World Domination

Leir and I never had a decent photo together. I am always the one taking pictures, and he is always the one moving away from the frame, or hiding his face. Both of us are experts in covering our smiles or any part of our face before the shutter closes. And someone might have have a good photo of our backs, but he really cannot be sure if it is us in there. It is as if we were never seen together.

     We started dating about a year ago. I was never really sure when, like the date was as blurred as the last photo I took with him as the subject, and he immediately looked away. It was through a short discussion that we agreed that we started on the 15th of February, 2012, based on the following grounds: (1) he confessed on the 14th; and (2) I held his hand the next day. We had a year parallel to a moving picture, played twice as fast, and cannot be stopped. The protagonists were never really seen in each moving frame, but they're there, behind the white wall, behind the camera man, behind Gordon-Levitt. I never got tired watching, and playing as the tree, or sometimes, as the pillow, or more often, as the girl on a small boat, rowing with him, conquering territories.

       "I hereby declare this 15 February 2013 the world successfully conquered," he wrote on a tissue paper. I'm working on Mars--that's just one thing I can guarantee. 

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I went to Bicol University last Wednesday, for a friendly debate. I think we won.