Babe, did you know… one of my favourite childhood story books was “The Ugly Duckling” — ?
No… I didn’t know that…
Well it was. And I have memories of a book… I don’t know where to find it now. And it was in Chinese. But the illustrations, the story, for sure, it was the Ugly Duckling. It’s one of my earliest memories of a story book.
Awww… how old were you when you read it?
I’m not sure… could I have been four or five?! I don’t know! But it was in Chinese, which is weird, because now I’m recalling this story in English, but back then, I would’ve absorbed the entire story book in Chinese…
(Chuckles)… I kinda get it…
You do?!
Yeah… bilingual childhood problems…
Yeah?!?! I guess so…
Anyway. My point is… I still feel like an ugly duckling…
YOU ARE NOT!!! YOU ARE MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE!!! YOU ARE NOT AN UGLY DUCKLING!!!
Anyway — can I tell you another story?
(Smiles)… sure!
Well, it was middle school…
You felt like an ugly duckling?!
Well — THEN THE WHOLE STORY IS FINISHED! YOU JUST JUMPED RIGHT TO THE END OF MY STORY!!! I WAS ONLY JUST STARTING, I’VE ONLY JUST SET THE SCENE THAT IT’S MIDDLE SCHOOL!!!
^0^ (Cackling!!!!!) — I’m sorry baby… please, tell me your story… I won’t assume it’s about you feeling like an ugly duckling in middle school…
UGHHHH — Well I don’t want to tell it now.
No!!! Tell it!!!!
But you and all my readers — everyone can already assume — “Ohhhh middle school… she felt like an ugly duckling!”
(LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL) — Yes, it’s pretty easy to assume that that’s where you were going…………..
Ugh!!! Fine! I won’t tell it!!!
OMG JUST TELL THE STORY!!!
Fine!!!
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So, in middle school…………………..
Uhuh… how old? What grade?
Year 9.
(Nodding)…
I can’t remember if I had turned 14. I probably had. Let’s say I was 14 years old. Year 9. Yeah…
Uhuh…….
We had dancing classes…
You’ve talked about dancing classes…
Have I?!?!?!?!!?
Yes?! The Scorpio Boy?!?!?!
I can’t remember if that was a draft. Okay — but this is actually another story from dancing classes.
Oh?
Yeah — it’s not the same story.
Okay…?
Well, dancing classes spanned over like 12 or 16 weeks?! I can’t remember but something like that. It was probably 12 weeks but it felt like 16 weeks, it felt really, really long?!
Uhuh…?!
Did you know, that every class — it’s the BOYS who get to ask the GIRLS — to dance?!
(LOLOLOL)… No, I did not know that…
ALWAYS — the BOYS are the ones who get to GO TO A GIRL — and just ASK her to dance! And then you pair up, and do the class.
If you’re a girl who didn’t have a boy ask you to dance — somehow, there was always even numbers of “leftover girls” — and then those leftover girls have to dance with each other!!!
Oh… (awwww… feeling sorry)…………..
IT WAS HORRIBLE!!!!!
Were you a… “leftover girl”……………?
(Nodding)… initially, yes… I was a leftover girl…………. I was an ugly duckling…………….
I wouldn’t have let you be a leftover girl. If I was there, I would’ve asked you to dance!!!
You would’ve been three years younger, in junior school. You wouldn’t have even been in the same building.
Doesn’t matter!!! I WOULD’VE ASKED.
(Sigh) — later on… a boy did ask…
The Scorpio Boy?!
Actually, no… I’m telling you, THIS IS A DIFFERENT STORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(LOLOLOLOLOL) — Why are you getting so defensive all of a sudden?!!?!?
Because — FORGET ABOUT SCORPIO BOY! — He’s not important to this story!!! I hadn’t met him yet!!!
Oh… okay?!!??! (Side-eye)……………..
I can’t remember how many weeks into it — maybe 4 weeks in, to the dancing classes? All of a sudden, there was a boy, who decided to ask me… and then… EVERY. WEEK. AFTER. He would ALWAYS beeline over to me, to ask me.
Umm… isn’t that a good thing?!
I didn’t like him back!!!!!! >.<
Oh…
I felt so suffocated!!! I was like, on the one hand, it’s flattering that I wasn’t a “leftover girl” anymore — on the other hand, I don’t actually like this boy!!! He’s not my type! I’m not into him!!! He’s not attractive to me!!!
Did you even really have a “type” at 14 years old?!?!
