
He sat next to me in form 5, and always supplied me with mentos and mints. His palms were always sweaty, and we would cheat on tests together. We would laugh about the stupidest, most randomest of things (”aww shit i don’t have glue, quick, pull down your pants and make me some!”), and he made school, bearable (although I wasn’t there half the time).
He was the only person who understood what I was going through. He would sit with me, in my room, and we, together with the others sometimes, would listen to emo songs and just talk about things. He was the one and only person I turned to at Alwi’s farewell party, the shoulder I cried on that night, the one who told me everything would be okay.
He would sit in the front seat of my puny black kancil, and would blast songs out of my ipod or his mp3 player, debating about whether or not Fall Out Boy is mainstream. He would drive around with me, and just keep me company when I needed him.
He wouldn’t eat anything that’s not on the roomservice menu, and camped out in my tv room after SPM, together with the rest.
He comes to my house, with no prior notice, and bangs on my door, and goes, “SURPRISE WE’RE GOING OUT FOR LUNCH!”. Although I act like I hate it because I would have just woken up, he doesn’t know how much I appreciate his company.
He would do the craziest things on impulse with me. Like he had his first ciggie, his first alchoholic drink and his first piercing, with yours truly ;)
He would drive all the way to Lembah Beringin, to visit me in college, to watch me make a fool of myself on stage.
He is someone I could go on and on about, but most importantly,
He is Alexander Tan Jin Hao. He is Alex to some, Tan to some. But to me, he is my Lover, my Lesbian Lover. We have a 68% compatibility rate. Those tests do not lie.
Alex, don’t you see that you mean a lot to me? Not just to me but to everyone in the Family (of Friends)? How could I not be angry, how could I not be upset if you’re doing this to yourself. Hang on, hold on, please. After my exams are over I swear I will spend every second I can with you. We will get you better, we will eat, if you need to I will hold your hair back while you puke. I will stand by yourside, I will follow you to every hospital check up, I will follow you to every appointment, and I will spend the night if you are admitted. We will go and buy RockBand and be rawkstars and we will get your mind of things. I want you to get better, I need you to get better.
Don’t say I’ve given up hope on you. I never will. How can I do that to you? I won’t give up. Please know that I care Alex, We all DO. I love you, We ALL DO.
“Goddamn right, it SHALL be beautiful days, okay?”
PS: SuAnnShazSyahidaAlexAlwiIzzatWanXiongNadiya. I miss, I care, I love. I need you guys to stay safe, and be happy okay. Despite whatever, the time that goes by, the distance and the space, this one little thing has made me realize how much all of you mean to me, and how I do not want anything nasty to happen to anyone. Because hey, we still need to have that reunion in the future with EVERYONE present, and we can finally get a group photo together, ok?