Serendipity

"Have you heard of in love with love?" he asked

"No, what's that?" I replied

"That's where you are..."

And he did not explain further.

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I walked alone in a lonely beach, feeling the sand on my feet at every step i take. The sun was just setting and the view was too beautiful to ignore. I reached my favorite spot and stopped. I used my slippers as a base and sat on them. I sat facing the sea, the sun's rays felt soft on my tender skin. Sea gulfs were flying and swimming... their noises of conversing to each other sounded soothing music to my ears in that picture.

I relaxed and let my mind ponder around. I thought back and all the memories from the past played as a movie in my head. There were laughthers, tears, fun, fear, love and hurt. I ponder around the present and i couldn't find any flaw in it. I've got it all, everything i want... then y m i nt satisfied? Y m i still looking for something... something that i don't even know what it is...

From a distance, I heard the familiar barking I hear every evening. A Siberian Husky came running towards me and jumped on me. I fell and he started licking my face, asking me to play with him. I laughed and ruffled his furr and scratched behind his ears.

"Jordan!!!" A bass voice called and then the owner of the voice came to view. He, who i wait for to meet every evening. He, whom i met by chance but friends by choice.

Dominic was his name. I met him a couple months before when Jordan, the huge Siberian Husky ran away with my slippers in his jaw. I chased the stupid dog, cursing him aloud as the slippers he took was my favorite. The dog went to his owner, who was Dominic, the guy that i hated for having his dog ruin my best pair of slippers.

Dominic apoligized again and again. He cursed Jordan and hit him on his head. Jordan cried and looked at me with pityfull eyes, as if saying he's sorry. My heart melted, i've always have a soft sport for dogs. I told Dominic it was ok...i told him to stop scolding Jordan.

"I'm really sorry, I should have trained him harder... Maybe it's jz coz it's mating period for him n im nt letting him getting any bitch pregnant. He's a lil bit agitated and hyper coz of that." Dominic said in his bass voice. I laughed.

"Every living thing has the right to enjoy sexual pleassure... u r nt to stop any1 from getting some action." i said and he laughed at my comment.

He looked at me deep for a while and then he shoved his hand to me, "I'm Dominic" he said.

"Shelina…” I said shaking his hand.

“Hey!! I gotta get u a new pair of shoes… Jordan seems to have torn them apart.”

“Those are slippers…”

“Potato patata… dun really know the difference…” He shrugged his shoulder. “I know this beautiful shop which sells all type of accessories and it’s having a sale. And then after that, maybe we can sit down and have a cup of tea in the café next to the store… they serve this amazing green tea…”

“Are you asking me on a date???” I asked raising my left eyebrow.

“Maybe I am, maybe I’m not…” he paused for a sec or two, “Any problem?”

“No... I would love to have a cup of coffee…”

“Tea!” he cut me in.

“Potato patata… coffee…tea… same difference.”

“They are not the same!!! Coffee is bad for health… on the contrary, tea is good. I dislike coffee!” I couldn’t hide my giggles anymore… I giggled and laughed. The way he said it was just toooo CUTE!!!

“Now! don’t you laugh at me!! Are you coming or not?” He said looking sharply at me but I could see a hint of a smile curling on his lips.

“I don’t mind the cup of tea… But you don’t have to buy me a new pair of slippers… just pay for my tea…” I said while gasping for breath in the mid of all the laughing.

“Come on!!!” he said gripping my wrist and pulled me from the beach.

He took me to this beautiful (as he said it was) authentic accessories shop situated just by the beach roads. It sold loads of authentic and unique all types of accessories, from earrings to bags and shoes and slippers. He helped me pick up the most beautiful yet comfortable slippers I’ve ever come across… they were amazingly perfect, their price were too.

Dominic said not to worry… apparently it was his mom’s shop and he didn’t hv 2 even pay for those beauty. After that he took me to this cozy café just few buildings away. It was called ‘Relax café’ and damn sure it was a relaxing place to be. The café was situated just by the beach, the second floor has a verandah that’s goes directly above the sea.

We spent that evening talking about a lot of stuffs and laughing at every joke said every other minute. Dominic was a funny guy… it was just comfortable sitting and talking to him for hours.

That evening started with a meeting of two strangers and ended up with two friends saying byes and promising to catch up with each other the next day.

Since then almost every day me and Dominic with Jordan would meet in the beach. Sometimes, we would be walking Jordan; sometimes we would just sit and talk while looking at the calming sea. In just a few days, Dominic had filled most of the empty spaces in my heart. I look up to meet him every evening…when he doesn’t show I could feel myself strive to smile.

