The Moments With You

MEET AGAIN

Alec, who’s attention is now completely captivated by Mel, who walks up to the rooftop where he and Martina were, he is intensely staring at Mel’s who isn’t noticing him, then Martina who is still covered in tears, observes that Alec is frozen, his hands which held her hands just paused there, without even flinching, then she removed her hands from his, but Alec didn’t even notice it, in fact, his hand just stayed frozen in an obtuse manner.

Then, she raises her head, and with watery eyes, she looks up at Alec, who she caught looking like he saw an Angel falling from the sky, then she decided to find the Angel he was immensely staring at, then she looks in the direction he’s looking at and in less than a second, her eyes Land on a tall well dressed Man who looks young but gives off a mature vibe,

Then, she narrows her eyes to see the man better, because she wasn’t wearing her glasses or lens, she has Myopia, soon, she was finally able to adjust the focal length of her eyes after vigorously narrowing it, the blurry image of the tall man she saw became crystal clear and immediately she gasps and uses her hand to cover her mouth, allowing Alec, who’s eyes were tracing Mel as he walks to a corner on the rooftop, finanlly  directly his attention back to Martina,

“what! What is it” Alec says in shock, “you! You.” Martina says as she uses her left hand to cover her hand and her right hand to point at Alec with all vigor simultaneously, so many questionable thoughts ran through her head, but the one she wanted to know first and by any means was:

“why were you so immersed at the sight of Mel Mavis?” Martina asked incredulously, Alec’s heart skipped a beat when he heard her ask the question like that, but mostly because of how he heard the full name of the Person he wanted to see so much,

“ah… um… I...” Alec becomes instantly dumbfounded as he uses his hand to scratch his head, avoiding Martina’s gaze, trying to think of the Answer and realizes that he doesn’t know to.

“yeah, why do I always stare at him so much the second I see him” Alec thought as he wears a lost expression on his face, “yeah, I would like to know too” he replies Martina who become confused,

Then Alec thinks for a while, still wearing a lost expression, “maybe its because he’s beautiful and I can’t take my eyes off his beauty” Alec says in a weak tone, just loud enough for Martina to hear him as he stares distantly above her head,

On hearing Alec’s answer, Martina becomes sorely bewildered and it is clearly writing all over her face, then she looks back at the direction alec was looking so distantly at with a lost expression on her face and become dumbfounded when she see that the person he had his gaze on was Mel Mavis, then she slowly turs her head to face Alec,

Looking deeply into Alec’s eyes, with a solemn expression on her face, she asks him, “are. Are you in love with Mel Mavis?”

Alec, who was in a trance of his own as he stared at Mel was pulled back to reality in shock ,as his heart skipped a beat, his eye widen, and instantly he became all sweaty, he became a mute all of a sudden and remained like that for a few seconds,

“I- I… I’m…” Alec stammers as he still tries to avoid her unwavering gaze, but was interrupted by the sound of Martina’s phone ringing, but still he was thankful that he didn’t answer the question, “whoever just called her now, you have my deep gratitude. Your timing is impeccable” Alec lets out a sigh while he thought, as Martina’s attention is attracted by the phone call,

It turns out, the call was from Martina’s friend whose name is Marina Smith and she is her best friend, also in the same Major, and she called her to inform her that class was about to start.

When Martina was done with the call, she finally returns her attention back to Alec who was lost in his own thoughts, trying to figure out what exactly his feelings for Mel is.

When Martina sees him in his lost Expression Again, she lets out a deep sigh then says; “Alec, the second I take my eyes of you, you go about getting yourself in a trance. Right?” She asks Alec, bringing Alec back, “what are you, a Pieces?” Martina scoffs, “um. Yeah… is. That a bad thing?” Alec asks he sheepishly smiles

“no wonder, you lot are a band of daydreamer” she Exclaims “but… its not a bad thing at all” she added, as they walk down the stairway leading them out of the rooftop,

“let’s go to back, Class is about to start” she informs Alec

“Really. Sure” Alec replies her.

