Chapter 3 - The One

     Weeks pass by, I start to feel grow of feelings for her. One day, she uploaded a picture of herself and three of her friends. At first I didn’t know which one was her in the picture since it was the first time I see a picture posted up there. In the end, I found out which one was her – she had a beautiful smile, cute hair tied up in a ponytail and she was very beautiful. People called her black cause she was literally sunburned due to marching band activities. However, I found that she’s just beautiful with her skin tone. Since that day, I didn’t stop going to her profile. I was a stalker before I knew it. But I was too mad with love-goggles till I didn’t realize it myself. Her beauty just amazes me.

     About a month later, I start to think of confessing to her. All in my mind was “go get her before someone else does” over and over again. Me, a guy who didn’t believe that I would fall in love till I finish my studies thought of that. I was too madly in love with a girl I just met a month ago. Wondering by myself – is it love in first sight? Or just blind love? I decided to ask her about her personal stuff later that evening after school. Several days later I summed up that she was single, and never had any relationships in the past. My mind starts to force me to give it a shot. I’ve broken my principle.

     I waited on the 26^th of February of that year. Hoping for luck on after years of unluckiness on that particular day. That day, I composed a simple message to her in Friendster.

     “Hi..

          You are very pretty. I actually really like you.”

     Two sentences. All I can think of was only two sentences. I lost all my long speech that I have thought of when I was in class. All gone. Left with these 2 sentences. Eventhough it was a pathetic message, I clicked send anyway. I thought I have to get this girl no matter what. I really like her. I must gather my courage and tell her my feelings. Or so I thought...

Chapter 2 - The First

     Newly after the mid of January, all that came to a stop. Well, not completely. But something was changing alright. I met her. It was nothing fancy, just through Friendster. It was early in the morning, about dawn – well, my dawn atleast. Around 10 in the morning. I was having my daily Friendster updates and brunch in the middle of it. I saw a friend request from a friend of a friend. Happens to be a student at my mother’s school where she was teaching. I didn’t know much about her ‘cause she didn’t upload any of her pictures nor use her real name on it. All I knew was she was ChoCoLaTeZ. I started a conversation with her – simple, corny, and mostly awkward. I bet it was. Further into details, I started with, “Oh wow, you’re learning at my mother’s school. Do you know her?” Gosh, how lame was that. But I did it anyways. There was no response from her till the night of that day. I was so excited and I don’t even know why. Probably because the first girl I would talk to besides my mom and my sister.

     I went online and checked for response, and there, one new notification. I clicked on it, “Yeah, I knew her. How did you found me?” she wrote. It did make me think – how did I found her at first. I just told her that I was randomly adding people and found out that she was one of my mom’s students when I was doing my daily Friendster updates. It was a surprise for me that I randomly added her. We went chatting all night in there. We did enjoyed having the conversation eventhough it was only the first time we have ever talked – atleast I did. It all went normally the next day. We did posts on each other’s testimonials daily – what Facebook call it as ‘walls’. It went few days later after the 21^st of January that year -  when we first chatted, I started to feel something of which I didn’t know what it was. I realized that I’m falling in love with this ChoCoLaTeZ girl whom I’ve never met in person nor have I seen her pictures.