“Hey Jordan!!! Behave!” Dominic said once again with stern voice. Jordan stopped licking me and looked at Dominic. “Get off!” Dominic ordered, Jordan stepped away from me and went to Dominic. “Sit!!” his master ordered again and he sat. “Remain seated!!!” Dominic looked at Jordan’s eye and kept looking for a couple second and Jordan sat as a good boy.

I stood up and brushed away sand from my clothes while laughing and giggling. “How are you?” I asked in between my giggles.

“Better…now that I’ve seen you.” He said with his boyish smile.

“U missed me?” I asked teasingly.

“hmmm hmmm tease!!!” he said. I laughed. We sat down and started talking about our day and everything that we passed.

With Dominic I feel alive, I feel like I could say anything that’s in my mind without wondering or fearing of what he might think of me or judge me. With Dominic I was myself that I don’t even know about. I could be a child, I could be wild. Maybe it’s the fact that he only knows me when I’m on the beach n not in reality. Maybe it’s because I never thought of knowing him more. Maybe it’s the fact that I took him as beach buddy and nothing more. Maybe that’s why with Dominic I was free.

“Hey Shelina… in what world are you lost?” He asked

“Huh?” I looked at him

“Everyday u come to the beach and stare at the sea…lost in thoughts that I wish to know of…” he said smiling

I smiled back… “Loads of things… about life, love, friends, future… I think I’m having a pre-midlife crisis…”

He laughed… “Pre-midlife crisis is when you are almost fifty… now you are just having a quarter life crisis.”

“Y is it fifty a midlife??? People don’t actually live till a hundred years… and we don’t know when we die… so if I die at the age of 40 that means my midlife is at the age of 20… rite?”

“Because my dear, normal human life expectancy is a hundred year… that is why 50 is assumed as a midlife.”

“Whatever…”

“I am having a quarter life crisis myself…”

“Really?” I raised my eyebrows

“Yup…I don’t know what I’m doing in life is right or not and everything seemed to be going the wrong way and nothing is right…” he sighed…

“There… there… life isn’t all that confusing…” I said rubbing his shoulder.

“You know what makes me smile the past few days?” he asked looking straight into my eyes…

“What?”

“The thought of meeting you… and then talking to you and seeing your pretty smile..”

I blushed…

“Shelina… Life’s too short to think about stuffs that’re better off flow away…” He took my hand and said in a soft voice.

“Says the person who just admitted he has quarter life crisis…” I teased

“Well, I feel and believe that our energy wave and brain wave transmit the same signals… so I can feel that u are very disturb at this moment and at times like this, I wanna be ur strength… next time, wen im low, u be my strength…”

“Ok…” I smiled

“What’s in your mind? What’s bothering you?”

I kept quiet for a while and sighed, “I don’t know… I don’t know what I want, what I’m thinking, heck I’m not even sure who I am… I think I think 2 much…”

“U r twenty, time to think, to create urself, to walk on the path u choose… I think that’s normal. As long as u don’t over analyze things n destroy ur character.”

“Hmmm…” Dominic’s words sounded wise, a bit heavy, but it somehow calmed me.

“Shelina…” he whispered in my ears… “Tell me, how do I steal u away from your thoughts?”

I moved away and looked at him, “If I tell you that, then what’s the fun?”

He kept quiet n kept looking at into my eyes. “Tell me, have you found the answer?” he asked.

“To what?”

“In love with love….”

I kept quiet… I still don’t understand his comment on that. How can you fall in love with love? Is he trying to say that I’m obsessed with falling in love? What is he trying to say?

He came closer to me still keeping eye contact with me, I couldn’t move. “Are you still looking for something?”

I nodded and that’s all I can do.

He caressed my cheek and came closer.

“Look no more…” he said and slowly he reached my lips with his and kissed me softly. An electric shock went through all my body. It was bliss.

Slowly I rounded my hand around his neck and we kissed deeper.

All my questions were answered. It feels like I found that thing I’ve been looking for. I felt complete and bliss. I was indeed in love with love…

He let me go and looked at my blushing face and asked “Found it now?”

I couldn’t answer but I know he could hear my thoughts and feel what I was feeling.

I might only know Dominic on the beach. I don’t know him outside the beach, I don’t know his life and that might be the biggest problem in starting a relationship… My mind says I’m crazy, my heart says I need to be with him. Wise man says only fools rush in… maybe I’m a fool, but I know if I don’t give it a try, I’d wonder the rest of my life.

I’m in love with him… no matter who he is, what he does. And from now on whatever happens, that remains. Maybe it’d work out, maybe it won’t… Maybe we different people outside the beach and maybe we can’t deal with those differences, but I know that though we are different people out there, what we are here on the beach is a part of us.

No matter what happens next, at least we had these times… At least we have our friendship… At least for a while, he made me feel complete… At least for a while he brought magic to my life.

The End.