As Martina and Alec head back to class, they walked together in silence both of them had thought running through their mind but they didn’t want t talk to eachother about,

Martina is still bewildered by Alec attraction towards Mel Mavis, she understands that Mel Mavis is practically the jackpot but to be called beautiful, she wondered, “could a man really be described as beautiful” she asks herself then she recalls Alec’s exact words, “maybe its because he’s beautiful and I can’t take my eyes off his beauty” then the depts of the words make her heart shake, “no doubt, its either Alec is in love with Mel Mavis or he is seriously enthralled by him”, but Martina notices she feel more happier maybe its because she thinks Alec isn’t romantically Interested in Andrew, giving her a ray of hope even though she know that Andrew is Interested in Alec and it could break his heart if he finds out that Alec is interested In him, but still she feels a tingling in her heart at the thought that Alec isn’t interested in Andrew

Martina can’t help but glance at Alec and she smile, Alec on the other hand just has his head filled with Mel once again, “do I like him? Am I in love with him?  What was he doing on the roof top anyway? I think I saw Mr. Sidney with him too”. Alec asked himself question he did get the answers to.

A few minutes back, back to the time when Mel walked up to the rooftop, he was with Sidney, and they came up to take a smoke break as usual, Mel couldn’t see Alec who was staring at him because his mind was filled with thought of the conversation he had with his brother on that rainy night.

But Sidney caught Alec staring intensely at Mel, and he knows that look way more than anyone, still, he knows its not his place to inform Mel about it, “he has to do it by himself or just lock it up within him forever” Sidney lets out a deep sigh, which draws Mel’s Attention to him; by this time, they were already at the half built wall at the edge of,

“hey, what’s wrong are you okay” Mel ask in a caring manner

“forget me, you seem lost all day, tell me. Why did you want to go for a coffee break” Sidney became inquisitive, although, he had Questions of the other night, he wanted to know why he remembers he was drinking with Alec, then he wakes up in a blue room? but for some reason, he had to put his on hold, when he saw Mel’s face looking as distant as it could be as.

Mel looked at Sidney for a while before finally speaking; “you know I’ve been thing about what my brother said to me the other night, he-” Mel wasn’t able to complete his statement, Because as soon as Sidney hears Mel say he his brother his body became restless then he yelled “YOUR BROTHER…” but when he noticed his yell alarmed the people around him he lowered his voice but he was still restless, and his heart began to beat faster, “ …he was at your house that night to” he  vigorously questions Mel, “so it wasn’t a dream”  he thought as he dropped the Cigarette from his right hand and used both his hands  to cover his  mouth,

Sidney begins to have cold sweat; his eyes widens and he was almost trembling as he remembers that he had a dream of Ezekiel holding his hands and mutters something to him but he wasn’t able to hear him,

Mel saw the state Sidney was in and he begins to feel pity for him, his eyes dropped as he removed his sight from Sidney and was looking at the sky, and sadness was clearly written on his face as Alec’s face crosses his mind again,

“Does. homosexual relationships all never end well?” Ezekiel solemnly asked Sidney, Sidney’s heart was shaken with pain as he heard Mel’s question,

He knows his relationship with his brother isn’t really as pink colored as other relationships out there, so he also has that belief that homosexual relationships might not really end well, complied with all the challenges they have to go through along the way, but he knew Mel was on to something and maybe with Alec, and from the way he caught Alec staring so immensely at him, it meant that he was also interested in Mel,

“You see, Homosexual or Heterosexual, all relationships are the same, it’s just two people loving eachother…” Sidney started to talk to Mel, his face was sullen and he looked like he was about to cry, “…and it is a bed of roses…” a slight Smile appears on Sidney face, but he still looks more sad than happy,

“….but like all roses, it has thorns and I’d be lying if I told you to look at it through pink colored lenses, and it’s might be a little more challenging for us, because of the way the world views homosexuality and that could really drag you in to a hole of just darkness, but the feeling of holding or being held by the one person you are in love with is worth it all the way, even if its for just that moment, and when it becomes a memory cherish it forever” Sidney said as a comforting smile appears on his face while he face Mel and pats him on his back.

