Anastasia

Hello readers!

I think I've mentioned in a past post (tried looking for the post but it seems that it was from a long while back) that a while back I texted my first ever crush and said hi.

Guess what - today I finally met her for dinner, after not meeting her for probably a good nine or ten years. I texted her on Instagram, telling her I was visiting Jakarta, and asked her if she was willing to catch up at some point. She immediately accepted, and off we went for dinner.

My romantic interest in her has a rather interesting history. I met her during my first year of middle school because we happened to be in the same class, and we initially hated each others' guts. I was the bold, uncaring, and strict class leader, and probably she just despised me due to me being a general teacher's pet. And then toward the end of the first year, she suddenly asked for my forgiveness out of the blue. From that point onward, she always smiled so cheerfully as she called out my name.

Slowly but surely, my heart gave way, and I became smitten.

So smitten in fact that I would try to find excuses to visit her classroom during recess (we got re-assigned to different classes during our second and third year),

That I got super heart broken when I learned that she was dating another guy the following year,

That I low-key would make sure that everyday before I go home, I would detour to where she would regularly took the bus, in hopes that I would "accidentally" bump into her.

Well - I am glad that I got to catch up with her. Her fiery personality still doesn't change! She is a successful designer now, and it seems that she's enjoying her work! Yup... She is single right now, but I think I am smitten with someone else... ;)