Chapter one(part two)

     Tiara sat down in a an empty table at a corner of the hall. She wanted to spend time here and avoid telling her younger brothers that her date didn't show up,she didn't want to get sorry looks and pitiful treatments from her family. she mumbles to herself "who sits alone on Valentine's day?" 

         "Us,I guess" . Thomas Thompson sits with  Tiara, a nineteen years old college student who could pass excellently for a basketball player, dark ebony skinned accompanied by a small pink lips. Tiara doesn't like talking to strangers especially in parties like this because most of them could turn out to be perverts but she hated the loneliness she was feeling now. She smiled at him and prepared to have a decent chat with him.

           "Did you get rejected by your date on your date night?" She took the apple flavoured drink on the table,she didn't feel like tasting it though but she did. Thomas introduces himself to her,she didn't know why his name and surname matched but it was funny to her,she laughed while Thomas nodded his head telling her to go ahead laughing since he was used to hearing people laughing about his name. He told her he came with his little sister and her date.

             "Did you really have to follow them?" She asked

            "My sister wanted me to" He laughs for no reason.

             Tiara told him he could have said no if he wanted to but he said she insisted on him following her to the party. She said she wouldn't have followed her brothers if they asked her to.

            "Can I pour this juice on your face" Her out of the blue question surprised him,his expressionless face made her quickly think of how to explain things.

          "Not that you made me angry,I just....I just wanted to,I mean..not on you really but the Jerk who made me come and never showed up" she said trying to loosen the atmosphere between them.

         "Why never? Don't you think he can still come? The party isn't over yet" Thomas said smiling,if only he knew what his good dentition did to Tiara's tummy when he smiles. When he smiles,the one million butterflies in her stomach became active,happily flying around and tickling her. She didn't have any feelings for Kyle's cousin but it was still sad that he didn't show up because she was somehow craving for attention.

        "He isn't coming. I'm feeling offended right now, he said I was pretty and this is how to treat a pretty girl" she sighs and brings out a mirror from her bag. She asks him if she's pretty but he didn't answer her question or perhaps his smiled did,well one can never trust the smiles. She wished she never asked,she couldn't understand why she was being a talkative person,that wasn't how she behaved to strangers.

       "I guess cool romantic guys would have allowed you to pour the juice on them if that relieves your stress? Guess I'm not cool." Tiara kept regretting her question,she shouldn't have asked that stupid question,she thought to herself. Their attention gets stolen by a couple on the dance floor,their intense rhythmic slow dance,they kiss while dancing.

          "Isn't that like too much" Thomas asks. His eyes seems to be working differently from his mouth

        "Why don't you ask me to dance with you?" Tiara asks him. She shouldn't have sat down in this party when Fred said he wasn't coming, because now she suddenly wants someone to be affectionate to her,seeing everyone with a partner,she can't help herself from being jealous.

       "I'm sorry,I'm a very bad dancer or will you be my teacher for this night?" He smiled

            " I'm not a good dancer neither, why did you sit with me?" She asked. He said he didn't have a reason for sitting with her,he was searching for the perfect place to sit when he heard  her mumbled. Tiara started laughing at her stupidity, she just got stood up by one guy and here she was thinking this guy likes her. She always got remarks for being pretty,but how come she never dated anyone throughout high school,then she was fine with it but this night,she is having a lot of wishes. Questions like "am I really pretty" are swimming in her thoughts

         "I guess we can pass as a couple this evening" He said

         "This is not how a couple looks like,this isn't how I thought of this night. I mean,I've never get to celebrated Valentine's day with someone that loves me!"

      "Your family loves you" He said that like a little joke but nobody laughed, he got what she meant but to him spending valentines day with your family is always full of love too.

          "You get what I'm saying, it's not about my family. But it's fun,its fun seeing my twin brother's get gifts for me on every Valentine's day and birthdays but I've never felt like this before or told someone this,suddenly this night I'm feeling so lonely. I don't want to get home and tell my brothers that my date didn't show up."

       "Well,I showed up and being with you is spending my time in a lovely way. I really want to ask you to a dance but I'm a very bad dancer. When next we go on a date on Valentine's day,I'll be a better dancer by then" he said. His words somehow consoled Tiara,at one point her inner self wanted a kiss from him but she held herself. Kissing him for the first time she saw him would make her a wild girl,she thought.

              "Do you think we could see again,maybe you're just someone I am meant to see for just a day,today. Don't you think so?" She asks him.

      "Do you believe in destiny and fate?"

         "What do you mean?" 

        "I mean what is meant to be,will be." 

           The two sat down talking about people's dressing and couples. He told her about him being a fresher in the college,she showed amusement because she was about getting in. She listens as he spoke about how life in the college was. They were still talking about college when Kyle came,she shyly pulls Tiara close to herself and drags her away,before leaving she asks Thomas to excuse her for a minute. Her giggling were a little bit irritating to Tiara.

            "Why do keep giggling?" Tiara asked.

       "Nothing, how did you catch the cute boy?"

   "Seriously you ain't asking me that question" Tiara replies.

"Awnnnnn,he's just so cute"

"Why did you pull me here? Don't tell me it's to ask about that boy." Tiara says.

         Tiara returns to the party smiling but Thomas was no longer sitting at the table,it was as if he never sat there before. She searched around the party for him but she didn't find him so she left the party. As she walks home, she thought about it,if Thomas was just an angel of love sent to her to console her about her rejection but she laughs at her imagination since she wasn't the only one that saw him. She thought of searching for him in the internet and social media but she felt it was weird, if he wanted to connect,he would have dropped his number. She became sure that he didn't want a relationship between them.

         She rolled on her bed that night,he definitely said he would have become a great dancer when next they met. She thought about it,if all he said was a joke or if there was seriousness in his words. She searched the Internet about fates and destiny,about people seeing each other,about things working out according to ones destiny and fate.

She thought about him the next day,if he thinks about her too. She hates that she thinks about him but the conversation they had last night was still fresh,maybe she will forget about him as time flies. But she didn't think about him for just one day,she thought about him for weeks and if what he actually said about destiny and faith would work them,if they could meet again. She sometimes hates Kyle for dragging her outside " if she didn't drag me outside, maybe we could have exchanged phone numbers "