There was a girl. Let’s call her Bee. She fell in love with a boy. Let’s call him Ree. They were 12 and 13 respectively. She was popular, he was popular. It was a classic teen movie. The jock in love with the dancer. He was the perfect guy who used to walk her back to her home, always staying around 20 meters behind her. He would then wait below her hostel’s balcony and they would then talk about how their day went. They loved each other like only young ones do. Inspired by the 90s movies they watched, they loved each other from a distance. Their eyes held countless conversations while they were supposed to be studying during the evening classes at their boarding school. He would run up to the terrace of the boys hostel every morning at 5:30 just because he knew she would be on the terrace of the girls’ hostel. They could barely see each other but they used to wave to each other. This was their preferred way of starting each day. Ah… one could go on and on about their love story. But let’s move on.
Ree had to leave school because of some financial problems back at home. Bee stayed behind only to move away from that school soon. They lost touch. They joined new schools. They made new friends but still remembered each other. Bee finished her school and decided that now she wants to look for him. She found him on one of those early social networking sites. (Anyone remembers Hi5?).
They couldn’t believe their luck. Maybe fairy tales are true after all. Who meets each other after 4 years when they have completely different friend circles? Specially in a country with 1.3 billion people. Anyway, they rekindled their old love. It was not a simple cute thing now. They were both adults. Or well. Almost adults. It was heady. It was amazing. They decided they will get married when they complete 10 years of their relationship. You see, they were counting the time they were away from each other as well. Everything was colourful, everything nice. They talked to each other all the time they could get away from college each day. After all, they had to find out who the grown-up Bee and Ree were. They fell in love all over again.
But then something happened. Misunderstandings. Distance. Ree was studying in another city and Bee too was focused on her studies. These were dark times for Bee and she doesn’t like remembering them. They were also pretty weird times because Ree seemed to have changed. Not that Bee didn’t feel like she had changed. You see, talking on the phone every waking moment is fun only initially… Later, it becomes a little taxing. They fought. A lot. They broke up eventually. But Bee was sure that they will meet each other again later in life. After all, they had met up after a 4-year gap when they didn’t even have each other’s numbers! She was also sure that Ree thought the same.
She had “unfriended” him but still kept checking his profile. Even though she was angry at him, she never forgot him or their love. Time passed and the profile checking became irregular. One fine day, she woke up and had this urge to find out how he is. She had never felt such an urge and she was scared. She reached for her phone to call him but she just couldn’t make herself do that. She waited till the evening and checked his Orkut profile and it was a bit… weird… His friends were commenting nonsense on his wall. It just did not make sense.
“How could you leave us?” “Just 20 and so full of life” “We will miss you” “You will always be in our hearts”
“RIP”
Oh gosh… this is like a real melo where it starts with the leads dressed as highschoolers, complete with time skips and a tragic ending… life is worse than a melo though, because people actually lived through it…
ObsessedMuch
September 30, 2019 at 7:52 AM
Hmmm.. so… I don’t know whether this qualifies as makjang but I wanted to participate on the last day of the #MakjangMondayMonth.
Lemme know if I need to tag people.
ObsessedMuch
September 30, 2019 at 7:53 AM
There was a girl. Let’s call her Bee. She fell in love with a boy. Let’s call him Ree. They were 12 and 13 respectively. She was popular, he was popular. It was a classic teen movie. The jock in love with the dancer. He was the perfect guy who used to walk her back to her home, always staying around 20 meters behind her. He would then wait below her hostel’s balcony and they would then talk about how their day went. They loved each other like only young ones do. Inspired by the 90s movies they watched, they loved each other from a distance. Their eyes held countless conversations while they were supposed to be studying during the evening classes at their boarding school. He would run up to the terrace of the boys hostel every morning at 5:30 just because he knew she would be on the terrace of the girls’ hostel. They could barely see each other but they used to wave to each other. This was their preferred way of starting each day. Ah… one could go on and on about their love story. But let’s move on.
Ree had to leave school because of some financial problems back at home. Bee stayed behind only to move away from that school soon. They lost touch. They joined new schools. They made new friends but still remembered each other. Bee finished her school and decided that now she wants to look for him. She found him on one of those early social networking sites. (Anyone remembers Hi5?).
They couldn’t believe their luck. Maybe fairy tales are true after all. Who meets each other after 4 years when they have completely different friend circles? Specially in a country with 1.3 billion people. Anyway, they rekindled their old love. It was not a simple cute thing now. They were both adults. Or well. Almost adults. It was heady. It was amazing. They decided they will get married when they complete 10 years of their relationship. You see, they were counting the time they were away from each other as well. Everything was colourful, everything nice. They talked to each other all the time they could get away from college each day. After all, they had to find out who the grown-up Bee and Ree were. They fell in love all over again.
