Romantic Comedy Part I

My best friend, Ify, said that when it came to my love life...it was like a Drew Barrymore romantic comedy. At first i was a little flattered but then she added "the only difference is Drew is cute, and u're an idiot." It was after she compared my love life to a romantic comedy that i started to reflect on all the men (not that there have been many) that have come into my life. Since Ify and i have been friends since we were 13, i tried to recall the guys in my life from way back in the day:

My first marriage proposal happened when i was in kindergarten 2. The boy, David Crocker (whom i am still very good friends with), used to annoy the living daylights out of me. He would follow me around everywhere especially during recess. One time, we were in the sand box when David went down on both his knees with his hands clasped in front of him and almost begging me to marry him. He said, "Nikki, if you're Christian, please marry me!" Being the daft kid that i was, i just looked my nose down at him and said, "I'm not Christian, I'm Filipino!" Bless my stupid self. I thought Christianity was a nationality!!

When Ify and I were in high school, i would have a hand full of crushes that would change more times than i drank water. I would have on-again and off-again crushes since there were only 350 students in the entire student body from nursery all the way to senior year. To protect the true identities of my crushes, to save them and myself from embarrassment, i'll use code names.

The first boy to ever ask me out was Charcoal. I won't lie, Charcoal scared the shit out of me. He looked damn scary!!! he was only 13 but already very big, fierce, and had a voice that would turn ur hair white! At first i tried to avoid him as much as possible. i couldn't even look him in the face. I soon found out that looks can be very deceiving because he turned out to be one of the funniest guys i know and also one of my very good friends. We never took our relationship to more than just friends. People told us we would make a cute couple, and Charcoal did try to convince me to take our relationship to another level because yes we loved each other and it is for that same reason why i didn't want risk the friendship.

Then there was Afro Giant. Man oh man was i crazy for this boy!!!! I have never crushed as hard as i did for Afro Giant. it was an on-again off-again crush depending on my mood for that day. On Monday, i would have a crush on him but on Tuesday it would go away and comeback on Thursday. After two years of crushing for Afro Giant i finally couldn't keep it to myself anymore. I wanted to tell him. He was also a good friend by then. The very same day, the very same hour, in fact, the very SAME minute i wanted to blurt out and tell him that i liked him...he blurted out that he was in love with one of my close friends. I felt like a pile of rocks just crashed down on me. I got over it, and even tried to get them together. They were two people i cared for and as long as they were happy...i was happy.

Ooooh and then there was Lebanese. Lebanese was my first long distance 'relationship' because i went to boarding school. After classes i would rush back home to at least catch him online for 5 mins before having to go to soccer practice. We didn't have internet in our boarding house so i would drag Ify to come with me to the internet cafe at the corner. Because of Lebanese, Ify and i would always be late for soccer practice and Ify was always the one that got into trouble for it (back then i would just smile sweetly at the teachers and get away with crimes lol so Ify always got the blame).

to be continued...