This is how we both remember it. Ā It was during our family friendās party back in ā97. Ā Rlan had just came from the Philippines and he and his sister were just sitting with their family in the basement. Ā I, for many reasons, just kept walking up and down the stairs, wondering who they were. Ā I asked my friend, and her response āWhy you like him?ā Honestly? Thatās what you think when I ask who these people are? Ā I mean just because I can remember his shaved head, baggy pants, and that really big green jacketā¦ and nothing about what his sister was wearingā¦ does NOT mean that I liked him. Ā I just wanted to know who they were. Ā Of course, even when we asked them to go hang out with us, they still just sat there. Ā I guess they were still shy. Ā
My sister still claims we first saw them at a picnic in July ā98, but I thought that was the second time around, she is right that thatās when we started hanging out with themā¦Ā But I do remember seeing them at PBA before that picnic, at the bleachers of Bishop Foley. Ā Shaking my head, I was soĀ embarrassed tripping off the bleachers (Iām kind of awkward to begin withā¦ esp when thereās this guy staring at me). Ā
I remember a late night conversation with Ate Kathryn and Faith where my Ate kept saying āAlam mo baā¦ alam mo ba since the beginning of the worldā¦ alam mo ba since the he first saw you, he liked you?ā Ā It took me more family friend parties (or as we call them āEliteā parties), every other weekend at Metro Beach or Kensington Park, a random phone call, emails with hidden messages all the way at the bottom, and late night MSN conversations for feelings to really start. Ā And I wont lie, I thought it was hot when he played the guitar (Though he only could play the intros of the songs :P).
The drift apartā¦
To cut a long story short. Ā Rlan liked me a lot (torpe as he wasā¦ it was really obvious) and it started scaring me. Ā I wasnāt ready for a relationshipā¦ I just wanted to live in my fairy tale world. Ā Though, I did see forever in his eyes ā and boy can I remember his āgoodbyeā eyes ā and I knew he would wait until after college to ask me out if I asked him to, it was just too much for me. Ā I didnāt think anyone would ever like me, especially not to the extent that he liked meā¦ I wasnāt planning on going to prom, but if he has asked I would have gone. Ā But he never askedā¦ things happened, life goes onā¦ and we drifted apart.
Six years laterā¦.
Time passedā¦ and in ā08 the day after Christmas, my heart was broken and it was my last strawā¦ I heard God telling me it was time to LET GO! Ā And so I did. Ā It was during that Lenten season that I totally fell in love with God. Ā He kept giving me messages of hope and where I received what I like to call my āPhilemon promiseā. Ā
"Maybe we areĀ separatedĀ for now, so that both of us can become betterĀ people, so thatĀ ifĀ we do find ourselves together againā¦ itāll beĀ forever" - Philemon 12-16.
I really had no idea what it meant, but I just know that when I read it, the words lept off the page and was reaching out to me! I just had to "Be still and know He is God" - Pslam 46:10 ā which btw also had no clue what that meant the first how many times it was said to me! I just kept hearing the messages over and over again, I knew it was God speaking to me, so I just had to let go and let God workā¦ somehow I had an inkling thatĀ theĀ guy, was going to be at the next SE retreat - that the guy would be the oneĀ that God was talking about.Ā
Little did I know, that God was paving a path to bring Rlan back into my lifeā¦Ā And it was the weekend of June 13, 2009 at St. Johnās Retreat Center in Plymouth during the BLD Singles Encounter #5 Weekend that I God did send Rlan back into my life. There were only two guys there, my god brother and Rlan - so of course I thought what I heard was just wishful thinking and pushed it off to the side. But it wasnāt just wishful thinking, God truly made ways of bringing us together after that retreatā¦ regardless of how busy we might have been.
So thatās the basicĀ gistĀ of how God wroteā¦ the first part, at least, of our love storyā¦
- See more at: http://rklovestory.tumblr.com/lovestory#sthash.bAybmzU9.dpuf
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