Chapter 6 : The Chase

I looked at the alarm clock. It was only 5am in the morning. The sky was still unlit. I wondered if I had drifted into dreamland or I had been awake the whole night. I figured it’s no point keeping myself in bed when I was not the least sleepy. I got up, brushed up and got ready for work. BUT work at this hour? Ironically there were no work calls tonight when I would very much prefer to bury myself in work now and stopped my mind from thinking about her.

I thought about how I got to know her through my volunteer work with the deaf school and how I got to work in a few projects with her. I thought about her ever cheerful smile and hearty laughter that so filled me up. I thought of her dancing fingers when she signs and obstinate temper when touching issues that matters to her heart. I admire her for a hundred and one reasons and yet deep down, I know so little of my Princess. I know her and yet I don’t know her. I wondered if I have been too abrupt and impatient to embrace her. She must be taken aback but yet facing her, I felt I really needed to let her know. I needed to let her know she means tonnes to me.

I pulled up my car in front of her house. The car timer showed 6:00am. School starts 7:30am. She should be out any minute. Each ticking of the car timer seems to represent the beat of my heart. Go … chu..chu…chu… I asked myself “Why are you here?” My heart brought me here. I wanted and I needed to see her again. I did not want our relationship to be in such an awkward position.

From afar, I spotted her walking out from the lobby. I quickly stepped out of my car and waved “Jo!” . She stopped for a second and turned towards me. She stood there for a while before waving back to me. I walked up towards her and hailed a hearty good morning to her.

“Morning..” She sounded hesitant.

“Come. Let me give you a lift to school.” I proceeded to notion her to walk towards my car.

“Sam….”

“Hurry. You won’t want to be late for school, right? Had your breakfast?” I added.


“Sam…” She stopped.

I stopped and turned towards her. “Jo, I don’t mean anything. I just want to give you a lift to school. That’s all.” I smiled to give her a double assurance and proceeded to open the car door. “Come on. Hop in.”

She walked slowly and uncertainty towards my car and sat in.

“What time were you here? How did you know what time I go to school?” She asked.

To be honest, I didn’t. It was pure luck. I just wanted to see her.

“Jo, I just wanted to let you know my honest feelings. You don’t have to reciprocate or be troubled by what I said to you yesterday. It is my own feelings and only my own. You don’t have to do anything. Just let me be of convenience to you.”

“Sam…”

“Please…”

The whole journey was a little quiet and I tried to divert the attention from that subject by asking her about her students and her school. This was her passion and it got her fully chatty and less inhibited. She was all smiles when she reached school and I was glad.

She thanked me and bade me good day. It felt warm to be able to do something for the one whom you loved, whom mattered much to you. Is this a beginning of a chase… a chase for Jo? I don’t know. I really don’t. I just know she is very important and I don’t want to just give up so easily. What’s my next step? I had not the slightest idea.

But my heart was singing, all pumped up with my love for her.

To be cont.