Why, ya?
Did she have a bule friend, a bule boyfriend, even? No, that was impossible, right? She does not like bules, and she is married! Hmmmm … I wondered what was up with that lady. It was not my business, though, I decided, and as I didn’t want her to be angry with me again, I decided not to ask any questions.
What else? Oh ya, I almost forgot. Gary Reeve from Orlando sent me an email!!!! I was delighted to read it. In the mail he told me a bit about himself and about his life. He lived in Canada where it is very cold and he had his own photography business, he liked travelling and watching sport (he said he used to play ice-hockey but now his ‘legs have gone’ (I didn’t know what that meant) he also said he was 53 years old and had two grown up children. He said he thought my poems on my blog were ‘awesome’ and he could understand them a little because he had learnt a bit of Indonesian when he had stayed in Bali a few years earlier. He didn’t say why he had visited Bali for a few weeks, but he did say he was planning on taking a long journey soon and maybe he would come back again.
I was a bit surprised to know his age and that he had two big children. I don’t know why, but I thought he would be young, like me, but it didn’t really matter. He also attached a photo of himself and when I opened it I saw quite a handsome man. He was quite small and a little bit chubby but he didn’t look too old. Hmmmm … I thought he looked like a professor or a doctor, or something.
‘Ok, see you later, honey.’
I stopped thinking about Gary Reeve from Orlando when I heard these words and looked up in surprise. It was Selvey, talking on her phone. I was shocked. Who was she talking to? Who was ‘honey’? Would she see him? (It must be ‘him’ if she said ‘honey’, right?) I was confused. Surely Selvey knew I was there? She had to know I could hear her.
She finished her call and saw me staring at her. I tried to look away, but she just smiled at me and said nothing.
By now it was nearly time to go home, and so I sent a text to Ari to see what his plans were for the weekend and another email to Gary Reeve from Orlando wishing him a happy weekend and this time I included my photo too. I took one more look at Selvey, in her funny sexy clothes and said ‘goodnight’ to her and then left. As I did, my phone beeped again with another message from bugil / Charlie, which I just deleted without reading.
Two months later and as I sat and looked at my computer all I saw was:
From: [email protected]
Date: 25 September, 2005
I wanted to write to him one more time and let it all out, but I didn’t know where to start. Two months had just rolled by and so much had happened, so now I wanted to get it all down and explain everything. The trouble was, I knew I should just let it go, and so instead of writing anything I just let my mind wander back over everything that had occurred.
Two months in which I became I so sad, happy, disappointed, nervous, worried, excited and afraid all at the same time. Looking back, I don’t know how all this could have happened. Let me tell you the position I found myself in and then I will tell you step by step what happened and how I came to be in this way.
Waduh! Am I a silly girl, or naïve, or unlucky or lucky? I don’t know, sir, but I do know that both Charlie, bugil, and Gary Reeve from Orlando ended up wanting to marry me! Also, Ari told me he would get married too, the silly boy, and Selvey became crazy and made me think she was having an affair!
Oooohhh, my life!
So, how can I tell you what has happened? Well, after what happened with bugil in his apartment I didn’t want to see him or have any contact with him, but then when I saw him in the cinema that time when I was with Ari and Wanda I felt strange and I couldn’t stop thinking about him. He tried to call me a few times and sent me some texts and even some emails, but I didn’t reply. I tried very hard to forget him, the silly bugil, but I just couldn’t.
I started writing to Gary, the guy from Orlando, and then I sort of thought I fell in love with him and he sort of thought he fell in love with me too, and then he asked me to marry him, and then I said yes and I wrote a text to Charlie because I wanted to know how he was and I wanted to tell him my news, but he said he loved me too and that he wanted to marry me also.
That’s all.
Wow, I guess I have not really explained things very well, have I? Ok, well now I will tell you step by step.
After Charlie hurt me (I don’t want to call him bugil anymore, it’s not nice) I started writing to Gary. He and I started chatting on YM and I started to get to know him more. He told me that he was 53 years old, but felt much younger (I told him he looked much younger, too) and he said he had been married twice before but he is single now. He said he was only married to his first wife for a short time and it was when they were
