I'm a student and a pharm tech on the side, so I usually work two to three days a week in the same retail pharmacy. I'm also very bi and closeted at work just for my peace of mind or whatever, however I'm out everywhere else !

Because I hate working in my college library (and since it's always full), I sometimes go to another college 10 minutes away to study without noise. I love going there. It's really peaceful, I know some people too, and the coffee is good and extra cheap.
So one day I go to their cafeteria after studying, just to relax a bit, and I see a woman so stunning, wearing a flowing red dress, surrounded by like 10 people who all had their eyes on her. She looked like a princess, no joke, I was captivated, I couldn't take my eyes off her. Anyway ; it lasted about a few seconds and I went back to my coffee.

Two weeks after, a friend of a friend from this school invited me to her DJ set with her other DJ friends in a queer bar. I said yes, maybe I'd go after work. So I clock out at 8pm, and go to this queer bar wearing an orange t-shirt because I love colours, and I'm pretty sure it makes people merrier (it makes me stand out at least, plus I thought I looked good).

After the first set (and three G and Ts), I felt hot so I got outside to get some fresh air since the bar was so packed, and to chat a bit with other people. My guy friend followed me outside then, and saw a person to whom he said hello to and it was her. The Princess, with a friend. My heart skipped a bit and honestly I was getting real drunk and she looked like an angel, she has such a beautiful smile... I asked her her name (that she gave me, along with a nickname) and if we ever met before and she told me that but didn't know where we could have met. She got outside to talk to her other friends. During the conversation (8 people), Idk, our eyes met, and we looked at each other for, like, 10 seconds. I thought I was hallucinating but I was pretty sure something had happened during that silent exchange. Then she got inside again. She told me goodbye when she left and I thought it was the end of it (she literally disappeared in the night before I could ask for her contact, and I had forgotten her name since I didn't hear it properly and I was not sober... Shame on me.)

Fast forward to yesterday. I was so tired at work, so many Rx's to fill, same old day...
Then someone got in, guess who ?
INDEED, The Princess, looking tired and sick af with a cold. I thought I would never see her again.
I recognised her immediately, I was shook, but it felt weird, it felt like my boss (the RPh) knew her. And then she got to my counter asking for cold medicine that I got her obviously.
After that, I told her that we met several times before, and she asked me if I was in her school (I didn't lie and told her everything), then talked about the DJ set at the bar and she ended up telling me "You were the girl in orange ?", my brain was like "!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and she looked very surprised as well. Then she gave me her name (won't tell but it was a beautiful Arabic name like Layeil) and we talked for a little while – I was still at the counter, thankfully the RPh was busy and there was no one else behind.
Then I said, "It's funny, I see you everywhere, but it's nice to see you" and she replied by "it's nice to see you too, we could get drinks after work if you want". She was beaming and I was like fuck FUCK FUCK so this party at the bar wasn't a fucking dream, this woman exists and she just invited me for drinks ?
Then she gave me her number (I gave her mine too) and I stayed perfectly composed on the outside but I was still ????ing in my head.
I then realised I had seen her before, because she's been going to the same damn pharmacy for months (mine) and I was so focused on filling other Rx's that my colleague (the second RPh) filled hers, and she always looked so happy to see him (she never really looked at me and me neither - I just thought she was pretty and nice) that I thought she had a crush on him and he had no idea. LITTLE DID I KNOW.

So I see her next week for dinner !

(She came back 30 minutes after the this episode because she needed something else, and she smiled at me a lot while the RPh was getting it. Amazing day.)