how we met: part 2

Read part one first or it won’t really make sense from here.

Excuuuuuse me! I did all that to save your relationship and to save my friendship with her and you did what?! Almost immediately, I broke up with Toby. People started to realise Haiqal and I’s break up timings and became a little suspicious. At this time, I felt disgusted with myself and hated the person I thought I was becoming – a *bad word*.

I started to hate Haiqal because of what he made me feel (which I realise now, is not at all his fault) and he reciprocated the feelings. I would roll my eyes at him, never walk in his direction or wherever he’ll be near. Looking at how it started now, I want to give a tip to all my readers: try hating your crush if you wanna be in a relationship with him/her, it might work. But no, I didn’t have a crush on him or anyone yet. It was pure hate both ways. I added him on BBM (..yes, it was during the BBM era..) for no good reason. Maybe he became more interesting when he became my arch enemy. We never spoke before. Even during the fight, I don’t recall us ever talking to each other. One fine day, I texted him out of all people, when I could have texted 100 other people in the boarding house (we were in the same junior boarding house together, there was a girl’s side and a boy’s side, don’t worry) asking him about which teacher was on duty that day. Gatalllll. It was a simple conversation with no hate for each other so we both expected things to be better between us, or at least I did.

My BBM status was held constant at the heart-eyed emoji and it got Haiqal to tease me about it by texting “OoooOooo, so in love.” I replied nastily (tadi nak baik-baik now moodswing, welcome to my life), “why would it matter to you?” Or at least that’s how I remember it. I might have just imagined myself typing that. I’m a coward, you see, so there’s a chance of that not being entirely true. I was more single at the time than when I was a newborn, so the status was probably just for fun. My idea of fun isn’t great is it.. Whatever it is, that status got us started so I love that emoji till today.

We began texting each other about our display pictures, status, anything at all. I remember he updated his photo and when I saw it and I was like “ok need to give it a few more minutes then I can text him about it”. I’m a loser ok, I admit it. But I know he purposely changed his photo as a conversation starter. Just kidding, I’m full of myself. No one knew about us talking and we didn’t plan on telling anybody because of what happened before. Many wouldn’t agree with us being together, obviously. We still spoke. We had proper Romeo and Juliet moments. He was a house prefect so he had to turn the lights off before bedtime and I will sneak off to the balcony just to see him and wave (not even say hi!!!) and he’ll be waiting. We texted during prep time, which is illegal in KTJ ok. Risking our lives for each other from the beginning. We planned exactly when to come out of the prep room just to look at each other and say hi. Suddenly what pyjamas I wore matterred more than ever.

Part 3 coming soon!