BEZ4LYP

By VayneNovus

Chapter One: At the Beginning

It was just like any other morning, a typical day so as it seems, but I was wrong. It was a day I would never forget.

I awoke at around six in the morning since I kind of got used in getting up early anyway. I took a bath, ate breakfast and then cleaned my room. I then proceeded downstairs and decided to play the computer game I had borrowed from my classmate Paul. Since it was summer break, I did not have much to do really except play videogames and sometimes chat with friends in YM.

After I had finished my game, I decided to listen to music in WinAmp. I kind of got bored since I already heard most of the songs. Luckily I remembered the latest song of My Chemical Romance which was I Don't Love You. I clicked my downloading program which was Imesh (I didn't have Limewire because my Java was outdated). I logged in my username - stf-u, and password after. I then typed in the name of the song in the search tab. I was a bit disappointed because the song was not in the search list. All I could find was the piano version, so I just decided to go with it anyway. I realized it was good after listening to it.

With nothing to do afterwards, I then decided to check out my Imesh profile page. It was just a simple page really and I had few friends but I did not mind since I already have more friends in Friendster which was about 755 friends. I was about to sign-out when I saw the profile of a girl that caught my attention. I was curious to meet that person and I never regretted meeting her.

Even now, I still can't explain why I had the feeling to IM her. It was weird because she was a total stranger to me. I saw her username was "xhie17". And this is where the hard part begins, the conversation part. Thoughts keeping wondering in my head whether I should message her or not. Questions keep popping up such as "would she reply?" or "is she busy?"

I really have a hard time chatting with girls due to the fact that some ignore me while others chat to me but only for a short time like for just a day and would then forget about me the day after. That is why I formulated two personalities of chatters: the passive chatter and active chatter. The active being that the person loves to chat and finds time to talk with anyone. And the passive chatter, which is somewhat identical with the active chatter but the only difference is that this person is picky of his/her chat mates and that would talk with others but only for a little time and then ignoring him the next time.

Getting back to xhie17, I was kind of nervous at what she'll do. It's either a "hi" or "goodbye" situation for me. I patiently wait for reply, if she'll even reply at all. When I saw her reply, I was relieved that she did notice my message and did not close the message window after all. She then asked for my asl (Age, Sex, Location) which I then typed and replied to her. I too asked for her asl which she too replied to me.

I assumed she was an American or Mexican because I checked her profile and stated that she was residing in New Mexico. So I just chatted in English at first, but as I got a better view at her profile, I noticed that she was a Filipino. And I was later more stunned as she turned out to be and Ilonggo just as me. I was happy for the fact that I can now talk to her using our native tongue so that we can communicate easily.

Through the course of our chat, I got to know her a little bit. She told me that her family left Iloilo last year and how she misses home very much. She also told me that some of my batch mates were her classmates in elementary while in Iloilo. We then chatted about everything, from her life and school life to music and other topics. I was kind of shy talking to her because I explained to her that I am really shy around girls. But she just said it was okay and laughed.

It was now about 2 hours since our first chat that she became quite open to me, she explained to me that after school, she sometimes would be alone and that when she comes home, she would chat so as not to be lonely. I was sad for her and told her to just cheer up. I was finally adjusting and that I was now never shy with her. I made her happy and talked to her. She thanked me and asked me if I ever wanted to be her best friend. I was of course shocked since it was the first time a girl asked me to be her best friend and that I had just met her 2 hours ago so it was really surprising. I eventually agreed since I got comfortable with her. She happily thanked me for being her best friend. I was happy because she was my best friend too.

I then noticed that typing "best friend" was rather long so I suggested if we could reduce it to just "bez". She agreed and was now calling me by that word. For me calling her "bez" was cute and at the same time friendly. We were having fun that day. I was lucky I met her, of all places it had to be in Imesh. It was weird yet it was great.

Sadly I now had to go; it was already 12 noon in my time. I didn't realize that we chatted for about 4 hours. We were sad but she told me that she wants to chat with me again the next day. I happily agreed. We then said our "goodbyes" to one another. I then logged off and turned off the computer.

I was happy because I met my best friend and even happier at what might happen to us later on. After the day was over, I thanked God that I had met her and then went to sleep; knowing that tomorrow will be another day except that I now have a best friend to talk to.

END OF CHAPTER ONE