We Are Loved

Han wasn't disappointed when he found that I'm dating Xiao Sheng. In fact, he was happy for me because he too found someone whom he has better connection with. An avid reader like him who goes to his father's bookstore often (it does make me wonder if they discuss books more than anything else). It was love at first sight for both of them. I couldn't be any happier!

Now, my mum pays attention and pampers Xiao Sheng more than her flowers and plants. Finally! Ha ha. Of course, the scale is still imbalanced if she favouritised him. Tsk.

Eugene wants Xiao Sheng for himself. I kick his butt hard.

Fish thinks Xiao Sheng is not as good looking as her boyfriend, Peter. I pull her hair.

Tiff screams happily over the phone when I call to tell her the news. I cry.

"I am over the moon!" Eugene exclaims.

Since when he isn't over the moon – in fact, over a lot of other planets in the universe : Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Mars, Venus. The Sun, cannot, because nothing goes near it. Too hot and dangerous to handle. Anyway, soon he will run out of any planets to be over with.

The little black book which I initiated for him has a separate column for each planet and names of whom he likes to honeymoon with. It became a habit and I would then analyse why he chooses certain planet for the partners. I will later check (by his sharing and pouring) if the chosen planet has any corresponding to his affections for them and maybe, a clue or two of what they might be like.

"Who is it this time?" I let out a small yawn.

"Someone I've just met and you don't know" Eugene is upset with my yawn upon his good news.

"He is someone who has a split personality and moody" cleverly I answer him.

"How do you know?" Eugene straightens up and forgets that he was upset with me.

"I am the fortune teller, remember?" I'm just trying to play GOD.

Pooling my findings requires some work and they are by understanding all the above-mentioned planets' characteristics. Eugene initially thought I was one cuckoo bird for coming up with a silly analysis only later to find it intriguing when I managed to pinpoint something important to him about his partners.

He is truly over the moon as he claims because I have never seen him so gorgeous and crazily in love. Well, it somehow didn't feel quite right though – he swung away from his usual dating norm. He has always been hunted down and never the hunter. This new guy had him behaving mysterious and secretive in some unexplained ways. He becomes a love slave in the hunting game – for the first time.

Tess has not been feeding me about "Stalkee" since her last update (bumping into him again at the car park) and she seemed unusually quiet after that. Maybe her imbalanced hormones stop being jittery and come to their senses, and that perhaps, makes Tess abnormal(?).

I have Eugene and Tess working at opposite extremes. I want them back – their usual selves and my idea of pulling Tess into our group might help their situations – so I thought.

"You!" Tess jaw drops and goes speechless.

"Me!" Eugene mimicks Tess.

"You two know each other?" Fish and I ask together.

Eugene shakes his head looking lost and confused.

"You were the guy who kissed my "Stalkee" in his car that night!" Tess was clearly upset.

"What? Patrick is "Stalkee"?" my jaw drop, way longer than Tess's.

"Who is "Stalky"?" Fish blurrily searches for who-is-it on Tess's and my face.

Then Fish suddenly comes out from her blurry state and let out a long "Oooooooohhh...." before she settles into I-get-it,-Patrick,-Eugene's-new-love-is-Tess's-"Stalkee"-who-is-the-same-Patrick look.

No wonder Tess stops mentioning "Stalkee" to me – she is ashamed that her womanly instinct wasn't set to default and that my mother was spot on about him either being a gay or taken. It is a double spot on.

Eugene doesn't look comfortable as if he has another secret which he keeps it away from Fish and me.

"Look, you were right when you said he has a split personality" Eugene starts his story.

"Go on" I want him to spill it all and chuck secrecy miles away.

"He is actually a two pin plug. He has a girlfriend too" Eugene gulps a lungful of air after he finishes spilling.

Wow! We definitely have blown away night.