#aldubff

MAINE:

I saw one of the staff motioning for me to walk, but my feet were glued to the floor. I took a deep breath and prayed that my legs would cooperate, and thankfully they did.

It was the longest ten seconds of my life.

We both took slow, unsure steps towards each other. As he moved closer, the image of him became clearer.

I know that our eyes have a blind spot, a point in the retina that is not sensitive to light.

In that moment, everything else fell into it, and all I saw was him.

ALDEN:

As we were approaching each other, I hoped and I prayed that, just this once, there would be a problem with the set-up.

I knew that a barrier would fall between us but in that moment, all that filled my head was, Please let the props malfunction.

Walking towards her felt like being on water. I smiled while mini clips of my swimming and diving played at the back of my brain.

You know the feeling of your head going lighter and lighter as the pressure your ears goes higher? The way you would hold your breath until your lungs complain? How underwater, it seemed like you’re in your own little world—a world where your senses are numbed, your limbs are dulled, and all the other noises are blocked out, but somehow, for some reason, you feel in your veins that you are overwhelmed by so many sensations all at once?

That was what being three feet away from her felt like.

She blew me a kiss, and suddenly I was a body floating in a raging sea in the middle of a storm.

I brought my hand to my mouth, breathed out across my palm and let the air carry the kiss to her.

She smiled, and I saw a lighthouse in her eyes.

And right then and there, I surrendered to the currents and trusted that they would bring me safely to her shore.

-Mapapatawad niyo pa ba ako. Hindi pa ako nakaka-move on. Huhuhuhu. Pabebe wave po sa mga nagbabasa nito. Maraming salamat. AlDub you!

Meng & Tisoy, patahimikin niyo na ako please. Charot. AlDub you. <3

xo, 

MAINE:

The clamour echoed inside the studio. I could feel my whole body vibrating as I listened to the shouts of everyone outside. I tried to steady my breathing and regain my composure by recalling the run-through I did with the staff yesterday.

“Maine, hold your position but act like you’re anxious and desperately looking for someone. Wait for the music to come in. That’s when you turn around.”

I repeated the instructions inside my head ten times to make sure I would be able to execute everything properly. The whole nation had been waiting for this moment and the last thing I wanted to do was to disappoint our supporters. I didn’t know how it was possible, but I was sure my pulse quickened as I heard collective screaming beyond the walls, then suddenly stopped when I heard a familiar melody.

“God gave me you, you showed me what’s real…”

I took that as my cue and turned around as what was practiced.

A lean-figure standing at the end of the hallway. Black clothes that were in contrast with his skin complexion.

He was there. He was here.

Alive. Breathing. Real.

From that point on, I gave up on all the attempts to remember what was written in the script.

Because there are far more important things that I didn’t want to forget.

ALDEN:

The floor director told me it was time.

The first thing I saw was the lovely pink of her dress. Then, she turned around so we were eye-to-eye, and  all the colors of the rainbow decided to come down and paint the woman on the other end of the carpet.

Her lips formed a smile, and I felt my lungs hiccup three times.

Remember when you were four years old and you were so amazed by the moon? So you spent every night walking around the streets with your eyes glued to a small, glowing ball in the sky because you wanted to figure out all its secrets? How you were so confused about the idea of new moon; because how can something not there, still exist and be there? How you would raise your hands and curve your fingers around it, triumphantly thinking it was possible to reach something that you have always admired from afar?

In that moment, I was the child looking at the moon.

She probably grew conscious of my stare so she bent her head and smiled at the ground, then back at me again. Her right hand moved to wave at me and I waved back.

I had to clutch my chest just to check how my heart was doing. It was slamming itself against my ribcage as if it wanted to escape. Like it was dying to rip itself out of my body and hop all the way to the person standing across the hallway.

Like all it desired was to present itself to her, telling her, “Take me; take all of me. You don’t know how I’ve always dreamed of resting my head against the comfort of your soft palms.”

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PATAWARIN NIYO AKO. Sobrang tuwang-tuwa ako sa Alden x Maine moment kahapon. Hindi ko kinaya. Gusto ko lang ‘tong ilabas. Hahahahaha. Ang gusto ko sa kanila, walang take two. Nacapture yung rawness at authenticity ng emotions. Ang sarap maniwala sa forever. Patawarin niyo ulit ako. Sige na. Hahahaha.

Yrs,