Ndondo asked me to write something about how we first met. And you know what, I really really have no idea what should I write. I can even barely remember that moment. I’m sorry LOL. But at least, I’m going to try. So, this is how the things started.
In 2019, I was joining a trail running event called UGM International Trail Run as a crew. Some of my friends were committee and asked me to join them and I gladly said yes. That wasn’t my first time join a running event and also wasn’t my first time working with the team. So, I didn’t have any complain about the event and I liked the way things were going there.
One day before the event I had to go there to prepare the jobs that I was given to. I arrived about the same time with routes crew in the morning, and we started working. And at the night when I was done with my jobs and I was going to take a bath. But Mas Angga called me. Then he told me that there were some guys of the crew that happened to went to the same collage as me. There were three of them. One of them, Nino, said that he knew me from Borobudur Marathon. I was startled and felt awkward because I didn't remember him at first! Hahaha. I remembered that I said hi to them and talked about one or two things. BUT I didn’t even remember that Ndondo is one of them! I’m so sorry again ehehehe. That’s just shows how plain my memories about how we first met. I can even barely remember it right.
But a couple days later, when I was with Ipeh, a notification from Instagram popped up on my phone. “Ferando_dondo started following you!” At first, I didn’t really give much thought about it. But I just had this urge to open his profile and I felt that this Fernando_dondo feels familiar. I told Ipeh about Fernando_dondo which following my Instagram account, and Ipeh said, “Don’t you remember? He’s one of the crew that went to the same collage as you, mbak”. I was like, “Eh? Really? Why can’t I recall?”. And of course, I followed him back after that. I also remember that I was kind of surprised when I found out that two of my friends also follow him, one of them is Sepep (Aziz). I thought, who was he anyway? That curious feeling gave me courage to send a DM to him. It was on October 23rd, 2019. I was kind of stupid with that DM and did some typos here and there. He replied and told me to not be nervous LOL. And just like that, our relationship started to begun. We often replied to each other instastories, exchanged stories through the DMs, and jokes around. Recalling those memories, makes me realized that I was the one who make the first move, LOL.
Those DMs things was happened for a while. In the beginning of our DMs, I remember that I was surprised to find out that he was Sepep’s classmate in elementary and junior high school. I also found out that he liked to hike and travel just as I do, so we often talked about that topics too. He was so easy to talked to. Sometimes he was kind of sending “sepik” words, and then I turned it into a joke, and something like that. It was so fun and I liked it.
I even remember in late 2019, around November or December, Sepep got married. Of course, I came with Galan and Taufiqur since I had no one I could ask to go with me LOL. I remember that I hoped that I could meet Ndondo there. I searched his face or figure (or anything that would makes me recognize him) through the room. But I found nothing. I remember I made an instastory with a little hope that he would reply to it, and maybe he was going to the wedding and we could meet. LOL. But it didn’t happened. Then, after I got home, I got this notification that Fernando_dondo replied to my Instagram story about Sepep’s wedding. I was happy that he noticed it LOL! Until I wrote this down, he doesn’t know it yet. LOL.
This Fernando_dondo kept poking on my interest with our DMs but of course I held my feeling so that he wouldn't run LOL. Then one day, I suddenly got this urge to stalked Ndondo’s instagram profile. Actually, I don’t really like to did stalking thingy on people I was attracted to just becauuuse I don’t want to get upset if I knew something I shouldn’t. But I did it anyway and just as I expected, I got a little bit sad. Only a little bit, but sad.
I remember that I even checked his Youtube channel before, but I didn’t even finish that bike touring video wkwk! Sooo, I started to stalk his feed instead. There are lots of it (but not as much as mine LOL) and I was surprised when I found out that he wrote a lot. Like a lot! I have a lot of guy friends but there are none of them that like to write, especially in their Instagram feed. But he did that in every post and he wrote so neatly! I read some of them randomly and I enjoyed how he tell stories through his writing.
And then I went to Highlight in his profile. There were two highlights, “Dia,” and “Typography” if I wasn’t wrong. I remember that I checked the Dia, Highlights first. He shared his poems with music and beautiful scenery in this highlight and that was quite interesting. UNTIL, I found out this post of a poem and the scenery of a girl silhouette in some kind of beach (I think?), and I was like, “Shiiiit, he got a girlfriend”.
At that time, I actually attracted to him and I even hoped that we would get closer. So yeah, I felt a little bit sad when I found out that highlight. And then I backed off a little, just because I didn’t want to get tangled with other people relationship, or something like that. And I decided to quit my hopes about getting closer to him. (YEA BUT NOW I KNOW THAT THE GIRL WAS ACTUALLY HIS COUSIN AND I FELT STUPID OVER IT LIKE WHY DIDN’T I ASKED ABOUT IT BEFORE WHAT A WASTE OF TIME LOL).
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