7 Clues They’re Not “The One” According to the Experts

They’re someone else’s “one” instead

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The four-story registry building swarmed with excited university students. Rolled up sleeping bags warmed their armpits and 6-packs of beer hung from their fingers. They surged through the maze of offices, greeting each other with hugs and fist bumps; the atmosphere charged with political fervor from the day’s protesting.

I hadn’t thought to bring a sleeping bag, or alcohol for that matter. I’d joined the fees protest spontaneously, passing by just as a group of young guys rammed the doors with a log: medieval siege warfare-style. I wasn’t prepared for the two night occupation of the registry building like others around me.

Thankfully, the guy I’d been flirting with for the last two hours was.

When the day-time protests settled, he led us to a quiet office corner and we snuggled down for the night under his blanket. He was by far the most attractive man I’d ever kissed: fit and tall with blonde hair that fell into his eyes. A strong jaw covered in just enough rough stubble to make him look like he didn’t care. He’d mastered the perfect groomed-but-chill university student persona. It made me shy. But with the excitement of the protest, standing arm in arm blocking the doors, who needed to talk? Eye contact and a…