ObsessedMuch
September 30, 2019 at 7:54 AM
But then something happened. Misunderstandings. Distance. Ree was studying in another city and Bee too was focused on her studies. These were dark times for Bee and she doesn’t like remembering them. They were also pretty weird times because Ree seemed to have changed. Not that Bee didn’t feel like she had changed. You see, talking on the phone every waking moment is fun only initially… Later, it becomes a little taxing. They fought. A lot. They broke up eventually. But Bee was sure that they will meet each other again later in life. After all, they had met up after a 4-year gap when they didn’t even have each other’s numbers! She was also sure that Ree thought the same.
She had “unfriended” him but still kept checking his profile. Even though she was angry at him, she never forgot him or their love. Time passed and the profile checking became irregular. One fine day, she woke up and had this urge to find out how he is. She had never felt such an urge and she was scared. She reached for her phone to call him but she just couldn’t make herself do that. She waited till the evening and checked his Orkut profile and it was a bit… weird… His friends were commenting nonsense on his wall. It just did not make sense.
“How could you leave us?” “Just 20 and so full of life” “We will miss you” “You will always be in our hearts”
“RIP”
That was in 2009.
blnmom
September 30, 2019 at 8:10 AM
😢
azzo
September 30, 2019 at 8:30 AM
Oh, God! This is actually sad! I hope Bee didn’t hurt for long after that and got over it ❤
Also, if this was a movie, I’ll watch it and cry!
ObsessedMuch
September 30, 2019 at 10:01 AM
In Jan 2019, she decided that it has been 10 years and it’s about time she completely moves on 🙂
azzo
September 30, 2019 at 10:33 AM
It took her a long time but I’m glad she got to a point where she could really move on, good for her 😊
azzo
September 30, 2019 at 8:48 AM
Also, I’m tagging everyone here, hope you don’t mind!
@justme,
@bammsie, @greenfields, @fatcat007, @neener, @waadmay, @mindy, @estee, @hotcocoagirl, @kimbapnoona, @natzillagorilla, @giegie0384, @cloggie, @hades, @isthatacorner, @rukia, @suriyana-shah, @sweetiepie54, @pbnjelly513, @jenmole, @parkchuna, @fencejumper, @delphy010, @shindy, @ally-le, @earthna, @vivanesca, @leetennant, @chingu, @esther, @coffeprince4eva, @miraalmano, @marybee, @jaelegant, @charlieblue17, @frabbycrabsis, @luzitania, @jules, @crysta, @mollyp, @whoopeeyoo, @babybeast, @silvermists, @esther95, @beesgiggle, @zetteceniza, @dokutokunaneko, @feenah9895, @egads, @noobita, @samurai, @christina41218, @saya, @festerfaster, @ravennightstar, @blissfulennaira, @1tea1, @oppafangirl
egads aka Dame Maggie
September 30, 2019 at 8:53 AM
Oh no. I wasn’t expecting such a sad ending. I hope Bee is doing well.
Cocoa, The Fake Poet of February
September 30, 2019 at 9:19 AM
Oh gosh… this is like a real melo where it starts with the leads dressed as highschoolers, complete with time skips and a tragic ending… life is worse than a melo though, because people actually lived through it…
ObsessedMuch
September 30, 2019 at 10:03 AM
Yep people do.. and they have to experience the stuff that comes after the curtain falls as well 🙂
RaOnAh loves Jay B 💚
September 30, 2019 at 11:20 AM
That’s so sad 😭😭😭
Fatcat007 (Kitty 💜)
September 30, 2019 at 11:38 AM
How rl makjangs twist so suddenly & end so abruptly that the scripted ones can never catch up.
Thanks for sharing. Glad toknow that Bee is alright now
FlyingTool
September 30, 2019 at 12:04 PM
😭
Karmen ~ 🍜🏢🎭 ~ 📚☔🦋 ~ 🪂🌱💘 ~ ✨🍊💫 ~
September 30, 2019 at 1:46 PM
:'(
RenOIshi
September 30, 2019 at 4:09 PM
Nooo 😢
Hugs to Bee. I hope she is well ❤️
💜🍍☠ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia ☠🍍💜
September 30, 2019 at 4:23 PM
♥ I love you Muchie ♥
mugyuljoie is preciousss
September 30, 2019 at 8:55 PM
This is so sad. Sending Bee so much love and many hugs.
Jenmole🍊
September 30, 2019 at 9:02 PM
I did not expect the ending. Oh my heart! What a lovely story. Thanks for sharing. 😘😘