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.