coffee, wedding and a rewind to the past

It almost broke my head thinking where have I seen that scenario. I was typing my supposed-to-be-blog-entry, when the letters on my screen seemed to form a blurry image helping me to remember something. Was it from a movie? A telenovela? Have I read it from a book? Was it a similar story from a friend? Hay… I don’t know. I must be hallucinating. My body must have forgotten to send me some signals that I haven’t eaten any decent meal the whole day. I only had 1 piece of Skyflakes crackers offered by a friend and a hot choco from McDo for breakfast. I only had coffee for lunch for a reason that until now held me in a stupor.

I wasn’t able to sit comfortably and enjoy my coffee. I don’t even understand why was I invited. I haven’t seen her for more than two years. We’re not even close friends. She was my former suitor’s ex-girlfriend. Yes, I did say suitor. As in “suitor”. Not “boylet”. People always think that if I get a confession/proposal from a guy, it automatically makes him a suitor. Diiiiitttt…. Wrong.

Anyway, like what I’ve said, we’re not close friends. We’re… acquaintances with a little touch of friendship. The last time I’ve seen her was a couple of days before she left for Canada last December of 2001. We only get to talk everytime she greets me on special occasions like Christmas and New Year through email. She told me that she has been in Manila since August.

“Mike and I are getting married and I would like you to be there”, she said.
“Another reason why I’ve met up with you is there are things that I would like to tell you before I tie the knot… I have been meeting up with people for the past month. Talking to them, etc….”, she added.

“For what?”, I asked.
“For closure. Ang weird ba? hahaha”, she replied.
“Di naman. Sort of purging. Maganda yan” I reacted even if deep inside there’s this huge question, why am I involved here?

She paused for a couple of seconds, sipped her frap, wiped her lips and she looked at me. Then, she handed me a note. It says:
“I just want to say thank you. As in thank you. I talked to Ry last week. Lahat ng gusto kong sabihin sa kaniya nasabi ko na. We’re like bestfriends na for the past years. After talking to him, I realized I should talk to you as well. I know tapos na yun. I don’t even know why I’m doing this. And I’m not even marrying him. But please bear with me. I admit, medyo nagalit ako sa iyo kasi close kayo during that time. Alam mo naman kung kelan yun. I know hindi na kami nun pero alam mo naman yung case. He and I always argued. Pero kahit alam niyang mag-aaway kami, tinitext niya pa rin ako to tell me he was with you. Tapos dumating yung time na nalaman kong hindi na kayo nag-uusap. Iba na yung kasama niya lagi nun. Actually nakausap ko si missy nun, she told me everything I have to know. I know it’s hard for you to finally decide na layuan siya but you did. Pero thank you kasi it gave me and Ry the chance to really clear things. Naging ok na kami after that. I’m sure you knew about it. Though we didn’t end up getting back together, we became really good friends. Hanggang sa nalaman kong he likes you. Boyfriend ko na si mike nun. I learned nililigawan ka niya after more than a year. Unfortunately, iba pala pinili mo.... Well, you’ve been very nice to me after all that had happened. Ang weird nitong note pero ginawa ko na kasi baka hindi ko masabi verbally. Thank you again kasi everything’s ok now”

She shared a lot after I read the note. And I just sat there thinking if it was a real conversation.

She hugged me before we parted ways and it feels really good. It feels like we’ve been friends for so many years.

I went back to the office with my thoughts flying around. Do people have to do that before getting married? Why did it happen? What the heck was that? Did it really happen?

Yes it did….. and I’m actually holding the wedding invitation she gave me.

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Mr. Separate Lives, naalala kita kanina. Ewan ko ba kung bakit. Isipin ko muna

Ry, we have to talk.