The Meeting

During the times that we are chatting, he knows that I am doubting him all those times still. Because like what I mentioned, there are a lot of posers here in the Philippines especially in the net, I don't immediately believe someone. Especially in our case when we just met each other on the net, without any idea of who we really are. They can't show their real faces because, let's say, theirs can't be tagged as fair enough. Harhar!

So what he will do to prove that he is not bluffing around, he will show his face in his web cam and tell me that if I want to I can let my office mates see his face. I am particularly close to Mother E., she is the Director of the NGO I am part of. So while we are chatting over YM, she is behind me looking at Y's face in the cam, and the usual, "He's so cute!", and at times read our conversations! So, that was some kind of a turn table for me, and I started to trust him in my own way.

OK. So I decided to finally meet him. Long before, we have plans already how we are going to meet, where I am staying and all those stuff. That happened in the 3rd month of our relationship. I really insisted that I am going to be out of the office for more than two days mainly because I am really meeting him, but I just gave the lame excuse that I am visiting my grandmother who happened to live in the same province where he lives.

The two hour ride in the van seems like forever. I am finally meeting my prince. Or so I think and hope. I sent him text messages hours before that I am on my way and that I will stop over the internet cafe which he looks over for his aunt. I was having a hard time looking for the net cafe because of the many establishments. I was kinda lost, that I went down almost at the end of the city already. And the most fortunate me out of pure instinct boarded down the van and realized I have found it accidentally, because there it was right at the corner! So I sent him a message that I am here. About a minute later, here he went out. Oh! I did almost faint. He was exactly the person he said he was. He gave me his signature tap in the back of my head and that breathtaking smile of his, which causes his Chinese eyes to be smaller! We exchanged "How are you's". If only we can hug each other in public, but the whole city will see us and I don't want to ruin him because he has some kind of a reputation in his place. He led me inside the cafe. I was so shy, maybe more shy than Shiuji. So there we went and because of my shame, I decided to act like going there to access the internet.

That was so lame of me huh. But yeah, I sat down in one of the computers and opened my YM and we began chatting. lol! And to think that he's only inches away! Hahaha! That was really so funny! It took him almost an hour later to really entertain me because he was finishing something. Well, he led me to his aunt's house near the rail road because the original plan of me staying over his best friend's house did not materialize. I am only writing this down here, but I was really quite disappointed with the accommodation at first. Like it was not what I expected of him. I was picturing him as well-off but I realized later on that he is but acts like he's not or maybe some circumstances allow him not to be. In any way, I can't tell him that I do not like the place where I am staying or something like that. Especially that I promised him that I will not be choosy. So I just acted cool and later on learned how to love that simple place and the people inside them. I also met his sisters and brothers, aunts and uncles including his cousins, and of course his very kind best friend, D. I remember him treating me so well. I really can't recall what else happened that afternoon. I decided then to sleep there as well because we have planned that evening long before and have really wanted to discover each other. So came the long awaited night...