Summer 1986.  This was the first day that we saw each other.  Nazir's family moved into the house next to ours, in short we  became neighbors. We were still kids during those days, no special feeling yet!

June 1986.  Enrollment day.  We became classmate from 5th grade.  We were so young that time, hence no romantic feelings had been felt.  For me, he was just an ordinary classmate like others.  We finished the elementary grade after two years but still we did not became friends

April 1988.  I planned to pursue my studies in arabic school.  I enrolled so we became classmate again in that school.  We were on our puberty stage that time and our classmates teased us, according to them, we were compatible for each other since we always top the exams together.  Sometimes, he was the top one and I was the second and vice versa.  Nazir and I remained  a good classmate but not a friend to each other. 

1992.   After six years of being together in the four corners of the classroom, finally a sharp Cupid's arrow struck and hit Nazir's heart :) .  I was  surprised one day after our class session when one of my friend handed me a scented love note.  I opened it immediately and I was shocked when I saw the signature below, it came from Nazir, I thought it was from one of my suitors before but I was wrong.  Receiving a letter from him was beyond my imagination.  My heart beat fastly because it really brought shocked within me.  My friends asked to reply it but I refused, since one of my principle that time was not to reply any letters from guys.   After that he sent me more and more letters, the fact was I received letters from him almost thrice a week but I did not have a heart to reply even just a word.  In school, I avoided him, I just talked to him about our subjects and when he began to talked to me about my love life, I ignored him.

One day my conscience hit me, I realized that out of all my suitors, he was the most serious one, and I saw sincerity in his eyes every time I looked at him, he was too good to be true.  I told my self that I really wanted to love this guy, he should be the guy I must love.  I tried to teach my self how to love him but it seems that I had a stone-heart that time or I'd rather say I think I was afraid to love during those years of my tender age.

I decided to reply his letter to thank him for loving me and asking him to wait for me to mature enough to make a good and sound decision regarding that matters.  Unfortunately. when I decided to send him the letter I wrote, a friend whispered to me that he was already involved to another girl in school.   I did not able to say a word, all I have done was to tear my letter into pieces but I did not tell any of my friends about it.  After few days, he went to our home and asked me to talked with him, I agreed and I pretended not knowing his whereabouts.  He asked me about his letters and if I had a feeling for him.  I answered him "NONE, NOTHING EVER".  I don't know what's my real feelings towards him that day, did I already fall in love with him or what?  But as far as I remember I was hurt.

1995.   Sometimes we only realized how important a person was when he's already out of our life.  This was the year he traveled to Kuwait to continue his studying there.  One day I noticed that I did not see him anymore, I asked one of my friends where he was and I was surprised by her answer, she said he was already gone to Kuwait.  I felt little bit disappointed because even just being his classmate he did not tell me about it.  Anyway, who am I in his life, I was just nothing but a classmate who ignored the love he had offered.

1996.   I continued my education to college.  I enrolled BS Psychology at Mindanao State University, Marawi City, Philippines.  There, I met different  kinds of people since we came from different regions of our country.  I had also some suitors who came from various places, but I wondered everytime they talked to me I always remembered Nazir.  Not only that, every time my suitors talked to me it seemed that all my senses wished that he was the one I was talking at.  When I received letters from them, I remembered his letters to me and everything about him.  Fortunately, those feelings did not able to affect my studies.  I focused my self in my research papers and everything about my studies, hence, when the semester ended, I was glad because I got high grades in all of my subjects and I was included as one of the dean's listers of our college.  I did not imagine that this thing was the key to my worldly paradise.  After few weeks I received a letter from Nazir, my long lost lover, he congratulated me for the high marks I gained and I can say that I was the happiest person in the world that day.  I was very surprised, I never thought that he still remembered me despite of the yesteryears we had been through.  I replied his letter immediately thanking him for not forgetting me.  That was the first time I replied his letters.

July 1997.  Nazir visited me in our University Campus in Marawi City Philippines, he talked to me reminiscing the past.  He asked me about my love life and everything until finally he got into his main purpose! To make the story short, our feeling were became mutual that day, I accepted the love he had offered. 

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