A Valentine Memory

The last time I checked, Valentines day has already ended. An annual celebration of love all over the world but not for all. I just spent all the time at work and work and more work. Such a boring kind of life. Such a loser as they say. 

But no, I ain't a loser co'z I was once able to celebrate this feast of the hearts along time ago. My very first and very ever formal Valentine date. This was way back 1999. I don't know why it just came out of my mind and never did I realize that it haunt me. 

Last night, I browsed my Friendster account co'z I have been searching for someone that has played a great role why I started to feel like Valentines Day is a special day to cherish memories and spend time with your special someone. 

This was the very first girl I took for a Valentines Date. A formal invitation and a memorable one for me. 

Her name is Cristy De Villa. Her family call her Ynte. I call her Miss Asa Rin and she wanted to be called Tricsy. 

Cristy was of my same age. We meet way back 1998 in Edsa Crossing where I worked in her Tita's novelty shop. She was a working student by then and she was working at the same place I work though specially on weekends and on days that she's got no schedule to go to school. 

It all started with love notes and love letters. I, myself, has been fond of writing down anything that i could think of in a poem. I have her as my coach by then. I let her read my compositions until such time, I came to realize that she became the apple of my eye. 

We started to please each other when one night we are talking serious things about our family and experiences. She was by then busy with her school work but I guess that time I was so eager to look for someone to talk with. And so, I grabbed her attention and we started talking as if we have known each other for a long time. That was the start of a good friendship. 

Cristy was the kind of girl who was born a fighter. Need not to tell you though why I'd say so. There are limitations that I need not to tell. 

She was the only person who told me to stop smoking and yes I did. But when conflicts arose like when her family, sister and even her Tita has figured something like me and her has this "mutual understanding thing", an emotional commotion was triggered to fail thus I feel like I was a loser. 

By then, when conflicts arose, we don't talk face to face but we let our pen and paper do the talking. I cried one night when she told me I can never be someone that she can be with for a special friend. I cried the whole night and I started the melancholy moments of my life with her. 

One night, when she found out that I wasn't the same me that she have known (co'z I become the worst of me), she talked to me face to face and she saw me cry. Those were hours of the turning point again of our relationshipa s special friends for each other. 

On the eve of Valentines day of 1999, I wrote a letter to her asking her if she could be my Valentine Date. She neglected it. But to my surprise, she came to me and let me say the invitation personally. AY! What a night!

The plan was actually to watch movie in Megamall, last full show. 

The night came, nobody from her family and nobody form our colleagues knew that we will be going out that Valentines night. We stroll the sidewalk to Megamall but we were too late co'z the last full show was already closed. We were both dismayed. We decided to take a walk and talk about things but instead of talking things, we were both silent while walking through a food chain which was the last resort. When we are about to cross the road, I grabbed her hands and took her to McDonalds since none was open other than that 24 hour food chain. 

We stayed silent and have not talk much. Both were tongue-tied. There was a time though when we surprisingly opened up a topic so serious that the atmosphere of the environment felt like Love is in the air. Whatever we have talked about, that would remain with the both of us. 

A good start for a special relationship. 

Time has been so cruel though and problem still arose. My being jealous was the issue and my being so silent was one thing that she hates. Co'z I never talk whenever i got a problem. I would just let her see that I bare a problem. 

Anyways, I am still looking for her till now just to properly fix things...