First Time Feels Like This

My whole life, this is the first time I received flowers from a very unexpected person. And his reason? I wish I knew.

I received the flowers first before I found that the first time I met him was when we were really young, about 8 years old or less. My family and his family knew each other back then cause they were related in a very puzzling way, he's a cousin of my cousin's cousin.

From what I can remember, we were together in a big beach hut and there was an earthquake and I only know him by name. I can't even remember how he looked like.

From what he remembers, our family visited them in Batangas and we stayed in a big beach hut, then there was an earthquake and a storm the next day. He remembered me as the "bulol kid" who can't pronounce a word something like "tanzans" and according to him I said it as "tanzanthh." (Yeah, that was me. I can't pronounce S before I had my braces on. ) Ikaw pala 'yon!

That was the first time, then after more than a decade, I see him again. We were even introduced as if we were strangers and all of us just realized, we met each long long time ago. :">

And for the Nth time, thanks for the flowers.

Today when I saw you
I knew it was just like the first time
When you met my eyes I came close
And I felt like the first time

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