By Her - The Spidey senses, and the Bubbles

Just before she left for Sydney....


He came over occasionally and they had a few long discussion about where this was leading.


And of course, more than once she expressed her firm belief in staying single...at least for then. But then he had been very stubborn and persistent too.


He called this the exploring phase, even though she couldnt care less.


He used a lot of spidey senses. He called that the borrowed spidey senses. Maybe God loaned them to him.


but...the chemistry started to brew when he used his spidey senses. No one was able to read her mind like he did. He seemed to understand her. Not just the superficial likes and dislikes, but he knows her to the core.


As though her secret wonderland in the mind was being intruded.


She developed this love-hate emotions with his spideysenses. She spent her whole life guarded her secret mindscape; like the Garden of Eden...Just her , herself, and God. No one knows what she thinks. No one reads her mind. No one was allowed to come in to her secret world. She indulged herself with her solitude in her secret garden, her mindscape.


Now it has been intruded. This silly man was curious about what's in her lil head.


Stupid man, how dare you... she spent her life building and guarding this secret garden.


On the other hand, she liked to watch this uninvited stranger finding his way in the secret garden, as though he was hunting for a treasure.


' Come, silly boy, come and find me...No, too close, stay right there....come now, come follow me in this garden, I will show you something... now I am hiding, come find me....'


He was right, she liked it when he read her.


He said, just like he'd had the soldier, the poet, the suit and polo T in his mind, she'd had her girls too. His very existance was like a foreign bubble which occupied a small corner of a room in her mindscape. Her girls perceived the bubble as a threat ; weapons were deployed to extinguish this foreign bubble.


But somehow the bubble survived and thrived in this hostile environment.


She called it the Blue Bubble. Somehow it was in blue. And as for her, she was a Yellow Bubble in his mindscape.


The Blue Bubble was allowed to grow bigger and bigger.


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Again, after she came back from Sydney with her mom and sis. July 08. They had a special dinner with the connect group.


He was unusually quiet in the dinner. Maybe he was anxious. The dinner went very well. Her mom seemed to be more enthusiastic than her about this potentially budding friendship.


Her mom's overjoyed reaction about this boy astonished her too. It meant a lot to her in her uncertainty.


The dinner was done. She helped to load some stuff into his car.


She gave him a very big smile, ' Hi, Blue Bubble!'


He smiled too, ' Hi, Yellow Bubble!'


The air was filled with laughter and joy.