As some of you do not know, I left my hometown almost 10 months ago. The effect of this is simply, I have missed out so many events in my friends' lives back home. For instance, I didn't know that Wendy's pet dog died and that she actually spent days mourning over it. I also didn't know that Angela and her boyfriend spent a few days in another country all because her boyfriend wanted to propose to her. He did so and in fact, they're planning to get married next year. There are many other things happening and about to happen that I didn't know of which I only manage to find out months later, when the news were already as old as my favorite panty's age.
The only person that I have kept contact with is my best friend of 20 years who makes sure that I am at least in touch with our circle. Once in a while, she would pop an email to tell me who is busy doing what. I wish I could reveal as much details as she usually does in her emails but for the purpose of keeping things simple, I'll just summarize it in one sentence. Everyone is getting married.
The last email I got from her was about Wendy's (the girl whose pet dog died) bridal shower. The usual, girl friends spent the night together, shared stories, played kinky games, pigged out on junk food, went swimming and then, went on their separate ways the next morning as they waited for their respective boyfriends to pick them up. Except for one thin girl who has no boyfriend to pick her up and no car to drive herself home. As such, she has to take the train all by her poor self on a hot sunday morning while, again, it is important to reiterate this fact, everyone has their boyfriends waiting for them except her.
The thin girl was not me. But if I was there to join them, the story of the email will end up being the two of us - one thin girl and one fat girl with no boyfriends to pick us up on a hot sunday morning. Of course, we're probably not going to take the train if I were there because I would have sold every asset I have left and even converted my liabilities to assets just to make sure that a car will be waiting for us albeit without a boyfriend. You know, to sort of, decrease the extent of our pathetic state. I just seriously wonder if this effort would make the situation less depressing?
My best friend then wrote how she seriously felt sorry for thin girl and that she doesn't want this thing to happen to me. Her message was loud and clear. "Milktea, I don't want you to be going home all by yourself in the upcoming bridal showers that we've got to attend. The thought of seeing and leaving you alone after a night out would just be too depressing. I hope you soon find the one. I am really worried." That was my best friend's sweet way of kickstarting my already stressful monday morning.
I sent her a reply agreeing that it was indeed a sad story about thin girl going home alone but as to how to prevent this sad thing from happening to me, ammmmm... I'm not sure. I would love to tell her not to worry but all I know is, last weekend, while they were partying at the bridal shower, I was at the other side of the world, away from them, shopping alone and having dinner at a posh japanese restaurant all by myself. To add insult to the injury, I was also eavesdropping on two queer guys seated next to me who by the way seem to be out on their first date. At least they're out on a date.
And so it seems that i'm even worse than thin girl and my best friend is worrying over a valid thing.. isn't she?
