My first weekend in 2010 seems almost awry.
I felt so good for a moment until Saturday dinner came along. A place so familiar, almost fated. Sipping on the hot noodle soup, I was seeking for my salvage on that white bowl. Halfway through the bowl, a new stranger mentioned a place, a place I hear so often lately, a place where this affair should never have begun. The image of him whisked by for a split second, chopsticks fell off my fingers, my heart stopped for five seconds. She thinks I am in denial, fooling my own mind. I recognised that heartbeat, that smile, that eager – it’s infatuation. Soon the table conversation was about sex, emotional cheating, being committed, multiple partners. We wonder all the time. How that feels? The curiosity eats me up, shakes me at times. Was I that girl? The girl that says it is okay to cheat physically as long as no emotions are involved or the girl that cannot handles infidelity in the relationship? To commit sounds strange to me at that moment.
Later that night, looking at these strangers, pumping electros, vibrating floors, empty beers glasses, coke cans, I was searching for drugs. Drug that would get me so high that I would not remember him. I saw dilated pupils, blurry visions of these stoners. Bassment Jaxx was a let down, I was wishing for that high. The high that I get when I dance. I lost it. One of the tracks they played – In For The Kill by La Roux, held me back. For a second I thought, I was never in love, it was just the thrill. The thrill to do the impossible.
Coming back home, I turned to my trusted source, my love stories. I wept, I missed him and I would never tell him. The love stories was almost impeccable, broken hearts and falling in love. I started fantasizing about coming back to this place, how me and him would laugh, giggle and cuddle again. I went to bed with tears. Tears that break my heart, smudge the black kohl eyeliner on the edge of my eyelids. Tears that allow me to fall in love, break my frail heart, laugh, cry and do it over and over again in the name of love. At 6.48am, I had a revelation. I will fall in love again and that heart-wrenching process no matter how much it hurts.
Gloomy Sunday morning, I woke up with a happy note but my heart was still heavy from the tears. I knew deep down it’s not going to be a good day. I didn’t want to stay home alone, I wanted to run to his arms, laugh and smell him. I wore a pretty floral top with a hot white shorts flaunting my buttocks, my lanky legs and my femininity. I wanted to look pretty today. I was excited, mostly thrilled. Stepped into the comfort home realizing that two girls were in pretty floral tops. It was never me to wear something that pretty, that sweet. Probably 2010 inspires me to add some new fashion flavours. Three person giggling stupidly, it was a bliss at home.
Driving to Bijou reminds me of autumn, heavy wind blowing the dried leaves to the ground, trees along the driveway gazing at your loneliness. Raindrops on Sunday afternoon filled with fat chips, fish fingers, buffalo wings, chamomile tea and milkshake. We started conversing about sex, father figures, penis-envy, dreams, afterlife, previous life, then, existence came along. What if I wake up one day with no one? Empty streets, empty rooms. Would I be everything or would I be nothing? Speaking of how I never see myself living past 30 years old, reasons why I want to marry and have kids young. Never I had plans to live until I am 50, I knew I would be gone long before that. Don’t ask me why, I just know that deep down.
Grocery shopping for dinner always make me jumpy. Back to the comfort home, two girls spent an hour in the kitchen cooking for a man. PREGO sauce, Ramli beef patty make up the man’s first home-cooked meal. I remembered I promised to cook pasta for a man I used to fancy. These gestures keep my heart beating, home-cooked meals melt my heart easily. After the reluctant dinner, we laughed at our silly dinner. The night continues with a movie tittled ‘9′, unexplained characters with sci-fi machines which I failed to comprehend. Minutes after the movie, a phone call I made damaged my trust. I will never want to feel that stupid. I deserve better. That’s what I say every single time. I never learn.
Tonight’s drive home was long and hard. No words shared. Speaking seems such a waste. Tonight, the love songs played in the radio sounds foolish. I will sleep tonight and wake up to see the sun again. Maybe tomorrow, maybe not. I will learn. I will cope. Wait and see.