Wait a minute…
Mmm?
Were you here?! Were you at Surfers Paradise?!?! Night markets?!?!?!
Ummm…? Not in 2025…? I’ve been in Korea the whole time so far…
No! I mean YEARS AGO — many, many years ago — were you here with me and other mutual friends at Surfers Paradise night markets?!?!?!?!
(Smiling)… What are you remembering…?
It was you but it wasn’t you — you were INCOGNITO?!?!! — You got introduced as an INCOGNITO FRIEND…
(Laughing) — I don’t know what you’re saying. I mean, it sounds like something I would be capable of doing — but you’re not giving me any other specifics to confirm or deny your accusation…
The mutual friends visited me on Gold Coast. They had a “new friend” with them — an incognito friend. And we all hung out. At the Surfers Paradise night markets.
(Smiling) — Did you think he was good looking?!
I don’t remember his face…
Then what are you remembering?
… … … his energy… …. …
What about his energy?
Well he was only a new friend — and he was only just visiting. For like, 4 days or something like that?! I wasn’t about to give my heart away to some guy who’s only visiting Gold Coast for 4 days?!?!?!
Oh? Was that your reason?
Yeah… That was my reason…
What do you remember about his energy?
… … … IT WAS YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Giggline/cackling to himself hysterically)… You only remember that it was me — after the fact? After all these years?!?!?!?!
There was a moment. The new “incognito friend” bought something at the night markets. I only remember it now… THAT FRIEND — they bought something that I’d never tried before, at the time. And now, well, I’ve tried it since, but at the time I just thought, “Oh okay, they’re really interested in that thing” and I didn’t think too much of it at the time…
Uhuh… it’s pretty useful, that thing?
(Nodding) Yes… definitely… these days, I wouldn’t mind having it at our shared apartment… it’s not a bad thing or anything… it’s not a sex toy or anything! (Just in case the readers are wondering)… but yeah, it’s a nice thing…
It is a nice thing… I’ve enjoyed it, all these years…
You used it already?
(Shaking his head) — No. I have the original… for sentimental keeping. Don’t you remember I bought two of them?
You did?
Yes — I kept one. I still have it. I used the other — just to try it. And then, I bought more… because I do like it. I’ve been using that thing…
Huh… but you can’t really use it in hotel rooms?
No… I have other versions that I can use in hotel rooms…
Oh…
But I do use it — around my own place. I like it. I like it a lot — and it reminds me of you. It reminds me of us — our little moment at the night markets.
But I didn’t “register” that it was you —
Doesn’t matter… it reminds me of being closer to you… of you — not being afraid or sceptical of me — you were so trusting. You were so accepting — this new, random friend that the mutual friends introduced. Yes — you put me in the friend zone — and I respected you for it. And still — you allowed me, physically… closer… you allowed me to be in your space…
Of course I allowed you in my space — YOU’RE TOO FUCKIN’ SEXY EVEN INCOGNITO…
(Smiling) Was I…?
Yes… definitely… something about that person’s energy really, really drew me in… and then my MIND kept jumping in, “He’s only visiting for 4 days?!?!?! YOU’RE NOT FUCKIN’ DOING THIS AGAIN!!! DON’T FALL IN LOVE WITH VISITORS TO AUSTRALIA!!! NO FUCKIN’ WAY!!!”
(Giggling more to himself) Yeah… I thought that was the case… I felt it in your energy… I knew that was why I got friend zoned…
It doesn’t even make sense. Why would you go “incognito” to see if we have a connection — but then wouldn’t that also mean that I was “cheating” on you — the OG?!
Hmm… I didn’t really think it through that much at the time… I just wanted to be near you… and I talked it over with the mutual friends… because of your reaction at that time to how things fell apart — I just didn’t want to approach you as the OG — The Trainwreck — I wanted to just, see… if… another version of me… would entice you… or… I don’t know, really — actually I didn’t think it through at all. I just wanted to be near you…
You with your 165 IQ didn’t actually think it through?
(Shaking his head) Nope… that’s what you do to me… I don’t always think things through… especially not back then… That was still… early 20s? I wasn’t thinking things through — I just wanted to be near you.
And now? Middle-aged millennial man?
I’m thinking things through — A LOT — I’m really, really thinking things through… I’m not jumping on a plane to be near you at any time in 2025 like a larrikin, I’m… I’m planning it…
You’re really planning it?
(Nodding) Yes… there are some serious strategies behind my actions this year…
(Laughing)
I don’t want to scare you away… and… I’m never going to lose you again.
We almost held hands… I think there was like a hand… brushing past… or something…
(Smiles) Yeah, I did that on purpose…
But I had a knee-jerk reaction, my mind totally got in the way…
(Nodding) I can accept it… Those circumstances… you didn’t want to hold my hand yet…
You weren’t YOU — you were some RANDOM INCOGNITO FRIEND…
(Laughing/smiling) Yeah…
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