Adah's POV:
I see Aaryan and Abhi entering the conference room I think they left early to be at the field for football tryouts their smiling faces are a guarantee that they made the team for which all three of us congratulated them. Hiya who is sitting right beside me Gestures for both of them to come and sit behind us. All 5 of us were huddling at the extreme back of the conference room waiting for our seniors to come here and explain to us about all the different clubs so that I could go home and sleep peacefully today's day was a busy one most of our lectures started strong with their teachings "so that we can get most of the stuff completed before term 1 exams". Not many students from our section were in the conference room, many of them decided to skip the meeting as all our lectures were completed a long time ago.
Hiya turns to me and asks "Do you know anyone from the senior classes?" I shake my head to answer "No". "My cousin's in one of the senior classes. She said the guys coming for the meeting are total heartthrobs. Can't wait to see them!!" I laugh at her excitement. Siya says "Saw them yesterday. One of them helped me out. Total gentleman" "I was lost on my way to the cafeteria yesterday so I just asked the next first person I saw and it was him so I asked him about the cafeteria and he offered to guide me Such a gentleman and let me tell you he cracks the worst jokes but it becomes funny when he says them, When we were on our way to cafeteria he says "Why did the sandwich go to the gym? To get shredded!!!" and I burst out laughing, it was not even that funny" "I smiled as I listened to her Abhi had an expression on his face that spelt disgusting. Even Siya notices his disgusted look and gives him a peck on his cheek. 'I am just saying that he is a good person, and I love you, so stop being jealous,' Siya says, defending her statement. Everyone around us loudly says 'Ew,' and we burst out laughing. "What was his name?" I ask to which Siya replies "I am pretty sure his name is Tamas" As soon as those words leave her mouth I feel Goosebumps rising on my skin, my breath lost its pace, I could feel my heart beat rapidly for a few seconds but I calmed myself down by taking a few deep breaths
I tell myself it's just a name many people have the same name and it is impossible that we will ever cross each other's path ever again and not that I would recognise him after all these years, I am just overthinking things again and I should just stay calm or else I will have a panic attack again and I am not wasting my four months' worth of hard work and 30 yoga classes and hours of meditation to something so Ordinary as just a name. Hiya shakes me awake from my little thinking string she looks concerned and asks me "Hey you alright? You zoned out suddenly and you looked Uneasy" "Yeah it's nothing I remembered some work that my mom gave me" She does not look satisfied by my answer but turns away to talk to Siya anyway. I watch all heads turn to the conference door and I see some senior students enter the room and everybody goes silent, 5 students come in but one, in particular, catches my attention A 6'4 guy, he is lean but his plain white tee doesn't hide the fact that he is well built, I see a string of tattoos running up his right arm and to his neck, his body looks intimidating but his face completely contradicts his body he has Brown eyes, the crown of black curls and a wide smile on his face, I wonder if his jaw is aching from all the smiling he is been doing since he stepped his foot in the room and he was towering over most of the guys with his 6'3 frame, his eyes look warm I don't know how to explain it.
They say "Eyes are the mirror to the soul" and his eyes just look kind and warm. I immediately recognised him as Tamas because as Hiya said this Man was beautiful and he knew it because of the confidence with which he approached the room. There were many boys in the room maybe more handsome than him but something about him just made him stand out. Maybe his eyes, his smile or maybe his aura But he stood out to me I don't know about anyone else. And his eyes looked oddly familiar or it may just be my mind playing tricks on me because he had the same name as him. All 5 of them introduced themselves and I was right he was Tamas. they started giving us a presentation and giving information about all the different clubs available at the university, all the students were intently listening to the Girl who was giving the presentation.
But my eyes were stuck on Tamas he was operating the computer my ears were listening but my eyes were stuck on him it was so weird I was hit on by a modest amount of boys in the past years and many were completely out of my league but why does he have to catch my eye? I don't understand this and it's driving me crazy because I can't let my emotions loose like this. I don't want myself to end like the last time with a full-blown panic attack. They were done giving all the information in about 30 minutes and the clubs I was interested in were the maths club, Photography and coding. But I decided to settle on 2 photography and coding I don't want to stress all year just because I want to do everything.
The Girl who was presenting her name was Sasha, she said "I will be taking your names for the club you are interested in and I will give you an application form Fill it out and submit it to the respective club representatives tomorrow between 1:00 and 4:00 in the common library, see you tomorrow" Everyone interested took the form and started walking out of the Conference room our group was the only one left behind Hiya asked me what I was interested in "I was thinking about coding and photography" she said she was going to get enrolled in the Yoga club, Siya was thinking about Photography and Aaryan and Abhi was already in a sports club,
We all left the room shortly but Hiya abruptly pulled me to a corner and said, "Do you like Tamas?" I looked at her in utter shock and shook my head saying No "You were staring at him the entire time we were in there, Adah he has a girlfriend please don't get yourself hurt" I tried to ignore the pit in my stomach that formed after hearing her but I tried to smile and say "He just looked familiar and I was trying to guess if I knew him'' she nodded understanding the situation and dragged me to the cafeteria where everyone was already sitting and she filled me up with all the gossip from our classes she was the gossip queen like the girl knew everything from the entire university I had a live broadcast of news with me and then after our lunch we decided on going to the library to get our work done. At around 5:00 we all decided to call it a day and bid each other goodbyes.
As soon as I got home, I took out my Journal and wrote everything about today but something was different today as compared to other days because Tamas is all I write about I try writing about other things but I can't focus on anything because all my mind right now can think is His smile and mostly his eyes. So after dinner, I take a bath take out my art supplies and start painting his eyes I am done in 1 hour or so and I lay right beside the canvas looking at his eyes yea Adah so not creepy I have always been interested in drawing things that I find beautiful that's how I journal my thoughts through sketches and let sleep overtake my body.
Author's note
Don't forget to check my Instagram account to know the aesthetics of Tamas and Adah and take care of yourself