What's up with the Baguio people? There's like a pickup place everywhere... and am not referring to the letters and packages in boxes kind. :) Everybody seems to be picking somebody else up all the time, much like the strawberries here. Hehe... and once again, not the kind where you pick somebody up so you could go home to your family and eat dinner... well, at least not with your family. =)
I guess when you're here alone, you notice things. And when you're alone here, people notice you. Other than that, you just see families, lovers, friends perpetually walking, talking, laughing, buying...
Been getting looks from everywhere. I would just look right back at them and look away. Baka kasi kakilala ko lang naman. =)
Before going here, I went to Starbucks to once again get me a fix of caramel hot choco, then while sittin' there outside there was this girl... about 21-23 years old, 5'3" or somethin', morena, nice clear face, long black hair tied up like when someone would do their laundry, Filipino-style, with the batya and everything. =) It looked sexy though. Did I mention she was wearing a really short denim skirt... in the cold. And what she showed waist down, she covered waist up, she was wore something like a cashmere type of a turtleneck sweater =) which just put more emphasis on her pretty face. The sweater? Yeah, it, too, was tight... and I mean both definitions =).... so.... =)
She kept textin' and then lookin' at me, starin' even, doin' that over and over. Thanks to my super Spider peripheral vision (is there even such a thing!? heheh), I can see her so clearly as if am looking at her straight.
5, 10, 15 minutes passed... and maybe another two more, she's still there. At the back of my mind, I wanted to stand up and say if she needed company... or maybe ask her if her "EB", hahah, or whatever you may wanna call it, stood her up... and would want me to be her friend anyways, just so her effort of going there, standing for what seemed like days, wouldn't go wasted, maybe buy her a hot drink.... but I felt my feet starting to grow roots. =)
I felt a bit self-conscious actually the way she stared, as if she was waiting for me to look her way and she'd say "am gonna eat you whole and burp you out"... or maybe if I look at her, she'd start reading my mind and control it. Sweet!
I know she knows I was aware she's there. I mean many was looking at her in the first place. Can you blame her? She's pretty and alone... and probably cold. While I was there "dedma", or trying to act it at least. Then a guy came, acted like a boyfriend, must be her boyfriend then, or her EB fnally showing up. The guy was okay-looking. From where I was sitting I felt stupid.... I mean was she really ever looking at me in the first place? I looked behind me, just Starbucks and its baristas and other clients. From there I started to shrink. Who was I trying to feel so goodlooking, thinking that she was actually looking at me.
Shrunken (my ego and everything else), I just thought, man, some lucky guy he is. They were talking. Couldn't hear. Wearing my earphones, listening to my MP3s... takin' them off would be too obvious.
Then something happened. The girl started frowning, then started waving the guy away. Approximately 5 minutes after the guy came, he left. The guy was probably trying to pick her up. The okay-looking guy didn't pass... I think. In my mind, the whole crowd and team in the field were all cheering. Yey!
Then there she went again. But this time not texting anymore, just looking around and at me. Man, what am I supposed to do now? I thought. I'm not like Borgy M. who practically has it all and can, with all confidence, come up to a girl and introduce himself. I can't just go there and say, "...Hi, am Borgy... and you're?..."
Then she did something. I felt it. She stared so intently at me.... like Superman's heat vision boring through me... or in this case, Supergirl. That's the best word to put what she did.... INTENTLY! Man, sobrang conscious ako, now am sure she wanted me to look...
And this time, I did!
For 5 seconds, I was staring at her and she at me. Then she smiled. Am like whoah! I never thought a smile could strike me that hard. Like some gigantic fist punched me in the face, but was loving it. My hands were freezin'... must be the cold climate here in Baguio... but my insides :) started to feel sorta warm... I thought, must be the hot choco finally effecting me... NOT! =)
I swear to God, I wanted to speak but no words came out. I forgot if I spoke English or Tagalog, Ilocano or French. I forgot how to speak at all. I must've turned red. Really red. I felt it. In front of her, man... nakakahiya talaga!
She was looking at me like she wanted to spank me or something because I've been a bad boy, letting her stand there all this time, not offering her a seat or something. I mean how would I know!? She stared like expecting me something to say, also as if telling me, "...I am the Adidas A3 Microride shoes you've been wanting to have for the longest time, take me home and do to me whatever pleases you..." "...wear me (out!), tie and untie me, whatever, just take me home and take me away from this oh so cold place..."
I have only been here in Baguio for three days, but that "stare" we had seemed eternity to me. Finally, she looked at me, raised both brows as if saying, "now what?!" I wanted to speak, nothing came out. I just motioned my hand towards the chair in front of me, sorta bowed to her a bit, showing my shyness and uncertainty of how she'd react, I motioned as if asking her if she wanted to sit. "You're such a sissy," I thought to myself.
She was only about 5 feet away from me, she started walking towards the chair. I've met tons of women in my life. Been with some. When I first saw her it was just like nothing. But when she started walking towards me my heart felt like the whole Sta. Ana. racetrack horses were running in it. Calm down, I thought. What the hell was I thinking? Why this reaction? I do not believe this is love at first sight, I just do not believe it. PERIOD. So this can't be it. I'm sure. As sure as I can spell "positeb"... =)
She said, "Hi!" and I said "Hi!"... and I thought, "Oh yeah, Hi is an English word. Yeah I remember now, I speak English." Still dumbfounded, I guess... from that gigantic punch. Hehe. She sat and said "Salamat." Then I remembered and this time am sure Tagalog ako magsalita, ehehe.... and I know I speak it so fluentfuckingly. Phew! Some 5 to 10 second-rollercoaster ride that was. =)
So what's next. I thought.
Well, let me just end this blog by saying, she was really cool.
The guy was not her EB but her boyfriend who let her wait for more than an hour in the cold. They fought a bit, the guy wanted to explain but she said she's had enough. She laughed when I told her I thought he was her EB. She doesn't do those sorta things, so she said.
She told me some things I'd rather not write here because they were things about her and this blog is about me... but she's planning to break up with her boyfriend. If you only knew, you'd agree with me when I say her boyfriend's a real jerk. She didn't badmouth her boyfriend or anything, even praised him... but I know by the tone of her voice, the way she explained things, the facial expression she was giving me while telling me some story about him, I knew his boyfriend is a real jerk.... a humongous one. Just to be on the safe side and not say anything stupid, I just listened, nodded my head whenever necessary but really listened. I really felt for her. I felt her pain. I remember something like that happening to me hundreds of years ago. But that's another story. =)
Yup, we exchanged numbers. And I guess, we're friends now, she said "...so at least magkaibigan na tayo..." She texted just now actually... lemme read it to you, "Thanks for listening. You must be God-sent." Siya nagsabi nun ha, hindi ako!!! Heheh.
She's not a "pickup" girl after all, as how some Filipinos call it. I feel so guilty for having judged her that way. Still, as I am writing this blog, just outside this cafe, ang dami and I mean madaming pickup sa labas, letter and packages included...
Hmmm.... maybe I can invite her tomorrow for a caramel hot choco..... VENTI... para sa mas mahaba habang usapan. =)
FIN....
