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On NYE, I was in Cairo, counting down near the pyramids at the desert, with a guy I enjoyed spending time with. What more do I want?
Is this a recipe to another disaster? I don't know. I only met him for a week for god sake... He could be the same to every "hot" girl he met during his travels. What I know for sure is, I would be an idiot if I rely on the hope that he will take me seriously despite I do think he's a nice guy.
So where should I begin? I met him at the end of my felucca trip near Kom Ombo. Our very first encounter was the moment before we got on the mini bus. He was interacting with the locals and wasn't particularly friendly to me. I thought he was just another loud oriental trying to be different. Until later, we sat next to each other on the mini bus, naturally we introduced ourselves. The conversation turned out to be an enjoyable one, so we agreed to meet again in Luxor.
We agreed to meet by the Nile, the old/new Wintergarden hotel confusion delayed our reunion slightly. We sat by the Nile enjoying the night scene, then dinner and after that a coffee house for a game of chess and sheesha. It was an enjoyable night. He walked me back to the hostel, and I invited him to take a glimpse of the rooftop view. I did feel a bit sad the moment he was leaving, as I wasn't sure whether we'd meet again or not? We've not agreed to anything that we'll see each other again. This may sound abit crazy, as we've literally met for a day. But somehow I did built up some positive feelings about him and do want to hang out with him, don't know why..
The next evening I need to catch a night train back to Cairo. I was ecstatic when I saw him on the platform! I thought he was on the earlier train. I was partly very happy that he's on the same train, and partly disappointed that we're not sitting together. I was allocated with a cabin of Americans, we didn't find each other that interesting...so I went to stand in the hall way and he came by. We end up... deciding to move and go to the 2nd class cabin. But we failed as there were no seats available for the whole journey to Cairo. So we had to keep on moving from seat to seat. It wasn't pleasant then but looking back it was definitely an "experience". In the end we decided to move back to the 1st class cabin. Luckily cabin after cabin, we found one with 2 seats available. It wasn't a comfy journey, so the whole night I was in the "half sleeping" mode. The turning point was around 3-4am, he asked if I could put the arm rest away, and "can get we close". It was a very cute question to ask. Perhaps if he ask the same question in Japanese it would be different. But the way he asked reminds me of the way a little boy would ask a little girl. Its very "pure". Maybe this is what I've been longing for all these years? We hold hands too. He also said if I wasn't comfortable we don't have to do it. I don't know whether that came out from politeness or that he's so used to situations like this that he knows what to say if the girl didn't conform to his will? Finally the journey ended, but we didn't get closer since the ride.
I found him difficult to understand. I thought we'd get closer but we didn't really. Although it was very nice of him to say that he want to spend the NYE with me. We took awhile to decide whether we want to go to both the local girl's invitation or to the Pyramid party. End up we decided to go to the latter. Later in the evening I disappointingly found out that I wasn't able to join his tour group to the black and white desert. :( I put my hand on his hand in the mini bus on our way to the pyramids. It was a natural reaction for me as I was quite disappointed so needed some kind of comforting.
