Being in a long distance relationship is not easy especially when you started the relationship that you always together and be there to each other everytime you want. There's a lot of struggles and adjustment that you need to do just to survived that stage. Some couples continue but some are not. Long distance relationship is not for everyone.
Another article , another love story , another throwback from the past. Oh well they said there's nothing wrong when you think about the past. So let me think of it again.
We met online. It was a social platform called AirG. It was year 2014 when I met him. I was so attracted by his look because hes neat and handsome. We exchange messages there and decided to meet up. I am working on SM Bicutan that time and he was working in Paranaque. It was father's day that time when we met in SM. I remember the time that I feel the slow motion feeling when I saw him for the first time. I knew it was him because he said he wear a black shirt. We just eat on Greenwich and I asked if I can leave because it's fathers day. Maybe you might think why it is too fast. It because that meet up was not planned.
He walk with me in the footbridge and wait until I ride the jeepney. That time I have no other intention even if I knew that there's something about him. Our conversation over the phone continued but this time we already knew the phone number of each other. We became friends and didn't show any move. I told him that I'm still in a move on process because my ex boyfriend leave me for no reason.
One night , I was with my friend Jade. We were drinking in thier boarding house because I want to forget my ex for a while. I was so drunk that time to the point that I can no longer remember what I'm doing. I sleep on Jade's place and go home tomorrow morning. I was about to sleep when Chai called me. He asked me if Im okay as I called him last night and I am crying. He called me just to make sure that I'm okay and go home safe then our conversation ended.
Thats the start of our love story. I mean the start of being sweet to me and showing some affection. He told me that my picture was his wallpaper and I was laughing while he said that until he confess that he loves me. He even sang this song lyrics to me " I knew I love you before I met you. I told him that I am not ready for a relationship but he said he will help me to move on with my ex. As a desperate girl who wants to forget about the pain on my past I agree to what he said and we became in relationship. That relationship of us pours a lot of bashes especially the mutual friends of me and my ex who thinks that there's a third party involved and it's my fault but they didn't know it was my ex fault because he leave me for no reason.
We know our set up. He knows that I like him but there's no love involved, maybe there's and little but not totally inloved. It's been two weeks since we met and how can I feel the love already by that short period of time.
He calls over the phone and he told me so excited that her mother wants to talk to me and I was like , seriously? Your mother wants to talk to me already? I have no choice but to talk to her mother over the phone and from the time that her mother call me " anak " , that the time that I feel welcome. Months after he asked me if I want to go on Batangas , his hometown and meet his relatives there.
My father didn't know that I have a boyfriend already and I am thinking how to make an alibi and go to Batangas with Chai on weekends. I lied to my father that time. I told my father that I will go on my best friend place in Cavite and I will sleep there. My father knows my boy bestfriend that's why he didn't asked me for more details. Ofcourse I also contacted my best friend if in case my father call him.
We go to Batangas Saturday morning without any idea of what awaits me there. It was also the first time that I will go to Batangas. You can see on his face how excited he was. He was holding my hand and look at me like he was so inlove. After 3 hours we reached thier house and I didn't expected what to see there.
Thier house is a small house , it's unfinished and like old one. I just act neutral that time and then smile to each person inside the house. It's lunch time when we arrived and her mother invited us for lunch. The food that time is bittergourd with corned beef. I just accepted and eat what they prepared but on the back of mind I expected something because we are like that when we have a visitor , we prepared something delicious. Since it's my first time to go there , I just sit and didn't talk to much.
We rest a bit and then he asked me if I want to go on the beach. The beach was located in the town proper and we need to ride a tricycle just to go there. We enjoyed the beach and the fresh air. He wrote I love you Honey in the sand and he seems so proud in our relationship. He even told me that the guys look at me because I'm beautiful and he was the lucky one because he is my boyfriend. Hes so inloved with me that time haha.
During the night , they only one room and me , him and her mother were in the same bed and he was in the middle. It's a bit awkward for me but you know what I feel so touched when he said " I am so happy tonight because the two woman that I love are beside me. Her mother is a single parent and his father leave them when he was still a baby that's why he love her mother so much.
Sunday morning , I started to know them more and how oriented thier family is. It was the family that I dreamt. A family that maybe lack in material things but they have full of love. The moment that I saw Chai how he showed love to her mother I already feel the love for him.
We went back to Manila Sunday afternoon and as we sitting on the bus I hugged him tight and thanked him because I experienced that feeling of having a loving family that I didn't experience on my own.
