This is a republished blog entry. Due to some technical difficulty, this blog entry was seriously messed up and hence I decided to republish it, word to word as the original. Sorry for the inconveniences caused.
Yesterday when I was nearby PJ Hilton, I saw a lady which looked extremely familiar. We looked at each other for quite a bit and finally, my curiosity was pushing me forward and I popped the most common pick-up line, “Hey, have we met before?”
“Yes,” she smiled.
I said, “Yeah, I thought so too because I wasn’t sure if you are the person that I knew during highschool. You have changed a lot. You look excellent! How are you?”
She replied, “Oh thanks! Yeah, it has been more than 10 years since we went our separate ways. I am doing okay. You are still looking good.”
I blushed a bit, “Thanks!”
Then I heard noises behind me. I turned and saw 3 kids running around, and ran towards me and called, “Mummy! Mummy! Can I buy the tic-tac?”
I turned and looked at her. She smiled to the kids, “Yes dear. But don’t eat too much sweet k?”
My jaws almost dropped to the floor. I was stunned.
“Surprise? Well, don’t be! It has been more than 10 years, and I have been married for more than 5 years,” again, she smiled, “So are you married?”
Shit, here comes the same old questions, I thought. “Congratulations! No, not yet, but I am actually planning to get married next year.”
“Oh that’s great! Remember to invite me to your wedding dinner ya?” she said.
I looked at the kids, and my mind was drifting to a far away land. “Sure,” I didn’t know if I should invite her, “Your kids look lovely and very adorable.”
“Thanks,” again, she was giving me the smile.
Then, there was a huge silence in between us. It seemed like everything else in the world has stopped moving, and every people around us, including the kids, were in ultra slow motion, and they were making very little noise.
My mind drifted away again, and this time it was back to highschool. I knew her since I was in primary school, and we kept in touch during highschool period. We were very close, and we went out a lot because we practically grew up together. I remember how I used to look at her, paying all the attention I could muster just to look at her perfect face, the curl of her eye brow, the clearness of her eyes, and the body scent she was emitting (I used to wonder what kind of perfume or body shampoo that she was using). We used to spend hours and hours talking on the phone, and we used to hold hands when we went out for movies.
I also remember vividly that she was the girl who took my first kiss. My first ever kiss. And then, there was this one night before our graduation, we went out together for a movie, and then took dinner together, and all the time holding hands. And then, we started kissing, and my hands were moving up….
“So are you still single?” she asked, and that snapped me back into reality again.
I shook my head to clear up my mind from the memories, and she looked at me and exclaimed, “Oh I asked you that question just now. Sorry!”
I said, “It’s ok. I do have a girlfriend. We have been together for more than 2 years already. Sorry, just now I was just … ermm….”
“Thinking of the good old time?” she continued my sentence, reading my mind like an open book, and giving me a faint smile.
I replied, “Uhmm.. yeah,” and I gave her a faint smile also.
“Yeah, those were some good times that we had,” she looked at her kids running around outside, playing and laughing at the same time, and not thinking about the cruelty of reality and not knowing the pain of growing up. “Well, look at me! It has been few years and now I am mother of three.”
I got the hint, and not wanting her to misunderstood me, I laughed and said, “Yeah, now that you are married and have 3 kids, I will tell you the truth: I used to like you a lot and a lot.”
She laughed really hard, and said, “Seriously? Me too! Do you know that I used to like you so much that I wanted to go out with you and I was thinking that you were the greatest and in my young mind, I was thinking of marrying you?”
“Seriously?” I replied, and we looked at each other for a split second. Then we laughed.
Yes, we did like each other so much so that we wanted to love each other to death, holding hands and not wanting to let go. But due to fate and circumstances, we drifted apart. But the liking we had for each other had not subsided. Upon meeting up, by accident, it was transformed to become something more pure: a life long friend.
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Thank you.
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