Until I Met You

# Chapter 1: Meet Up

  It was a very lonely night that engulfed my heart very slowly, I was laying in my bed scrolling my Wechat and wondering what can I do to overcome this scary feeling. Yes, I was dumped by my boyfriend, again. It was very bad feelings that I need to keep on getting through the sadness by losing someone that I loved, but I had no choice, if he was meant to leave me, I'll never beg him to stay. What can I do to make this feeling vanish? What can I do to forget him? I was asking myself and wondering. Maybe I would just open the people nearby to find someone to talk to, maybe I can feel better.

  So I opened the people nearby and I was looking at those people until I saw one man's profile that captured my eyes. Well, a foreigner, as always, the only people that capable to make me opened his profile and looked at his photos. A very nice looking guy but somehow seemed fierce, I guess he will come and say hi to me later, so I closed the Wechat and scrolling my Facebook to waste my time.

  I'm not sure how long it took me until I opened my Wechat to check who was saying hi to me, I was smiling when I saw the foreigner did come and say hi. After I approved his request, he came and started the conversation with me in a unique way, I thought that maybe this guy was a smart guy, or else he had too many experiences with girls, I bet he was both, hahahaha! He looked kinda like a playboy to me actually. He wasn't like any boring guys that came to say hi, hello or how are you, but he came to comment the photo that I posted in my Wechat moment, that's why I felt good when chatting with him.

  After the chat, of course, he offered to meet me in a very nice way, I rejected his offer anyway because I would have a very busy week in which came with three midterms and one assignment that I need to complete and pass up. Besides, I never mean to start a new relationship since I just broke up with my ex two weeks ago. He was a nice man to me, but my heart was still with my ex at that time, plus I had an awful experience with a foreigner before, so I guessed I was too scared to trust him, he looked like a playboy too in fact. 

  As I said, he was a very smart man, at last, he managed to ask me out after this week, I had no reasons to say no to him, so I agreed. He asked me to keep on chatting with him and don't meet any guys except him, I hate to be restricted by any guys who wasn't my boyfriend, so I told him that both of us could meet anyone as long as we're not in a relationship, anyway I wasn't planning to meet any men actually, agreed to him was just because I was not smart enough to reject him, or maybe my heart was very curious about him and wanted to meet him too? Who knows. 

  I was kinda cold to him in that week, but guess what? This guy knew how to handle me and never mentioned anything about how I treated him, he was a really smart guy. He gave me so many patients that I couldn't make him change his mind about meeting up with me, hahaha! Yes, I wanted him to change his mind too actually since I never plan to meet any guys at that time. After the stressful and awful week with the fucking exams that raped my brain so hard, I took the first step and went to find him to talk with, since I saw his effort of wanting to meet me, and I actually started to move on from past relationship, I wanted to give him a chance.

  It was very happy and funny to chat with him, he offered to meet again at the lunch time, but again I rejected him, I was not planning to play any ‘hard to get’  game, but I was just too lazy to go out without getting ready. And hey! Who wanted to meet a guy without proper makeup and dress up? I told him what if both of us went out for a dinner, he agreed. I told him I wanted to eat pasta, so both of us decided to go to Pizza Hut nearby USM.

  We promised to meet up in front of my hostel at 7.30pm, he would come to pick me up and walk to Pizza Hut together. I was planning to wear 'not the very sexy type' of cloth, so I chose the plain white T-shirt with little expose in my stomach area, the high waist shorts and I put on little foundation on my face, I didn't want to look normal at least in my first meet, but also not the very pretty one with the heavy makeup.

  As I walked out from my hostel, I searched for him at the bus stop that he said he would wait for me, but I couldn't find him, so I just walked to the other area trying to look for him, I walked to the lakeside, I thought he may wait for me there. I would never forget the first glimpse of him, he was facing his back towards me when I walked there. 

  'Nice fashion sense!' I whispered to myself as I was walking towards him. He was wearing a light blue shirt and black jeans, those clothes suit him so well because he was tall, no, he was a very tall guy, with 1.87-meter height, I could see him easily. He had an athlete body too. I was wondering what should I do to make him turned towards me, I was so shy whenever I met someone. 

