Wrong notions led me to find love

Bi, when I first saw you in high school I never imagined we'll ever get to know each other. You and I were too different in many ways. I never liked you nor people like you then because you were a popular school braggart. Everyday, you would drive your dad's brown car though you were just a minor, not to mention that you live the nearest in school among other students. You live only a stone's throw away from school you silly boy so why drive? When you were younger, you also have this bad hobby of making fun of other students or teachers while you are sitting with your crew along the gutter just infront of our classroom building. Oftentimes, I bow my head down whenever my bestfriend Robi and I would pass by in your bullying spot. I do this almost all the time in an effort to remain unnoticed and not picked on by you or your crew as we make our way to and from the ESF building's comfort room (the only CR around back then to my dismay!).

Four years later, our paths finally crossed. You arrived from an afternoon Easter Sunday mass and was introduced to me by ate Gigi. She said you texted her 10x and even showed those piled up unread messages just to make her introduce you to me. She added you were too eager because you saw me twice in my appearances on TVNet. I thought it was too demanding of you to make ate Gigi exert such efforts. Simultaneously, I felt stunned because I cannot believe that it was really you. No, not the haughty guy I knew in high school! Then you finally came looking dapper in black Adidas collared shirt, flared pants and matching white sneakers. Seeing you made me glance at myself in the large mirror across my seat. I look every inch of a mess; a country lass tanned from picking mangoes ealier that day. I didn't care. I wasn't able to stop myself from blurting out and cutting your introduction short when you said, "Hi, I'm." "I know you. You were one of the popular braggarts in high school.", I retorted. That made your stance uneasy but still you approached me, sat one spot beside me and formally introduced yourself. I've been mean I suppose. But I think it was just fair because of all the humiliation I felt whenever Robi and I will pass by your loiter area. I felt backstabbed before or did I just worry too much. I realized, I have to shut up and let you speak. 

The way you talk is simply witty. I didn't find any hint of your supposedly presumptuous self in any of the words you spoke. You sound funny yet sensible. I find it amusing the way you argued about politics with me. You were then a Political Science major you told me. After that first conversation, I tried to look back. Maybe underneath your overconfident exterior is a warm personality I failed to see ages ago. Days passed and you always tagged along with me in my whereabouts. I was a bit uncomfy but I didn't refrain from letting you know about my hermit self and what's beneath it. Because you see I am quite a loner and it's very rare that people, especially people like you, would want to befriend someone as dull as me. I felt that I am beginning to trust you because from day 1, you were already trying to break that preconceived notion I've had about you when we were in high school. 

A week later, you sheepishly admitted that you had fallen in love with me...

A week later, you had succeeded in breaking that misconception I used to have about you 4 years ago... 

By the end of that week you had to leave. You left too soon that fateful summer 4 years ago.

I wouldn't exchange that summer season for anything else because that very summer God gave me something I didn't ask for. God gave me you... 

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I love you baby in its deepest, purest sense.<3 p="p">

(March 4, 2011)