Traversing through time to find you

(Michelle POV)

As Anthony drove the car back to school, I couldn't help myself from peeking at his side profile. Oh dear lord, he looked so perfect even when he's simply driving! All I wanted to do was hug his arm and lean my head on his shoulder. Ah! How amazing would that be?

However, I still have some sense as not to disturb him while driving. I tore my eyes away from his profile, but my mind was still thinking about him. Him and his actions during lunch. I grinned. Gods, he did not even shy away from treating me like a princess in front of everyone! He pulled the chair for me, placed food on my plate, and even paid for the bill for everyone just to impress me! Though he didn't say the words or confess to me, how else should I interpret it? 

Anyway, before I knew it, we're already back in the school's parking lot. Anthony turned the engine off and simply smiled at me to say, 'let's go?'. 

Though I wanted to cut my PE class because I felt a bit sore and did not want to subject myself with a taxing activity, I still nodded my head with a smile. What? every second with Anthony counts! 

The two of us went out of the car and Anthony got his bag from the backseat before locking the car with the remote control. Then, he approached me so that we can walk together.

"Let me help you with your bag." He offered with a smile.

Was he serious!? Wah!!!! What do I say? Is this it!? The start of my dream campus romance!? To top it all, it's with Anthony! Praise the lord hallelujah! Wait, maybe I should say no first? "Ah… I-I can manage…" I replied with a stutter. 

Anthony looked at me with that smile on his face and his brows furrowed a little, as if I'm being a petulant child. Then, he shook his head. "I insist." He said as he pulled my tote bag to get it from me. Then he took a step forward as if trying to escape just in case I have any protest.

How can I have any protest? In truth, I wanted to scream and giggle like an idiot. But of course, I wanted to protect my very good image in front of Anthony. So, I stopped breathing for a moment to contain my surging emotions of just wanting to throw myself on him, maybe get a piggyback and kiss him to mars and back. 

Perhaps Anthony noticed that I'm not following, so he stopped walking, turned back and said "Come on." 

At that moment, his duffel bag was slung across his body while on his left shoulder was my tote bag. All I can think of was how magnificent he was, and that when my classmates see us, they would immediately think that he's my boyfriend! I can't!!!!! I wanted to jump 10 feet in the air!

I took a deep breath before starting to walk with him. The whole time, my heart was lodged in my throat, and I could not say anything. He walked me to the table tennis area first before he left and went to the basketball court. 

My classmates looked at me curiously, and since Anthony already left, I smile at them triumphantly. What!? See that guy? He's my boyfriend!!!! 

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PE class went without a hitch. On my way to the locker room, I did not see Anthony in the court his class was assigned to. Anyhow, I went to the ladies' locker room and took a shower. When I was done, I went out half hoping that Anthony's still around waiting for me. 

Much to my dismay, I did not see him. I tried to wait for 10 minutes, but he was still not around. Maybe he already went ahead? Possibly. I looked at my cellphone but did not see a text from him. I sighed as I told myself, 'Ok Michelle, you're not his girlfriend yet so don't heighten your expectations too much.' 

With that, I decided to call my driver to fetch me near the covered court. 

When I arrived home, I went straight to my bedroom to… aish! What rest? My brain was experiencing too much excitement with my new relationship status with Anthony. I couldn't think of anything else but him and everything that transpired between us.

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The next day, I woke up early to beautify myself for when we see each other in class. As I was looking for which dress to wear, my cellphone started ringing. I did not receive a text from Anthony last night, maybe he's calling me this early!?

I quickly walked back to the vanity table to check my cellphone. Oh, it's Andy. I completely forgot about him. Why is he calling this early? I pressed the answer button.

"Hello?" 

"Good morning, Mich." Andy said in a friendly greeting.

"Good morning, Andy. Why did you call?" I asked. 

"Just called to make sure you woke up early so that you won't cut class again accidentally." Andy said as he chuckled.

"I've been up since 5:30 am, don't worry, I won't ditch you!" I teased. 

"Excited much?" he teased me back.

I giggled, Andy's a 100% flirt! Then, I answered, "You wish!"

Andy snorted, "Yes, yes, I wish. Anyway, see you later! I have to shower now and make myself more handsome than usual, got to impress your classmates." He said.

I could not help myself from smiling, "Okay. Make sure that it's eye popping, alright?" I said jokingly before we hanged up. Ah, Andy's such a great friend.

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"Recall from our previous meeting that given a function f(x), the average rate of change of f from x=a to x= a+h is f(a+h) – f(a)/ h, now let us look at instantaneous velocity…" Our professor began her lecture.

She started writing all the formulas, giving examples and drawing graphs. UGH!!!! What instantaneous rate of change and instantaneous velocity!? Everything was giving me instantaneous headache instead!

Still, I tried to focus and listen very carefully, putting some asterisk on the notes as reminder that I need to do extra reading and research for that part as I didn't understand them that well. Aish. I don't want to study but do I have a choice? I can't get kicked out from university! 

Anyway, while I was concentrating on the lecture, my seatmate, Camille nudged my hand with her elbow causing my pen to run on my notes.

"sorry sorry." She said apologetically in a low voice seeing that my notes had been messed up a little. 

It's a pity but I know she did not mean to do it, so I just shook my head and smiled. "No, it's alright." I was about to go back to copying what was on the board again when Camille called my attention again. I turned to look at her in askance.

She smiled at me knowingly then said, "Look outside."

So, I did. And there I saw Andy, the nation's husband that he was, he was staring directly at me and when our eyes met, he smiled and gave me a mock salute.

Oh, my fucking god. He's so FINE that I blushed. He was wearing one of the sets that we bought when we went shopping and though it's simple, it accentuated his figure nicely. Honestly, maybe if one were to give him rags, he would still look good, wait, in one of his movies he did have a role where he's a poor boy and he still looked so damn hot! In fact, if he doesn't wear anything… ok never mind. 

Recovering, I smiled back at him and gave him a small wave.

Seeing me do so, Andy's smile did not leave his face and he even winked at me. Then, he raised his phone which I only then noticed was on his right hand. He pointed at it as if indicating that I should look at mine.

I pulled my cellphone out of my bag and saw that there was a message. I raised my notebook to cover my hand clutching the cellphone. I unlocked my phone and first noticed the time. It was 8:15 am, 5 more minutes before we get dismissed.

Then, I read the message which came from Andy. [Hi, Miss beautiful! Would you please consider having a date with me? Haha!] 

I smiled thinking that there goes Andy with his flirtatious self again. Thank goodness I know better than to take his words seriously. I looked at him again and saw that he was still looking at me, his eyes were in crescents, one corner of his lips tilted up, and his left eyebrow was raised as if asking, 'what do you think?' 

I covered my mouth to stop myself from giggling. Aiyooh, he's getting into his acting too much. If his fans from the future could see what he's doing now I don't know how many bashers I will have on the internet! 

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TBC