  He turned towards me without I needed to go and say hi, maybe he realized that someone was walking towards him. He smiled to me and damn! Finally, I saw his face, he was a very good looking man, so much handsome and gentle looking guy, I never met someone as handsome as him I swear!  I thought that my ex would probably be the most handsome guy that I had ever dated, but I was wrong, I never thought that he would be this much handsome in fact, so I never expecting anything actually. 

  It was a very sweet and nice date with him, he tried to make conversation with me, I tried to be normal and talkative, but I was very shy, I didn't really get used to handsome guy actually, he was too much for me and I couldn't even look at his face or his eyes. After dinner, he brought me to the stadium to watch the football practice, he talked so much and I actually quite shy, still. Hahahaha!! I wish now I can be that much shy like before seriously.

  He took me for a walk after I gained back my energy, he brought me to a place then both of us kissed. He hold me in his arms after that, I felt this guy had so much energy within him but it actually felt so sweet at that moment. I enjoyed so much spending time with him, as both of us walked back to my hostel, my shoelace was loosed, he crouched and helped me to tie up again, no guy had ever helped me to do this in my life, no one. I almost cried, but I acted normal when he finished helping me.

  It was so hard to finish this date, I didn't want to actually, but I still went back. Then, at that night, I was telling him all my bad experiences before in phone, how the previous ex brought me health problems and I was so suffering. He told me he would help me to get over those health problems, I was so touched and I cried that night.  He never broke his promise, now I'm free from all those fucking health problems that harmed me for a half year, no one can ever help me like what he did for me, that's the reasons I love him so much.

FINISHED! 

# Chapter 2:  The Perfect Man

  It was just the next day that both of us dated again after the first met, the real date that I promised him one week ago. He was a really naughty man, so he invited me for a horror movie date, I was a horror movie fans, he gets so excited when I told him I was, I guessed that every man loves to date a girl who like to watch the horror movie? Hmmm...  I didn't remember exactly what happened at that night on what time both of us met up and how, all I remembered was how this man was trying to scare me for the whole movie!!  

  Both of us watched the movie called 'Unspoken', it was quite a good movie actually but with a very bad ending. The movie started at 10.10pm, so I just went shopping for daily used things at Watson before the movie. This man was not a patient man when it came to shopping, I could see that, hahaha!!  He waited for me outside the Watson. 

  Until the time that the movie almost started, both of us went back to the cinema. I needed to say that he was so good in guessing which scene that would scare us, every fucking time he was right, seriously why he didn't just learn about Directing?  I was so frightened for the whole night!! He kept on grabbing my hand when he felt like there would be a shocking scene from the movie, I never felt so tired before when watching a horror movie!  My heart felt so weak after finished the movie.  Am I still alive? 

  Since then, he kept laughing at me and he loved to watch the horror movie with me, I would never forget how happy and amused he was when both of us were watching the horror movie that I downloaded before, but I still get so horrified by one of the scenes in the movie.  But that was the story later. 

  After the movie, both of us walked to the seaside nearby the Queensbay, there were so many couples and families sitting there to enjoy the romantic moment together. Both of us walked and found a place to sit down, he hugged me and I felt so safe in his arms, it was the best moment that I could never forget in my life.  Both of us kissed by the seaside, he was a very romantic kind of guy, Pieces was his horoscope, that explained everything. I felt like I didn't want to leave him, even the time was so late. He brought me to the shop for a drink while waiting for him to find a place to sleep together, it was the best night ever. 

  Both of us met each other for so many times within one month, even though it was not dating and just met for a few hours, I felt so good with him. Slowly, I started to feel comfortable with him, he was so nice and treated me like a real princess, I started to feel less shy with him and my naughty personality started to show out again. I thought this personality was gone because of the last two relationships, but it still here within me, waiting to show out to the real person. 

