âWhere were we when fate missed us?â
I ask myself that question since morning along the tears that drop and moist my pillow. I spent the night crying and thinking that I made a mistake in saying it. I only said it because I thought that there would be no chance between us. I shouldn't have said that, but my emotions drove me in doing so. Iâm sorry. I donât know what else to say but Iâm sorry.
I like you ever since I first hang out with you. I can still remember that chocolate you offered me from the gig you left just to be with me, and even on a short while, you set my heart in a whirlwind of emotions and set me smiling like a fool. I smiled a lot because of you. I find myself smiling after reading a text from you, I find myself smiling after being with you. If only you see my face whenever you accompany me wait a ride to go home or somewhere, and my back facing you, Iâm actually smiling. deliriously happy, but all those happiness you gave me are pointless, for I thought that we were just friends.
I can still remember that heart-leaping moment when you asked me out on a date. Crappy movie with almost all seats taken, ice cream and shawarma tacos. Then after everything, it didn't turn out to be a date we expected. It was fine with me if it didnât turn out in what we thought it should be, all I was thinking was I was with you, and I was happy. You said that ânext time, itâll be great-itâll be betterâ adding that if only I had no curfew, weâd probably be out now somewhere and enjoy ourselves. A river of plans of what we would like to do, going in and out of our mouths and thoughts. We talked about it as if it would happen, as if we can both reach that time that we can do it.
I didnât want to say goodbye when weâre together. I never wanted to say to goodbye when Iâm with you.
I always had that thought in the back of my mind that you liked me too, and I held back every thought and courage to tell you for I might just humiliate myself. Haunted by âWhat ifâsâ and âMaybeâsâ. I know you too much to know what you would say. Maybe thatâs what it lead me to say it to you aggressively.
I like you is what I meant. Maybe too, that I was frustrated in how to say it to you. After finding out that I offended you from what I said that making me happy is pointless. I donât know what made you mad in that short sentence but I still cried. I cried from the thought that I made you mad, that I made you angry, that I made you frustrated and off with me. I donât want to push you away. I like you.
Half asleep, I asked you if you liked me. I didnât expect any direct answer of sort, and you said âyesâ that you did like me. My world turned upside down. I wish I knew it earlier, I wish I knew it before what I said last night. I felt weak. I controlled myself from saying more, for asking more questions. I feel like itâs enough. Iâm too tired to dwell on it further.
What you last said didnât haunt me. Iâm tired. I wish that we had a chance to know it earlier during that time we were at that coffee shop. I wish I knew that those eyes, bright and full of joy, looking at mine as if longing and wanting to say something, meant that there were more of this friendship we had. From the way you talk, the way you look, and the way you smile. I loose myself in the pool of your eyes. I loose myself whenever youâre in my presence.
I still kept the tickets from the movie. The holi powder. I still kept every bit that I know of you. Literal and metamorphic.