A Love Story.

For it is not my forte to compose Love stories, here is something I would like to share with everyone, written by a Love story Connoisseur!

The other day I had the "ride of my life". Sounds like a nice title for a B grade horror flick is it not? It was never close to a horrifying experience but it was certainly a splendid moment! I would not want to bore you with the details of the event. The following were just bits and pieces of the things I remember so vividly. In short, that evening I had a nice "quiet" drive with my "dearest". Before that, almost all afternoon we just sat down and talk about things that we wanted to talk about. She waited for me to finish my laksa at lunch while we talk about anything and everything that crossed our minds.

Never had I experienced a more pleasant chat with anyone in my life, than this one. It was not like we never chatted before. Some years back when we just knew each other, we always approached each other's table at the library to have a chat (although she would always say that it was me who was a nuisance interrupting her while studying). But I am pretty sure that we can never deny that we enjoy each other's company. And of course like always, silly jokes were exchanged and we would end up laughing, smiling and leaving each other with blushes on our cheeks.

Then she simply got tired sitting at the lunch table, probably because they were lots os people around. I think a guy sitting at the other table overheard our conversation. No, it was not those kind of mushy stuff that lovers talk about..But something to a lesser degree I suppose. At times we talked our hearts out, sometimes jokingly, and most of the time at the top of our voices! How 'romantic'! Ceh!

So she proposed that I take her out of the campus for a ride. There was nowhere in particular she wished to go to. She described herself as a "homey" type of person and would rather stay indoors if given the choice. So it would make sense if she says that she wanted to go out but stay indoors, as in just sitting in the car for a ride around town. I did just that. That evening, I drove her around KL: the Garden City of Lights, pretending to be a tourist guide for this lost cute tourist.

This cute tourist happens to love ice-creams. So I decided to pull over at a petrol station that has a McD. She wanted to have a cup of McFlurry. But as I parked the car, there was a familiar tune on the radio. You guessed it right, "She will be loved". Just imagine how she blushed! Almost a confused lass, she suddenly changed her mind and wanted to have her McFlurry as a 'take-away'. Preferring to stay indoors, remember? Luckily the McD was a drive-through.
While enjoying our cups of ice-cream in the car silly jokes like this would eventually pop up:
'Nak pergi mana?'
'Tak kisah lah, jalan-jalan je. Tak nak balik UIA lagi'
'Pergi tengok lampu kat KL nak tak?'
'Tak kisah la..lagi jauh lagi I suka. I suka duduk dalam kereta. Pergi la Kelantan ke..'
'Jangan...Minyak kereta full tank ni. Nanti bukan pergi Kelantan je, I bawak u pergi Narrathiwat, kahwin kat sana nanti baru tau! Kira i tengah culik u la ni'
'Boleh'

Boleh? What kind of respond is that?! She caught me off guard, and she rarely able to do so. In the car, the chat resumed and I found her as a girl with many surprises. When you think that you know a person after all these years but actually you don't. As we talk about life in general, it was a shock to me that we have so many things we commonly agree upon. But we try as much to get the conversation in the light of our situation and personally I think we are very comfortable with each other. Very.

But I cannot say that I am swept by the tides of love. It has not reached that stage yet. As my "dearest" rightly puts it:
'We are more than friends, tapi tak sampai tahap tu lagi'.

And so it is. Although this lovely piece was written some two years back, it captivates my heart still, invariably. And so in Love We are, high as a kite, drunk as a skunk! If U are reading this Dearly Beloved Ahmad Feisal, thank U ever so much for being mine. Bestest of Friends, Soulmate and Partner :)