Saturday, May 5, 2012
Somebody I Used To Know #2
You turn up at Jurong Point. It's 2008 and it's still old and undergoing renovation — not the way it is now. You are there to celebrate your friend's birthday. In a couple of months you would fall out with this friend but of course, you didn't know it then.
You meet up with a couple of people who are also going along for the celebration. Amongst them are M-kun, a boy you turned down earlier that year; B-san, a girl a year ahead of you in school whom you will eventually grow rather close to; and of course the birthday boy himself — Sea Squirrel. And then there was Z-kun.
You are intrigued and instantly attracted to Z-kun. He has nice eyes and when you try to talk to him, he mostly ignores you. You are surprised and curious because many boys liked you and nobody ever ignored you then.
After a few more people turn up, you all go bowling at a country club. You observe Z-kun and you realize he doesn't talk much. But innately, you feel that there is something different about him.
By the end of the night you exchange numbers, but you don't speak again until months later.
Your then-best friend F-chan ropes you into some inter-school drama competition because they need people. You end up acting for the production as F-chan's character's mother. Z-kun's character is F-chan's character's father. This means that you end up acting as Z-kun's character's wife.
More months go by before you speak with Z-kun again. Soon you find out he likes you and you are thrilled because you like him too. A new year comes by. You cannot believe someone like him would even like you. You really grow to love him a lot.
When everything ended your heart broke — you were never the same again. It was an innocence lost — you learnt that love was not always enough. You became apathetic on the outside but inside you were breaking and it shone through from the cracks upon your veneer — you thought no one could see it but everybody did. You became the sort of person who would just start tearing upon hearing a song. You start picking your songs on your iPod very cautiously but you gave up when it got too tiresome. You cry to sleep way too often and music was the only thing accompanying your sad world as you try to sleep.
You start to think you will never be put-together again but be patient — closure takes you over two years but when you see everything coming around full circle, you learn that this was all truly meant to be.
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