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To those who are still interested (yey), This was a silly thing that happened in my arcade late August 2013 and I only wrote this for a couple of friends to share a laugh but seeing that it turned out to into a full story, I
thought it would be a waste not to share to you guys. Again, read when you completely have nothing else to do. It's just about me and the universe attempts to get my shit together.
When I was rewriting this story for the blog, It was hard to give it a proper title and because it is funny to think about and yet kinda sad at the same time and also infuriating (mostly funny, really) but I'm still gonna do it...because this is my blog.
"I unintentionally keep screwing up the universe's attempts to get me to meet "The one" because somehow I keep missing to see the little, intricate things and details I like in the woman I'm supposed to end
up with and eventually someday, make me say 'I do.' "
Let me set the venue: My Arcade. Only a few people around. There was me, a good friend and one of my attendants. It was a rather slow day and both my friend and the attendant were playing games to pass the time while I was focused on my laptop, headphones on, oblivious to the world.
and then suddenly, out of the blue...in comes this girl.
Kidding, kidding, That's not the girl (google search: kawaii bangs) but that pic is pretty close to her...um, "features":
Looked kinda Japanese, well trimmed Bangs, Wearing a Victorian-esque dress(Like Lili's default costume for Tekken) and (as my friend pointed out) faded and worn out Chuck Taylor Hi-cuts.
The last part is important because I've always been a fan of people who proudly wear their old, tattered Chucks because the more worn out it is, the more you get to think about how much history it has with its owner and the things they have went through together (Much so that I even wrote a whole different story about it lolz. COMING SOON!) and to this day, I keep thinking HOW COULD I HAVE NOTICED HER SHOES...OR HER SENSE OF STYLE...OR HER :( ... but I'm getting ahead of myself...
Oh, and also, I am apparently COMPLETELY BLIND to flirting nowadays. FUCK. MY. LIFE.
The latter part you will get to understand right now.
Before I continue the story, though. Let me explain that this part of the story is told from the perspective of my friend and the attendant because I wasn't fully aware how she came in because I was distracted by my 'work'...By work, of course, I mean watching two series' at the same time while reading blogs as well.
NOTE: Their story may have exaggerations.
A black, sleek, luxury car comes up and drops this girl off. She looked so beautiful that nature gave her a gust of wind to give her a dramatic look. She was shining as the sunlight hit her.As the car drove away, She walked up to the door and took off her headphones. She popped her head in, looked around with her eyes sparkling, smiled and asked "Is Sir Richard around?". We could not reply at all because we were still surprised by her sudden appearance and all we could do was point at you and she replied with a bubbly "Thanks!". She steps in and..."
I'm going to switch to my version now because their version gets weirder by the minute...
She politely waves in my line of sight (I was wearing headphones, too) to catch my attention. I see her hand and I look at the hand's owner...which was beaming with a smile. As I take my headphones off, I noticed she was slightly red and as I take a glance outside, I said to myself must have been the heat (Yeah, the heat -_-..).
Before I could ask what I could do for her she suddenly blurts out, "Hi sir! I'm May/Mei, from *cannot
remember exactly but I did hear*, Dumaguete. I am only visiting for a short while and I would like to ask you.." She suddenly pauses, looking at me with her anime eyes. I took this pause as an opportunity for me to
reply but before I could say anything, she launched into a barrage of questions regarding if I could hack PS3s,Fix PSPs, physical and digital copies of games for the PS3 and/or the PSP...she was a fast talker -_-
As she continued talking, my first immediate thought was wow, a gamer girl. Normally, I don't get a lot of
legit gamer girls in the arcade and normally, this would have been the start of a wonderful conversation that would lead to what could have been a date...but for the life of me, I could not understand why I replied so blandly to her questions. Maybe I was surprised that she understood the stuff that I was saying even though some terms I was using was pretty technical na. Maybe my use of the laptop to present visual aids to her prevented me to notice that she was looking at me during my explanations. Hell, maybe the monotony of my often repeated explanations have caught up to me and my personality has turned off to strangers.To my every reply though, she kept nodding enthusiastically...accompanied with an occassional 'aaaah' or a
giggle.
Finally, she decided to copy some of my games for the time being and as she was swinging around the table to hand me her hard drive, she tripped on one of the wires and I, who was sitting in an office wheel chair at the time, quickly slid to her front side and grabbed on to her hip and right boob (lolz boob) to prevent her from falling face down on the floor. Needless to say, there was a moment where we locked eyes...and did ya know how I followed it up? Gave her a smile? Flicked her hair? or maybe, *gasp* gave her a kiss? Fuck no. I said and I quote"Be careful, miss" and I stood her upright... -_-
BE. CAREFUL. MISS.
Universe, if you're reading this, I apologize for Past Chady.
For the next 10 minutes, she just sat in the chair opposite me, clearly embarrassed of what happened. She was twirling the cord of her headphones with her head down as she waited for the transfer to finish...while I slid back into my laptop and put my headphones on. I did not notice that my friend, who was the sole witness to the whole tripping fiasco, kept signalling me to ask her something to which I kept replying...with le middle finger. Honestly, I would have (should have) attempted to talk to her again but I can barely make out her face as she was facing down.
When the copying finished, I stood up and gave her the hard drive, I was just happy to see that when she looked up and asked for the price, she wasn't crying or angry... she was still smiling. Of course, it wasn't the same beaming smile she wore earlier (probably because I held her boob but that's just me) but she kept her demeanor ba...Now this is the moment where my brain suddenly functioned and thought up an important
phrase:
"Dude, this girl..."
As she handed me her payment, the car arrived. I just noticed that it was also heavily tinted so I could
not make out who was driving. As I crouched down to get her change, I noticed she stood up and proceeded to walk towards the car. I thought "Hmmm..she must be in a hurry" so I quickly counted her change while crouched down. My friend later told me that when she stood up, she walked to the door and signalled the car to "wait", she immediately turned to me, took a step and stopped, as if expecting a huge surprise. As I stood up, she had this face...this face of anticipation like you were about to get something good. You know what I thought? "Wow, she must really want her change now, huh?" I give her her change and happily say in a sing song voice "Your change, miss!"
* Insert your FACEPALM here ples*
She replied "Thanks..." rather unenthusiastically na and my end reply to all this? "Come back soon!"
A SCRIPTED RESPONSE. I gave her a leaving a restaurant outro. FUCK.
On the plus side though, she did smile again as she got into the car, moving away, never to be seen again :( When she left, my friend gave me the most disappointed, what the fuck is wrong with you face . For lack of a real picture, this dog will demonstrate what face my friend made.
As I think of that scenario over and over again, there could have been a million ways I could have done it better. A million ways I could have turned it in my favor. But maybe, just maybe, this wasn't for me. I know it's what I can only say now because of my rather shitty performance but maybe this was my wake up call. I have noticed I have been avoiding social interactions outside my circle as of late. Just hanging around the office/shop, twirling around. I've always been a hopeless romantic and I believe in those fated meetings, destiny and whatnots. Maybe it's my reminder that in order for this to happen, I have to do my part pod. Because somewhere out there... She is there. Waiting for me. :)
-Chady
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