Recalling My Little Happy Crush

Once again rescued by my saved articles. It's Saturday, it means I have no work to do but I guess my mind is still thinking of work. Lol.

Anyway, I'd like to thank @meitanteikudo for this prompt. It's been a month I guess, when he published this.

In this article, I'd like to share with you as I recall my happy crush way back in grade school. Too early, right? Hahaha I can still remember it because my parents and my relatives always use this to tease me.

Who was your first crush?

Christian. He's my classmate from grade 1 until grade 6.

How do you know each other?

Well, we were classmates. I just knew him because we became seatmates.

What was your crush like?

All my crushes have this one common denominator - they're all neat! Like clean kind of neat. When you see them, you can tell that they took a bath and put cologne on, that kind of person hahaha.

Christian goes to school with his complete uniform. Always tidy. Even when it's dismissal time, you'll see his uniform still clean. He wears cologne every single time. He has this chubby cheeks and cute face.

What made you admire this person?

He always joke around and he's neat. I guess that's another common denominator of all my crushes, they always make me laugh.

What's their best characteristic?

He's kind and makes sure that I laugh/smile.

Can you share any stories about you two?

This one is one of my core memories of him.

We were in grade 2 when we became seatmates. It was that time when telephones are one of the ways to communicate. We had one at home.

I was a diligent student. I always make sure to copy all the notes on the board. I was also the teacher's pet then.

Christian is the opposite. He doesn't write notes but his mother was hands-on when it comes to his studies. His mother always talk to my parents during dismissal time while they're waiting for us to come out of the school gate. They always borrow my notes to catch up. They even exchanged telephone numbers so they can ask questions right away.

Since there were no WiFi back then, I always make sure to sit beside the telephone so I can call my mom's office when it's her break already. Yup, I was that annoying kid who calls her mom whenever she's bored hahaha.

One night, the telephone rang. I hurried to answer it. That was my task at home.

Guess who called? It was Christian.

Imagine 8 year olds - using telephones just to talk with each other. How cute! Haha

We just talked about anything under the sun - what we played outside, what we ate, what are we going to play tomorrow, and a lot more.

Calls like that lasted for 30 minutes. After calls, my parents and my other relatives who used to live with us at home usually tease me.

It became a routine. Every after class, all I did was to wait for his call and it never failed. Hahaha

That's it. That's my little happy crush. I was happy back then. Kilig!

What's with our lives now?

Well, he is now happily married with one of our classmates back in grade school, who is my friend as well. They already had a son who reminds me of how Christian looked like back then. Soooo cute!

While me, I'm in a happy long term relationship with W, my classmate in high school :)

Soooo, that's it for this article. Thank you for reading!

May 28, 2022