Fifty-one

Sunday, February 20, 2011

10:40 PM

My dearest Popol,

Four more days and I'll see you again! (I don't like this pen, it's weird.)

Don't worry, I've quite gotten used to the fact that you'll be gone this weekend, despite my fantasies of spending it with you.

It's Kat_Leung's birthday today, did you know? Did I tell you about that debut of Kat's that Nancy and I arranged? It was still freshman year, so we hadn't known Kat very much yet. And Kat is a very private person, more so then than she is not, I believe. She had, understandably, been holding back on opening up to us, because her high school had been rather traumatic. But that's a different story.

So anyway, there we were, having surrounded the Cervini Pool with candles, our friends waiting by it, and I was left to wait for Kat and lead her down the hundred steps to the pool - blindfolded. That was a good night.

I never knew what a difference that night made for Kat, never realised that that was a milestone on her op[ening up to us, until years later, when I was working in Davao, and Tita Baj (Kat's mom) and I had one of our late-night talks and she told me. I guess I never really know in what ways you can touch someone's life.

Love, tya.