We meet again

After all that they've been through Ria invited Daisy to eat dinner when they got back to her condo. Since it's past seven-thirty they decided to look around for a nearby restaurant. They were too surprised to find out that there's plenty of convenient stores, restaurants, and pharmacies. Not only that, the most shocking one is that the building where she stays now is just a walking distance from Resort World Manila. She read about it from a magazine that the place is home to many famous hotels like Maxims Hotel, Marriott, Holiday Inn, Belmont Hotel Savoy Hotel, Hilton, Sheraton, and the Hotel OKURA Manila that has a long line of hotel business from way back nineteen fifty-eight.

Resort world Manila is like a one-stop, non-stop entertainment and leisure destination that features gaming thrills, world-class entertainment, unique events, and exciting lifestyle options for local and international people that can afford to stay in one of this famous hotel and to think that she is just nearby from it is like walking in the clouds.

She made a mental note to ask Miss Angie if it's allowed for a tenant to go to the rooftop. Ria wants to see the infrastructure of the place even from afar. For an amateur interior designer, It's pleasing to the eyes to see the finished work of other people and how they design a place to look elegant and appealing to the customers. It not only gives her a fresh idea but also motivates her to do her best and maybe one day become someone whose designs are known all over the country.

Ria was walking side by side with Daisy when she saw her phone went blinking implying that she received a message. She quickly glanced at the monitor of her phone to check who the sender of the message was. She was oblivious to her surroundings until she felt a hard thing bumped her face hitting her nose and caused her to loosen up her grip on her phone, Her eyes grew like a saucer when she saw her phone went flying in the air.

She almost made a scream and was about to try to catch it even though her mind can already predict that it's too late.

"Whoopsie! Got it, phew luckily I caught it on time." a deep husky voice and fresh minty scent wafted on her sense of smell. She felt electrocuted when an arm encircled her waist to stable her footing. She automatically pushed the person away from her body when she felt a strange warm tingling sensation pulsating on the pit of her stomach down to her core.

Fuck!

What the hell is going on?!

Ria got more confused when the person grabbed her back.

She was now being held in the strangers' arms!

"Easy Lady, you don't want your precious phone to crash on the ground, right ?!"

It seems like all the hair in her body rises when the stranger whispers those words to her ears. She felt giddily all of a sudden that sends an alarm to her disoriented brain.

Luckily Daisy was there to her rescue.

It's like she breaks free from a bewitching spell when she hears Daisy's voice.

"Excuse me, Sir, can you please let go of my friend?" Daisy scans the person in front of her but her eyes can only see a decent guy helping her friend, she senses nothing aside from those deep eyes that are staring intensely at Ria.

"Yes, of course, Ma'am, I'm just a concerned citizen helping here, you saw it too she almost stumbled backward. If I didn't catch her on time like I did with her phone would you rather prefer to see her on the ground?, here you go, please be careful next time." That husky voice that sounds wonderful to her ears made Ria speechless.

She didn't even have a chance to look up to the stranger and say thank you to him when he started to walk on the path where they came from.

"Ria, are you ok?" She snaps out of her trance when Daisy shivers her arm slightly.

"Huh? Yeah, I'm fine, sorry, Wait? Where's the guy, Daisy?" She asked looking around in front of her, exerting her neck to look further.

" Silly, he walked away already." Daisy had a knowing smile plastered in her face seeing her friend's reaction.

"Really? Where? I can't see him."

"Turn around, and you can still see his back, there's only the three of us here on the sidewalk." Hearing this, she quickly turns around, and Daisy is right.

She can still see his back that is kind of familiar to her.

The only problem is that she doesn't remember where she saw those lean and broad shoulders.

Without hesitation, she called for him. "Excuse me, Sir?!" she shouted out enough for the stranger to turn around.

"Yes?" there it goes again. Ria felt giddy, just hearing his voice and her mind went blank for a second but she still managed to pull herself back together. The stranger guy patiently awaited her until she could finally speak again like her normal self.

"Thank you for helping me" The stranger gave her a genuine smile.

"It's a pleasure to help you my adelfí psychí till next time.." He waves his hand and turns his back around. She can feel that it won't be the last time she will see him. It's like he made a promise to her unknowingly.

He continued walking while Ria kept watching until his back became blurry, and he was gone.

Her heart keeps on pounding like it will burst out of her chest at any moment.

Ris can't help but to feel embarrassed of herself. Why was she acting like a girl who met her crush and was star-struck by him.

Damn it!

It isn't like her at all!

She never experienced this before.

adelfí psychí? What does he mean by those words? She knows it's a foreign language, but after hearing it, her heart suddenly flipped, and a warm feeling started to bloom in her heart.

"Ria? Are you ok?! Are we still going to eat, or should we go back already?" Daisy can't help but bring her friend back to earth while a smile tugged in the corner of her lip.

"Huh? Oh yeah, I'm so sorry, Daisy I don't know what just happened to me. Come, let's go before we starve to death" Ria hooked her hand to Daisy's arm still feeling embarrassed but she tried to hide it with her enthusiastic attitude. They continued walking to Cafe Maxim. They stopped in front of it and saw there's plenty of people who were happily eating inside, that only means the food they served should be edible and tasty. One crew noticed them in front of the cafe and decided to open the door.

" Welcome, ma'am, would you like to come inside?" The service crew looks very friendly, and the moment he opens the door, the delicious smell of food makes them very hungry. They both stared at each other like their mind had a tacit understanding both ladies said. " Let's go." when they heard each other say the exact words they snickered.

" hmn.. I think I will be full already just smelling those delicious foods." Ria sniffed the air and felt like it's heaven.

"Yeah, me too!" Daisy agreed as they walked around. The waiter leads them to an empty table next to the glass wall where they can glance outside while slowly enjoying the food they ordered.