Is Happiness somewhere close to home?

There’s one girl I know from school. I always told myself I’m not interested in her because the only reason why she’s interested in me is because she can copy my answers for assignments and labs. I used to know another girl who I used to be really close with. She was in same class as me, and of course, I always had all the answers to the assignments. Just days after the final exam, she wouldn’t even look my way even if I say hello to her when I see her in the hallway. From that point on, I promised to myself that never even show a slightest interest in a girl who tries to leech off my assignments.

Coming back to the present; Now the final exams been over for more than months, and I don’t have any class with this new girl I know anymore. I ran in to her other day in the hallway. I smiled, and she smiled back at me. She asked how I was, and I asked her the same. We chatted for a bit before we dispersed. This feeling is strange. Why would she still be so nice to me, even though we don’t have any classes together? Could I be wrong about her all along, that she’s really interested in me? Or maybe she’s just securing the future possibility that we might have a class together later. After all, we still got two more years until we graduate.

The thought of she might really like me struck me as a complete surprise. Even stranger is that my face light up every time I ran into her in the hallway. Just exchanging few quick words with her could uplift my spiritual health. I always believed the girl of my dreams is somewhere far off in the strangely unfamiliar elusive land I’ve vaguely heard about. Maybe she’s closer to home, right here in the school I go to. But I don’t want to get my hopes up; after all, I’m not the only guy she goes to say hi. Perhaps I’m right about her, and this feeling is just an illusion played by my desperate heart.