i remember it was 2 years back, somewhere nearing the midyear exams.
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i was leaving school after training, and i was hesitating to go home with you or not. after a long while i decided not to cos i thought it'd be awkward..
so i told you i've already got on the bus, and i told you that if you could catch me on the way home then we'll go back together. i know it was a very mean thing to do, but i really didn't expect you to do it.
you ran all the way to Broadrick (back then) bus stop from the bubbletea bus stop, just to see if you could catch the same bus as me. i saw you but i didn't let you see me, so you missed the bus. then you asked me if i was on that bus. i said yes. and i felt so bad because i never, even thought you would go to the extent of that.
to run all the way and reach in time to board the bus, just that i didn't let you see me so you didn't board it. i was so guilty. i told you its okay, i'll make my way home myself. you didn't reply me. and when i alighted at boonkeng,
i saw you right before me.
i didn't know what to say. you told me you took a cab down from Broadrick. i was so shocked. i didn't know to laugh or to cry. but there was a sudden stinging feeling in my heart. so we made our way back together, you sending me home. and i remember how you said the long walk home from Kovan MRT to my house in the night was very dark and dangerous. i remember. i remember you telling me its scary. i remember scaring you about the ghosts in the terrace houses. then i remember us walking near home, it was 8pm. i didn't want to go home because i quarrelled with my parents the night before. so i told you that we'd sit down and talk. and you said okay and we sat at this ledge beside the road, in front of this terrace house that was still undergoing construction then.
i asked you to tell me about yourself, talk to me about yourself. you were shy and you ended up telling me a lame joke. ha. and as you were telling it, you forgot the ending halfway. which was the funny part. =) and me telling you about things within my family; my father, my grandmother and everything else.
before long it was already 8.40pm. i told you i have to go but i didn't want to.
you told me to sms you if anything bothered me, and that you'd always be there ..
no matter what.
i said okay and i walked up the long slope with you, and we said our Byes.
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i remember too many things, so much that it's enough to break me.
