As far as I could remember, I met JK around March 2019.
My first meetings with JK, mostly during music min practices, were just like the usual interactions I do with the other brothers, like how I treat almost all of the brothers in SFC. I would willingly and gladly help out musicmin, where he was one of the heads, as a favor Sis Mara, his partner-musicmin head, asked from me. JK and Mara took care of the musicians. I was assigned by Mara to manage the singers.
Music min practices were a routine around April to June of 2019. After work, I head straight to the practice venue where JK led the practice, and I would help out. Almost every after practice (every Wed) JK and I walked together as we have the same way going home. This is very common in SFC, to walk home in groups. Other members who live near our houses also walked with us.
Music min practices went on. Then I noticed difference in JK's treatment and interaction towards me compared with the other sisters. To my surprise, he appeared to be jealous of the brothers I am close with.
I noticed, JK seemed to be jealous of bro Darwin. Darwin and I are really really close friends for almost 5 years now, that we are really very comfortable with each other. I remember, one practice, I went there very late as I had to work overtime. I was really exhausted and sat beside Darwin. I put my head on his shoulders to rest. Lo and behold, JK stood beside me, grabbed and held my free right hand. I thought he was going to say something, but he never did. And so, I pulled my hand away from him but he was holding my hand a bit too tight.
I honestly couldn't understand that gesture.
JK seemed to be jealous of bro Ket. Ket and I became friends since 2018. He was an engineering graduate and took the board exams twice but failed both. And so, on one assembly, Ket was there, as we go home, I asked if he'll be taking the next board exam. Ket whispered to me yes, but to keep it a secret, as he was very nervous about it. So, being a board passer myself, I whispered to Ket tips on how I think he can pass the exams.
Then someone shouted my name from the back, it was JK. He told me he wants to have dinner with me. I thought it was a group dinner, and JK noticed that I don't like the idea of just the two of us over dinner, so he said that Jess will join us. I sat beside Jess, and JK was seated in front of me. JK started asking me about Ket, and what we were talking about. He asked also about my relationship with the other brothers. I told JK "magaan agad ang loob ko basta SFC brothers kasi mababait naman kayo."
JK told me "sige lang, magharot ka lang sa mga brothers, pero sa akin ka rin babalik sa huli."
JK's last statement got me so confused, I just laughed it out loud. But then he confirmed it even more by saying, "oo nga, sa akin ka babalik sa huli." while staring at me with his very serious face, like he really mean what he just said.
Pero hindi ko na lang pinansin. After all, I'm dating someone.
June 26, 2019, the last musicmin practice where JK was the music min head, at the final gathering, we were standing in a circle, JK's musicmin head-partner, sis Mara, said her goodbyes by saying, "sana magkita kita pa tayo ulit." Then JK said, "ikaw din (calling out my name) sana magkita pa tayo after this." Again, I just laughed it out loud.
July 2019, on one of our walks, JK asked me about the job that I do. I told him I'm a part-time language tutor. JK asked me if I could tutor him conversational English as he was planning to apply to a car company with a German employer who speaks English. I thought it was a sincere favor. So, I told him I will send him an e-book on conversational English, but found out we were not FB friends, nor messenger, nor do we have each other's phone numbers. So, he sent me a friend request, and I accepted.
And so that was how we became messenger/fb friends. I sent him the e-book and asked him to study it. I asked if he wanted the tutorial to be one-on-one, where we will meet and I will give him modules to study. But he told me that he doesn't have the time, so if I could think of a way where he can learn. So chatting became the way for the tutorial for him to improve his English. We started to chat, and I would ask him questions in English and expected him to reply in English as well. I would correct his grammar and his spelling. We became regular chatmates since then.
Then after several weeks or so, he told me that his plan changed in that he plans to go to the Middle East instead, and that he found out from his friends, who already works in the Middle East that English is not the first language. And so, somehow the English tutorial stopped. But the friendship, somehow started.
On one of our walks, I was talking to bro Nath about the road construction along the street near my house. Nath already came to my house because we practiced there a few times for a group presentation that we did back in 2018. Then it seemed that JK was jealous with the idea that Nath already went to my house. Then JK said, "one of these days pupuntahan kita sa bahay mo tapos, iEnglishin kita ng iEnglishin."
I just laughed it out loud as usual.
At first, I honestly did not know JK, and know nothing about him. The time he became SFC was the time I was an inactive member.
Because of all these confusing actions of JK to me, I told one of my sister-leader about all these actions of JK towards me. From there, she told me that from what she knows, he has a longtime girlfriend. (Ayun naman pala, may girlfriend. So, ano yung mga ginagawa niya?)
Sis told me, "baka gusto lang niya maging close sayo kasi newbie pa lang siya. Hayaan mo lang."
So I thought, "baka nga. Baka nga ganun lang."
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