First crush V.2006.

Do you remember the first time you had a crush on someone? Maybe when you were 9 or 10 and still running around in Primary School? You remember that giddy feeling everytime you see him/her from afar and your face just breaks out in blushes?

You want to run away...but you can't. Because you won't know when you'd get to see him/her again. You're rooted there...till he/she passes you, at that particular moment in which you frantically pretend to act non-chalant and cool about the whole thing, looking left right up down but never straight on.

Then your friends tease you about it. They run up to that special someone and say..

".... likes you"

and then they run away, patting themselves on the back for a job well done.

You hate them. Of course you hated them for doing what they did. For announcing to anyone who would care to stop and listen about your feelings. For scribbling your initials on the table/blackboard framed in a heart. For hollering down the classroom corridors everytime they see him/her approaching. For teasing you incessantly.

You hated it and you wished the feeling would go away so that those bastards would just leave you alone.

But then...everytime you saw or thought about him/her...you break out in smiles and grins again..like a fool. You start feeling giddy, light-headed and flushed...

It's all very innocent...you see.

I haven't felt that way for a looong time.
-But it's minus the pesky friends now-