Meant To Be

As the girls arrived outside the cafeteria, the blue and white university buses had already been aligned in front of the cafeteria's main entrance, back to back with each other forming a straight line, ready to leave as soon as the head of transport instructed. "Hey! Where have you both been?" demanded Natalie, confused as to what the two girls were up to.

"Sorry, just had something to do, it wasn't anything important!" said Anna trying to cover up vaguely as she reassured Natalie that they weren't hiding something from her.

"Yeah? Well whatever it was I still wanna know first thing tomorrow okay?" asked Natalie raising an eyebrow, still confused and a little hurt as to why she was not being involved in the matter.

The bus drivers honked the horn as a sign to inform the people they were about to leave. The girls hugged each other goodbye and Ashley glanced up at the library building one last time. The majestic, white coloured building made up of ivory-white marble sitting gracefully with Ashley's first love inside it.

As she hopped on the bus she looked for a vacant seat for her to sit hoping to get a seat by the window. Luckily, she found one. Ashley loved spending her long bus drives from university to home thinking, lost in her own little world and after what happened today she was yearning to doze off in her private dreamland.

She rested her head against her seat as she looked outside the window. The scorching heat of the afternoon sun directly upon their heads but she didn't seem to mind. She was too delighted to be bothered. She was falling in love. To her everything appeared a little more enchanted, everything, even the scorching sun looked rather lovely like a glowing yellow medallion in the sky. It felt like life had a new purpose like everything was falling into place like a puzzle forming a clearer picture. The world seemed more colourful with the skies looking bluer than the ocean, the earth greener than the four-leaf clover, the air more comforting, flowers more aromatic and fragrant. She no longer desired to turn her iPod on today, her heart was playing a symphony of its own.

"Hey, sorry for bothering but do you have water?" she heard a female voice.

She turned towards her left to find a fair-skin girl with gorgeous hazel brown eyes and silky straight magma red hair tied up in a ponytail asking her again if she had water.

"Yeah sure, here you go," said Ashley as she pulled out her blue coloured water bottle from her handbag, handing it over to the red-haired girl.

"Thanks, it is so hot today!" said the girl and she gulped to serve her thirst. "You new here? What's your name?"

"Yeah, my name is Ashley, just started my dental school, what's yours?" replied Ashley softly.

"It's Danielle. I am from the health nutrition department." she smiled sweetly as she returned Ashley her water bottle. "How are you setting in, liking your new life?"

"Ha-ha! More than I had dreamt of." chuckled Ashley

"Danielle seemed nice." she thought to herself. The girls chatted a little about their university experience uptil now until they reached Danielle's stop and Ashley was left with her thoughts again.

One thing that was glued to her mind, what she found extremely fantasizing was the certainty that if Zoey hadn't shown her the photograph of her and Samuel from the annual dinner event, just a few days back she wouldn't have identified him today. She would have missed him. If they had celebrated Samantha's birthday behind the cafeteria and not in the garden in front of the library just how it was originally planned, she wouldn't have come across Samuel today. Hell, if the lectures and the labs didn't have the constant disruptions and if it weren't for the power breakdown, the lectures would have finished a lot earlier and not at the moment when Samuel was destined to pass through the path opposite the library's garden. And above all, if Ashley hadn't simply looked up when Samuel was passing, she would have missed him. She wouldn't have even known he was there if she hadn't simply looked his way, in his direction, at the same minute, the exact second he passed by.

Or maybe she would have met him either way because that's just how fate is, how powerful destiny is. It happens whether or not you plan, in a perfect synchronized system, leading the way for you to eventually end up where you are meant to be through one way or another.