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Story created: 05/05/15

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Hugging thorns feels like

I was that giddy young teenage girl. All excited 'bout entering college. A new environment with new people to mingle with. It's overwhelming!

You're too innocent to be here, a new found friend once told me. Partly though, I agree. For a college girl, I have no experience in drinking, partying, and even dating. I'm a complete oblivion to those things. So if it ever happens it will be my first. But I let slide away for now, focusing on lectures.

Months after, it did happen, I met this boy. He's studying engineering and currently in his third year. We had a couple of dates. We go out whenever we're free like on vacant period. We avoided labels. I don't want things complicating whatever we have. We also both have the same interest and bond over the same thing― photography. Everywhere we go, someone will bring the camera, either him or me. We probably have hundreds of photos now. Some are printed out and is pinned in my room while others were exported to my laptop. He has a fair share of our hundred photos too. He has this big clipboard in his room hanging on the wall. Full of photos of us and notes.

It was a year or more when I finally admitted to myself I was whipped. I was scared at first so I avoided him. I stopped answering his calls for days. I'm not returning those either. I just text him occasionally saying I'm fine but he didn't settle for that. One afternoon after my class, I saw him outside waiting for me. He confronted me on the spot. I remember that face he did when he asked if I'm having enough of him. If I wanted out of these special thingy we have. I cried. It was hard for me to speak. I just sobbed the word "No, dickhead. The problem is I'm falling for you" out. And you know what? He laughed at me. I was dumbfounded. I feel offended. I just confessed for the first time in my life.

I was thinking to run. Escape this embarrassment. Switch school and never turned back. But he recovered quickly. Caught me on the elbow― yanking it then hugged me. I was about to squirm. You don't reject a girl then hug her. That's annihilating. The perfect way of destroying a girl's feelings. But then...

"Oh Demi, what took you so long?" he said then kissed me on the lips. It's nothing new― the kiss. Yeah we kiss often before, even longer than this actually. But the feeling it discharges, made me shiver.

"I love you too"

We're became official that day, in front of the crowd also known as my classmates. I still remember the loud cheers, my friends teasing, and a teacher shooing us away. We're that 'It Couple' I supposed. Even now after all those years, he's just so dreamy that sometimes I wonder if he's real. He's still that sweet boy. He never ran out of romantic tactics that never failed to make me swoon. We also don't fight that much, just small arguments that are quickly solved. Clearly, I can't wish for more.

We came to that point he's in his senior year while I'm in my third. He became busy. I understand that. He's graduating. We don't see each other much in school now. A lot of his time he spends in his OJT. But he calls me from time to time. Asking how my day is... or have I already eaten. It was so noble of him.

"Don't worry, love. I'm doing all this for our future" he said one night through the phone. My heart melts along with my insides probably warped by this moment. It's charming that he vision his future with me.

That fact motivated me... it made push myself more to study. To accomplish a diploma and graduate early― so I could be with him. My course, dentistry is 6 years. And since I'm already in my third that serves that I still have three years left. It feels too long. I want to graduate now and join my boyfriend in the real life― working. The day before I enroll for summer class was his graduation day. I sat with his family, taking pictures, capturing this unforgettable moment in his life before entering a new chapter.