Probably Nick Carter and Prince William…
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAA………………… ^0^
Stop it! Why aren’t you jelly?!?!? Why are you LAUGHING at me?!?!?!
(CAN’T STOP LAUGHING AT THIS TOPIC!!!)……………
(Laughing til his abs hurting!!!)
(Finally breathing normally)… go on, my love… keep going with your story… (chuckling again!!!)
Okay fine, so this boy didn’t look anything like Nick Carter or Prince William.
Were there ANY boys who looked like them?!
Yes, of course. Popular boys, who also went for popular girls. I simply wasn’t a part of any of those groups, especially not at 14 years old.
Ahh… I see… (smiles)…..
So anyway, what was I saying?!
The boy… did not look like Nick Carter or Prince William — what did he look like?!
(Sigh) In hindsight — he was a perfectly NORMAL boy — nothing “ugly” about him! I was just… too young, too shallow! I think I was shallow.
You were shallow… but you also felt like an ugly duckling.
That’s right — well — what if I hadn’t been shallow?! Then maybe I’m already married to HIM and we’d never have met?!?!?!
IT’S MUCH BETTER THAT YOU WERE SHALLOW AT 14 YEARS OLD.
(Chuckles)…
So what happened?
He just kept asking me. Every week. Even up until the LAST week.
And then?! How did you meet Scorpio boy?!
Because we had to change partners in some of the dances — you know like in Bridgerton with some of the waltzes you have temporary exchanges of partners? That’s how I came across Scorpio Boy…
(Gasp!) Oh my god… you and your WANDERING EYES…
I wasn’t even his girlfriend! He just kept chasing me! I was free to connect with any other boy and so I did!!! It’s not may fault!!!! I was FOURTEEN!!!
(LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL) ^0^
Anyway, I’m sure he’s fine now.
What does he do now?
I don’t know, some people said he was in Canberra or something…
Canberra?!
Yeah like, maybe in politics…
(Chuckles) — is he FROM an Australian political family!??!?!
I don’t think so?! I have no idea. I really didn’t know him very well at all.
Are you sure?!
Okay, fine, maybe? For the fictional blog, sure! I could’ve been an Australian politician’s wife already!!!
(LOLOLOLOL)… I’m laughing but also — it’s not THAT funny?!?! All of a sudden…?!?!? (Wide-eyed)…!!!!
Why did you reject him?!
(Sigh)… he was a golden retriever puppy…
OHHHHH… SO THIS IS WHERE WE’RE GOING WITH THIS STORY?!?!?!?!
I don’t know, is it?! I have no idea where this story is going…
He was a golden retriever but he didn’t have blonde hair.
Uhuh…
You know, I totally forgot about him until it was one day during a Kundalini yoga class — in the middle of a meditation — I suddenly remembered him??!!
(LOL) — WHAT?!
Yeah. I forgot about you… but I suddenly remembered him… and I felt bad! I felt sad! I felt like, “Aww… he was a nice boy. But I was only 14. I had no idea what a good guy could’ve been…”
You really think he was a good guy!?
I think so… I’m sure his wife thinks so. I think that — he was just that kind of… dependable, good guy… and well, I was 14, he was 15?! And — he was just the “nice boy” who kept getting rejected?! I guess that’s what happened?!?!?!
Are you sure?!
Oh yes, the gossip was — “He really wants you to be his girlfriend but he’s too shy to ask!!!”
And then?
I just… didn’t feel the same way… so he never asked… and I never regretted it… not really…
Uhuh… (Chuckles)…
Why are you chuckling?!
WELL — On the one hand, I feel bad for the boy! I can imagine, 15 years old, (clutching his hand to his heart) oh!! What a heartache!!! — but on the other hand — I’M SO GLAD! (Gleeful, delightful bright eyes!!!) — BECAUSE HE’S NOT YOUR MAN.
You’re not his woman, you’re MINE!!!
(LOL)… yeah I guess… (shrugs shoulders)…………..
Anyway I felt like an ugly duckling before he chased me.
Uhuh…
But then, when he chased… I was like… Umm… I’d rather be single than be with someone I don’t like…………
(Nodding)… yeah… I guess that is another option………….
Yeah I realised that at 14 years old. Some time in between that boy and the Scorpio boy. That was already in my mind…
(Smiles)…
You like these stories?!
(BIG SMILE) YES!!! (Hug hug hug hugssss! Big squeezes and kisses!!!)
Okay, I’ll try to think of more in the coming days…
^__^ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤
Love you…
I love you MORE! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxxx
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