Part XIV

"Before University"

Me and Allie were clicking. She just got out of a relationship so she wasn't really ready yet for something new. But I waited for her to be ready. All the signs pointed toward away from her. She always kept telling me that I shouldn't be with her because she wasn't gonna entertain me. But I just kept pursuing her. But she folded like a lawn chair when I finally did those cheesy things again after a long time.

One time, I surprised her and went all the way to O.B. Las Piñas for an event. I even lost a bouquet of roses that I left at the school gate before heading to LP. I bought her a toy rose instead, so that it'd never die out. Everyone was shocked when they saw me go to that night. Even my class adviser, the High School Principal, was there. She really liked what I did. I even met her sister that night and they started calling me "Edward" because I was so white and I had the same hairstyle. Her ex was also there, and we even made eye contact, but he had no heat with me so everything was fine. I got sick the next night. We also went to Prom again. But we didn't dance that night. All I have is a bad picture of me and her. She went home early and I didn't get to say goodbye. Finally, we also went to Graduation. She was the person I had the longest relationship with, I courted her from November to May. We were so close to being together that even had our own pet names. We lasted for a really long time because I was really persistent on getting her to say yes, but I never really dropped the question. Because I started to think that if I asked her and she says yes, I had to make a commitment to her. And I wasn't ready for that. Especially with me entering College. So I broke it off with her on May. Weeks before I entered University.

Part XIII

"Allie”

Things ended with Peach around September and I moved on sometime around November. It was all thanks to Allie. (Remember?) I asked for her number during the Prom in February. She shared a table with some of the OBLP peeps and I got to know some of them through my friend, Janine. Janine was this girl from OBLP that I met through Yahoo! Messenger, hours before Christmas 2009. I liked her at first but I realized she was out of my league so we stayed friends. That's how I got to talk to Allie so easily. But even after that, we exchanged a text only once. She then added me on Facebook and after a few months, for the first time, I chatted her. By that time she was already single.

Anyway, I was doing this joke on Diether. Diether was the son of a very famous Filipino actor and host, and he was a new student at my school. We became friends because he lived near my house. (He is actually Peach's neighbor.) We went home together on many occasions and we would talk about him finding a girl and I said I would help him look for one. Crazy. I asked Allie if she was interested in Diether. She declined and it was funny because it wasn't really common to ask her on Facebook whether she liked a guy who she had never met before. I started talking to her a lot during that month and we became really close. Her friends started to know who I was because she kept telling them about me. I had friends in OBLP because I was like a crazy person who just kept meeting people everyday, even though they were in LP and I was in GH. By that time, everyone who knew Allie, knew me. We spent a lot of time texting and chatting. Then we realized we already had feelings for each other.