Rendezvous
29 October 03 : 11.54 PM
Cineleisure's a place where everywhere you turn, you see one or another of my schoolmate. I mean, who you'll see, is pretty much predictable. Just not him. I never thought Jon would go there.
A week ago, I was there with Sam and co. At night, I met up with Royce and Chris. We left them, and headed for the MRT. For some queer reason, I really wanted to go back to meet Sam and the rest of the guys. Royce and Chris were reluctant, but I managed to convince them to turn back. We were already waiting for the train.
It was barely fifteen minutes, the time interval, from when I left them till when I saw them again. And when I did, they told me they saw Jon.
We sat at the cafe in front of the entrance for quite a while, when Chris wanted to buy cigarettes. He asked me to accompany him, and again, it could not be more than fifteen minutes.
Sylvia told me several days later. They saw him leaving the place. And I thought to myself about how I didn't get to see him twice, and that was circumstantial, not even an evasion on our part.
Andy would have said I owed it to fate. And maybe, I wouldn't have wanted it any other way.