Isa na siguro ako sa mga taong pinaka-mahirap basahin. Yung tipong ilang taon mo na akong kakilala, nagugulat ka paren sa mga pinaggagagawa ko sa buhay ko. Yung tipong di mo alam na ganto o ganyan pala ako. Di naman ako masikreto. I just like my privacy. And yesterday, I let my brother in on one of my biggest secrets.

Shhh.

When I was in seventh grade, I had a knack for phone calls. It's either I'd find them or they'd find me. Either way, I was always having a conversation on the phone.

I had this little boyfriend of mine and we were sorta romantic. *wrinkles nose* Ah, love at that age was ideal. We wanted everything to be perfect and so... everything was. Anyway, I'd always be on the phone talking to him and my parents got pretty annoyed because POINT: I was too young to be having romantic interests with anyone and POINT: It was all I ever did. Like I would skip a meal or do my stuff while on the phone. It killed them. I guess that's why one night, right before dinner, my mom did something that... well, you'll find out.

I was in my room not on the phone coz I figured it was wrong to call somebody up just when you are about to have dinner. So when my mom called us for dinner, I came out of my room singing one of those novelty songs done by Andrew E. (I think. I'm really not sure. Novelty songs are not my department, I'm afraid.) that goes like

Honey, tayo na sa dilim. (And then what?)
Patingin ng picture mong maitim.

That's about how much I knew of the song. I just knew it was funny and insulting, one of those things that you just can't help but remember. So anyway, I was singing it, practically screaming it (I thought it was sooo funny. Still do, actually.) at the top of my lungs that I think even the neighbors heard me. Anyway, dinner was through and I was singing the song (again) on my way to the phone and I realized that the phone wasn't put back properly. You know, it was just hanging there. And I thought Whatever, you know? I thought maybe somebody just forgot to put it back.

So I listened in for something. Nothing. I pressed flash, heard the tone, and dialed my boyfriend's number. He picked up and said Hey like he was trying to be slick. (He knew it was me coz he had caller ID, which also happened to be so cool in the dark ages. Haha. My boyfriend was so cool! Haha.) I thought it was funny. Or maybe I thought it made him sexy. Whatever. Anyway, what he said next could have killed me. He goes:

Patingin pala ng picture ah.

Oh. My. Gawd.

I tried to play the innocent card. I said Anong pinagsasabi mo diyan? Yup. I was stupid enough to think it would work. My heart was thumping like crazy. I was thinking Shit. Oh shit. Please, God, don't let him know. But he did because he started singing:

Honey, tayo na sa dilim. (And then what?)
Patingin ng picture mong maitim.

I would have died. I was thinking Stupid. Stupid. Why did you have to sing that song out loud when anybody could have heard you? What were you thinking? Lord, please let me die! Of course, I didn't die. I had to live through his "breaking out in song moments", which happened every five minutes as if to remind me of the shame I had done to myself.

Turns out, he called me like 30 seconds before my mom called for dinner. And my mom didn't hang up the phone properly coz she thought the person would put the phone down and if somebody tried to call us they'd hear The number you have dialed is not yet in service. which, she said, was better than standing up every couple of minutes to pick up the call (which always turned out to be for me, thank you.) just to say I was having dinner. Eto namang idiot boyfriend ko, di binaba yung phone kasi he didn't hear it click. Basta. He's weird that way, you know. He has to hear the busy tone before he hangs up. So dahil hindi nga niya narinig mag-click yung phone, naabutan niya ang aking Andrew E. extravaganza.And he thought it was funny that I was singing it. He thought it was cute. Pfft. The things guys that age will tell you. :P

Needless to say nobody ever found out about it. I guess I was just too ashamed to tell my friends about what happened (They'll be like You were singing that song? Sorry, di pa nun uso maging jolougs.) and I guess he was too ashamed to tell his friends that his girlfriend sang a stupid novelty song when other girlfriends were giving their boyfriends horrific but heartfelt renditions of popular love songs.

Ayan. So there ends my haha-story. Hope you liked it. :D


PS My boyfriend and I stayed together long after that incident happened. It was either he forgot all about it (which I doubt) or he found a way to forgive my fault, love me for it, and just... have a laugh. :D

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kitten posted @ 11:26 AM