  It was so fast that I started to get used to him, even when his friends from other countries came here to travel, but still, he came back to me just because he missed me so much. That one night, when he asked me to come down my hostel, he told me that he missed me so much and wanted to give me hugs and kisses.  I would never forget how much love I felt at that time, he hugged me so tight and kissed me so hard when he saw me.  I was drunk by his loves. 

  After the sweet moments at the first month, quarrels started to follow, this was very normal for every relationship as fight occurred when both sides cared for each other. He pushed me to face with my health problems, guided me on how should I consulted with the doctor and forced me to change my lifestyle. I was stubborn at first as I was so scared to confront the problems nor doctor, so he got angry at me and I had no choice. 

  Now, I was free from those health problems because of him, I thought that I would be harmed by those problems for my life, but I was so touched when he told me, 'no baby, it's just that your life are so messy, you don't know how to arrange it and now I'm here to guide you.'   How could I refuse myself from falling in love to such man? How?  I couldn't. 

  Also, this man changed my attitude towards life, guided me to be the better me. I had to complete my proposal for the assignment from one of my elective course, he was the one who helped me a lot with my thousand of questions, never hesitated to teach me or ever felt bothered with my questions. I gained a lot of knowledge because of him, I could score the highest mark in my proposal because of him, I get the courage to continue my research when the lecturer offered me the choice was because of him, I read and studied a lot in my semester break, it was all because of him who motivated me to do so, I filled my time by doing the meaningful things and didn't want to waste my time like before, but still I would have one or two lazy days too, hahaha! 

  Chatting with him was never a wasting of time, we talked a lot and he taught me so much, our topics were like never end, he was like a walking encyclopedia for me, there were nothing that he didn't know, from physics till chemistry till biology, from mathematics till languages, from economic till history till religion, so much knowledge within him! He's my idol!! The reason that I fall so hard for him. Even so, there were things that he wasn't that good too, like drawing, singing or dancing, hahahaha!  The only thing that I better than him, but guys didn't need to be good at these things, I preferred the guy with knowledge.

  He was the one I had been searching for, I see knowledge much more important than good look, but obviously he was the man who was too much perfect for me, until sometimes I couldn't understand why he would fall in love with the ordinary me, but I must become better and let him be proud of having me as his girlfriend, I loved it so much when he said 'I'm proud of you'.

FINISHED! 

# Chapter 3: Belated Valentine's Day Celebration

  Time passed very fast when our relationship lasts for more than 3 months now, both of us created a lot of sweet memories together, it was very hard for both of us to be separated from each other when the semester break came, it just felt like forever when I was not by his side. Quarrels still keep happening between us because I was too stupid and keep making mistakes, especially between the Chinese New Year, I still manage to calm him down and make him loves me more because of my endurance towards his temper, but I knew how much he endured me at the same time too, because he was the man who hardly can accept any mistakes, yet he forgave me for so many times. 

  I still remember how excited I was when on the bus, preparing to go back to Penang. I was like never so happy before in my life, just because I finally can see him. I missed him so much, I missed his smile, his voice, his touch, his kiss, his tender, his caring, I missed everything about him.  I always teased him that he always act cool when he was in public, but I actually knew, his soft and gentle sides, are only exclusive for me. Only I can own his hugs, his kisses and his touches. 

  He told me that he would come and fetch me when I arrived at the bus station, even though this was really a little thing, but I really feel so touched because no guys had ever treated me this well before. That night, he didn't sleep at all because he was so happy that he would meet me in a few hours time.  Both of us texted each other a lot on that night. 

  After I reached the bus station, he told me that he was on the way coming to the bus station, he asked me to wait outside the gate, so I did as he said. Then, both of us were coming back to my hostel, after I put my things outside my room because I still can't take my key room, it was too early. Both of us were sitting in a dark place, he took off my glasses and kissed me so hard, it was like heaven!  How much I craved for his kiss his touch and more? 

