liyana,

a friend of yours once had asked over dinner.

how did we meet.

I gave him a one-liner. At the park, I said. I was not interested to elaborate further. I’d rather let you do the talking. And kept everyone entertained.

But I remembered the details perfectly.

It rained the night before. The grass was rather wet and the morning sky was cloudy. It was an event I never wanted to go to in the first place. But I had promised to meet up my junior ex-schoolmate when I returned home after graduated from Melbourne. Him being quite a popular guy, chose to hold the gathering at the park somewhere nearby his place.

There were many unknown faces, friends of his friends I supposed, and few other juniors that I recognized. I just wanted to say hi to him and leave. It felt embarrassing when some juniors whose names I could not remember, started talking to me like a long-lost friend. I felt uncomfortable and decided to slip away slowly unnoticed.

That was when I first saw you.

In your red sleeveless top and light blue jeans. Accentuating your curves. Red tinged hair fell to the side framing your face. Lush pink lips. Playful exuberant smile. Blue strapped watch on your left wrist. You sat on the picnic table with couple of friends sharing laughter. Like a little kid who found herself amused as if this whole world was her playground.

Then, you stopped when your eyes met mine.

I think my heart stopped beating too.

I did not understand what forces were at work that made me walk right up to you. Pulled into your gravity. Standing right before you at that bench, I could feel my insides crumbled. Dissipated into thin air.

I was drawn. You were victorious.

I saw it in your smile.

What I said afterwards did not make sense. My brain just ceased to function. Like a complete idiot, I uttered the first line of a song you reminded me of.

I said, you look so fine.

To which surprisingly you responded, I want to break your heart and give you mine.

liyana, I knew then that the next line of the song need not to be said any further. It became very true indeed. Everything may have begun from that point onward. And yet I felt that something much more profound between us too, had been concluded.

you have taken me over.

chairil