After that...

I have to apologize. It must seem like I've dropped off the face of the Earth. Some of you have been wondering what's happened to me. Heh. Well, I've been...busy, I guess. I have no idea where the time is going, but I hope I'll be able to recover some of it, sometime. (Oh, a subtle, and bad, pun!)
Though I don't know where the time is going, I do know how it's being used. I am trying to spend my every instant with 家寧. When I go home, she is not coming with me. We hope that we both can graduate quickly, and see each other again, but...that's a year apart, at the least.

I hope you'll forgive my neglect of everyone, and everything, else.

Last time I posted, I ended with the TA inviting me to coffee.


So, we went to coffee.

She led me off campus, and I thought we were going to the first shop I saw - a chain called Dante's. But we kept walking.

We ended up not far away, at a nicer place, highly decorated, especially with wine bottles, called Cafe Bastille. We drank tea and coffee, talking for hours, and by the end I was certain that she'd never want to see me again. I had been unexpectedly honest and forthright with her, and I know I'm sort of a loser. Heheh. Also, fairly early on, she mentioned that she already had a boyfriend.
She was fun to talk to, though.

At some point she mentioned a book club on campus - she asked if I'd like to join it. Of course I said yes. Though the books were in English, the discussions were in Chinese; I thought I'd go once or twice anyway just to see what it was like.


After a few hours, we parted, and I thought that though I'd probably see her in class again (she is the TA), I didn't expect the two of us would talk alone again.

And I was right.

For a few weeks.


Her name was 家寧.