See Each... Oh, See!

I slowly opened my eyes, tightly squeezing my pillow against my chest. I turned my head to the side where our window is placed. I see a dark figure of a man sitting on a chair with his head facing towards me. Although I can’t make out his face because of the bright summer sun, I know who this guy is. It’s the figure of the man I want, the one I’m looking for. A man with dark complexion. A man with a height of 5’10”. A pair of black-framed eyeglasses gently rests on his mature looking face. And the eyes, deep and black, try to tell me something. As I look deeper and deeper into this figure’s eyes, I can see that he loves me. I stare at him. Our eyes talk, as if it were us talking, then my eye asks “How much do I know you?”

The day he came into my life. My love, Choc, is the most wonderful person that I know. I couldn't ask for more since I have met him. We almost know each other for nine months already. And for seven months, he is always making me feel special each day I am with him. In simple but special ways that he’s doing, I always feel ‘kilig.’

We first met in a social networking application called ‘WeChat’ and knowing that we’re going to be classmates in college makes our conversation starts. In fact, we treat each other as siblings since we learned that our birth dates are consecutive.

The first day of college entered and since I already knew him, I reserved a chair beside me at the back part of the classroom. Since then, we became seatmates and best friends. As the days progressed on, we became friends with our other seatmates at the back of the room and built friendship with them. We call our group Tropang Likod.

Unlike other guys in my class, Choc is simple. He has hair that looks greyish due to his black and white hair strands. He combs it using only his right hand. And when he laughs, his eyes sparkle and his smile reaches his ears. He attends classes with simple t-shirts and maong pants. His Bench body bag hangs through his upper half body. One of hands holds his handkerchief, which is usually blue-striped. His white “Fall Out Boy” wristband is playing on his left wrist. But when he wears his blue t-shirt with his surname on it, I think it’s the coolest thing in the world. He stands with a height of a basketball player, making me look so small and short. His prank jokes and punch lines make me laugh. He always has something to say.

He loves to play basketball, both in computer and in real life. He plays DoTA too with his circle of friends. Though there are times that I get jealous, thinking that he spends more time with his friends playing than with me. Okay. What I love when we’re together is that we talk, like friends together, with no one interfering. We get the chance to know each other more. We laugh together. We giggle together. One more thing that I love about him is that when he is saying something to me, he says it with a sincere heart. I can see it in his eyes…

He stands up from sitting on his chair and walks toward. Behind him, the window lets the warm summer sunlight comes in. He snatches the pillow I was holding. He starts talking,

“Come on Mrs. Dantes, stand up. I’ve already prepared breakfast for you.” I obey him and stand up, slowly wearing my slippers. As I look up this towering man, I could see his arms about to wrap themselves around me and his lips moving towards my forehead. I could hear the words “I love you Baby” coming from his mouth as they left a warm kiss on my forehead.

Now, if you are wondering what is the connection of the title with this article, read the title again. Slowly. Now, what do you get?