Sameer

In college there is a guy called Sameer, who my friends and I refer to sometimes as Hayaa's 'bae.' They are so cute! This one time, Hayaa was like near the point of tears as she was waiting for him and he did not turn up. So she goes to ask Hasan something. I assume she asked him where Sameer was. Then he got a call from Sameer and he let Hayaa use his phone and they were talking for like 10 minutes and I was sat in the silent study room thinking; she looks so happy; she is going to drop his phone; it's nice that Hasan trust her with his phone; what are they even talking about and that Hayaa, the girl who is so especially insecure around guys can just open up to him.

I met him first in the Learning Centre in college. He was around a group of people I knew, so I was like, why not introduce myself and so I did. I was like, I am Olugbemi, or you can call me Linda or Trevor, then I looked at his ID card.

We did not talk much after that, in the first term. Sometimes we would see each other and say hello but other times we would just see each other and pretend that we did not. Well I did, anyway.

Then I think, I was outside the canteen one time with a bunch of friends and he was there and so we began to talk and I think it was just after I embarked on the emotional roller coaster of a series, that is Harry Potter. He recommend to me Percy Jackson.

I do not think this is a chronological account.

Anyway, I went to Maths Club and he did too so sometimes.

Then after my Chemistry controlled assessment, I got on a bus to head to Harrow Weald and I realized that I did not have my purse. I was worried as hell. I knew I had it in College last, but where I put it and whether anyone had took anything, I did not know. So I hurried back to college. I first went to the toilet and then to the Learning Centre. Eventually, I found myself back in my Chemistry class and there it was on the table. I left college again, for the second time in that afternoon, with a little less dignity the second time. Then I bumped into Sameer and we walked to the bus station and then we got on the bus together and talked for a bit. He seemed like a nice guy. Some people you talk to and you think, wow, this person is so dull. Sometimes you do not know what to say or sometimes you just have vibes of a person, like, you and I are not meant to be friends. But he just seemed like a person I can get along with.

The like next week, I was talking with him in the morning and he was talking about motivation and how there was this guy on Youtube who he watches who is a motivational speaker - Les Brown, I think?

Oh, yeah, the reason why I brought up Sameer today was because he went on the trip to Bletchley park as well.

He seemed a bit lonely. There were three boys - all three seemed sort of lonely, I guess. Like they were all just mostly on their phones or like one minute they would be in conversation and the next they would just be walking by themselves.

Well not that the girls were much different. Though that was more conversation on that front.

Though Evelyn and Patrcja were locked in conversation throughout the whole journey though. I was talking to Evelin at first but the minute Victoria turned up and started talking to me, Evelin stayed away from me.

Anyway, I do this thing where I take pictures of people when they are not looking and I thought, let me take one of Sameer. He thought that I would not get one, but on the train I sat opposite him and he closed his eye for a bit and guess who took the perfect opportunity to take a picture? :)

We talked on the train journey home and I cannot remember what was said at this instant of time... Though I think I like talking to Sameer. He smiles a lot and he is sort of funny and just a nice person, I guess. I think next year, I will try to get to know him better, perhaps.