A fiction: too good to be true, nonetheless.

Prologue:
I saw someone in the LRT with the most amazing smile I had ever seen.
It felt like yesterday, it was intense. Comfortable, yet.
I can even remember the shirt that person was wearing.
I blushed. If I could.


But that was years ago.

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2.
I am not trying to make people to like me.
I am mostly myself, no matter how abominable.

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3.
I got an email.
It says "You win 10000000 euro lottery"
NOT.
I wish I get this email instead of yours.
It's a tragedy that evoked wordless pain.

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4.
I'm not stupid.
I was just nervous.

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5.
I can feel the blood in my vein thumping hard upon my chest.
This thing I always feel: Insecurity.
I never thought you have one.
Though you have one crooked nose, but who cares.
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6.
It's true all your say. I am.
I stray.

Just like you.
We are just human trying to live a life.
Even an unpurposeful one.
At least I've tried.
Im wearing a necklace with beads of mistakes I made.
Too bad if you have an elephant memory.
Maybe pointing out each of them is not...nice.
I am still trying.
How would I know?
I could've waited for the bus to come.
And we can go eat takoyaki together.

Epilogue:

And in the end, it's like branches on a tree.

From the same trunk it came.

Separated into branches.

And that yellow leaf under the shades?

That's you.

I've made my way towards the best sunshine I can find.

That's why.
All for good reasons.
Although maybe we can fall at the same place someday.