last week, i helped my cousin with her little cafe. on the last day, i was assigned with her friend at the coffee station. i've met him before, once, but we barely spoke to each other. that time, there was not much people, so there were a lot of time for us to chat. while we were chatting, i figured out that he now was friend with people i used to know in the past.
thinking this was a great opportunity, i asked him about them. those people had changed, some rather extremely, some just around the edge. and from him i knew, that someone, let's just call him 'k', has now married. when i heard that, i spontaneously yelped, "what?!". he was kinda taken aback with my profusely exaggerated reaction, then eyed me suspiciously. I rambled, "well...he was a really funny guy. you know, he was one of the people who laughed distinctively maniac. it just never really went through my mind mind that he would settle down. he was a really great, really, really funny. like, almost too funny to be in a relationship. well, i was just a kid back then, so that's what i got in my mind".
that was really what i thought. 'k' and i used to be quite close. he was really like an older, funnily abstract brother to me. he seriously laughed like a maniac and he was almost always laughing. so the fact that he now got married was kinda hilarious to me. the fact that he once kinda confessed to me didn't really come to mind.
okay, it did come. a little.
yeah, he kinda confessed to me. once we were talking to each other by phone, and he told me there was a girl he liked. i kept asking, yet he didn't want to tell me. eventually, i had to guess by mentioning all the girls' names we knew. finally the only one that was left was my name, and he confessed. he asked me to wait until i was seventeen years old...which was quite far from back then. yep, that was me when i was like in eight grade, and he was over 20 already...so i didn't take it seriously.
and now here we are. after hanging out with them, i stopped seeing them, and finally we just lost contact. even though that wasn't serious at all, it was still a funny story in my mind. and now figuring out he was happily married now, makes me really happy for him. it's a pity though i didn't come to his wedding, because he really was the closest brother to me back then. i could only wish him now all happiness and health(i heard he was sick) and God's blessing.
have a great life, 'k'!
prost,
ael