  The good times were always so short and he needed to go back to study, I was busying to keep my room and preparing my surprise for him. At night, he came to meet me again, I gave to him my surprise and he said that it was the cutest gift that he had ever get. I was quite good at cartoon art actually, so I drew some cute and dirty emoticons on the tangerines that I brought from my hometown for him, as Chinese Valentine's Day was at the Chap Gor Meh, so I gave him those tangerines and wrote down my phone number for him, hahahaha!  He can only have my number, not other girls' one!

  It was 12 February when I came back to Penang, and Valentine's Day was actually two days more, I thought it was very normal for every girl would be very anticipated for this special day actually, I was not that much, but still I wished to spend the time with him. On the 13th, I was preparing Valentine's gift for him, it was a simple gift —— chocolate. I didn't really like to prepare a surprise for a guy actually, haha. 

  I thought that it was too simple, so I also made two handmade roses for him, I wrote a card too, only God knows how much I hated to do handmade crafts!  I didn't like it at all! At that night, I asked him whether he was free to meet me or not, I waited so long until it was passed 12 am, it was actually Valentine's Day already, but still I hadn't received any message or reply, not even a wish!!  After around 15 minutes, finally he replied me, he told me that he was with his friends, I was then like 'okay', I didn't want to bother him to spend his time with friends actually, I knew he gave a lot of his time to me, he needed to spend time with friends too of course. 

  I was quite moody but I didn't really want to show it to him, so I wished him Happy Valentine's Day and asked him to enjoy his time with friends, then I went to sleep. I wanted to spend my time with him on this special day actually, I wrote my wish in the card so I needed to give the card to him one day before the Valentine's Day, but nothing was right at all, at least not as what I planned.

  On the Valentine's Day, I tried not to show to him how much disappointments that I felt when I can't spend my time with him, I hoped that he would ask me whether I was free tonight, he did ask actually, but then he didn't mention anything about meeting up, he told me that he afraid that he can't see me at night after that.

  The Valentine's Day passed without any celebration at all, so the next day I went to Queensbay alone wanting to settle the U-mobile bill payment issue. While shopping, I keep texting him and he finally tried to talk something about Valentine's Day with me. I told him I was not expecting much, I just wanted to at least receive a wish and spending the night with him, he told me that he knew I was moody at the night, but he just want me to be clear in my thoughts, so he purposely didn't mention anything about Valentine's Day to me.

  Then I told him, 'I thought you don't want to meet me at all..', he replied me that he would come to me right now!  I was so shocked that he would say something like this, but yes I felt so much happiness when he told me that we would be dating tonight.  

  At around 6.40pm, he reached Queensbay with a formal attire, buttoned shirt with a coat, my man's look was so damn handsome!!  I knew he actually cared by the way he chose his attire. He remembered that I told him I always wanted to see him wearing a coat!! Wearing a formal attire in Queensbay, of course, people would be looking at him, but who care? It was because he was the most handsome man in the mall!  He brought me to eat at Sakae Sushi, I ordered my favourite dish —— sashimi!! Both of us talked so much while waiting for the movie to start. 

  The movie "Don't Knock Twice" really sucked, I knew he was losing his patients when he kept shaking his legs and looking at his watch, hahaha!! By the way, I really loved it when he kissed my hair, I put my head on his shoulder to rest and he touched my hair then kissed it, I couldn't resist this at all!!  After the movie, he bought supper for me, he said that I would be happy when he fed me foods, who can be a good bf if he was not one? That night, I slept so well because he was hugging me while sleeping, I woke up by his kisses too the next day, what can be better than waking up by his kisses?  It was the best night ever, still so much sweetness even it was a belated celebration, I appreciated everything he did for me. 

FINISHED!

#Chapter 4: Our First Hiking

  It was not a planned trip actually, both of us was chatting like always, he suddenly suggested that we should have a date together, then he asked me to choose one day so I told him I wanna met him as soon as possible. 'Tomorrow', I said to him, he agreed and that was how our first hiking experience worked like. 

  The next day, both of us departed at 9.30am from USM, I predicted that we needed around 2 hours to reach to our destination -- Penang National Park. My prediction was correct, we reached there around 11.35am. First, we needed to register at the registration counter, the worker gave us a real suck map that we couldn't see anything inside the map.

