her, but Marina still remains, standing by the vending machine, day dreaming about a guy that just left her presence.

As Alec followed Martina, he kept on taking occasional glances at Marina, wearing the worried expression on his face, and then staring back at Martina,

Martina gets uncomfortable and decides to do something about it, “Alec, if you wanna say something, spite it out now” she commands Alec without even taking a glance at him,

“Okay, well... first, I’m not sure you have the right to speak to me like that, we are in the same year… how old could you possibly talk like that” Alec replies her, he was a little worked up with the way she spoke to him,

Martina grins as she finally placed her gaze on Alec’s face which looks a little cold, “You know, I’m a year older than Andrew and he’s older than you, so you're smart … you do the math”

“Then that means you’re twenty o-” Alec answers her but he was shunned by Martina as she said, “hey! You never say or ask a woman her age, you hear me boy”

“Uhm… yes. Ma’am” Alec was a little surprised but he shrugged it off, “anyway, are you just gonna leave your friend there like that?” Alec questions, while pointing to Marina, who is still day dreaming, 2 meters behind them.

Marina sighs, “don’t worry about her, she’s one of your kind, the dreamers, when she wakes up, she’ll find her way” Martina sounded relaxed and even looks relaxed, she just walked on, but Alec wasn’t, he was a lot more confused than worried.

Alec narrows his eyes as he tilts his head, pondering on what she meant by his kind and dreamer. Then, less than half a minute later, he gasps in realization,

“You! Do you mean she’s also Pisces?” Alec interrogates her, but Martina just scoff and walked ahead of him.

Soon, they got to the class, but just in time before the lecturer walks in.

Andrew sights Alec the second he walks in and waves at him from the middle seat of the second row in the lecture hall, but once again, he fails to see Martina who was just standing beside Alec, and Martina was delusional again to think Andrew’s wave was actually meant for her.

Martina felt invisible, standing beside Alec. She grits her teeth and walks away from Alec without saying a word to him, that was when Andrew noticed movement of another figure. He finds out its Martina, but when he tries to wave at her, he hesitates, hanging his hand in mid-air for a second, before folding his finger into a loose fist and then withdrawing it as he remembers what happened between them.

Alec notices this and feels the awkward vibe they are giving off. He glance at Andrew who has his sad eyes fixed on Martina, before dart his glances at Martina who has her head faced down as she solemnly walked to the back seat on the same row where Andrew was seated. Till Martina got to her sit, Andrew’s eyes never wavered from her, he didn’t even know when Alec positioned himself beside him.

“if you’re so worried about her, I think talking to her will do way more than just watching her take her seat” Alec advised Andrew.

“I don’t know man, Tina’s quite a case you know” Andrew laments.

“Believe me, I know.” Alec also laments, and they sigh simultaneously.

Soon the lecturer walks into the lecture hall, and the first thing he does is, pick up a marker and writes Geometry. Then he starts to introduce himself, “I’m Mr. Gregory, Hi-” but he couldn’t complete his introduction as he was interrupted by the sound of Marina recklessly opening the one of the lecture hall’s door.

“I’M HERE, I’M HERE” she yells as she darted up to sit beside Martina. The moment she was comfortably seated, she noticed how the whole class was staring at her, so she apologized publicly to everyone, but with gestures.

In less than a moment, the whole class, including the Lecturer removed their attention from her and the continued with the class.

Marina moves his lips so close the Martina's ear, asking in whispers, “why did you leave me like that… and who’s that boy, he’s so handsome, no handsome is an understatement, he’s beautiful, do you know him well, is he you friend, can I have his num-”

“Forget about it, he’s GAY” Martina cuts Marina with her tone sounding as cold as ice.

“What?” Marina bright and energetic expression rapidly turns gloomy with bewilderment and disappointment.