Till it Last...

Reminiscing

Chapter 3: Start

I flushed deep red because of his statement. He shouldn't say such careless statements if he doesn't even mean it, it could mislead someone, not just someone or anyone, ME. I immediately erased the thoughts coz Adriana and Andy just stared at me for maybe zoning out for too long. My thoughts were interrupted when Andy spoke, he looked into my eyes and said " I got to go back, we are still in the middle of class activity, nice meeting you Ella" he held his hand out, and I shook it, then he flashed his beautiful smile that made his eyes twinkle. Gosh why do he have to be so damn cute. I waved goodbye as well. When I finally faced Adriana she was all grinning from ear to ear like a loon. " What?" I asked incredulously. She just waved her hand at me dismissively like it's nothing and giggled like there was a joke I missed. After that we went to our respective classrooms, btw we are not classmates coz I am in a higher section than my friends Tanya is section D , I am in Section C while Adriana is in Section F. Every break time , we meet up, and talk about a lot of stuff, it's all boys actually. It kinda surreal for us to see so many cute boys in our school.

Adriana let out a squeal " Isn't this great, so many cute guys, this should be the perks of being a college student, especially in a prestige university like this." " We didn't come here for boys you know, we came here to study Yana!" Tanya interjected, " Says the girl who has already a boyfriend, so unfair, I don't even like the guy" I whined. " Okay enough with Gerry, soon you'll learn to accept him" she defended, " Like you did?" Adriana questioned. Actually we never hated the guy but we never liked him either, Tanya always pay for everything, just because he's poor which is totally unfair coz he should have just tried at least to find a decent job. Tanya even helps him in finding a job which is so frustrating, seeing your friend doing all the effort. I would never do anything stupid just for a guy like Tanya did or do. We'll I kinda admire Tanya because she's strong even though she has faced a lot challenges in life especially with her family but that's out of the topic.

So we went to the canteen and ordered some snacks, we were so hungry, I ordered pasta while they ordered burger, just great, healthy foods for us. We were discussing about our high school life last year, it was great, we just can't get over it.

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That time I had my very first boyfriend, his name was Mike, I liked him a lot before we got together. I got a huge crush on him and everything just fit into place. I was a boyish girl during high school, I even joined the CAT (ROTC) just to be so cool. That's when I met him, he was part of my assigned platoon. He is tall, tanned skin, chinese eyes that says look at me I'm hot, a very defined nose, pale pink lips which for me is so manly, toned muscles, not the rock type kind of muscles, and just Vaseline boy hair, over all a bad boy kinda look. I was training them, and I felt so self conscious, he was damn hot how could I even resist not to look at him. "Straighten up guys, we will start your training, you need this one, if you wanted to be fit, want to learn discipline, this is the right place for you. I am Ella and I'm you're platoon leader, I will be with you for 1 whole school year". And I started calling their names, get to know them for a bit since I will be with them for a very long time. Everyone introduced themselves and it was Mike's turn. He looked at me straight in the eyes, smiled and a small dimple appeared on his left cheek, a smile crawled down to my face together with a deep red blush. "I'm Mike and I like small , petite girls with big round eyes and the one who could lead" I stopped him because I was really thinking he was describing me, hilarious right. "Okay Mike, we didn't ask you to describe your girl-type, I am asking you to tell us anything about yourself" I told him, "I'm telling you about myself, it's still part of it, technically speaking ma'am Ella" he replied. Well he's right, technically speaking, I never gave further instructions on how they should deliver it which is my fault. "Okay, continue" I spat back defeatedly. He smiled and said "my ideal girl most likely will look like the girl beside me, with her combat boots and fatigue on" he continued. I just blushed instantly , it was so humiliating but it was so sweet as well, my heart actually melted that day, I mean seriously, whose heart will still be intact if a guy you secretly like declared in front of everyone that you are his ideal girl. How cool is that. "Okay that's a bit too much maybe we should start our warm up" just to stop my embarrassment. Everybody was whistling and cheering and teasing. It's like I got cornered and I just looked like a bog round red tomato. This is way to start a training, just great.

After our training, and after class, he waited for me outside the gate, he was waiting expectantly. I was so shy that I even tried to avoid him but he saw me, and caught me and told me he wanted to talk to me personally and privately. So we went to a coffee shop near our school, then he confessed that he like me, while I was still in 2nd year, he saw me practicing playing the guitar and he just fell in love by the way laugh. " I like you, not because you're pretty which is obvious but I like you coz you just lighten up everyone's mood when you laugh, it is so contagious I sometimes laugh with you while watching" he confessed, " Well I don't know how to answer to that but honestly I like you too, at first it was all physical, I mean I don't really know you well so I based it on appearance, but what you did just a while ago during training, is so bold yet so sweet, and right then I liked even more" I honestly replied. " So does this mean we're together now?" He asked cautiously, " I guess we are" I countered. He smiled his brightest ever since I knew him, he kissed me in the forehead and whispered in my ear "Thank you".

Every night he would call me and sing to me Para sayo by Parokya ni Edgar , he would sing it and sometimes I even hear his Mom saying " You are so whipped my son". I liked him a lot but I guess I wasn't ready yet. He was always doing these sweet stuffs that I guess I got overwhelmed, I wasn't happy with our relationship anymore, I grew tired. Every time we have fight, he would just let me win, that's how he loves me, but that's not what I wanted. I needed some spice.

Then Adriana slapped my forehead which is so OUCH! I easily got out of my reverie. " What the hell was that for?" I shouted at her, "You were lost again, we were talking about Andy, he is coming here and he wanna join us" she casually said like it was not a big deal. "Whaaaaaaat?" panic is definitely evident in my tone, I scrambled, I don't know what to do, I even pushed my bag and it fell to the ground. I was picking it up when a familiar hand brushed with mine. " Hey" he coolly said. " Hey" I replied with my big round eyes looking at him in horror, " Did I shocked you?" He asked, I instantly replaced my mood with a straight face " Oh no! I just didn't expect you were coming" I answered in monotone. " Okay, so can I sit?" He asked , " Oh sure it's not my seat anyway, it's our schools' property" I replied and everyone just looked at me , gaped at me and laughed. " What?? It's true right? It's the schools' property and I don't have the right to tell him not to sit there, so obviously he can" and that was the start of the one to many arguments in my life with Andy.