Happy and Inspiring Stories by Don Vittorio C. Villasin one who’d hand it to her. I was attacked by bashfulness; I felt like if I’d hand her the letter, and she didn’t accept it, I’d immediately shatter into pieces, right there in front of her. So I asked some friends of mine (who happened to be Sakura’s co-majors) to give it to her. The letter contains my “feelings” for her, how it appeared all of a sudden in me. I told her about how she barely knows I exist, and how I barely knew her, but still has forever to know her, things like that. Words from the heart. I even gave her my number (in the letter) and hoped that she would text me, but she didn’t. When I received news that she already have the letter, I sat in the classroom, praying that she won’t put it in the trash. Sakura did not throw it in the trash, of course. Instead, I received a thankyou message from her in Facebook. And everything seemed to be going well! Once, after a particular event in school, I found myself in the same jeep with her. She wanted to pay for my fare, but I immediately pulled money from my pocket and paid for the two of us. I wanted to say something while we were sitting together in that jeep, but I couldn’t think of anything. That was the worse mental block ever. I wrote some blogs about her like “Eukaryotic Amylase”, etc. I wrote her an acrostic poem (similar to what I did for Venus) and tagged it to her in Facebook. I wrote a longer, and more post-modernist (sorry for the term) poem for her, some stories (which she no longer read; these I kept to myself), until I decided to be serious and ask her if I could court her or something. I tried relaying that to her in a second letter. This time, I summoned all courage to personally give it to her. I wrote it by myself, with no help from anyone, thereby stressing more effort in writing well. I was staring at her eyes when I handed her the letter, which she took. Back in Facebook, she thanked me, and that to be fair, she would also answer with a letter! I was ecstatic! My elation was on its metaphysical apex! So, I waited. I attended Mr. Eros Atalia’s book launching at UST, and planned to give to Sakura a copy of Mr. Atalia’s book with his autograph, for her birthday. I even asked Mr. Atalia to jot “Mahal ka ni Don” on the first page with his signature. I gave it to Sakura, to which she was thankful.
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