  After he changed to the proper clothes that he felt comfortable with, our journey officially started.  He was the real gentleman for me, why? Because he helped me to carry my bag for more than half of the journey. As I always said, if you wanna know your man better, bring him to the journey that needs effort and let's see. Even though I never hiking with any guys before, but I experienced jungle trekking at my secondary school, I saw a lot of assholes being selfish and never tried to consider about girls throughout the journey.

  Although it was only a 2 hours journey, but it was really tiring for me, my back pain made me feel uncomfortable throughout the route, the sports shoes too which made my toes so painful. When we finally reached the Monkey Beach, I felt like 'omg, like finally!!!'The name of the beach was exactly the same as what we first saw, a lot of monkeys running and climbing here and there, we even saw a smart ass monkey stole someone's coke. 

  My boyfriend suggested that we walked until the end of the beach to see what was there, I am an obedient girl, so I just obeyed and followed him. In the middle of the walk, we stopped to change our clothes, I just changed from track suit to short pants, he actually quite shocked when I told him I didn't have any swimwear, hahaha.  I saw those European girls wore a bikini, the first time in my life I saw a real flesh wearing a bikini, those hot stuff, hahaha!  But my body shape is still better okay. 

  When we reached the end of the beach, we saw another road to the lighthouse up there, my boyfriend wanted to go up there, but I was too tired to continue so I suggested him what about I waited for him down here and he went there alone? He, of course, said no, he couldn't leave me alone there. Ohh I love my sticky man so much!! 

  The journey to the lighthouse took around 30 minutes, it was a real hard journey for me as I was losing my stamina and energy from the first 2 hours of hiking. I was actually about to give up just in a few metres of the journey, but my man seemed angry and asked me to give him my bag, he held my hand and pulled me to follow him. Actually, I just needed his attention so much! 

  The journey was so hard for me, we needed to rest for so many times because he said I was walking like a zombie, luckily he had a lot of patience towards me and let me rest for so many times, each 100 metres we rest for once. Finally, we reached the top! Despite all the frustrations and complaints all over the route until the top, it was really worthy for all the excruciations to reach up there, the view from the top was so amazing and astonishing!!

  Both of us took a rest up there on the lighthouse, he ate the biscuits that he brought along, but I was too tired to eat anything, I lost my appetite.  I asked him, 'Can I sleep on your thighs for a while?' He said yes, and I put my head on his thigh and rest. After I had enough rest, both of us were ready to go down, he kissed me on the top of the lighthouse, such a wonderful kiss that he gave me.  The trip to go down was really easy if compared to the way up. I had a wonderful motivation too, he would kiss me so hard in every stair we reached to.

  When we reached to the beach again, I started to feel my stomach was empty. He said, 'Let's feed my girl and we'll have a swim before back.' I ordered a maggie goreng and he ordered nasi goreng, the foods tasted awesome after all we had been through. After finished filling our stomach, we went swimming. No, it was just him, cause I couldn't swim, he tried to teach me, but I was so scared, hahaha! I was sitting in the water and playing alone, what someone who couldn't swim could do huh? He said I looked happy like a child. 

  Around 6.30pm, we prepared to go back by boat, I didn't have any stamina to hike back anymore. We paid rm10 each person for the boat, then we headed back to the registration counter. By the way, when we rented a boat there, the auntie asked him whether am I his girlfriend, he said yes, then the auntie laughed and said I was so small. Hmm, it was the first time in my life someone commented that I'm small, haha!  I hope she's not referring to my boobs, hahaha!! 

  Then, we rode a bus to go to Batu Feringghi for dinner, then spend little times by the beach hugging and kissing each other. Time passed so fast when we really needed to go back before the last bus hours, it was really an amazing date. Even though it was really tired, but this was still better than any movie or shopping date seriously.   He told me that the next date we would hike to the Turtle Beach, I was so anticipated for the next date. 

FINISHED!