“all good things come to an end, and love is another good that just might as well” Sidney concludes.

“you still love my brother right” Mel asks Sidney,

Sidney hears this and opens his mouth, with his eyebrows raised and his eyes widens, as he gasps for air, but just when he was about to say something to Mel, the bell rings and that’s when he remembers he has a class,

“let’s- let’s continue this another time Mel. I- I’ve got to go” Sidney replies Mel without giving him an answer to his question,

The, he pats Mel on his shoulder, puts out his cigarette butt and leaves Mel alone on the rooftop, “I should go too, I have a class to take” Mel though as he takes a moment to take in the gentle wind that breeze through the rooftop. Then he follows Sidney Shortly after.

Martina and Alec came into the class, as soon as they entered, Andrew noticed them but waved only at Alec. Although, only Martina was able to notice it, because when Andrew waved, he was smiling and his eyes was only on Alec,

As soon as she noticed this, the joy she felt in her heart faded away like she never even felt it and was now occupied by bitterness, her head dropped as her face becomes sore, “why am I standing beside him, I’ve become invincible now” She thoughts as she grits her teeth.

Alec, who’s attention was already attracted by Andrew, got the ominous feeling that, Martina wasn’t in a good mood, “Martina, are you okay?” Alec asked her as he turned his head to face her,

“I-” Martina whose head face still faced down was interrupted by a call from Marina Smith, who called her from a seat that was two rows behind Andrew’s seat, “Tina! Tina, come up, I saved you a sit” Marina r said with her voice that was as thin as a child of 13 years old.

“I- I should go” Martina finally gave Alec an answer and left before him to join Marina, her voice sounded so dull and her gaze did meet Alec’s eyes, and Alec felt that wasn’t the answer to his question and he knew something was up.

Alec was still by the door of the Lecture room, when he felt a taller figure behind him. He looked back and it was Sidney standing him, he became all flustered,

“Mr. Sidney Whales… I’m sorry I didn’t see you there” Alec said to Sidney as he begins to have cold sweat,

“it’s okay, just. you know…” Sidney replies Alec as he gestures him to leave his front, with a gentle smile on his face.

Alec adhere his as well as understands his gesture and walks over to the second row, where his seat with Andrew is. Then Mr. Sidney Whales walks over to the podium in front of the lecture room, at its center to begin the Class, and as usual, he starts off with his greeting, composing himself like as if the melancholic moment at the rooftop never happened.

“Good Morning Kids, hope you had a better weekend that I did?” he asks the class with a smile on his face as well, the entire class laughs, Marina asks “now I would really like to know how your weekend went sir” then she continues to laugh with the class.

“BE QUIET” Sidney yell and eventually the class calms down, but giggling could still be heard at some corners of the class room. Then Sidney continues with the class.

“hey. How did it go with Martina… do you know why she’s mad at me” Andrew whispers to Alec. Alec gives him a sarcastic glance then faces his head back to Sidney who is now giving his lecture, then he whispers back to him, “you really are slow drew, maybe too slow”

“slow… at what?” Andrew becomes confused but Alec ignores him.

Soon Alec classes for the day were over but Andrew still had a class of about 3 hours and practice with the basketball club latter on, so Alec couldn’t wait for him and he head home by himself.

As he was going out the school, he sight Mel and Sidney by the gate and before he could even think, he rushes over to their side;

“Hi. Hi Mel its me… Alec” Alec says to Mel, then Mel gives his attention to him, gives him a cold glance before saying, “Do you always have to introduce yourself eveytime we meet” his voice sounded so cold it made Alec heart shiver with fear, “I’m sorry. I… I” Alec stammers not knowing what to say, as Mel’s reply already made him loose his edge

Mel see that Alec has nothing to say and he immediately walks out on him. Sidney who was there the whole time, was so confused at the way Mel answered Alec, but in actions and in words, he turns his head to looks at Alec who has disappoint written all over his face, the face forward and tries to catch up with Mel who has already gon far in front of him,

All his thoughts were filled with the words, which were; “but I thought they were close enough to be on first name basics ”.